Vol. I. The Mediaeval period, edited by Urban T. Holmes. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1947. Enlarged Edition, 1952.

Vol. II. The Sixteenth Century, edited by Alexander H. Schultz. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1956. Revised Edition, edited by Raymond C. La Charité, 1985.

Vol. III. The Seventeenth Century, edited by Nathan Edelman. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1961.

Vol. IIIA. The Seventeenth Century. Supplement, edited by H. Gaston Hall. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1983.

Vol. IV. The Eighteenth Century, edited by George R. Havens and Donald F. Bond. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1951.

Vol. IVA. The Eighteenth Century. Supplement, edited by Richard A. Brooks. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1968.

Vol. V. The Nineteenth Century, edited by David Baguley. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1992. 2 Parts.

Vol. VI. The Twentieth Century, edited by Douglas W. Alden and Richard A. Brooks. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1980. 3 parts.

      The "Cabeen Bibliographies" index books, edited volumes and articles, with annotations on each entry (including references to book reviews). While the annotations for most articles are short, those for books can run to several paragraphs. Each annotation attempts to assess the work and place it into context, sometimes with a considerable number of references to other works in the same area. General subjects begin each volume, as do lists of periodicals devoted to the study of the particular time period. A section on bibliographies appears as "background materials." For most of the volumes sections follow on genres (poetry, fiction prose,theater) before turning to individual, usually major, authors. Under the author headings appear bibliographies, lists of editions of the works (including critical editions), correspondence, biographies, collected articles, critical studies, books, articles and chapters. Divisions within the author sections are sometimes by work, sometimes by genre, sometimes by subject or theme. A general author-subject index concludes the volumes.

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REF Z2172 .C55

      The Cioranescu bibliograhies all follow the same format. Part 1, "généralités," in numbered parts presents information on the historical milieu, society, literary life, tradition, themes and forms, among other topics. Part 2, "Auteurs," is more extensive, by far the largest part of the bibliography. In it Cioranescu lists under each author the works of that author and traces the history of editions for complete, collected, anthologized and individual works. Next come studies about the author, either books or articles, divided by category: "Etudes biographiques," "Travaux d'ensemble," "Correspondance," "Etudes sur les oeuvres," bibliographies and several other divisions, depending on the author. In addition to books and articles, a number of theses appear. The studies indexed range over a variety of languages. Part 3 is the index, which includes an "Index des auteurs" ("Editeurs,""commentateurs,""préfaciers," "biographes," and "critiques") with contemporary commentators in small capitals. Cioranescu also offers an index of illustrators and "cryptonymes." A subject index which lists names, concepts and organizations concludes each set. Entries are not annotated.

REF Z2171 .T15

      The Talvert bibliography lists authors beginning with the As in volume one and continuing through the alphabet in following volumes. It provides first biographical information on the author, then lists all of the author's works: complete works, separate titles, "oeuvres choisis," translations and official publications--whichever catagories apply. It continues with a list of contributions to reviews and newspapers, prefaces, collaborations and collective works. Critical works on the authors follow in sections: "ouvrages à consulter," "articles à consulter," "articles anonymes," and "addenda." Notes accompany the list of the author's works, offering information on the publication of various editions and on performances of plays. The critical works are not annotated. While this remains a useful source (particularly for identifying contributions to reviews and newspapers), its limitations are obvious--later scholarship on authors in the early volumes will not appear in the section listing critical works.

REF CT143 .H6

      Hoefer proportions entries to the importance of the person, and each entry ends in sources to consult. As the title says, this set is a general biography, including figures throughout the world, not merely from France; and the time coverages stretches from ancient Greece through the Middle Ages to the Nineteenth Century. Unlike many biographical dictionaries, this set includes living individuals.

REF CT 1003 .D55

      This set attempts, as its preface notes, to be the Dictionary of National Biography for France, and it follows the model of the DNB and the Belgian Biographie nationale in its search for thoroughness. It's coverage begins with "antiquité gauloise" and extends to the modern era. Living individuals are not in the DBF, and the recently deceased will be added in supplements. The Dictionnaire tends to err on the side of inclusiveness. Geographically it covers the colonies, when attached to France, areas like Alsace-Lorraine and Franche-Compté since they have always felt a French presence if not always being part of the kindom, empire or republic. Entries do not correspond to the importance of the individual (unlike Hoefer), so that some, like Napoleon, may have shorter entries than might seem right, the idea being that there are so many sources available for the well-known that repeating every fact is hardly necessary.

REF CT 1003 .I53 1993

      This is an index to 140,000 names in the Archives Biographiques Françaises (ABF), completed in 1991. ABF is a collection of 180 biographical reference works published between 1647 and 1986 available in a microfiche set of 1065 fiches. The works cover France and the francophonic world: Belgium, Switzerland, Canada and the colonies. Entries in the index give the name, the date of birth and death, the occupation and the number of the microfiche and the frame on the fiche where the information can be found. It also identifies the source of the biographic information. The microfiche set reproduces the original sources, arranged alphabetically by individual.

The Archives Biographiques Françaises is also available electronically on CD-ROM and through Web access as part of the World Biographical Index from K.G. Saur Publishing at http://www.saur-wbi.de/

The IU-B libraries owns the microfiche set. It shelves in the Microforms Room under the call number CT 1003 .I53 1988.

REF JN2785 .D55

REF HD8433 .A1 M23

REF CT1163 .A2

      In the introduction to volume 1 (xiii) the editor states that in large biographical collections and encyclopedias "les belges sont en général trop oubliés..." This set attempts to fill that lacuna. Given the history of Belgium, the editors must define Belgian nationality and "Belges proprement dits." They include those "nés en Belgique ou dans les territories qui à l'époque de leur naissance, dépendaient des provinces formant la Belgique actuelle." They include also Belgians who have made their careers and names abroad, even after losing a strictly Belgian identity. Coverage extends from the Middle Ages to the present.

