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French & Francophone
Studies
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The francophone
culture encompasses the continents of Africa, Europe, North America,
and Asia. The cultural and political impact of France covers the last
millennium and before, from the caves of Lascaux to the restoration
of the Musée d'Orsay. We can trace the French influences throughout
the study of western civilization.
Access
the Portland State Department of Foreign Languages & Literatures
at http://www.fll.pdx.edu/
Portland
Art Museum
- Current Exhibits
Saturday, September
11, 2004 – Sunday, January 2, 2005
Christo and Jeanne-Claude
The Pont-Neuf Wrapped, Paris, 1975-85
Saturday, July 31,
2004-Sunday, October 24, 2004
Daumier to Lautrec: French Prints and Drawings
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Encyclopedias
Provide
excellent background information and a good place to begin research. Contain
articles written by experts for a general or expert audiences. Provide
indexes indicating scope of coverage of a topic and pinpointing articles.
Provide bibliographies for further reading.
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Critical
Dictionary of the French Revolution
Françoise
Furet and Mona Ozouf
DC148 .D5313 1989 (Reference) |
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Dictionnaire
des auteurs de langue Française en Amérique du Nord
Réginald
Hamel, John Hare, et Paul Wyczynski, eds.
PQ3900.2 .H36 1989 (Reference) |
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Dictionnaire
des grandes oeuvres de la
litterature
française
Direction de Henri Mitterand
PQ41 .D528 1992 (Reference) |
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Dictionnaire
des littératures de langue française
Jean-Pierre de Beaumarchais, Daniel Couty et Alain Rey
4 vols. PQ41 .B4 1994 (Reference) |
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Dictionnaire
Napoléon
Direction
de Jean Tulard
DC147 .D53 1989 (Reference) |
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Dictionnaire
des ouvres litteraires de langue française
Jean-Pierre de Beaumarchais et Daniel Couty
4 vols. PQ41 .B42 1994 (Reference) |
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Dictionnaire
de poésie de Baudelaire á nos jours
Michel Jarrety, ed.
PQ431 .D53 2001 |
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Encyclopedia
of Canada's people
Paul
Robert Magosci, ed.
F1006 .E66 1999 (Reference) |
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Encyclopedia
of contemporary French culture
Alex Hughes and Keith Reader, eds.
DC33.7 .E53 1998 (Reference) |
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Feminist
encyclopedia of French literature
Eva Martin Sartori, ed.
PQ149 .F47 1999 (Reference) |
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Encyclopédie
de la littérature
Milano : Garzanti, 2003.
PN41 .E4714 2003 (Reference)
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Histoire
et dictionnaire de Paris
Alfred
Fierro, ed.
DC704 .F53 1996 (Reference) |
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Reference
Resources
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Le
grand Robert de la langue Française
Paul Robert
Deuxieme edition, vols. 1-9
PC2625 .R553 1992 (Reference) |
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Harrap's
standard French and English dictionary
J.E. Mansion
Revised and edited by D.M. Ledesert & R.P.L. Ledesert
PC2640 .H317 1985 (Reference)
"[The
editors] have maintained Mr Mansion's principle of giving the phonetics
of every word listed, using the notation of the International Phonetic
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Dictionnaire
des écrivains de langue français
Jean-Pierre de Beaumarchais, Daniel Couty, Alain Rey
Paris : Larousse, 2001.
PQ41 .B412 2001, 2 vols. (Reference)
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NTC's
Dictionary of Canadian French
Sinclair
Robinson, Donald Smith, eds.
