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Modern Language Resources: French

This guide is intended to provide guidance for both beginning and advanced students of Modern Languages.

Finding reference sources

Credo Reference
Access the full text of more than 400 reference books covering broad subject areas.

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Grand dictionnaire universel du XIXe siècle : français, historique, géographique, mythologique, bibliographique, littéraire, artistique, scientifique, etc
ISBN: 205100420X
Knowing Poetry : verse in medieval France from The rose to the rhétoriqueurs
ISBN: 9780801449734
Dictionnaires français et littératures québécoise et canadienne-française

Finding Books

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Finding newspaper, magazine and journal articles

Database listing
Use the library's databases to find articles in newspapers, magazines and journals. Follow the link above for a complete listing of relevant databases.

MLA International Bibliography
Find articles in scholarly literature pertaining to literature, language, linguistics, folklore, literary theory and criticism, dramatic arts, historical aspects of printing and publishing, rhetoric and composition.
Historical Abstracts
The world's leading index to the history of the world, including France and other French speaking countries, from 1450 to the present. Indexes more than 1,800 academic historical journals.