Although one might expect to find reviews of scholarly works in the MLA Bibliography, that index does not include them.

Z1035.A1 F67 1990

      The index covers primarily British authors, but it does include a number of French writers, among them Prevost, Montesquieu and Voltaire, whose works were published in English translations.

Z1035.A1 F67 1997

      The index covers primarily British authors, but it does include a number of French writers, among them Voltaire, Diderot, and Beaumarchais, whose works were published in English translations.

REF CD-ROM and WWW Historical Newspapers Online

Palmer's Index to the London Times is available on CD-ROM and through Web access to Historical Newspapers from Chadwyck-Healey. It covers the years 1790 to 1905.
      A search of an authors name will yeild book reviews, literary news and obituaries which appeared in The Times. Combing the author's name with "reviews" produces only book reviews. As search of "Hugo" and "reviews" brought 22 reviews of books by and about Victor Hugo.

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WWW Historical Newspapers Online

REF AI21 .T47

      To find book reviews in Le Temps search in the index under France:Vie Culturelle - Littérature. The entries appear by genre, then title. Those items followed by Feuil. are feuilletons, or serialized works (generally fiction) in the newspaper. The other entries are reviews or criticism or news items concerning the book.

REF AN20.P2 M62

      Book reviews in the print index appear under the heading "Livres: comptes rendus d'ouvrage."

REF AI7 .P65

      Until 1990 Répère lists book reviews under the title of the work, the author and the subject (histoire-comptes rendus) in the body of the index; from 1991 book reviews appear at the back of the volume in separate author/title and subject indexes.

REF Z2165 .B93

      The Bulletin presents short critical reviews of French language publications in a wide range of disciplines along with recommendations for the appropriate audience. Entries are unsigned and often contain bibliographic references to consult. Each issue, and the annual index, contains an author, title, and publisher index. They contain, too, an index to studies taken from periodicals or monographic series.

REF Z1035.A1 B8

      Although the Book Review Index indexes primarily (overwhelmingly) English-language books, it does include some reviews of foreign-language books.

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      PCI is an electronic index to the contents periodicals in the humanities and social sciences, from their first issues to 1990/1991.
The scope is international, including journals in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and other Western languages.
PCI Web currently indexes over eight and a half million articles in 2,074 journals. Every year, it adds records for more than one million more articles. The publisher plans to expand the database until it encompasses 3,500 journals and fifteen million individual articles.
Among the journals indexed are Revue d'histoire littéraire de la France, Revue de littérature comparée and the French Review.
A search of "Zola" and "Book reviews only" (10-27-98) found 486 entries (reviews of books by or about Zola) of which 126 were in French.

REF Z2171 .T15

      Book reviews appear under Articles à Consulter along with other articles about the author. No special notation (such as compte rendu) marks the reviews. The reference is usually merely the author of the review, the title of the work reviewed in quotation marks, and the reference to where the item appeared . (A review of Eugene Montfort's La Beaute Moderne by Michel Arnaud shows up as: Michel Arnaud, "La Beaute Moderne". LA REVUE BLANCHE, 1er sept 1902.)

REF Z2171 .C32

      Some entries in the Cabeen Bibliographies are miniature critical reviews themselves. At the end of many of the entries appear references to reviews of the book evaluated. The Author index lists the authors whose books the Bibliography analyses and also includes reviews done by that author.

REF Z1035.A1 C64

      "This fifteen volume set offers author and title access to more than one million book book reviews which appeared in the complete backfiles of 459 scholarly journals in History, Political Science and Sociology." (Introduction)
The journals, although published around the world (America, Britain, Canada, Ireland, India, Japan), are all English-language periodicals, and all reviews are in English.
A search for Bergson, Henri found 13 titles mentioned (some French, some translations) and 24 reviews.

REF Z1035.A1 C638 1982

      "This ten volume set offers author and title access to about 500,000 book reviews that appeared in the complete backfiles of over 150 humanities journals." (Introduction).
All the journals are English-language publications, and all the reviews are in English.
A search for Bergson, Henri found 22 titles mentioned (some French, some translations) and 83 reviews.

Citation Indexes

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      The large number and wide range of periodicals indexed make the citation indexes excellent sources for book reviews.

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REF Z2625 .L75

      This dictionary combines Littré's original dictionary with its supplements and places the later additions to the text "à la place prévue par Littré." It corrects errors in the original, modifies typography, unifies orthography and makes certain changes in Littré's notes on pronunciation. It conserves Littré's etymologies, even when, the editors say, they are older or doubtful. The volumes contain Littré's prefaces to the original edition (1863-1873) and the supplements (the last in 1877) and his history of the dictionnary, along with biographical information on Littré himself. Examples of usage range from Villon to the nineteenth century. Etymologies (E) are brief, sometimes, for example, merely giving the Greek word from which the French derives.

REF PC 2625 .I323

      The "Trésor" is a pronouncing, etymological and historical dictionary with examples of usage over two centuries.

REF PC 2625 .R64 1985

      This dictionary attempts to be the Littré of its time. It is not an etymological dictionary. It offers examples of usage, sometimes several, depending on the word, from the seventeenth century to the present. Cross references from words or expressions to others related to them in sense make it "analogical."

RESEARCH COLLECTIONS PC2580 .D52 1992

      This dictionary is a wonderful recent resource for the history of current or disused words. Established for scholars as well as for all "amoureux de la langue francaise," it is also highly readable for a work of this kind, and can be consulted for "pur plaisir."