PC3637
.R59 1991 (Reference) |
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Oxford-Hachette
French dictionary:
French-English · English-French
PC2640 .O82 1994 (Reference) |
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Francophone Literature: Web and other Electronic Resources
at Bobst Library, New York University
http://library.nyu.edu/research/french/francophone/web.html |
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World
Factbook 2000
CIA Annual
http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html |
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Unite
Reseaux du CNRS
Guide to WWW in France
http://www.urec.cnrs.fr/annuaire/ |
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Webguide
Quebec
Guide to WWW in Canada
http://www.webguidequebec.com/ |
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ARTFL
Project: French-English Dictionary Form
http://humanities.uchicago.edu/forms_unrest/FR-ENG.html |
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Cassell's
French dictionary
French-English, English-French
PC2640 .C3 1981 (Reference) |
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Databases
and Indexes
Magazine,
periodical and journal articles provide information on current developments,
research trends, experiments and hot topics in a discipline. Once articles
are identified through the database or index search, look up the source
journal in Vikat, PSU Library's online
catalog, to locate them in the library. For a complete list of online
databases and indexes, see the Library's
Online Databases pages.
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Humanities
index - (1975-)
AI3 .H8 (Reference)
A cumulative index to English language periodicals. Subject fields
indexed include archaeology and classical studies, area studies,
folklore, history, language and literature, performing arts, philosophy,
religion and theology, and related subjects.
Humanities
index online - 1984 - Present
Journals
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Gales
Literary Index
Reference Index, Z6511 .G35
A master index to 43 literary series published by Gale. Use this
resource to find biographical entries on authors and critical analysis
of literary works. Indexes such resources as Contemporary World
Writers, Encyclopedia of World Literature in the 20th Century,
Hispanic Literature Criticism, Hispanic Writers,
Latin American Writers, Reference Guide to World Literature,
Twayne's World Authors, World Literature and Its Times,
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International Medieval Bibliography
The leading bibliography of the European Middle Ages (c. 400-1500). The International Medieval Bibliography was founded in 1967 with the support of the Medieval Academy of America, with the aim of providing a comprehensive, current bibliography of articles in journals and miscellany volumes (conference proceedings, essay collections or Festschriften) worldwide. The IMB now comprises 300,000 articles, all of which are fully classified by date, subject and location, and provide full bibliographical records.
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Iter:
Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance
Iter
presents an online bibliography of more than 600,000 records for
articles, essays, books and reviews. Updated daily and with thousands
of new records added annually, this powerful research tool will
be of great use to scholars interested in the Middle Ages and /
or Renaissance (400-1700).
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JSTOR
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Holds the full text of 117 scholarly journals with complete back
file access in the Arts & Sciences I Collection. The literature
and history journal selections will retrieve relevant results.
Contains the journal Yale
French Studies, (1948-1998), Modern
Language Notes (1886-1961), and MLN
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MLA
international bibliography (1921-)
Z7006 .M64 (Reference)
MLA
international bibliography (1963-)
MLA Bibliography covers literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore
from over 4,000 journals and series published worldwide. Licensed
from the Modern Language Association. |
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Project
Muse: scholarly journals online
Holds over 100 full text scholarly journals online in the arts &
humanities, the social sciences, and mathematics. The back files for
the journals are scant.
Contains the journals
Comparative Literature (2000-),
French Historical Studies
(1999-), French Forum
(2001-), French
Colonial History (2003-), Nineteenth
Century French Studies (2001-) & MLN
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WorldCat
Contains more than 30 millions records for materials cataloged by
the Library of Congress and OCLC member libraries, including most
academic and many public libraries in the U.S. Catalog includes books,
serials (journals, magazines and newspapers), musical scores, recordings,
videos, computer software, films, maps and manuscripts. Locations
for all materials are cited. Can be searched by author, title, subject,
year, language, material type. |
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Museums
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Louvre
http://www.louvre.fr
Musée
du Louvre
75058 Paris Cedex 01.
Telephone: (33) 01 40 20 50 50.
Fax : (33) 01 40 20 54 42
E-mail:
info@louvre.fr
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Musée
d'Orsay
http://www.musee-orsay.fr
62,
rue de Lille
75343 Paris
cedex 07
France
Telephone: +33 (0)1 40 49 48 14
Site du Musée d'Orsay, Paris, 1848-1914 beaux arts, cinéma,
photographie. Site of the Paris museum of 19th-century fine arts.
