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Gale Literary Sources allows users to search across several literature databases to find full text of literary works, journal articles, literature criticism, reviews, biographical information and overviews.
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The primary database for literary and film scholarship.

Erudit
Érudit is the largest disseminator of French-language resources in North America. Through its research platform, Érudit offers a centralized access to the majority of francophone publications in the social sciences and humanities from North America, including scholarly and cultural journals, books, conference proceedings, theses and dissertations, as well as various research documents and data.
Perseé
A rich, open-access database of French-language research in the humanities.

ARTFL Project (American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language) This link opens in a new window
Access to French texts from the 12th through 20th centuries ranging from classic works of literature to non-fiction prose and technical writing.

Dictionnaire Alphabetique et Analogique de la Langue Francaise
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An historical dictionary of the French language, it includes the etymology of the word along with definitions, antonyms and synonyms.

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Revue Historique The journal’s identity is based on a methodical treatment of sources and an appeal to the humanities and social sciences, bringing a renewal to historical approaches and passing on acquired knowledge and recent research in the field of history.
The French Review The official journal of the American Association of Teachers of French (AATF). They publish (in English and French) articles and reviews on French and Francophone literature, cinema, culture, linguistics, and pedagogy.
French Literature Series "Since 1973 the French Literature Series has been published in conjunction with the annual French Literature Conference, sponsored by the Department of French and Classics of the University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, USA"--Journal home page.

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