French Literature and Culture

The digital collections of the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BNF). Includes several tens of thousand books, images, periodicals and sound recordings that are in the public domain. Downloading of books and other materials, in whole or part, according to your needs, is possible.

Includes 4.6 million digital items - images, texts, videos, and sound - from Europe's museums and galleries, archives, libraries, audio-visual collections. Downloading of books and other materials, in whole or part, according to your needs, is possible.

Can access and view articles published in a number of scholarly journals in the humanities (some articles may be printable)

Can access and view articles published by a number of scholarly journals (some articles may be downloaded)

Can access and view articles from scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences (some articles may be downloaded)

With a trilingual navigation interface (French, English and Spanish), this resource "provides access to several types of documents in the humanities and social sciences, as well as the natural science disciplines: academic journals, e-books, proceedings, theses and other documents and data."

Website of the Réunion des musées nationaux (RMN), which allows the viewing of certain paintings and other iconographic materials.

Provides brief historical context and analysis of certain artworks. Can search by theme, year, or index terms; advanced searching also offered.

Lists many cultural and scholarly databases.

ARTFL French Women Writers Project is a searchable database containing works by 40 French women authors from the 16th to the 19th century.