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Politische Informationen

Countryreports.org

Ausführliche Informationen zu Kultur, Geschichte, Geographie, Wirtschaft, Bevölkerung und Institutionen. Link: Countryreports.org

Wikileaks

Auswärtiges Amt Deutschland

Informationen zum Staat und den wichtigsten Daten imklusive Reiseinformationen. Link: auswaertiges-amt.de (Frankreich)

Wikileaks - untraceable mass document leaking and analysis

Leaked Documents and Public Analysis for this Country (English)

Eur-Lex - European Union Law

Offizielle Datenbank des EU-Rechts und verwandter offizieller Dokumente. Link: eur-lex.europa.eu (France)

Law-Info - Library of Congress

Rechts-Informationen zum Thema Frankreich von der Library of Congress. Link: loc.gov (Law France)

International Civic Heraldry

Internationale Heraldik Datenbank. Link: ngw.nl (Coat of Arms Database)

Politische Informationen

Bücher, Aufsätze, Quelltexte

Quelltexte Online

EuroDocs

Sammlung historischer Quellen zu europäischen Ländern. Link: eudocs.lib.byu.edu (France)

Vielen Dank an Richard Haken für die Erlaubnis zur Verwendung der EuroDocs-Links, die in diese Sammlung eingeflossen sind und deren Grundlage bilden.

