Research Guides: French and Francophone Studies: History / Histoire

Primary Sources Online / Sources principales en ligne

Use these resources to find materials online on the history of France and other primary source documents.

Utilisez ces ressources pour trouver des documents en ligne sur l'histoire de la France et d'autres documents de source primaire.

Gallica
Gallica is the digital library of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France and its partners, bringing together digitized material from across France.
EuroDocs: Online Sources for European History
Links connect to European primary historical documents that are transcribed, reproduced in facsimile, or translated. Includes video or sound files, maps, photographs or other imagery, databases, and other documentation.
Europeana
An online portal to digitized collections from across Europe. Includes curated collections based on location or event.
Avalon Project: Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy
A collection of legal documents from all regions and eras.

ARTFL Project This link opens in a new window
Texts ranging from classic works of French literature to various kinds of non-fiction prose and technical writing. Publication dates: 17th to 20th century.
The 18th, 19th and 20th centuries are represented nearly equally, with a comparatively smaller selection of 17th century texts as well as some medieval and Renaissance texts. Among ARTFL's texts are dictionaries for the 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th centuries and the Diderot Encyclopedie ou Dictionnaire Raisonne des Sciences.

French Revolution Digital Archive
The French Revolution Digital Archive (FRDA) is a multi-year collaboration of the Stanford University Libraries and the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF) to produce a digital version of the key research sources of the French Revolution and make them available to the international scholarly community. The archive is based around two main resources, the Archives parlementaires and a vast corpus of images first brought together in 1989 and known as the Images de la Revolution française.

Internet Modern History Sourcebook
A series of history primary sourcebooks, focusing on modern European history and American history, as well as in modern Western Civilization and World Cultures.

Cambridge Histories Online This link opens in a new window
Collection of authoritative histories.
Historical Abstracts This link opens in a new window
World history (except U.S. and Canada) journal articles. Historical coverage: 1450 to present. Publication dates: 1954 to present.

These online resources specialize in Franco-American heritage, including the history of French speakers in Lewiston and Maine.

Ces ressources en ligne sont spécialisées dans le patrimoine franco-américain, notamment l'histoire des francophones à Lewiston et dans le Maine.