French Authors & Texts
General
Literary Movements
20th Century
19th Century
18th Century
17th Century
16th Century
Medieval
General:
Electronic Libraries
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ATHENA--La
Bibliothèque Française (pdf and rtf)
Extensive library of French and foreign authors.
Texts divided into three principle categories: French authors
in French, Foreign authors in French, and Foreign translations
of French authors. (French)
Bibliographie
Universelle
Search authors by name to get a list of their works
and those elusive publication dates.
GALLICA
(pdf)
The electronic text section of the Bibliothèque
Nationale de France offers an extensive list
of authors with accompanying texts. Also includes a chronology
for each period. (French)
L'Association
des Bibliophiles Universels (ABU) (htm)
Catalog of French texts/authors associated with
the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers (CNAM) de
Paris. (French)
Florilège
de la littérature Française (rtf or pdf)
Collection of downloadable French literary texts.
(French)
La
Bibliothèque Electronique de Lisieux (htm)
A site originally dedicated to French authors of
the 19th century, it now lists French authors and works across
several centuries, including many obscure works and authors. (French)
ARTFL--University
of Chicago (pdf) 
The Project for American and French Research on
the Treasury of the French Language offers electronic
texts, bibliographies,
special collaborations, Encyclopedias and an especially useful
collection of reference
works (dating back to the Thresor de la langue Francoyse,
1606). (French)
BIBLIONET
A searchable database of classic texts from French
literature covering the Renaissance to the present. Users can
search by author, work, citation, keyword or character. Most works
are also available from their online bookstore, which offers books
on CD-ROM as well.
Philosophie,
Education, Culture--Pierre Cohen-Bacrie
Virtual library of various literary and philosophical
texts. (French)
CESAR--UK
site for French Theater
An extensive database of the plays, people, performances
and performance spaces of 17th and 18th century French theater.
Scope includes plays, operas, ballets and other more obscure writings
whether performative, academic, or contemporary criticism. Users
can register to acquire more extensive access. (English or French)|
Literary Movements
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Une petite chronologie utile
Chronologie du XIX Gallica
Etudes-littéraires
Chronologie littéraire française (1848-1914)
Chronologie historique et littéraire du XIXe - U of York
In art history - The Met http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/ht/10/euwf/ht10euwf.htm http://www.huntfor.com/arthistory/c19th/realism.htm
Surrealism
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Chronologie et définition
Definition - Encarta
Citations of famous surrealists
Résumé des Manifestes de Bréton
Breton's Manifest of Surrealism
A retrospective article dans le monde diplomatique - Vincent Gille
adpf la petite bibliothèque - Breton et Aragon
Le Nouveau Roman
Chronologie et definition
Petite bibliographie utile
Courte definition
A short definition - U of Virginia
AUTEURS
Guillaume Apollinaire
Life & works - Books & Writers
Site officiel
Louis Aragon
Life & works - Books & Writers
Andre Breton
Life & works - Books & Writers
What is Surrealism?
Brussels lecture in 1934 issued as a pamphlet shortly thereafter.
Notice bibliographique
Albert Camus
Links aplenty for the existentialist author
Critical interpretation - Swarthmore College
Biography - Nobelprize.org
Life & works - Books & Writers
Celine
Alalettre bio
Oeuvre et commentaire
Bio, oeuvre, actualite
Dictionnaire de son argot
Paul Claudel
Life & works - Books & Writers
Colette
Life & works - Books & Writers
Societe des amis de Colette
Simone De Beauvoir
Philosophy - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy|
As philosopher - Trinity College
Life & works - Books & Writers
The Second Sex - etext
Jacques Derrida
Philosophy - Stanford lecture series
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Deconstruction - according to Stanford,Johns Hopkins, Brigham Young University and Brock University
Michel Foucault
Philosophy - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Bio, interviews & bibliography
Anatole France
Life & works - Books & Writers
Biography - Nobelprize.org
texts online
Julia Kristeva
Thought and influence - Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory
Profile and bibliography - UC Denver
Summary of major themes - UVM
Profile of author and oeuvre - Michigan State University
Andre Malraux
Life & works - Books & Writers
French embassy
Francois Mauriac
Life & works - Books & Writers
Biography - Nobelprize.org
Academie Francaise
Marcel Proust
Life & works - Books & Writers
Letters, articles, translations
The Kolb-Proust Archive for Research
Temps Perdu
Societe des amis de Proust
Romain Rolland
Life & works - Books & Writers
Biography - Nobelprize.org
Jules Romains
Theatre-Odeon bio
Academie Francaise bio
John-Paul Sartre
Thought and influence - Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory
Philosophy - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Biography - Nobelprize.org
Sartre.org
Life & works - Books & Writers
Roland Barthes
Thought and influence - Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory
Life & works - Books & Writers
Mythologies
Profiles, work summaries and abstracts - UC Denver
Paul Valery
Life & works - Books & Writers
Romanticism
Définition
Chronologie et doctrine
Chronologie de la poèsie romantique
Chronologie du drame romantique
Vigny et d'autres écrivains
Le roman romantique
The Rise of Romantism in France - theatre and plays
In art
The Parnassians
Chronologie et doctrine
Realism
Definition
Histoire du roman au XIXe
An overview
In art
Naturalism
Chronologie et doctrine (surtout Zola)
Notes en Thérèse Raquin (pdf)
Short definition - U of Toronto
Philippe Hamon sur le réalisme et le naturalisme
Definition - Bartleby
American naturalism
Symbolism
Définition
Généralités et écrivains symbolistes
Chronologie et doctrine
Brève presentation
Le manifeste de Jean Moréas publié dans Le Figaro, 1886
Clicnet:
littérature francophone virtuelle du 19e siècle
Author list with links to sites offering their
texts.
