FREN 333 Histoire de la Civilisation Française
Françoise Goeury-Richardson, Professor

1. Library Full-Text Databases

Literature Resource Center: Provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline.

ARTFL: Provides access to nearly 2000 texts, ranging from classic works of French literature to various kinds of non-fiction prose and technical writing. Covers the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with a smaller selection of seventeenth century texts as well as some medieval and Renaissance texts.

Iter: Provides a bibliography of close to 550,000 records for articles, essays, books, and reviews of great use to scholars interested in the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700).

2. Internet Resources

Les grottes: Lascaux | Chauvet-Pont-d’Arc
L'abri de Cro-Magnon | L'abri de La Madeleine | Magdalénien | Les Rhinocéros du Pas-de-Calais |
Le Théâtre d'Arles | La Vénus d'Arles
Pont du Gard | La Maison Carrée
La Gaule Romaine | La bataille d'Alésia
Vercingétorix et Alésia | Les traces d'Alésia
Le site de la bataille d'Alésia en Côte-d'Or
Bataille d'Alésia en 52 av JC
Extraits du film Vercingétorix


Astérix et Obélix contre César film trailer  
Charlemagne  
   
   
   
   
L'Affaire Dreyfus Silent films by George Melies  
   

Gallica (Bibliothèque nationale de France): 80,000 digitized documents including texts and images, monographs and periodicals covering the Middle Ages to the 19th century.

Contexte: Aperçus historiques de la littérature française et francophone. Clear chronologies of French history.

Dix-Neuf: Ressources sur le XIXe siècle: Excellent source for 19th century materials.

De la Révolution à la IIIe République (1789-1870)

The Siege and Commune of Paris, 1870-1871 (Northwestern University Library): This WWW page contains links to over 1200 digitized photographs and images recorded during the Siege and Commune of Paris cir.1871.

1789-1939 l'Histoire par l'image: De 1789 à 1939 à travers les collections des musées.

Calendrier républicain: brief introdution, detailed site, Le nom des jours du calendrier républicain, conversion page

Poésie française: plus de 6000 poèmes de langue française, du Moyen Âge au début du XXème siècle.

Paris: Urban Sanitation Before the 20th Century

Image of Notre Dame Paris, France courtesy of Pics4Learning

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