REF PC2580 .B6 1968

REF PC2580 .D33 1993

      These two dictionaries are useful for finding etymologies, but as with the Dictionnaire historique edited by Alain Rey, all the reconstructed words of the "francique" (language of the Francs and Germanic dialect) are hypothetical.

REF AG25 .P47 1987

      The Petit Larousse, published in its present form since 1905 and issued annually since 1959, is an illustrated single-volume dictionary and encyclopedia. An abridged form of the Grande Dictionnaire Encyclopedique Larousse, it is the best known, most traditional student and family dictionary-encyclopedia in France. In the dictionary section illustrations and schematic presentations often contain specialized vocabulary items, as in "moteur" where all the parts of a motor are identified in the illustration. Pink pages offer foreign language quotations and French proverbs. The encyclopedia section gives short entries primarily for people and places, a sort of biographical dictionary and gazetteer, with illustrations, maps, and portraits. It does not deal with broad subjects, movements, philosophies or concepts. As a miscellaneous item it lists the Goncourt Prize winners.

REF AG25 .D527

      The one-volume Hachette combines words, names, places and concepts into a single alphabetical list. Fine illustrations, mostly in color, appear throughout, although the illustrations do not provide as much lexical detail as the Larousse. Word definitions come first. They are reasonably detailed in terms of varieties of usage but not much more detailed than the Larousse. Beneath the definitions and usages (with a note on the first recorded appearance of the word) in a box enclosing ENCYCL come the encyclopedia entries, which are generally short, even in the case of large concepts. An atlas of better quality than the Larousse appears at the end of the volume. The miscellany, a section of French verbs, a table of the elements and items, appears at the beginning of the dictionary.

REF AE25 .G69

      The Grande Enclyclopédie presents some 8000 entries under general concepts, biography, historic periods, schools of thought, philosophy, music and literature. It claims, in its introduction, a certain emphasis on technology, biology, psychology, linguistic and other sciences rather than on crafts fallen into disuse. Each of its entries, its "articles- dossiers," is signed with initials. Sometimes a bibliography follows the article, and some of those are substantial. For short entries there is often no bibliography. Most of the illustrations are in color, although the quality is generally mediocre. In spite of the emphasis on science it claims, the scientific entries seem somewhat weak, or at best uneven. "Univers" gets a mere 5 pages of attention. Many other large topics receive quick treatment. Education gets 5 pages. Literary figures do better than political figures. Dostoyevsky has 5 pages; and Eisenstein does better than either Einstein or Eisenhower. The quirky character of the Encyclopedia's arrangement places entries for the French Colonial Empire under "Empire" which leads from the Roman to the Holy Roman to the French First and Second to the French Colonial Empire then to the other Colonial Empires. A better arrangement would have put it simply under France. An index concludes the set, but with the entries so broken up, one must hop from volume to volume to put together a full picture. The user, frustrated by the arrangements, may never know if the Encyclopedia actually carries the information he is looking for; it is too often too difficult to bother finding it.

REF AE25 .D56 1981

      The set combines in a single alphabet words, places, people and concepts. It contains many illustrations, mostly in black and white, although some in color. For words like prepositions the dictionary it discusses their usage and provides examples for proper grammatical constructions, making it as sort of "grammar included" dictionary, very rich in explanation and a valuable part of the set. For each of the word entries, the definitions and usages are far more complete than in any single-volume work. Encyclopedia entries, identified by field, as historical, literary and so forth, follow the word entries. Some entries contain considerable discussion, as under "Arabe;" some provide schematic presentations which identify, compare and contrast schools of thought ("Académies"). In many cases the illustrations contain the specialized vocabularies of an item, with the constituent parts clearly marked. The dictionary does well in the sciences, which it treats in some detail, with scientific tables and examples to illustrate the text. An annex, a kind of shortened almanac, gives a timeline of world economic, political and social events from 1969 and lists French communes and population figures.

RESEARCH COLLECTIONS AE25 .E3 1992

      The Universalis consists of three sections: three volumes of "enjeux" or issues; the main corpus; and a thesaurus/index. The Enjeux volumes examine broad questions and subjects, like "aging" or "Modernism and Postmodernism." Its articles are illustrated and signed, and they contain bibliographies and cross references. The corpus, the main body of the work, also contains extensive articles all signed and illustrated, with substantial bibliographies and cross references. For authors a list of their works, translations, correspondence and critical studies appears at the end of the entries. Odd items appear, such a "propriete du domaine publique" (at least indexed under "domaine publique"). Entries one might expect in the corpus appear instead in the Thesaurus/Index. These articles are generally shorter than those in the main set, without illustrations, unsigned and lacking bibliographies. They are, however, of good quality and do contain references to the main set. The set also includes a country-by-country survey of the world with recent social, economic and political histories, maps, and statistics. While the arrangement of the set is awkward, the index is thorough and the information the encyclopedia presents is excellent.

REF AE25 .G63 1982

      This standard reference set, the first to consult beyond the Petit Larousse for French-related questions, began with Pierre Larousse's Grand Dictionnaire Universel of 15 volumes published between 1865 and 1876, with two supplements. Over the years it has appeared under slightly varying titles in new, revised editions. It is a dictionary and encyclopedia in one alphabet. Under each word first comes a list of meanings and usages, a list far more complete than in the single-volume dictionaries. Beneath the dictionary entry for words comes the purely encyclopedic section. Encyclopedia sections are unsigned, and bibliographies appear at the end of the letter of the alphabet where Larousse lists the headword again and then the bibliographic references below it (a technique used in other French reference works). Illustrations accompany the text throughout, both black and white and color, and the Grande Dictionnaire continues the Larousse tradition of naming the various parts of things--machinery, animals, and scientific processes for example. Accompanying the articles, too, are maps and chronologies, as under "Guerre mondiale," which help in the presentation and understanding of a topic.

