A. On-line French literary texts:
American Research on the Treasury of the French Language
(advanced search capabilities on an extensive corpus, including the Dictionnaire de l'académie and the Encyclopédie)
Bibliopolis
(electronic text library)
La Bibliothèque universelle
(public domain texts, canonical literature and philosophy)
Gallica Bibliothèque Nationale: Gallica
(extensive library of digital texts, in html and pdf image formats from the French national library collection)
Trésor de la Langue Française
(text database for the major French-language historical usage dictionary)
"Voltaire électronique"
(most of Voltaire's complete works in electronic form)
Voltaire Foundation
(electronic versions of major Enlightenment correspondences, in development)
B. Academic web resources for study of early modern French theater
CESAR: Calendrier électronique des spectacles sous l'ancien régime (Barry Russell, Oxford Brookes University)
(database of people, places and plays)
French PIECE (Jeffrey S. Ravel, MIT)
(database of Clarence Brenner's "Checklist" of known eighteenth-century plays)
The Parisian Stage During the French Revolution (Marc Olsen et al, U. of Chicago)
(searchable repertory of plays performed in Paris during the Revolution)
Salford Protocol: Early Modern Theatre Imagery Online (Barry Russell)
(experimental site)
Théâtrales (André Bourassa, Université de Quebec à Montréal)
(scholarly site on French-language theater, past and present, including glossary, bibliography, historical chronology, full-texts of plays, and links)
Théâtres complets (David Trott, U. of Toronto at Mississauga)
(texts and commentary on leading writers of the 17th and 18th centuries)
Le Théâtre de la foire à Paris (Barry Russell, Oxford Brookes University)
(archival documents, chronologies, images and other resources on popular theater in eighteenth-century Paris)
Le Théâtre en France au XVIIIe Siècle
(David Trott, U. of Toronto at Mississauga)
Trapillon
(student-run site of on-line resources for theater history, in French)
C. Organizations and Institutions:
Académie française
Bibliothèque nationale de France
Comédie française
Groupe interdisciplinaire sur lhistoire de la littérature (GRIHL)
http://www.ehess.fr/centres/grihl/
Musée Carnavalet (History of the City of Paris)
Photothèque de la Ville de Paris
Musée de la Révolution française (Vizille, France)
Société des auteurs et compositeurs dramatiques (SACD)
Société de lhistoire du théâtre
D. Electronic Scholarship on French Culture and History:
Text-e
("virtual colloquium" on the impact of the internet on reading, writing and the diffusion of knowledge, in French)
Further Web Resources
A Field of Honor: Writers, Court Culture and Public Theater
in French Literary Life from Racine to the Revolution
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