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This guide is designed to help get you started with your library research on French language, literature, and culture. This guide includes links providing access to relevant article databases and catalogues.

If you think a scholarly source should be added to this Library Guide, please email me at: blairw@uvic.ca

Featured Resources

Le Grand Robert de la Langue Française
Le Grand Robert de la langue francaise online provides all 6 volumes of the latest edition of this prestigious work; is par excellence the dictionary for use in French, literature, history and philosophy courses.
Dictionnaire Usito
Usito fills the gaps of French dictionaries (designed by and for Europeans) by presenting a description of the world in which the North American Quebeckers and other francophone can identify culturally and linguistically.

Designed entirely in Quebec, Usito is the first electronic dictionary to describe the standard French used in Quebec, while bridging with the rest of the Francophone community. It offers content over North America and the world. Usito is the only one to offer such a detailed description of the world that Quebecois and other French-speaking North Americans can relate to.

Dictionnaire de Biographie Française
Call Number: DC36 D5
Publication Date: 1933-present
Dictionnaire bibliographique du Canada francais by Victor Barbeau et Andre Fortier.
Call Number: Reference PS8081 B32 (& French RR)

Purdue OWL
The Online Writing Lab (OWL) at Purdue University among the most respected citation resources in the world.