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French Language Resource Guide

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Reading

Edited and abridged fiction in Hamersly Library

Print and electronic subscriptions on France and Francophonism

Archived journals within JSTOR

French Historical Studies

French Review

Yale French Studies

Internet sources of current events and popular culture

Elle magazine (Fashion)

L'Equipe (Sports)

L'Expansion (Business, economy, housing, high tech)

L'Humanite (the French communist paper, covering culture and politics)

Le Figaro
Paris-based national, conservative newspaper

Le Monde
Paris-based national, liberal newspaper

Le Temps
French language Suisse newspaper with strong international coverage.

Subject Searches in the Hamesly Library about France and French

The links below are arranged searches in the library catalog for topics that may be of interest. Once in the catalog, you may roll your search over to the Summit catalog in order to borrow books from our regional partner libraries.

Art, or specifically Architecture

Authors, or specifically Women Authors

French-Canadian Literature, Fiction, & Poetry

French Canadians

Literature, or specifically Drama, Essays, Fables, Fiction, Poetry

National Characteristics [of the] French

Theater

Call numbers for casual browsing of the collection
Broad subject	between call numbers
French Literature	PQ1	&	PQ3999
History of France	DC1	&	DC947
Many other materials on France and French culture will be throughout the collection, for example, in the music or art areas. It is best to use the catalog for specific needs.

Watching and Listening

French language films at Hamersly Library (Here's a tutorial (3:30 minutes) on how to set up this search of language and material type rather than content.

Radio France

Dictionaries and other Language Tools

Monolingual: French

MediaDico
Search a French word and you have access to the definition in French, cross-referenced with synonyms, congugations, quotations using the word, phrases or idioms using the word, and English translations.

Dictionnaire de l'Académie française, neuvième édition, Version en ligne
covers words through "piécette". Definitions of substantial length with some etymological information.

Print dictionaries in Hamersly Library

Bilingual: English-French-English

Print dictionaries in Hamersly Library and online through Oxford Reference Online

Idiom & Slang Dictionaries, and some online sources

Visual Dictionaries and one online

Synonym Dictionaries (Thesauri) and one online

Searching the Internet en francais

Google (standard) with a French interface

Google France

Yahoo! France

Research in older editions of newspapers and magazines

LexisNexis (Here's a tutorial (2:45 minutes) on searching LexisNexis for French language articles)

Contact

Hamersly Library 503-838-8418 | libweb@wou.edu