French
The Department of Modern Languages offers major and minor programs in French. The French program at Wabash offers courses ranging from beginning language to advanced seminars on literature. Elementary French courses require no previous experience with language; students who complete those courses will have acquired a fundamental understanding of French language and culture.
Key French Resources
- MLA (Modern Languages EBSCO)
Indexes 4,400 language and literature journals from 1920 to the present. - Print French Language Publications at Wabash Provides a PDF listing our print French language journals at Wabash
- Print Modern Languages Journals at Wabash Provides a PDF listing our print modern languages journals at Wabash
EBSCO
JSTOR
JSTOR Journal Collections
More Quick Links
Dictionaries & Encyclopedias
- Word reference French-English dictionary
- Dictionnaire Larousse French-French dictionary
- Encyclopedie Larousse French-French encyclopedia
- Etymological dictionary French etymological dictionary
- Synonym dictionary French-French synonym lookup
- Antonym dictionary French-French antonym lookup
- Verb conjugation French verb conjugator
Newspapers & Magazines
- Le Monde French daily evening newspaper, probably the most respected, considered to be centrist.
- Le Figaro A French daily morning paper, considered to be conservative
- L'Humanite The last French national daily newspapers of the left, now independent but once linked to the French Communist movement.
- Le Canard enchaine A satirical French weekly newspaper known for its investigative journalism.
- L'Equipe A French daily newspaper devoted to sports.
- Liberation A center-left French daily newspaper.
- Le Devoir (Quebec) French-language paper published in Montreal that concentrates on Quebec concerns.
- Paris Match French weekly magazine covering current events and celebrity lifestyles.
- Le Nouvel observateur French weekly news magazine.
- L'Express French weekly news magazine originally modeled on Time.
- France Amerique Largest French-language magazine of the U.S., published monthly.
Audio
- Librivox World literature, including French, read in French.
- Litterature audio French and non-French literature read in French.
- Audio cite Novels, stories, and poems of all types, read in French.
- Vive Voix Anthology of French poetry.
Other Humanities Resources
- Biography Resource Center Includes authoritative literary criticism sources
- CREDO Includes 370+ authoritative reference books online
- Dissertation Abstracts Search for dissertations here and request via ILLiad.
- Encyclopedia Britannica Online All purpose encyclopedia
- EndNote Manage your references and create bibliographies.
- Google Books Search the full text of a massive collection of works in the public domain. Some publishers and authors also provide snippets or sample page views of texts still protected under copyright law.
- LEXIS-NEXIS Provides access to hundreds of newspapers.
- New York Times Provides the full text of New York Times from 1851-2005
- Oxford English Dictionary OED Online
- Refworks (Citation manager) Manage your references and create bibliographies.
- Web of Knowledge/Web of Science Includes Arts and Humanities Citation Index--indexes 1160 arts and humanities journals since 1975
- World Cat Identify books and other materials available to order via ILLiad
Contact Information
Liaison Contact:
John Lamborn
Guide created by:
Jeff Beck, Bill Helling, and Rui Liu ('11)
Call Numbers
D World History
DC France--History
P Language and Literature
P Philology and linguistics
306-310 Translating and interpreting
PC Romance languages
PC 2001-3761 French Language and Literature
PQ Romance literatures
Other LibGuide French Resources
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