Dictionaries on CD-ROM

REF PC2625 .D57 1995b (CD-ROM)

      80000 entrées dont 25 000 noms propres et articles documentaires; 4500 photos et illustrations haute définition plein écran; 200 séquences audio-visuelles (animations 3D, vidéos, diaporamas); 1900 prononciations de mots; 200 autres documents sonores; 300 cartes interactives; 1 test de connaissances sous forme de jeu.

REF PC2640 .H23 1994 (CD-ROM)

      350,000 mots et expressions; 530,000 traductions; Curriculum vitae; lettres types; Modèles courants de petites annonces; Tableaux de conjugaison. Verbes irréguliers. Notes grammaticales.

REF PC 2625 .R55446 1996 (CD-ROM)

REF PC2625 .H577 1999 (CD-ROM)

REF PC2625 .D453 1998 (CD-ROM)

The Dictionnaire is the original 1694 edition from the French Academy. The subtitle on the CD-ROM is: La Langue classique The database contains the full text of the Dictionary and a facsimile of the original publication. It is searchable by words, words in the definitions of entries, figurative expressions and proverbs. You may also choose from the list of words and post them into the search box. For each result, you may open the facsimile and see how the entry appeared in the print format.

REF AS30 .M6

      The print version of Dissertation Abstracts International is "published monthly by University Microfilms International and includes abstracts of doctoral dissertations submitted by 550 participating institutions in North America and throughout the world." (Introduction, January 1999).

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"With more than 1.5 million entries, UMI's Dissertation Abstracts database is the one central, authoritative source for information about doctoral dissertations and master's theses.

"The database includes citations for materials ranging from the first U.S. dissertation, accepted in 1861, to those accepted as recently as last semester; those published from 1980 forward also include 350-word abstracts, written by the author. Citations for master's theses from 1988 forward include 150-word abstracts. Of the 1.5 million titles listed, UMI offers over a million in full text. For these titles, the database citation includes UMI's order number."

Searching may be done by author, institution, date, language, degree and most usefully by keyword--keyword in the title for dissertations before 1980 and keyword in the title or abstract for 1980 to the present. Subject searches are less productive, since the subjects assigned to the dissertations are generally too broad to make them very useful.

REF Z5055 .F79 A5

RESEARCH COLLECTIONS Z2172 .G25 1884

The library subscribes to a large number of electronic databases many of which are available through remote connections for Bloomington campus users. For a list of the databases offered by the libraries, consult the database page:
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Among the resources:

ARTFL (French Language Texts)
Arts and Humanities Citation Index
Dissertation Abstracts
FRANCIS
Historical Abstracts
Historical Newspapers Online
Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe
LLBA (Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts)
MLA Bibliography
Periodicals Contents Index
Philosopher's Index

Some databases on CD-ROM shelve in the Reference Department and are mounted on standalone work stations. For a list of those resources consult:

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Among the resources:

Atelier historique de la langue francaise
Dictionnaire de l'Académie française
Dictionnaire Hachette Multimédia
Dictionnaire Hachette Oxford
International Medieval Bibliography
Le Littré: dictionnaire
Petit Robert

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Many journals are available in electronic, full text format, fully searchable with print and download capabilities. To determine if the library subscribes to a service that includes a particular journal, consult the library's Find Informamtion page.

RESEARCH COLLECTIONS PC2112 .A77 1986

      This alphabetical guide is one of the best introductions to the French "new" linguistics and grammar. It contains definitions and articles on the main concepts and categories in those disciplines, and also a very useful index with a great variety of current words and locutions.

RESEARCH COLLECTIONS PC2101 .S64 1985

      Although this grammar of the French classical language sometimes lacks explanations, it is a good resource for archaic, literary and contemporary usage in the "grand siècle," thanks to its great variety of quotations.

RESEARCH COLLECTIONS PC2105 .D3 1983

      This huge summa contains more than 3000 examples, indexed in the last volume. The quotations run from Chrétien de Troyes to "M. (Monsieur) Céline." This means of course that language evolution is always taken into account. Many grammatical categories, however, sound now like "vieilleries poétiques," although a glossary tries to make them understandable.

REF PC2111 .G84 1980
RESEARCH COLLECTIONS PC 2111 .G7937 1986

      This classical French grammar, regularly revised, is very useful for checking the correctness of morphological or syntaxical forms thanks to its index. It is also a good resource for quotations, mostly from 19th and 20th century works, but with some historical references to earlier centuries.

Most journals in literature and language require submissions in either the MLA or Chicago style.
These manuals are available in the Reference Department.

REF PN147 .A28 1985

REF LB2369 .G53 1995

REF Z253 .U69 1993

REF Z7006 .M67

      Early volumes of the MLA Bibliography contain four sections, labeled "volumes," each devoted to separate language groups or pedagogical issues. "Volume" 2 contains the Romance Languages. Under French Literature appear eight sections from Generalities to the Twentieth Century. Within each category are sections first on bibliography, general miscellany and genres, then on authors, listed alphabetically. The MLA indexes dissertations, books, book chapters, Festschriften and articles, but "Reviews of literary and scholarly works are not included..." (1990, introductory guide).
Volumes for 1964-1968 contain annual author (contributor) indexes; from 1969 the author indexes appear at the end of each "volume" (section). There is no subject index for the years before 1981; researchers consult the area or author that interest them within the appropriate "volume" and section. Later volumes contain five sections ("volume" 5 is folklore); French literature appears in "volume" 2: European. Entries are by time period, divided into generalities, then by authors (further divided by areas like prose, prose/essays, poetry, translation and drama). Often short bracketed comments help identify the studies. From 1981- the MLA issued an annual cumulative author index and an annual cumulative subject index.

