Warren Hunting Smith Library: French and Francophone Studies: Subject Guide

SUBJECT | FRENCH & FRANCOPHONE STUDIES

Keywords and Phrases

The success of your search will depend, in large part, on the keywords and phrases that you select. You can search them in combination or use the advanced search features and Boolean AND, OR & NOT to expand or narrow your results. For more savvy search tips, see the guide: How To: Begin Your Research Here. Hint: put phrases in quotations!
Here are some sample search combinations for French and Francophone Studies:

"Louise Michel" AND "Paris commune"
"French revolution" AND enlightenment
"French Algeria" OR "colonial Algeria"

Scholarly Articles

Humanities Index with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Full text access to scholarly articles in the humanities discipline.
MLA Bibliography This link opens in a new window
Scholarly articles on literary criticism, languages, linguistics, film, and folklore.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Interdisciplinary collection of scholarly articles and ebooks.

French Texts

African Diaspora, 1860 - Present This link opens in a new window
Texts about migration and communities of people of African descent; includes geographic areas outside the United States.
ARTFL - French Literature 13c-20c - This link opens in a new window
Digitized texts in French spanning the 13th-20th centuries on various topics.

Gallica
Full-text access to books no longer in copyright, manuscripts, maps, images, periodicals and sound recordings from the Bibliotheque Nationale of France.

Art and Images

ARTstor This link opens in a new window
Images of artistic works from museums and organizations worldwide.

Europeana
Digital image collections from major European museums, with extensive curatorial information. Includes some text, video and audio content as well.

Streaming Video

French Newsreels in Video This link opens in a new window
Spans the period of the Second World War, from 1940 to 1946 (a subset of AVON).
World Cinema in Films on Demand This link opens in a new window
Feature films, both American and international, ranging from the silent era to present day.
World Languages in Films on Demand This link opens in a new window

French and Francophone Studies