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Centre
Pompidou
www.cnac-gp.fr
Centre national d'art et de culture Georges Pompidou
75191 Paris cedex 04
Telephone: +33 1 44 78 12 33
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Musée
des beaux-arts de Montréal
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
http://www.mbam.qc.ca/
P.O. Box 3000, Station "H"
Montreal, Quebec H3G 2T9
Telephone: (514) 285-1600
Information: (514) 285-2000
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Important
Resources
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Cambridge
illustrated history of France
Colin Jones
DC33 .J66 1994
Includes
illustrations, maps, bibliography and index. |

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Monde
(Paris, France)
AN .M6
http://www.lemonde.fr/
Library
has
current issues and retains the last three months.
Indexed by Infobank 1967-
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Companion
to French cinema
Ginette Vincendeau
PN1993.5 .F7 V55 1996 (reference)
Includes
a select bibliography for European and French Cinema |
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French
art
André Chastel ; translated from the French by Deke Dusinberre.
2 volumes
N6841 .C4813 1994 |
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French
constitution, adopted by the referendum of September 28, 1958 and
promulgated on October 4, 1958.
JN2594.2
.A5 1958
French text and English translation |
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French
dictionary of business, commerce and fincance / Dictionnaire anglais
des affaires, du commerce et de la finance
New York: Routledge, 1995.
HF1002 .R684 1996 |
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Le
Bon Usage : Grammaire Française, Avec Des Remarques Sur La
Langue Française D'aujourd'hui
Grevisse,
Maurice.
Gembloux: J. Duculot, 1975.
PC2112 .G84 1975
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Subject
Headings
Subject
headings allow you to search library catalogs for materials on a particular
topic. Often searches by subject headings can be more productive than
searching by keywords. Listed here are some major subject headings of
interest for research in French & Francophone Studies. Copies
of the complete set of the Library of Congress Subject Headings are available
at the reference desk.
| Francophone
cultures and literatures |
| French
art |
| French
language |
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French
language [name of country]
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| French
language composition and exercises |
| French
language conversation and phrasebooks |
| French-speaking
countries |
| France
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Call
Numbers
Browsing
the library shelves by call number ranges is another strategy for locating
information on a topic; call numbers can help you get to the "right neighborhood"
in the library stacks or shelves.
| DC1-947
France |
| DC701-790
Paris |
| DT545-545.9
Africa. Ivory Coast |
| F1030-F1030.9
French-Canadian-history |
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F1052-F1056.8
Quebec (Province)-history
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| F1601-2191
West Indies |
| F1901-1929
Haiti |
| PC2001-3761
French. Provençal - Romance language |
| PQ1-3999
French literature |
| PQ3803-PQ3989.2
Francophone literature |
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Web
Resources
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La
Bibliothèque nationale de France
http://www.bnf.fr/ |
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Le
Centre historique des Archives nationales
http://www.archivesnationales.culture.gouv.fr/chan/ |
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ARTFL
Project
http://humanities.uchicago.edu/ARTFL.html
University of Chicago
Project for American and French Research on the Treasury of the French
Language. 1700 texts in French, 17thc-20thc:
literature, philosophy, art, sciences. |
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Poésie
Française
http://poesie.webnet.fr/
"C'est
pourquoi nous avons sélectionné plus de 3500 poèmes de langue française,
du Moyen Âge au début du XXème siècle." This searchable database
contains over 3500 poems in French from the Middle Ages to the present.
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UCLA
French Department
http://www.french.ucla.edu/index.html
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Radio
France internationale
http://www.rfi.fr/fr.txt/
Covers
the daily news.
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France-Presse:
Agence mondiale d'information
http://www.afp.com/francais/home/
This service from AFP provides access to world news in these languages:
French, English, Dutch, Spanish and Portuguese.
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Ressources
Internet Francophones http://www.lehman.cuny.edu/depts/langlit/french/
A
comprehensive site created by the French Department at the City
University of New York (CUNY) provides access to literature, social
science, and current news sites in the Francophone world.
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developed by:
Kimberly Willson-St. Clair
Please send comments to:
willsons@pdx.edu |
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Last updated:
October 7,
2004
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