This archive preserves records related to the colonial presence of France in its former overseas territories. Digital archives are listed under "Archives numérisées."
Comprised of the full text and page images of over 250 Bibliothèque bleue titles, mass-produced, inexpensive books that were sold to peasants. These provide a unique insight into the popular culture of 17th to mid-19th century France.
Project of the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs to preserve and digitize documents on the history of diplomacy, international relations, government organization and international law.
In partnership with the Voltaire Foundation, the complete correspondence of Jean-Jacques Rousseau makes Ralph Leigh’s critical edition in 52 volumes in the original French-language available as an ebook collection for the first time. Gathers together all 8,000 letters written to and by one of the most important figures of eighteenth-century intellectual history, as well as the correspondence between third parties relating to the writer and his time. [1965-1991]
Bibliotheque Nationale de France's digital library.
Provides free electronic access to one of the world's largest collections of digitized books, periodicals, documents, manuscripts, images and audio-visual resources. One can browse (Decouverte), search (Recherche), or explore thematic groupings of materials (Dossiers).
Over 700 trade cards (early shop advertisements) and related items, mostly from France, but also from Germany and elsewhere on the continent. They date from the early seventeenth to early nineteenth centuries and are for suppliers as diverse as hat-makers, stationers, goldsmiths, print-sellers and confectioners.
Call Number: MAIN (Gardner) Stacks PN5176 .D53 2005
Includes lengthy articles about the French press during the Revolution, with details about dates of founding and publication, frequency, place of publication, biographical information of the proprietors, editors, and printers, political tendencies, etc.
Primarily consists of material published between 1780 and 1810 from the French Revolution Collection (FRC), the Louis XVI Trial and Execution Collection, and several smaller collections of French Revolution era material.
With a database of images, texts, charts and historical maps, the site allows you to explore the parallel stories of Gothic architecture and the formation of France in the 12th and 13th centuries, considered in three dimensions
The Gazetier universel is a virtual library of the press of the Ancien Régime. It gives online access to more than 320 French language periodicals of the 17th and 18th centuries.
Dictionnaire de la presse française pendant la Révolution, 1789-1799