The Archive of European Integration (AEI) is a free to everyone electronic repository and archive for research materials on the topic of European integration and unification. Its focus is the post-War development, activities, and foreign relations of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC), the European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom), the European Economic Community (EEC), the European Community (EC), and the European Union (EU).The AEI collects certain types of independently-produced research materials and official European Community/European Union documents.

The Archive of European Integration contains papers from approximately 40 private research organizations, listed at Contributing Institutions. These documents can be found at Browse by Journals and Series and Browse by Conferences. The scanning and deposit of documents received as part of the EU Delegation collection in Washington DC was completed at the end of 2019. Beginning in 2020, virtually all new content added to the AEI will consist of papers from the private research organizations referenced above. Nevertheless, we are always on the lookout for new, relevant papers from scholars worldwide to add to the AEI. At present, the AEI contains 60868 documents.

Part of UChicago's ARTFL project collecting French texts, the FWW Project is a searchable database containing full text works by French women authors from the 16th to the 20th centuries.

The following databases have been developed at ARTFL for free public use.
+The ARTFL Encyclopédie, a complete on-line version of the first edition of Diderot and d'Alembert's Encyclopédie with Panckoucke's 4-volume Supplément à l'Encyclopédie
+L'Encyclopédie méthodique: Search the recently digitized 34 volumes of Panckoucke's 18th- and 19th-century reference work. [PhiloLogic4]
+The Bibliothèque bleue de Troyes: Online collection of 252 chapbooks from the 16th to 18th centuries. [PhiloLogic4]
+Les journaux de Marat: Full text edition of Jean-Paul Marat's famed French Revolutionary newspapers. [PhiloLogic4]
+TOUT VOLTAIRE: Online edition of all of Voltaire’s works, aside from his correspondence. A collaboration between the ARTFL Project and the Voltaire Foundation at the University of Oxford.
+Rousseau Online: PhiloLogic version of rousseauonline.ch, a digital edition of Rousseau's Collection complète des Œuvres published under a Creative Commons Licence in 2012 by infoclio.ch. [PhiloLogic4]
+L'Abbé Raynal's Histoire philosophique et politique des établissements et du commerce des Européens dans les deux Indes - searchable full text of the 1770, 1774, and 1780 editions.
+La Correspondance littéraire, philosophique et critique de Grimm et de Diderot.: Full text high-quality OCR edition of the 18th-century cultural newsletter, with page images.
+Théâtre classique: 576 classical French theatre texts. [PhiloLogic4]
+The Montaigne Project: Full text searching of Montaigne's Essais with page images from the Bordeaux Copy.
+Artamène ou le Grand Cyrus: Madeleine & Georges de Scudéry's 17th-century novel.
+Ephraim Chamber's Cyclopaedia: English precursor to the Encyclopédie.
+Balzac. La Comédie humaine: Online critical edition with full text searching and supporting material.
+Newberry French Revolution Collection
+CRL Pamphlets and Periodicals of the French Revolution of 1848
+The Image of France George D. McKee's index of the offical documentation of printed imagery and photographs authorized for publication in France.
+Epistemon: 40 literary and poetic texts of the French Renaissance. Curated by the Bibliothèques Virtuelles Humanistes (BVH) Project at the Université François-Rabelais de Tours and hosted at ARTFL.
+Les Archives Parlementaires: a chronologically-ordered edited collection of archival and published sources on the French Revolution covering the first five years of the French Revolution, from the Cahiers des états généraux of 1789 until 15 nivôse an II (4 January 1794) in collaboration with Stanford University.
+Revolutionary Laws: 1788-1799
Tout d'Holbach: Online edition of most of d'Holbach’s works. A collaboration between the
+ARTFL Project and the Voltaire Foundation at the University of Oxford.
+Perseus under PhiloLogic: The Perseus Digital Library of Classical texts available using the PhiloLogic search engine.

French-language titles from France and Switzerland, as well as links to texts on philosophy, science, history, economics, literature, and others.

Digital resources of the Royal Library of Belgium. Belgica allows for full-text searching of all of KBR's digitized collections, which include items from: Manuscripts, Contemporary printed books, Maps and plans, Rare books, Coins and medals, Music, and Prints and drawings. BelgicaPress allows users full-text searching of Belgian newspapers published between 1814 and 1970. The Belgica Periodicals portal gives users access to over 30 journals and periodicals published from 1813 to the present day, where full-text searches can be performed.

The National Library of France (BnF) is the repository of all French publications including books, journals, newspapers, magazines, sound and music recordings, patents, databases, maps, stamps, prints, drawings and manuscripts. It holds approximately 40 million items spread across several buildings. They offer a system for online reference called SINDBAD which is similar to Ask-A-Librarian. The BnF also maintains an ever growing digital collection, Gallica, which was established in 1997. The National Library of France was originally founded at the Louvre Palace in 1368, and the collections grew to over 300,000 volumes during the French Revolution since private libraries of the privileged aristocrats and clergy were seized. Napoleon took a strong interest in the Library as well and populated it with many of the spoils from his conquests (that were eventually returned).

