Electronic Databases/Primary Sources
ATHENA
Over 2,000 French texts spanning from the Middle Ages to the modern period.
Bibliothèque de documentation internationale contemporaine
Digital collection of manuscripts from the Middle Ages and Renaissance.
French Political Pamphlets
This digital collection of the L. Tom Perry Special Collections at Brigham Young University contains 2,100 political pamphlets published between 1547 and 1626.
French Revolution Digital Archive
This digital collection contains the key research sources of the French Revolution. The archive is based around the Archives parlementaires and the image corpus known as the Images de la Revolution française.
French Revolution Pamphlets
Pamphlets printed from 1779 to 1815 document the events leading to the French Revolution, the Revolution itself, and the period after up through the Napoleonic Wars.
L’Echo de la Fabrique
Digitized revolutionary journals from 1834 and 1835. Includes: L’Echo de la Fabrique, L’Indicateur, Le Nouvel Echo de la Fabrique, L’Echo des Travailleurs, La Tribune Prolétaire, and L’Union des Travailleurs.
Napoleonica: Napoleonic Primary Sources
Contains more than 3000 documents from the Counseil d’État, letters from Napoleon I, and drawings. [Site temporarily down for maintenance]
Numelyo bibliothèque numérique de Lyon
Collection of digital manuscripts, illuminations, newspapers, photographs, print, posters the archives of Pierre Charnier, and more.
Audio/Visual
ina.fr (Institut national de l’audiovisuel)
Digital collection of French video archives.
Mission Centenaire 14-18
Archive of maps, photos, postcards, oral histories, and other materials related to the First World War that are found in French archives.
Siege and Commune of Paris,1870-1871
Over 1,200 photographs and images from the Siege and Commune of Paris as well as caricatures, newspapers, film, books, pamphlets, and posters.
Bibliographic
French Revolution Digital Archive
A joint project of Stanford University and the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF) containing a carefully curated collection of key sources for research on the French Revolution drawn from the Archives parlementaires and Images de la Revolution française.
Old Regime and Revolutionary France
Oxford Bibliographies: The French Revolution
Archival
General Reference
ARTFL (Project for American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language)
Full text database of classical French works, including political tracts, literary works, technical treatises, correspondence, treatises, and more that cover from the Renaissance through the 20th century.
Gallica
Digital library of the Bibliothèque nationale de France that contains approximately 2 million freely accessible books, manuscripts, newspapers, periodicals, magazines, photographs, maps, posters. sound recordings, and more.
Numelyo bibliothèque numérique de Lyon
Collection of digital manuscripts, illuminations, newspapers, photographs, print, posters the archives of Pierre Charnier, and more.
Legal
Guide to Legal Databases: France
List of databases of legal resources for France. Some are free; others require subscriptions.
Le Journal Officiel (Online version of Journal Officiel de la République française)
Contains national laws, decrees, administrative orders and proclamations, parliamentary debates, committee reports, and notices.
LegiFrance
Full-text access to French legislation, regulations, and case law.
