Universitätsbibliothek Mainz

French Studies

Databases

The most important databases:

MLA International Bibliography

Romanische Bibliographie Online

ProQuest Research Library

Periodicals Archive Online

Periodicals Index Online

Les Classiques des Sciences sociales

The major library catalogs:

Bibliothèque Nationale de France

Catalogue Collectif de France

Sudoc (Catalogue du système universitaire de documentation)

Réseau francophone numérique

More databases:

Database guide of the French Ministry of Culture

Search for French PhD theses

Full texts

Licensed locally:

Cultural-historical databases from the Archives Unbound (Gale), only available in Mainz:

Journaux de la Révolution de 1848 (Newspapers of the French Revolution 1848)

Affaire Dreyfus, L': Son Influence dans la Création de la France Moderne (The Dreyfus Affair in the Making of Modern France)

La France pendant la guerre 1939-1945: Résistance et journaux de Vichy (Voices from Wartime France 1939-1945: Clandestine Resistance and Vichy Newspapers)

European Colonialism in the Early 20th Century: French Colonialism in Africa: From Algeria to Madagascar, 1910-1930

French Mandate in The Lebanon, Christian-Muslim Relations, and the U.S. Consulate at Beirut, 1919-1935

Indochina, France, and the Viet Minh War, 19451954: Records of the U.S. State Department, Part 1: 1945-1949

Ecrits sur l‘art (Garnier)

La Révolution et l’Empire par les écrivains et historiens du XIXe siècle (Garnier)

Corpus de la première littérature francophone de l’Océan Indien

Huguenots (Brill)

Major French portals with freely accessible full texts:

Gallica (digital platform of the Bibliothèque nationale de France and its partners with millions of freely accessible media)

Persée (government-supported portal; free access to numerous scientific collections and documents – mainly periodicals and series)

OpenEdition (government-funded portal for the humanities and social sciences with free access to numerous scientific contents)

E-Books

E-Books from the French Studies

Journals

Cairn.info: Access to more than 680 journals in the Humanities and Social Sciences

In the Mainz collection:

Approx. 450 periodicals, mostly in print form, of which 200 are only subscribed until 2012 (including 90 in unique possession in Germany)

Tageszeitungen Le Monde, Le Figaro, Libération, L’ Humanité

Wochenmagazine L’ Express, Le Point, L’ Obs

Reference books / dictionaries online

Encyclopedias (example):

Larousse

Monolingual dictionaries:

Le Petit Robert de la Langue Française

Monolingual historical dictionaries:

Dictionnaires d'Autrefois - French Dictionaries of the 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th Centuries

Dictionnaire de l’ancienne Langue Française et de tous ses Dialectes du 9e au 15e siècle / Frederic Godefroy

Dictionnaire de la langue française du 16e siècle / Edmond Huguet

Bilingual dictionaries:

Larousse dictionnaires bilingues

LEO – German-French dictionary

Also interesting:

Publications of the French Ministry of Culture

Culturethèque

Web sources

Numerous Internet resources on France and the French-speaking world are collected and evaluated by the FID Romance Studies and the FID History:

Romance Studies

History

Research Data

Research data of the Specialized Information Service (FID) Romance Studies

Your subject on site

Special collections on French Studies at the University Library Mainz

Romanesque Seminar

Center for French and Francophone Studies (CFFS)

Institut Français Mainz

Leibniz Institute of European History

Deutsch-französische Gesellschaft Mainz e.V.

New literature for you

New acquisitions French Studies

More information

FID Romance Studies

FID History

Romanistik.de

Deutscher Romanistenverband (DRV)

Deutscher Frankoromanistenverband (FRV)

Library of the DFI Ludwigsburg

Library of the Deutsches Historisches Institut Paris

Saar-Lor-Lux-Alsace Literary Archive

Studying in France

etudiant.gouv.fr

Étudier en France

Deutsch-französische Hochschule / Université franco-allemande

Deutsch-französisches Forum / Forum franco-allemand

Numerous German-French study programs Mainz-Dijon

Selection of relevant links

Information platforms:

Bibliothèque Nationale de France

INSEE National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies

Ministère de la Culture

Institutions:

Deutsch-französische Hochschule / Université franco-allemande

Marc Bloch Center

IFRA Institut Franco-allemand de sciences historiques et sociales

Frankreich-Zentrum Saarbrücken

Frankreich-Zentrum Freiburg

Frankreich Zentrum of the FU Berlin

Frankreich-Zentrum of the Leipzig University

Instituts Français d’Allemagne

Giraf – Internationale Forschungsgemeinschaft Frankreich-Deutschland

Agence universitaire de la francophonie