Selected Open Access Resources Related to France and the French Language

Useful Book

Le Français interactif  : https://www.laits.utexas.edu/fi/

Libraries & Archives

BNF Digital Library – Gallica
Digital Library Website: https://gallica.bnf.fr/accueil/fr/content/accueil-fr?mode=desktop
Digital resources
Search across the full digital library, or narrow by topic, format, theme, or geography.
BNF –Bibliothèque nationale de France
Website: http://www.bnf.fr/
Main library website with access to everything, including Gallica, the digital library.
List of Libraries in France
https://www.lib-web.org/europe/western-europe/france/
Many – especially the larger libraries – will have digital portals
Archives nationales
Website: http://www.archivesnationales.culture.gouv.fr/
Catalog Search: https://www.archives-nationales.culture.gouv.fr/en/web/guest/salle-de-lecture-virtuelle
Europeana
https://www.europeana.eu/en
Description: Search, save and share art, books, films and music from thousands of cultural
institutions
Search across the site by keyword, name, or topic OR browse by Theme.
France & French Collections at the Library of Congress – Open Access – Research Guide
Website: https://guides.loc.gov/french-collections/open-access-databases
Scroll down in the guide for links to a wide variety of OA sites focusing on France and French
Collections.

Museums in Paris, France

Paris Musées
https://www.parismusees.paris.fr/fr

Louvre Collections
https://collections.louvre.fr/en/
List of Museums in Paris
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_museums_in_Paris
Many have digitized portions of their collections.

OA Books & Journals

OpenEdition Journals – French
https://journals.openedition.org/
OpenEdition est un portail de ressources électroniques en sciences humaines et sociales.
OpenEdition Books – French
Website: https://books.openedition.org/
“OpenEdition Books est une plateforme de livres en sciences humaines et sociales. Plus de la
moitié d’entre eux est en libre accès. Des services complémentaires sont proposés via les
bibliothèques et institutions abonnées.”

OA Dictionaries

La Rousse Dictionaries – English-French and French-English
Website: https://www.larousse.fr/dictionnaires/anglais-francais
Dictionnaires d’autrefois – The ARTFL Project
Website: https://artfl-project.uchicago.edu/node/17
French dictionaries of the 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. Simultaneously search Jean
Nicot’s Thresor de la langue française (1606), Jean-François Féraud’s Dictionaire critique de la
langue française (1787-1788), Émile Littré’s Dictionnaire de la langue française (1872-1877) and
the Dictionnaire de L’Académie française 1st (1694), 4th (1762), 5th (1798), 6th (1835), and 8th
(1932-5) editions.

Dictionnaire de l’Académie Française : https://www.dictionnaire-academie.fr/
Collins – Free online dictionary, thesaurus and reference materials
Website: https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english-french
French to English and English to French
DDF – Dictionnaire des francophones
Website: https://www.dictionnairedesfrancophones.org/
An open, collaborative dictionary which aims to include all the words of French together to
reflect the diversity of usage across the world.

Digital Projects / Resources

Artists in Paris: Mapping the 18 th -Century Art World
Website: https://www.artistsinparis.org
Artists in Paris is an open-access digital art history project.
Mapping Gothic France
Website: https://mcid.mcah.columbia.edu/art-atlas/mapping-gothic/map
The left-side menu is arranged alphabetically by place. Scroll down to find gothic buildings in
Paris.
French and Francophone Digital Humanities Projects
https://guides.uflib.ufl.edu/c.php?g=592869&p=4100319
Research guide from Smathers Library, University of Florida, listing a variety of digital
humanities projects in France.
Digital Humanities Database
A searchable database of French and Francophone Studies digital projects, linked from the Smathers
Library guide
Website: https://www.h-france.net/dh/registry/list.php

Le Conjugeur.fr : https://leconjugueur.lefigaro.fr/

Le Français facile : https://www.francaisfacile.com/games/wordsearch/liste.php