• Great Archaeological Sites of France — Including virtual visits to the Cave of Lascaux, other caves, and the ancient town of Vienne. (prehistoric to antiquity; facsimiles and reproductions)
• Paris, Ville Antique — Photographs and virtual reconstructions of Paris during the Roman Empire. (Photo facsimiles and reproductions)
• Capitulary of Charlemagne — (802; English translation)
• The Ordinance of Louis the Pious — dividing the empire (817; English translation)
• Treaty at Aix Between Louis II and Charles the Bald Concerning the Division of the Kingdom of Lothar II — (870; English translation)
• The Planctus for William Longsword — This mourning poem "is by far the earliest work written about the Normans from the Norman point of view...." It also serves as "an excellent laboratory in medieval philology." (943; Latin facsimiles and variant text transcriptions with English and German translations)
• Documents médiévaux conservés au Musée de l'histoire de France — Medieval documents reproduced on the Ministry of Culture's Archim imagebank. (7th to 16th centuries; photo facsimiles)
• Sceaux de Bourgogne — Royal seals of the Bourgogne dynasty reproduced on the Ministry of Culture's Archim imagebank. (9th to16th centuries; photo facsimiles)
• Enluminures — Reproductions of manuscript illuminations and decor Preserved in French municipal libraries, linked in a database searchable by multiple criteria. Produced through the auspices of CNRS. (8th to 18th centuries; facsimiles and metadata)
• French History and Civilization: Les Capétiens et les croisades — (987-1291; photo facsimiles, sound files and commentaries)
• Edits, ârrets, ordonnances monétaires de l'autorité royale et des cours souveraines de Charles II à Louis XVI — Royal monetary edicts and decrees from the mid ninth century until after the French Revolution. Also a good source for information on the succession of French kings. (843-1792; published transcriptions in pdf file). Under construction in reverse chronological order: most recent years available first.
• Arisitum: Chroniques de France — A growing collection of documented texts. (From ancient times through 1914; Latin, Langue d'Oc, Langue d'Oil transcriptions and translations) Another version of this site is found at Fordham University as Livre des sources médiévales
• The French Ministry of Culture's Archim imagebank — Photographic reproductions of constitutions, edicts, treaties, letters, photos, atlases and official seals of relevance to French national and regional history -- available either by search engine or by thematic "dossiers."
• Historical Text Archive: France — Includes primary and secondary documents, provided by Don Mabry. (Transcriptions, facsimiles and commentaries, mostly in English)
• Documents médiévaux conservés au Musée de l'histoire de France — Medieval documents reproduced on the Ministry of Culture's Archim imagebank. (7th to 16th centuries; photo facsimiles)
• Sceaux de Bourgogne — Royal seals of the Bourgogne dynasty reproduced on the Ministry of Culture's Archim imagebank. (9th to16th centuries; photo facsimiles)
• Enluminures — Reproductions of manuscript illuminations and decor Preserved in French municipal libraries, linked in a database searchable by multiple criteria. Produced through the auspices of CNRS. (8th to 18th centuries; facsimiles and metadata)
• French History and Civilization: Les Capétiens et les croisades — (987-1291; photo facsimiles, sound files and commentaries)
• Uniting the Kingdoms? — This section includes primary documents of post-1066 France online. (1066 - 1603; facsimiles and transcriptions)
• Documents from the Arxiu Capitular of Vic — (1131-1215; English translations)
• Le Roi Charles V et son temps — Facsimiles from the Bibliothèque Nationale (1318-1380; photo facsimiles of manuscripts)
• The Chronicles of Froissart — Excerpts from an 1805 translation by Thomas Johnes Edited by Steve Muhlenberger of Nipissing University (Canada) (14th century; English translations)
• The Chronicles of Froissart — Excerpted accounts of the Hundred Years' War (1369-1410; English translations) See also details for reading Froissart's chronicles on the web in the original French or in modern French translation. Faits d'armes (Deeds of Arms)
• Accounts of French, Scot and English tournaments and battles —
• Archival documents of Deeds of Arms — Edited by Steve Muhlenberger of Nipissing University (Canada) (14th and early 15th centuries; transcriptions from Scots English, Middle English, Middle French and Latin; also English translations) Les très riches heures du Duc de Berry (A medieval book of hours)
• Calendar section —
• Folios 1-201 — (ca. 1412-1416; photo facsimiles)
• Medieval Sourcebook: From the Rise of Capetian France through the Hundred Years' War — (Transcriptions and translations)
• Texts Related to Joan of Arc — (1412/13 - 1431; mostly English translations)
• Ditié de Jehanne d'Arc — A contemporary chronicle of Joan of Arc's life by Christine de Pisan. (approx. 1429; facsimile and original French transcription with English translation)
• Edits, ârrets, ordonnances monétaires de l'autorité royale et des cours souveraines de Charles II à Louis XVI — Royal monetary edicts and decrees from the mid ninth century until after the French Revolution. Also a good source for information on the succession of French kings. (843-1792; published transcriptions in pdf file). Under construction in reverse chronological order: most recent years available first.
• Historic Cities of France — A set of historical maps from Dr. Ronnie Ellenblum's Historic Cities (Facsimiles).
• Arisitum: Chroniques de France — A growing collection of documented texts. (From ancient times through 1914; Latin, Langue d'Oc, Langue d'Oil transcriptions and translations)
• The French Ministry of Culture's Archim imagebank — Photographic reproductions of constitutions, edicts, treaties, letters, photos, atlases and official seals of relevance to French national and regional history -- available either by search engine or by thematic "dossiers."
• Historical Text Archive: France — Includes primary and secondary documents, provided by Don Mabry. (Transcriptions, facsimiles and commentaries, mostly in English)
• Histoires et Légendes de Savoie — Historical documents and commentary on the region -- former duchy -- of Savoy. (1100 - present; French & Latin transcriptions, facsimiles and commentaries)
• Documents médiévaux conservés au Musée de l'histoire de France — Archim imagebank
• Sceaux de Bourgogne — Archim imagebank
• Enluminures — CNRS
• Uniting the Kingdoms? —
• Traictié de la forme et devis d'ung tournoy —
• Histori von König Ludwig inn Franckreich und Herzog Carle von Burgund —
• Canada-France Archives — New France - New Horizons
• The Jesuit Relations and the History of New France — texts themselvesReuben Gold Thwaites English translations
• The Champlain Society Digital Collections —
• Tracing the History of New France —
• Government Documents: New France — Exploration, Fur Trade and the Hudson's Bay Company
• Canada in the Making: Primary Sources in Government Documents —
• France in America - France en Amérique —
• Previously Unpublished Letters of Philip II, Habsburg King of Spain —
• The Catholic Reformation —
• Treaty of Westphalia —
• Des guerres de Religion à l'édit de Tolérance — Archim imagebank
• Textes sur l'absolutisme en France —
• Absolutism — Internet Modern History Sourcebook
• Textes sur la société française d'Ancien régime —
• Texte sur la Révocation de l'Edit de Nantes en France —
• King William Addresses Parliament on the French Question —
• The Battle of Vigo, