French Encyclopædias
Online encyclopædias
- Encyclopédie Larousse
- Découvrez une encyclopédie totalement inédite qui vous permettra de consulter à la fois les articles Larousse at les articles écrits par les internautes contributeurs.
[There's a paper copy - 10 volumes - in the Barr Smith Library Reference collection.]
- Encyclopédie de Diderot et d'Alembert
- The Library has a CD-ROM version of Diderot and d'Alembert's Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des métiers et des arts. Written between 1751 and 1772, this version includes all seventeen volumes of text and eleven volumes of plates that comprised the first edition. The Encyclopédie may be searched by headword, author, classification of knowledge, or part of speech.
If you want to consult L'Encyclopédie ask for the CD-ROM at the Barr Smith Library Reserve collection desk.
We also have, in our Special Collections, a paper set of the third edition, 1770-75, in 16 volumes
The University of Michigan has made available an English translation of articles from the Encyclopédie.
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The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French
- An authoritative guide not only to ten centuries of literature produced in France, but also to the rich literary output of other French-speaking countries around the world. Written by an international team of specialists, entries cover individual authors and works from the troubadours to Césaire, and from La Princesse de Clèves to Perec's La Vie mode d'emploi. Substantial essay-entries reflect the latest scholarship on topics such as chivalry, occupation and resistance in wartime France, scholasticism, the sciences, literary movements and genres, as well as opera, cinema, and press.
This valuable encyclopedia is part of our subscription to Oxford reference online.
Print encyclopædias
To see what printed versions of encyclopædias we have in the Barr Smith Library, choose the Subject Heading search option on the Library Catalogue and type in Encyclopedias and dictionaries, French.
For example, we have paper copies of the 10-volume Encyclopédie Larousse, the 16 volumes of Diderot and d'Alembert's Encyclopédie, third edition, 1770-75, and the 20-volume Encyclopaedia universalis.
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