French Studies Web: French History: Documents, Data Files, Primary Literature

• Actes de l'Histoire de l'Immigration: Ressources et outils disponibles (Clio site d'histoire sociale)

• Cartes de la France pendant la Guerre de Cent Ans/Maps of the Hundred Years War

  From the "Electronic Rennaissance" course page of Dr. E. L. Skip Knox, BSU.

• Centre d'Édition de Textes Électroniques (Université de Nantes)

  Small collection of texts and facsimiles of medieval, 16th and 19th century works; articles, theses, and lectures.

• Édits, arrêts, ordonnances monétaires... (Compagnie Générale de Bourse)

  Royal monetary edicts, judgements, and laws from Charles II to Louis XVI.

• Encyclopédie (ARTFL)

  An on-line version of Diderot and d'Alembert's Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, par une Société de Gens de lettres. The project is still under development.

• EuroDocs: History of France--Primary Documents (Brigham Young University)

  Documents are either transcriptions, translations, or facsimile copies of originals.

• French Old Regime Bureaucrats: Intendants de Province, 1661-1790 (Data and Program Library Service, University of Wisconsin-Madison)

• Gallica (Bibliothèque nationale de France)

  80,000 digitized documents including texts and images, monographs and periodicals covering the Middle Ages to the 19th century.

• Historical Maps of Europe (University of Texas at Austin)
• Historical Maps of Paris (Columbia University)

• Image of France, an Index (ARTFL)

  Index of all of the printed imagery (engravings, lithographs, woodcuts, etc.) authorized for publication in France, pursuant to legislation of 5 February 1810, 14 October 1811, 8 October 1817, etc.

• Internet Public Library Online Texts Collection (University of Michigan Digital Library Production Service)

  Search by keyword or browse by author, title, or Dewey Subject Heading (e.g. History of France and Monaco).

• Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution (George Mason University and City University of New York)
• The Napoleonic Code in Translation (NapoleonSeries.org)
• Napoleonic Primary Sources (Napoleonica.org)
• Pamphlets and Periodicals of the French Revolution of 1848 (ARTFL)

• Radio Libre (Alain de Cheveigné)

  A personal account by Maurice de Cheveigné (1920-1992) of clandestine radio in France during WWII

• Saint-Etienne: Histoire et patrimoine d'une ville (Association des Amis du Vieux Saint-Etienne)

• The Siege and Commune of Paris, 1870-1871 (Northwestern University Library)

  This WWW page contains links to over 1200 digitized photographs and images recorded during the Siege and Commune of Paris cir.1871. In addition to the images in this set, the Library's Siege & Commune Collection contains 1500 caricatures, 68 newspapers in hard-copy and film, hundreds of books and pamphlets and about 1000 posters. Additions are made regularly.

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