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      Coverage of the electronic version of the MLA Bibliography begins with 1963. Like the print version, it indexes monographs, proceedings, working papers, edited volumes and bibliographies in the fields of language, literature and folklore. It covers, besides books, 3,000 journals and series. Searches in the online MLA can be done by author (of a critical work), title and descriptor (the term for key terms assigned each entry). Searches will include all fields unless limited to specific fields in the records. The descriptors, which number between 3 and 13 separate terms, are author names, genre types, time periods, other authors in the case of comparative studies, titles of individual works examined, and other specific terms. Searching is done through the SilverPlatter search interface which allows for boolean combinations (and, or, not), proximity, nested terms, set combinations and for limitations by language, date,source (monograph or article), and other fields.

REF Z2171 .B68

      The "Klapp Bibliography" (first edited by Otto Klapp) begins with a section on "generalités" which indexes mélanges, collective works, and collections; it then turns to works on culture, themes and motifs, rhetoric, genres, reference works, translation, civilization and science fiction. Sections II-VII index works on authors and subjects from the Middle Ages (II) to the Twentieth Century (VII). Each section begins with subject areas (poetry, theater and the like, then lists works under author headings (Montaigne, for example). Section VIII covers litterature "hors de France." Indexing includes books, journal articles and chapters from edited volumes. An index nominum (for authors of articles, chapters and books) and an index rerum (subject index) conclude the volumes.

REF Z2171 .B575

      The "Rancoeur" annual begins with a sections on bibliography and then moves through sections devoted to time periods from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century. Each section lists titles or authors and genres in bold face with the references to each subject beneath them. The works cited include books, articles, dissertations and mélanges, and Rancoeur examines a substantial number of periodicals for sources. Each volume ends with an index of writers ("index des écrivains") and subjects. The subject index is short and its categories broad, although it does include references by title to individual works. There is no index of contributors.

REF Z2165 .B58

      French Seventeen indexes books and articles on French Seventeenth Century Studies. Annotations accompany the book citations and in later years the annotations become substantial, with references to book reviews. The reviews are paraphrased, and often there are excerpts from them. Some articles also have annotations which in the early volumes are often short; they become considerably more detailed in the later volumes. Five sections make up the annual: Bibliography, linguistics and history of the book; Artistic, political and social background; Philosophy, science and religion; Literary history and criticism; Authors and personages; and (in the later volumes) Research in progress.

REF Z2173 .F87

      Early issues of French VII index books acquired by a small number of contributing libraries as well as short list of periodicals. Later issues expand the coverage and include items not mentioned in earlier volumes of the bibliography. Volume 2, no. 5 acknowledges the "duplication of effort" with the MLA Bibliography, and speaks of ending French VII. It survives, however ("French VII Bibliography pas morte! All attempts to poison it, hang it, or inter it alive have been to no avail."). Divisions and subdivisions change names over the years, but generally the volumes are divided into two sections: Part 1, general subjects (bibliography, collected articles, literary history, the novel, poetry, symbolism and other areas); in Part 2, the author section, authors (and theater actors and directors) appear alphabetically, with studies about them listed under their names. The studies each have an entry number (a somewhat odd system). There is no annual index of authors, subjects or contributors, but there are cumulative indexes issued at regular intervals. Those cumulations offer an "author-subject" index, a contributor index, and an "index to anonymes." The index to Vol. VIII (nos. 36-40) contains a "recapitulative index" to "author-subjects" for Vols. I-VIII. Entries are not annotated.

REF Z2176 .B59

      This comprehensive annual bibliography examines books, journals (2171 periodicals, 1430 in French, 741 foreign in 1993), "mélanges" and congress proceedings on French history. It divides the materials into several large sections: "Manuels généraux," "Histoire politique,""Histoire des institutions," "Histoire économique,""Histoire sociale,""Histoire religieuse,""Histoire de la France Outre-Mer,""Histoire de la Civilisation," and "Histoire Locale." Each section is further divided by subjects, time periods and key words. A chronological index, a subject index and an index of authors complete each volume.

REF Z7001 .P45

      The Linguistic Bibliography indexes books, journal articles, Festschriften, material from congresses, and edited volumes in a wide variety of languages. It begins with a section on generalities and general linguistics and related disciplines, then lists groups of languages. French material appears (1992) in section 10.2.2 French/Français, where works are arranged under categories. Sections on "ancien français,""moyen français," "français moderne" come first. There follow sections (with sub-divisions) on phonetics, grammar, lexicon, semantics, stylistics, metrics and versification, translation, writing and orthography, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics and dialectology, historical linguistics, mathematical linguistics and French-related languages. An author index concludes the volume; there is no subject index.

REF PB1 .Y3

      This annual surveys books and articles that unless otherwise noted appeared during the year surveyed. Each section is a bibliographic essay with brief commentary on each of the scholarly works cited, some set in context, other merely noted. The chapter on French Studies contains a general section on language, then moves through the eras: early medieval; late medieval; 16th Century; 17th Century; 18th Century; Romantic era; 19th Century (post Romantic); 20th century 1900-45; 20th Century 1945-; French Canada; and Africa and the Caribbean. (Since 1993 "Africa and Maghreb" and "Caribbean" are separate sections.) Each section begins with generalities; after that, author name appears and below the names follow works on that individual author. The volumes conclude with a subject index and a name index of authors and subjects. Occasionally a chapter does not appear; it will be covered in the next year's volume. Contributors are mainly British, but the series is not limited to British scholars or publications.

