Dictionaries
- Dictionnaires d'autrefois French dictionaries of the 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th centuries; from the Project for American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language (ARTFL) at the University of Chicago.
- Grand Robert de la langue francaise This link opens in a new window One of the most important dictionaries of the French language, compiled on historical principles and giving comprehensive coverage of French from the 15th century to the present. Over 80,000 words, with etymology, pronunciation, analogies, synonyms and antonyms, and the history of each word's development. Quotations with precise sources, and cross-references to other words.
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- Larousse bilingual dictionariesFrench-English, English-French; French-German, German-French; French-Spanish, Spanish-French; French-Italian, Italian-French
- Larousse dictionaries Dictionnaire de français, Dictionnaire des synonymes et contraires, Dictionnaire des expressions, Dictionnaire des homonymes, Dictionnaire des citations, Toutes les conjugaisons
- Linguee bilingual dictionariesEnglish-French, French-English
Historical Dictionaries
- Dictionnaires des 16e et 17e sièclesEstienne 1549, Nicot 1601, Cotgrave 1611, Ménage 1650, Richelet 1680, Furetière 1687, Ménage 1694, Académie 1694, Corneille 1694
- Pierre Larousse, Grand Dictionnaire universel du 19e siècleThanks to a contribution received from the UCLA Center for European and Eurasian Studies.
- Dictionnaires d'autrefois Simultaneous search in the following dictionaries: Jean Nicot's Thresor de la langue française (1606), Jean-François Féraud's Dictionaire critique de la langue française (1787-1788), Dictionnaire de l'Académie Française, Émile Littré's Dictionnaire de la langue française (1872-1877)
- Pierre Bayle, Dictionnaire historique et critique5th edition, 1740
French Reference Sources
- ARTFL (American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language) This link opens in a new window Texts of nearly 2,000 French classic works, ranging from the 12th to the 20th centuries. Includes ARTFL-FRANTEXT (main database), French Women Writers, Provençal Poetry, Textes de Français Ancien (TFA), The Journal de Trévoux, Dictionnaire historique et critique, Le Grand dictionnaire historique, and Opera del Vocabolario Italiano (OVI) Database. Click on ARTFL Reference Collection to see French reference works.
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- Bibliographie nationale courante françaiseThe series Livres and the Supplements Publications en série, Publications officielles, Musique, Atlas, cartes et plans are available here from 2001 on.
- Bibliographie du Québec2003+ available online.
General Reference Sources with French Materials
- International Medieval Bibliography This link opens in a new window Interdisciplinary bibliography of Europe, North Africa and the Near East for the period 300-1500. Comprehensive current bibliography of articles in journals and miscellany volumes (conference proceedings, essay collections or Festschriften) worldwide.
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- Lexikon des Mittelalters & International Encyclopaedia for the Middle Ages This link opens in a new window The Lexikon is the standard encyclopaedia for medieval studies. It deals with all branches of the field and covers the period from AD 300 to 1500 for the whole of Europe and parts of the Middle East and North Africa. The International Encyclopaedia is an English language supplement to the Lexikon.
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- Gale Literature This link opens in a new window Searches multiple literary sources, including: Dictionary of Literary Biography, Literature Criticism Online, Literature Resource Center, Scribner Writer Series, and Twayne's Authors Series. Scroll down to click on Gale's Literary Index, a master index to the major literature products published by Gale.
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- Gale Literature Resource Center This link opens in a new window Biographies, bibliographies, and critical analysis of authors from every age and literary discipline. Covers more than 120,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers. Combines the core Gale Group literary databases: Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism, and Dictionary of Literary Biography. Complements Literature Criticism Online.
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- World Biographical Information System Online (WBIS) This link opens in a new window Contains biographical profiles of people from all centuries as well as all countries and regions worldwide. Compiles biographical articles from printed reference works published from the 16th to the 20th century, and reproduces these original documents as facsimile images on the screen.
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- Reference Universe This link opens in a new window A good place to start, but note that it is an index to over 15 million articles in 11,000 subject encyclopedias and handbooks, both print and online and does not provide full-text articles. Instead, it will connect you to our catalog so you know where to find the appropriate encyclopedia, dictionary or other reference work. You will be linked to UCLA's holdings for any entries you find.
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- Oxford Reference This link opens in a new window Spans 25 different subject areas, bringing together 2 million digitized entries across Oxford University Press’s Dictionaries, Companions and Encyclopedias. UC subscription allows limited simultaneous users, so if you can't connect try again later.
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Periodical Indexes and Guides
It is difficult to find out what kind of journals, newspapers, magazines have been published at a certain period of time. Reference works that include these lists can be found by searching for "France periodicals bibliography" as SUBJECT LIST terms in the library catalog.
- Répertoire de la presse et des publications périodiques françaises.Paris : Éditions de la documentation française, 1957-1981.
- La Presse française.[Paris : Hachette] 1965
- Bibliothèque nationale (France). Département des périodiques. Bibliographie de la presse française politique et dʾinformation générale, 1865-1944.Paris : Bibliothèque nationale, 1964-