French Literature Primary Text Collections Online
"Que l'homme est malheureux qui au monde se fie!"
Pierre de Ronsard, Elégie, Contre les bucherons de la forest de Gastine
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Evaluating quality
- Reliability of the works?
- Scholarly editions? (Is full bibliographic data available for each item?)
- Scholarly apparatus? (search interface? output options? etc.)
- Organization of site? Coherence of collection? Clarity of mission?
- Quality of transcription?
- Compiled / created by whom?
- Scholarly credentials?
- Etc.
How to Discover Full-Text Collections
- The Arch @ NYU Libraries via E-Resources by Subject & Format page
- BobCat, cataloged by
collection and sometimes by title ("analyzed").
Examples:- Title search for "Early English Books Online" --> collection record + analytics
- Title search for "ARTFL" --> collection records (no analytics)
- BN-OPALE PLUS
Examples:- Recherche Combinée for "Rabelais" (auteur) and "Femmes" (titre) --> 5 hits with 1 "document electronique" --> visualiser
- Note: because of copyright restrictions, not all electronic texts cataloged in BN-OPALE PLUS are available on the web. (try "Zola" auteur & "Bete" titre)
- Metasites for French Materials:
- TennesseeBob's Famous French Links:
rassemble depuis 1995 une vaste webliothèque des ressources francophones liées. Les soixante-dix-neuf pages du site mènent à des millions de pages de textes littéraires, des centaines de cours et leçons complètes en langue française, des dictionnaires, et des milliards d'activités de grammaire.- Skim the "Books & Literature" section.
- Q: Who's TennesseeBob?
- Skim the "Books & Literature" section.
- CUNY's Ressources Internet Francophones
- Skim the "Littérature et bibliothèques" page; look at "Bibliothèque Electronique de Lisieux" --> "Index".
- Q: Who's Thomas Spear?
- ClicNet, un site culturel et littéraire
francophone:
ClicNet édite ou localise des ressources virtuelles en français pour les étudiants, les enseignants de français langue étrangère (FLE) ou langue seconde (FLS), et tous ceux qui s'intéressent aux cultures, aux arts et aux littératures francophones. Situé à l'Université de Swarthmore (Pennsylvanie, USA), ClicNet est réalisé par Carole Netter.- Q: Who's Carol Netter?
- TennesseeBob's Famous French Links:
- Google
- Search for: Que l'homme est malheureux qui au monde se fie
Primary Text Collections on the Web
- ARTFL & University of Chicago databases -- (Note: these lists are redundant)
The Project for American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language (ARTFL) is a cooperative enterprise of Analyse et Traitement Informatique de la Langue Française (ATILF) of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), the Division of the Humanities, the Division of the Social Sciences, and Electronic Text Services (ETS) of the University of Chicago.
- Main ARTFL Database (TLF) -- Frantext
- ARTFL's Text Collections
- ARTFL's Reference Collection
- ARTFL's Encyclopédie
ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers [Diderot/D'Alembert]
- EFTS (Electronic Full-Text Sources), arranged by Language & Subject
- EFTS, French
(Note: NYU does not subscribe to all of the resources listed)
(Note: See subcategory "Other Text Sources" for pointers to free online e-texts)
- Database & Searching Tips:
- Because of copyright restrictions, some but not all texts are available for reading start to finish.
- Accents count, so if you're unsure, use ALL CAPS to avoid false negative results.
- Use .* to truncate.
- Boolean: use | for OR and a space for AND
- See User Documentation
rules regarding search syntax, wildcards, truncation, etc.
- Search Examples -- Frequency by author searchs:
- CORNEILLE PIERRE | RACINE JEAN in author field + LIBERTE in search text field
- ZOLA in author + FAIM in search text field
- CORNEILLE PIERRE | RACINE JEAN in author field + LIBERTE in search text field
- Main ARTFL Database (TLF) -- Frantext
- Gallica
- Browse (Découverte): Thèmes, Chronologies, Iconographie, monnaies, Dictionnaires, Mode texte
- Dossiers: theme-based scholarship, guides, essays, mp3 files, etc.
- Search
- Database & Searching Tips:
- Database (i.e. searchable records) includes text & images
- Keyword search of PDF & Tiff Images: searches titles, tables of contents & catalog records
- Keyword search of Text Files: also looks in entire texts
- Accents don't matter
- Search for "Documents sonores" doesn't search in the special "documents sonores" in the
dossier "La voix sur Gallica" (i.e. not Apollinaire, Barrès, Durkheim, etc.)
- Search Examples --
- Keyword search (Recherche libre): cafe-concert (note audio file)
- ZOLA in author + FAIM in keyword (note: compare to results in ARTFL)
- AMOUR + FAIM
- Keyword search (Recherche libre): cafe-concert (note audio file)
- ABU
Ces textes sont produits et diffusés par les membres bénévoles de l' Association des Bibliophiles Universels.
L'association a pour objet le développement et la promotion des supports numériques permettant la libre manipulation de l'information, l'application de ces techniques à la diffusion des travaux de recherche des membres et d'informations du domaine public.- Catalogue des Textes
- Catalogue des Auteurs
- Recherche d'occurrences
- Database & Searching Tips:
- Database contains few texts
- No particular time period or author is well represented
- Quality of transcription depends on volunteer providing the text
- Accents don't matter
- Search for "Documents sonores" doesn't search in the special "documents sonores" in the
dossier "La voix sur Gallica" (i.e. not Apollinaire, Barrès, Durkheim, etc.)
- Search Examples --
- cafe-concert
- amour + faim
- ZOLA + FAIM
- RACINE + LIBERTE
- cafe-concert