RESEARCH COLLECTIONS Z2175 .A2 B93

      The library's collection begins in 1972, and since 1975, there is a subject index for each year, in addition to an author index. In the 70's and the 80's, the presentation by areas (phonetics, morphology, lexicology, etc.), symbolized by numbers in the left of each entry, is not very easy to comprehend. But in later years, the areas are better identified with running titles, and there is an index nominum, an index rerum and a glossary of linguistic terms at the end of each issue.

REF Z6203 .I63
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      The International Medieval Bibliography indexes a large body of periodicals, Festschriften, collected essays, and conference proceedings in a wide number of languages. It does not include monographs or short reviews. It divides the studies by broad subject categories, for example, architecture, crusades, languages, literature, music and philosophy. Those sections it further divides by geographic region. Coverage, although concentrating on Europe, does include portions of the Middle East and North Africa. Short notes accompany most of the entries as do translations of titles not in English, French, Italian or German. Each volume contains an author index and a general subject index which includes names, places and subjects.

REF Z6207 .R4 F29

      This annual bibliography indexes material in periodicals, conferences, Festschriften and edited volumes which appeared during the year indicated on the title page of each volume. It is international in scope, not limited to France, and embraces the humanities and the Renaissance in the broadest sense ("toute activité humaine"): economics, legal matters, philosophy, religion, literature and other topics. Generally it concentrates on the 15th and 16th centuries, although it includes some earlier works and authors (like Petrarch and Boccaccio who "malgré leurs dates" belong to the period). The volumes begin with a substantial alphabetical list of "personnages et oeuvres anonymes" with citations to works about them. A section by subject, subdivided into geographical areas, follows. A final section contains an index to authors and a short "index historicus," or index to historical figures. There is no general subject index; the researcher relies on the topics in the subject section and their geographical sub-divisions. Volumes are published about 4 years after the date covered (1990 appeared in 1994).

REF D299 .H67
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      The electronic version of Historical Abstracts covers the years 1973 to the present. It all allows searching in several fields: subject, descriptor, title, author/ editor, journal and date. The subject search may prove the most valuable, since it searches not merely "subjects" but all the words in the titles and abstracts. "Descriptors" are the subject headings assigned each item and yield fewer results than the "subject" searches.

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REF Z7127 .P54

      The Philosopher's Index indexes books, articles and chapters in collections in English, French, Italian, German, Spanish and selected other languages. A subject index comes first in each volume and under each subject are listed titles followed by authors' names. Under the author section ("Author Index with Abstracts") appear the bibliographic citations and abstracts (from 1969). A third section (since 1970) indexes book reviews. Between 1967/68 and 1981 the index included only "philosophical periodicals." Begining in 1982 the index contains citations about books as well as periodicals. A quick survey of the 1994 volume found entries under Abélard, Camus, Descartes, Foucault, Proust, Sartre and Voltaire, among others.

      The electronic version of The Philosopher's Indexcontains records from 1940 to the present and includes over 175,000 articles, books, and contributions to anthologies. It is possible to search the entire text of entries: author, title, and abstract, as well as keywords or individual names associated with the entries.

REF Z7127 .P473

      This retrospective compilation indexes English-language books published outside the United States between 1940 and 1978 and articles which appeared between 1940 and 1966.

REF Z7127 .P55

      This compilation indexes books published in the United States between 1940 and 1976 and articles which appeared between 1940 and 1966.

REF AI3 .A63

      The citation index appears in three parts: a Citation Index, a Source Index, and the "Permuterm" Subject Index. The Citation Index lists authors, and beneath each author their books or articles which have been cited by other authors in journal articles during the year. Articles are identified by the name of the journal in which they appear, not the individual titles of the articles themselves. The Source Index lists authors and their titles and identifies which works they have cited in their studies. The subject index is not a true subject index but a list of keywords taken from the titles of journal contributions which have been surveyed during the year. It refers you to entries in the Source index for the bibliographic citation.

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      The Arts and Humanities Citation Index surveys the journal literature in the arts and humanities and covers over 1,100 journals spanning 25 disciplines. While primarily a citation index used to discover which scholars have used which sources in their works and who has cited whom, it is searchable by the keyword in the titles of journal articles. While the keyword approach has its limitations, it often yields happy results, especially given the wide range of journals covered by AHCI.

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      FRANCIS is an online database that replaces the former Bulletin signalétique series which ceased in printed format in 1990. It contains records from more than 3,000 journals, books, dissertations, and other American and European sources covering the humanities, social sciences, and economics. FRANCIS is produced by the Institut de l'Information Scientifique et Technique (INIST). Coverage begins in 1984 and it is updated monthly.
FRANCIS is a multidisciplinary, multilingual research tool, produced by the Institut de l'Information Scientifique et Technique (INIST). It contains records in the humanities (63%), social sciences (33%), and economics (4%) from more than 3000 journals, books, dissertations, and other items. FRANCIS continues the Bulletin Signaletique and coverage begins in 1984. It is strong in religion, the history of art, and literature, with particular emphasis on current trends in European and world literature.
Eighty percent of the records include English or French abstracts. Subject headings are in French, English, and other languages. Subject searches for terms in French may get larger results than searches for terms in other languages.

