HISTORY 300
The French Empire
A Select Bibliography
Printed Materials:
Guide
Malcles, Louise-Noelle. Manuel de Bibliographie. 4th ed. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1985.
Z 1002 .M28 1985 HAYDEN REF
A guide to French reference works on all subjects.
Bibliography
Bibliographie Annuelle de l’Histoire de France du Cinquieme Siecle a 1958. Paris: Editions du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 1953/54- . Annual.
DC 38 .B54 HAYDEN REF
A classified bibliography of books and articles, with author and subject indexes. The most comprehensive work in the field of French history, it cites articles in over 2,000 journals, essays in collective works and conference proceedings.
Indexes
In addition to Bibliographie Annuelle many French journals are indexed in Internationale Bibliographie der Zeitschriftenliteratur
Summaries of Information
30. Historical Dictionaries of French History. Series. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1985- . Irreg. This series contains articles on a vast number of topics concerning French History. There is a broad coverage of political and social history, literature, education, journalism, religion and labor.
Scott, Samuel, and Barry Rothaus, ed. Historical Dictionary of the French Revolution. 1789-1799. 2 vols. 1985.
DC 147 .H57 1985 HAYDEN REF
Connelly, Owen, ed. Historical Dictionary of Napoleonic France. 1799-1815. 1985.
DC 201 .H673 1985 HAYDEN REF
Newman, Edgar, ed. Historical Dictionary of France from the 1815 Restoration to the Second Empire. 2 vols. 1987.
DC 256 .H57 1987 HAYDEN REF
Echard, William, ed. Historical Dictionary of the French Second Empire. 1852-1870. 1985.
DC 276 .H57 1985 HAYDEN REF
Hutton, Patrick, ed. Historical Dictionary of the Third French Republic. 1870-1940. 2 vols. 1986.
DC 337 .H57 1986 HAYDEN REF
Biographies
31. Dictionnaire de Biographie Francaise. Paris: Letouzey et Ane, 1933- . Irreg.
CT 143 .D5 HAYDEN REF
32. Michaud, J. F. Biographie Universelle Ancienne et Moderne. 82 vols. Paris: Michaud freres, 1811-62.
CT 143 .M5 HAYDEN STACKS
The most important of the large dictionaries of universal biography. Still useful because of the high standard of scholarship.ONLINE INDEXES AND RESOURCES
Historical Abstracts (1954+)
Covers the world's scholarly literature in history. Includes article abstracts and bibliographic citations of books and dissertations on the history of the world from 1450 to the present, except for the United States and Canada.
Historical Index to the New York Times (1863-1905, 1913-9/1922)
The Historical Index to The New York Times is an electronic index to articles published in The New York Times.
Periodicals Contents Index - PCI Full Text (selected titles) (1770-1990/91)
PCI Web is an electronic index to the contents of thousands of periodicals in the humanities and social sciences from their first issues to 1990/1991. Every article is indexed.
Humanities Abstracts (2/1984+) Indexes articles in the fields of archaeology and classical studies, film, folklore, gender studies, history, journalism, communications, language, literature, literary and political criticism, performing arts, philosophy, religion, etc
SELECTED INTERNET SITES
EuroDocs: Primary Historical Documents From Western Europe
Provides links that connect to Western European (mainly primary) historical documents that are transcribed, reproduced in facsimile, or translated.
Internet Modern History Sourcebook
This site forms one of the three "parent" sourcebooks of the Internet History Sourcebooks which are collections of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts compiled under the direction of Paul Halsall of Fordham University.
Yahoo - History - France
Particularly useful for tracking down sites with primary sources. Its hierarchical arrangement is as close to a library as one gets on the web.
