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Frantext

Extensive collection of 5,703 texts and around 273 million words (as of July 2025) of French and Francophones Literature from the 9th to the 21st century, which documents the use of the written French language. It includes works the beautiful literature (90%) as well as scientific texts such as essays, treatises or correspondence (10%). A partial corpus of 1,940 prose texts from the 19th and 20th centuries with a total scope of around 127 million words is Morphologically annotated, so that in addition to the full text search, differentiated search functions for linguistic studies on Available.

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Resource id

5913

Subjects

Romance Studies

Database types

Full Text Database

Keywords

Romance Studies French literature Text corpus

Notes

The project American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language (ARTFL) provides other freely accessible full-text editions and reference works, including Les journals of Marat; Correspondance littéraire, philosophique and critique of Friedrich Melchior Grimm and Diderot; Bibliothèque Bleue de Troyes; Dictionarium Latinogallicum (1552); Dictionnaire critique de la langue française by Jean-François Féraud (1787); Décrets et lois 1789-1795: Collection Baudouin.

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