La
France et les Français au 19e siècle
French culture, literature, and history from 19th
century.
La
langue du 19e siècle
Comprehensive site of resources for 19th century
French studies.
Les
poètes du 19e siècle
Romanticisme, symbolisme, et auteurs du XIXème.
Ressources
sur le 19e siècle
University of Bristol - annonces, publications,
colloques, littérature, auteurs.
Charles
Baudelaire
Baudelaire at his best - poems, criticism, correspondence,
biography, essays, etc.
Le
site Flaubert
Website hosted by the Flaubert Center at the Université de Rouen.
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Clandestine
E-texts from the Eighteenth Century
A
"limited but representational selection of texts," including
works by César Chesneau Du Marsais, Nicolas Fréret,
Voltaire, Fontenelle and others, with links to other servers.
Eighteenth
Century Studies
A
site that archives novels, plays, memoirs, treatises and poems
along with modern criticism, largely from the 18th century, with
some "influential texts from before 1700 or after 1800."
Beaumarchais
Life & works - Encyclopedia Britannica article
Life & works - Books & Writers
Petite
bio - Comédie Française
Chocerlos
de Laclos
Les
liaisons dangereuses - étude du roman
Bio,
summary of works, links
Bio
- lit encyclopedia
Diderot
Encyclopedia
of Diderot et d'Alembert - ARTFL project.
Hypertext search in volume 1.
Bio sketch - Books & Writers
Bio
- Encyclopedia of philosophy
The
Encyclopedia of Diderot and d'Alembert - U Mich.
Translation of several encyclopedia articles.
Montesquieu
The
Spirit of Laws - Thomas Nugent
Translation of L'esprit des lois in html
On
the author and his works - Stanford University
Selections
from the Spirit of Laws - Fordham University
Revue
Montesquieu - Société Montesquieu, Université
Stendhal-Grenoble 3.
Philosophical and literary treatment of his works.
Jean-Jacques
Rousseau
Life,
works, philosophy
Works
available online
Illustrated
biography of Rousseau's life and works - Jean-Jacques Monney
Voltaire
Life,
works, philosophy - Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Life
and links
Works
available online - UPenn
Fondation
Voltaire
A
department of the University of Oxford, the Foundation is undertaking
the publication of the complete critical edition of Voltaire's
works. Electronic publications and research are located on the
site.
Web17
Roger Duchêne's extensive site dealing with
all things literary from the 17th century.
AUTHORS
Bayle,
Pierre
Pierre
Bayle
Bio, biblio, e-texts, links and various articles on the oeuvre
and life of this 17th-century philosopher.
Boileau
Anthologie
Francophone - author's bio
Notable
quotes
Poésie
Française - poems by the author
Short
bio with excerpt from Art Poétique
Corneille,
Pierre
Pierre
Corneille
Searchable text for Cinna, l'Illusion Comique,
le Cid.
Bio
in English
Bio
in table form
Bio in table form with works and other links.
Le Roi Danse
The debate over Corneille's authorship of Molière's
plays.
Cyrano
de Bergerac
Author's
bio
Synopsis
of the play by Rostand
d'Aubignac
Biography
Excerpt
from La Pratique du theater
de Sales
d'Urfe
Him
Descartes
Commentary
on the author's life and work
Desjardins
Fontanelle
Furetière
La
Bruyère
Académie
Française site
Analysis
of thought
Bio
Bio
Lafayette,
Madame de
Web17's
site dedicated to the author
Includes bio, texts, links, and critical commentary.
e-text
of Princesse de Clèves and short bio
La
Fontaine
La
Fontaine site
Extensive site dedicated to the author, his work
(including Fables & Contes), his era and his influence.
Site
of the Musée Jean de la Fontaine
Fables
Selection
of Fables
Selection
of Fables in English
Biography
La
Rochefoucauld
Bio
Short
bio
Quotes
Bio
& bibliography
Méré
Quotes
Molière
Playright's
bio & biblio
With links of his works and their subsequent performances,
with iconography & Filmography.
The
debate over Corneille's authorship of Molière's plays
Pascal
Bio,
oeuvre, links
Life
account (heavy on math)
Pascal's
Wager (Stanford)
Pensées
(French)
Pensées
(English)
Pensées
(English)
Perrault
Fables
in French
Fables
in English
Bio
UPitt
site dedicated to author
Racine
Bio
in English
Site
in English with bio, links and some texts
Searchable
text for Andromaque, Athalie, Britannicus, Iphigénie
en Aulide, Phèdre
Rotrou
Bio
La
Véritable St Genest
(1645)
Saint-Amant
E-texts
Scarron
Bio
Catholic
bio
Scudéry
Le
Grand Cyrus
Correspondence
Biography,
oeuvre, and many useful links
La
Carte du Tendre (1654)
Sorel
Short
biography
Biography
Excerpt
from Histoire comique de Francion [1626]
Madeleine
de Scudéry : Artamène ou le Grand Cyrus
Lose yourself in the complete text for le Grand
Cyrus by Mlle. de Scudéry, the longest single work in French
literature. Readers can search by word or page number, download
the text, view images, or simply wander through the text in html
or image files.
Montaigne
Special page of resources on Montaigne.
The "Corpus de la littérature médiévale" (Corpus of Medieval French
Literature)
Provides searchable, full text access to hundreds of
authoritative editions of narrative prose, chanson de geste, poetry, and
theatre in the langue d'oïl from the ninth century to the end of the
15th century.
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Last updated on September 18, 2007