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French History
Weblinks, Prof. Zo Schneider, History, Georgetown University
One-stop
shopping for links to archives, museums, etc.
French History,
1500-present, a guide from Yale University Library
French Studies Web,
Western European Studies Section of the Association of College and Research
Libraries, hosted by the Yale University Library
Links
to research resources for all of Francophone Europe.
History of France,
Primary Documents at Brigham Young University
Links
to primary documents in French and English.
Sycomore,
Database of French Deputies since 1789
Wonderful
resource from the website of the Assemble Nationale (when the relatively
unreliable search functions work properly—the keyword nom contient search
option seems to work best). Currently contains biographical notes for
assemblies from the Estates General through the Constituent Assembly of 1848,
as well as digitized copies of the Dictionnaire
des Parlementaires franais de 1789 1889, 1889-1940,
1940-1958
(from GALLICA). The Histoire
et Patrimoine section of the Assemble Nationale site offers links to
further digital treasures, including institutional histories, transcriptions of
key debates, and the Assembles archives and library.
ARTFL, American and
French Research on the Treasury of the French Language
Among
the highlights of this indispensable resource: a fully searchable database of
digitized texts from the 17th-20th centuries (FRANTEXT),
a searchable version of Diderot and dAlemberts Encyclopdie, and the Trsor de la Langue
Franaise
dictionary. New additions include a database of texts by French women writers
(16th-19th centuries).
The Image of
France,
by George McKee (SUNY Binghamton)
A
searchable index of all printed imagery (engravings, lithographs, woodcuts,
etc.) registered with the Dpt Lgal and authorized for publication in France.
Most entries include title, artist and publisher. Currently covers November
1811-January 1831. Many of the images can be found in the BNFs Dpartement des
Estampes et de la Photographie, in the Histoire de France (Qb1) collection and
the Collection DeVinck. Part of the ARTFL family, but deserves its own entry!
LHistoire par limage, 1789-1939
A joint
project of the Muses de France and the Archives de France to offer both an
illustrated history of France and a cultural history of art from the French
Revolution to the beginning of WW2. Presentation by theme or chronology;
entries for each work include historical context and visual analysis.
Des villages de
Cassini aux communes daujourdhui
A
fantastic website from the Bibliothque nationale de France charting the
evolution of French territorial units from 1801 to the present. It
cross-indexes a database of administrative and demographic data for the
communes with a database of contemporary administrative delimitations
(BD-Carto, IGN) and the 18th-century Cassini map of France. A
goldmine of demographic, historical, and cartographic information.
Paris: Capital of the 19th
Century, digital
collection from the Brown University Library
Pictorial
and textual works on 19th-century Parisian culture, politics and
society from Browns extensive collections on this subject.
Alexis de Tocqueville, on-line exhibition from the
French Ministry of Culture
A
beautifully designed and thorough exploration of Tocquevilles personal,
intellectual and political life. English and French language versions
available.
MUSEA, Universit dAngers
Virtual
museum of the history of women and gender. Hosted by the Universit dAngers.
Includes special exhibitions and pedagogical dossiers on topics ranging from
courtly love in the 14th and 15th centuries to
Orientalism in the colonial postcard and European football in the early 20th
century.