French Literature and Linguistics : E-texts

L'accès libre au texte intégral d'oeuvres du domaine public francophone sur Internet depuis 1993.

The main ARTFL Database, comprising more than 3,500 French language texts spanning from the 12th through the 20th centuries. Texts range from classic works of French literature to various kinds of non-fiction prose and technical writing. The eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries are about equally represented, with a smaller selection of seventeenth century texts as well as some medieval and Renaissance texts.

Athena's French Literature section is part of the Athena collection of electronic texts published by the University of Geneva. It includes several full-text French works.

La publication en mode texte de la première édition de La Comédie humaine (dite édition Furne, 1842-1855), paginée et encodée, est le fruit d’un partenariat entre le Groupe International de Recherches Balzaciennes, la Maison de Balzac (musée de la Ville de Paris) et le groupe ARTFL de l’Université de Chicago.

The official digital resource of the French National Library. Gallica seeks to broadly digitize French culture for contemporary readers and researchers. The site offers simple and advanced search of a database of over 1,500,000 documents including manuscripts, rare book editions, journals, news articles, maps, scientific and mathematical documents, and sound recordings.

Consulter des journaux, des revues, des livres, des cartes et des plans, des archives numérisés issus des collections d'une dizaine d'institutions documentaires de l'espace francophone.

Based upon the Voltaire Foundation Oxford edition of the Complete works of Voltaire. It includes all of Voltaire's literary works. Texts which have not yet been published in the Complete works are drawn either from the original sources or from the ninteenth-century Moland edition of Voltaire's works.