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      "PCI is an electronic index to the contents of thousands of periodicals in the humanities and social sciences, from their first issues to 1990/1991. Every article is indexed.
"The scope is international, including journals in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and other Western languages.
"PCI Web currently indexes over eight and a half million articles in 2,074 journals. Every year, it adds records for more than one million more articles. It will grow to encompass 3,500 journals and fifteen million individual articles.
"PCI Web is available to libraries and academic institutions on an annual subscription."

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      UnCover, also know as Carl UnCover since it originated as a service of the Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries, is an online database of 15,000 journal and magazine titles. Its coverage of most sources begins around 1988 and continues to the latest issues of the journals it indexes. You may search by keyword in the title or by author of an article or you may browse the contents of a journal. The word search (keyword) will probably be the most useful approach. Journals in the database range from the most popular of magazines to scholarly journals.

REF PQ41 .B4 1994

      This dictionary can be easily considered as the best present dictionary of French literature, not only owing to its size, but also to the richness of its articles and its bibliographical references. Commentary on important works are found under the author entries, except for anonymous. Some articles also discuss the history of genres and literary institutions.

RESEARCH COLLECTIONS PQ41 .D528 1992

      Although based on a selection of works which the editor admits to be, as all selections are, open to discussion, this dictionary contains precise commentary and useful bibliographical references.

RESEARCH COLLECTIONS PN41 .D528 1992

RESEARCH COLLECTIONS PQ41 .D526 1987

      The second dictionary is derived from an earlier edition of the first one. They have the advantage of presenting a great number of entries regarding authors, works, serials, publishers and genres, but the entries, although precise, are generally shorter than in the "Beaumarchais" and without bibliographical references.

REF PQ305 .B56 1985

      In addition to its index, this fundamental work for the 20th century contains a "bio-bibliographical" dictionary of French-language writers of this period.

REF PN56 .M95 D4813 1992
FOLKLORE REF PN56 .M95 D4813 1992

      Edited by a great French specialist in comparative literature, this dictionary contains many references to French writers and works.

REF PQ41 .D55

      This old dictionary, where periods (from the Middle Ages to the 19th Century) are treated in separate volumes, should only be consulted for biographical information on unknown authors. Its editor being a cardinal, its orientation is easily noticeable.

REF PQ41 .D55 1992

REF Z7006 .M665

      The MLA Directory lists "any regularly published journal available to libraries and/or universities that prints articles on language, literature or folklore..." (Preface, 1990-91). It contains 3,225 titles, of which 2754 are journals and 471 series (1990-91). The titles appear alphabetically, and the information about them includes: the names of the editors, the address of the publication, when it began publication, the frequency, ISSN number, circulation and subscription information, price, advertising rates, editorial descriptions (the scope of the journal and its contents), and a section on submissions which indicates the journal's requirements (the style manual, length of articles) and the number of articles submitted and accepted each year. The directory contains a subject index as well as an index to sponsoring agencies and editorial personnel.

REF Z6956 .F8 H3

      This remarkable bibliography begins with a preface and "essai historique et statistique sur la naissance et le progrès de la presse périodique dans les deux mondes." It presents French periodicals in three divisions: "Presse ancienne 1631-1789," "Presse moderne 1789-1965," and "Presse parisienne en 1865 et journaux et recueils spéciaux." Within each section there are divisions like "gazettes etrangères" and "journaux provinciaux." For each title Hatin gives the dates of publication, indexes, if any, and a discussion of the journal, often detailed, noting prices, places published, editors, title changes, contributors and orientation of the journal. The volume concludes with an alphabetical index of titles.

REF PQ2 .P697

      The authors present a history of individual literary journals of the 19th and early twentieth centuries, with dates, places, formats, prices, addresses and "animateurs." They reproduce for each issue of each title a table of contents and "Sommaires," and offer occasional extracts from the articles. The journals appear chronologically in the volumes. Volumes 1 and 2 contain those journals which began publication before 1900. Volume 3 contains those which began publication after 1900. Volume 3 also contains an index of names cited.

There is no index to French popular periodicals comparable to Poole's or to the Readers Guide to Periodical Literature.

REF AI7 .P65

      This index, now prepared by the Bibliothèque Nationale du Québec, analyzes 121 (1994) periodicals. Nearly 70% of that number are French Canadian publications. The periodicals covered tend strongly to be popular, like Paris-Match or Sélections du Reader's Digest or Elle Québec, although the index does include Lettres québecoises, Historia and Dossiers d'archéologie. The coverage spans arts and culture, crime and criminal justice, consumers, economics, news, politics and government, religion and philosophy, sport and leisure, social science, and science and technology. Entries are alphabetical by subject and article author, with full citations and short annotations for each entry.

Actualité dans la Presse: Bpi-Doc
An index to French newspapers
"Cette base de données est réalisée par le service Public Info. Elle contient des articles sur l'actualité culturelle et sociale internationale issus du dépouillement sélectif d'une centaine de journaux français. La base actuelle est constituée de tous les articles sélectionnés sur ces sujets depuis le 1er janvier 1997. Avant cette date, vous pourrez trouver dans la base des articles sur ces thèmes, retenus par Public Info en fonction de l'actualité (expositions, mort d'une personnalité, conflits, problèmes sociaux ...)".

Le Temps

REF AI21 .T47

      This index is a conscious effort to have for the first time an index to a French newspaper like the indexes to the London Times or the New York Times. The introduction to each index volume comments on the newspaper during the particular era covered and discusses editors, editorial orientation, editorial policy and the history of the paper. Coverage is annual within each volume, not cumulative. Classification proceeds by geographic area first: Africa, America, Asia, Oceania, Europe and France. Within those areas come generalities, then country listings, then large sub-divisions within the country listings. Below the sub-divisions come references to the articles and where they appear in the paper (day, month, page, column). An index of personal names concludes each volume, as does a subject index, which is broad, brief and bare.