Product of a nationwide digitization project by the French Ministers of Culture and National Education and the Bibliotheque nationale de France, the CCFR includes over 30 million documents. Focus on national, regional, and local history, documentation of higher education, manuscripts held in French public libraries, BnF archives and manuscripts as well as the main catalogue, complete catalogues of municipal libraries, RACHEL European Jewish network, and many others.

Searchable online catalogue of archives and manuscripts in French University and Research libraries.

Cambridge University Library holds a world-class collection of six large bound volumes of caricatures from the Franco-Prussian War and the Paris Commune—(mostly) French and (some) German illustrated plates entitled Collection de caricatures et de charges pour servir à l'histoire de la guerre et de la révolution de 1870-1871 (the term caricature derives from the Italian caricare— to charge or load). The caricatures, most of them colored, provide key visual material on the war and the ensuing political turmoil in France. Produced in their thousands, they make fun of politicians and public figures of the time, soldiers and civilian populations during the war, the siege of Paris by the Germans, and the civil war that followed. They were assembled in Paris shortly after the events, then brought to London, where several sets were compiled in large volumes and sold or donated to several museums and libraries from the 1870s and into the 1880s by booksellers Dulau and Co and their assistant, Frederick Justen. The Cambridge collection of Franco-Prussian caricatures was donated by Justen in 1906, along with other (illustrated) satirical journals and historical material.

Many institutions in the US and Canada have very strong French and Francophone collections. In 2017, CRL’s Collaborative Initiative for French Language Collections (CIFNAL) Collection Development Working Group had the pleasure to work with an intern from ENSSIB, who created a database and map of these collections. Click on the Collections menu above to see a list of collections with detailed descriptions in English. Click on the Map menu to visualize the locations of the many institutions represented in the database. We are grateful to Anne-Charlotte Pivot for her fast and professional work on this project. Anne-Charlotte also prepared a detailed explanation of the rationale behind the project and how to best use the database, which is available in both English and French. The CIFNAL Collection Development Working Group has also created and is sustaining a LibGuide that compiles a number of French and Francophone Digital Humanities projects from around the world.

French dictionaries of the 17th, 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. Helpful reference resource for understanding historical texts. Includes Nicot’s Thresor de la langue francaise (1606), Feraud’s Dictionnaire critique de la langue francaise (1787-88), Littre’s Dictionnaire de la langue francaise (1872-77), and the Dictionnaire de l’Academie francaise 1st (1694), 4th (1762), 5th (1798), 6th (1835), and 8th (1932-5) editions.

Collaborative project between thousands of European archives, libraries, and museums, to promote a broader European project for cultural heritage. Searchable by theme, language, country, institution, or media.

Offers access to the resources of the national libraries of Europe, including over 16 million French items, searchable by collection or media. Resources can be both digital (books, posters, maps, sound recordings, videos, etc.) and bibliographic.

EU-funded English network aiming to promote European literature in the UK. Publishes book reviews, including French, produces translations, and sponsors literary competitions.

The Franco-American Museum, Château de Blérancourt houses rare historic documents and memorabilia that attest to its origins as well as artwork of many genres by French and American artists. It is the only French national museum that celebrates French-American friendship.

Sélection de titres de presse artistique disponibles sur Gallica, sur une période allant du début du 19e siècle à la première moitié du 20e siècle.

Digitization project of the Bibliotheque nationale de France focusing on the cultural history of France and French-speaking areas throughout the world. Contains numerous electronic texts, images, maps, animation, and sound files of French and other publications in history, literature, science, philosophy, law, economics, and political science.

Europe’s national libraries are as varied and diverse as the nations whose memories they hold. CENL, the Conference of European National Librarians, brings these great institutions together to celebrate and promote the importance of national libraries across the continent, creating opportunities to meet and work together to exchange knowledge, foster professional excellence and build mutual understanding.

The project, "Paris, Capital of the 19th century," initiated by the French Studies and Comparative Literature Departments of Brown University, provides a window into the cultural, political and social context of 19th century Parisian culture. It offers online access to pictorial works and texts selected from the collections of the Art Slide Library, the Rockefeller Library and the John Hay Library at Brown University. The majority of the materials are drawn from the Anne S. K. Brown Collection and the Starred Books Collection housed at the John Hay Library. These two collections provide a particularly significant and informative perspective on the political, cultural and social movements of this time period. Parisian society, military operations and dress, well-known personalities, and cityscapes are among the many subjects of images in the collection. Of particular interest to researchers is the inclusion of entire works — full text and images — for selected books and periodicals.

Established by the Ministry of State Education, Higher Education and Research, PERSEE provides free access to journals, books, conference proceedings, serials, primary sources, and a range of research tools. Journals include Annales, Bibliothèque de l’Ecole des Chartes, L’Homme, Revue française de science politique.

The oldest digital library, offering over 50,000 e-books to download, including a significant number of French titles. Works are in the public domain and consist primarily of fiction, classics, and reference works.

Online network of French sources, sponsored by the Organisation international de la francophonie. Preservation of French-language materials from libraries in a diverse selection of countries.

Monolingual French dictionary, with definitions and examples.