Timelines
French History
Timeline (http://www.uncg.edu/rom/courses/dafein/civ/timeline.htm)
From prehistory (-200BC) to the 20th century. Created by the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
World History Database
of Events and Dates of France (http://www.badley.info/history/France.index.html)
A detailed history timeline, arranged chronologically or alphabetically with respect to people, places, or events.
Additional timelines and general histories at General
Resources: France.
Anniversaries, Commemorations
National
Celebrations (http://www.culture.gouv.fr/culture/actualites/celebrations2006/celebrations2006.htm)
Anniversaries from a full subject range of French history, from the 14th through the 20th centuries, for 2006 and their national and international commemorations. From the Ministry of Culture.
Archaelogy
Grand sites archéologiques (http://www.culture.fr/culture/arcnat/en/index.html)
Great Archaeological Sites. Interactive database, designed by the Ministry of Culture and Communication, for public and scholarly use focused on Prehistory to the French Middle Ages. In French and English.
Scholarly Resources
H-FRANCE (http://www.h-france.net)
Listserv for professional historians of France. Online discussion and research forum devoted to the history and culture of the Francophone world. Includes book reviews, links to research resources, announcements of conferences, calls for papers, fellowship competitions, employment opportunities, and other information of interest to its subscribers. Affiliated with the Society for French Historical Studies (this also has a new, embedded link: http://www.h-france.net/sfhs/sfhshome.html), an organization of North American historians of France.
Project MUSE. French Historical
Studies (http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/fhs/)
The journal of the Society for French Historical Studies, online 1999-.
Western European
Studies Section. Association of College and Research Libraries. French Studies
Web: History (http://www.library.yale.edu/wess/frenhist.htm#fr)
Includes links to documents, data files, and primary literature; historiography, commentary, and secondary literature; reference works, gateways, and tertiary literature; libraries and archives, and more.
E-texts
Athena (http://un2sg4.unige.ch/athena/html/athtexts.html)
Includes more than 2,000 French-language historical texts in the humanities and sciences. Also includes images. From the University of Geneva, Switzerland.
Eurodocs.
History of France: Primary Documents (http://eudocs.lib.byu.edu/index.php/History_of_France:_Primary_Documents)
Transcriptions, facsimiles, and/or translations of primary historical documents from antiquity to the present, as well as links to historical collections; regional, local, and family history; and legal and government documents.
Gallica (http://gallica.bnf.fr)
Gallica is a digital library of French and Francophone culture maintained by the BibliothPque nationale de France. Contains numerous electronic texts, images, maps, animation, and sound files of French and other publications in history, literature, science, philosophy, law, economics, and political science. Includes full-text materials, some searchable. In French.
Internet Modern
History Sourcebook (http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook.html)
Full-texts and excerpts for early modern to modern Western history including links to the French revolution, 19th century France, and more. From Fordham University.
U.S. Library
of Congress. Global Gateway. France in America (http://international.loc.gov/intldl/fiahtml/fiahome.html)
France in America /France en Amérique is a bilingual digital library project/partnership between the Library of Congress and the Bibliothèque nationale de France. It explores the history of the French presence in North America from the first decades of the 16th century to the end of the 19th century.
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