MICROFORMS AN20 .P2 T28

Le Monde

REF AN20 .P2 M62

      The index to Le Monde is a straight alphabetical dictionary index. Under the headings come subject sub-headings, as necessary, and below those, brief headline entries arranged chronologically and followed by date, page and column. Until 1968 a separate section at the end of each letter (A-Z) gives references for names not mentioned in the body of the index. The coverage becomes more complete and detailed over the years. In 1985 the index appeared with a new format. Names are now integrated or listed in a section "Biographie." Book reviews appear under "Livres: comptes rendus d'ouvrage."

MICROFORMS AN20 .P2 M6

Lexis/Nexis also contains other French Language resources:

Agence France Presse, French language - 10/1991
East Asian Affairs, French Language - 01/1993 to 01/1995
Euro-Est - 33848
Europe Agro-Industrie, French language - 03/1994
Europe Energie - 01/1991
Europe Enterprises, French language - 10/1992
Europe Environment - 01/1991
Europe Transports - 01/1991
Europolitique - 01/1991
La Lettre Afrique Energies, French language - 01/1993
La Lettre de L'Ocean Indien, French language - 01/1993
La Lettre Du Continent, French language - 01/1993
La Lettre Europeenne - 33604
La Vie Francaise, French language - 01/1993
Le Monde, French language - 01/1990
Le Monde du Renseignement - 01/1993
Lettre Sociale Europeenne, French language - 01/1991
Maghreb Confidentiel, French language - 01/1994
Reuter European Community Report, French language - 09/1992
Tech Europe - 01/1991

      Structure searches carefully, because you will be searching the full text of articles in the database rather than keywords or subject headings. A broad search will retive far too many references to be useful.

Dow Jones resources are available through the LIBRARY DATABASE PAGE Find Information and include:

Agence France-Presse
Echos (Paris)
L'Expansion (Paris)
La Tribune (France)
La Vie Francaise (France)
Le Figaro (France)
Le Nouvel Economiste (Issy les Moulineaux, France)
Le Nouvel Observateur (France)
Le Point (France)
Liberation (Paris)
Le Monde (France)
Option Finance
Reuters French News Service
L'Echo (Brussels)
La Libre Belgique (Brussels)
Le Soir (Brussels)
Trends-Trends/Tendances (Belgium)
Le Temps (Switzerland)
Tribune de Geneve

Other Newspapers.
There are no indexes to French newpapers other than those to Le Temps and Le Monde

MICROFORMS AN 218

Library has: 1944-1971, and lastest three months

Microforms AN196

Microforms AN71

Microforms AN193

RESEARCH COLLECTIONS Cage AN20.P2 C11

MICROFORMS AN84

MICROFORMS AN70
L'Ami du peuple
Library has: May 1928-Oct. 1937

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REF AI21 .T49
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      You may search the London Times for the using "main headings," which are the subject terms as used in the print version of the index. You may also search by key word, which correspond to the words used in the individual story entries (from the headline or short article description). You may combine the two, and you may take advantage of boolean operators to refine the search. A simple search of "Zola" as a keyword brought 117 stories in Palmer's Index, including British book reviews of a number of his works.

The indexes to the Times are part of Chadwyck-Healey's Historical Newspapers Online which also includes New York Times. More recent issues of the newspapers are available through Lexis/Nexis from the Library Database Page

RESEARCH COLLECTIONS PC2410 .M39 1989

      Some of the best French specialists contributed to this alphabetical guide to the main concepts of French stylistics. It contains many interesting quotations, commented but not indexed.

RESEARCH COLLECTIONS PC2410 .M85
REF PC2410 .M85 1975

      This dictionary, still a great reference for French stylistics, contains detailed definitions of figures and a considerable number of examples with commentary. This work is in many ways clearer than the more modern Vocabulaire de la stylistique by Molinié and Mazaleyrat. The 2nd edition contains useful charts in its annex.

RESEARCH COLLECTIONS PN172 .D8

      The most easy-to-use dictionary of French stylitics, the Gradus was made for non-specialists. Its distinctions, however, are not always fully reliable. It has been translated and adapted into English, but the French version is of course much more interesting for its examples.

RESEARCH COLLECTIONS PC2505 .M475

      This little book describes the main principals of French metrics and versification, and contains a terminological index.

Individuals, institutions, corporations, societies, publishers, government agencies, international organizations, universities, research centers and commercial sites have contributed to a significant francophonic presence on the World Wide Web.
French embassies and consultates, like the Embassy in Ottawa or Embassy in Washington, provide information of their own and link to resources concerning, among other things, culture, travel and news.

Full texts of works of French literature are available through ARTFL, ABU, Gallica, Athena and other sites.

A variety of portals and search engines help search francophonic resources.

A number of sites have organized collections of links. Some are commercial (the portals in particular); others are governmental, like La France, from the Ministère des Affaires Etrangères; still more originate at universities, like Tennessee Bob's Famous French Links or ClicNet from Swarthmore College.

    French Resources: Ressources pour l'Etude de la Langue, la Littérature et la Culture Françaises

The Reference Department of the Indiana University Libraries- Bloomington maintains an annotated list of francophonic sites at French Resources. It links to collections of sites, portals and search engines and includes sections devoted to literature, history, libraries, academic centers and art.
French Resources also offers a selection of links under a variety of subjects, from Africa to Travel and Tourism, a pantheon of French texts and an eclectic collection of locally produced and hosted texts in its Annexe du Panthéon de textes français.

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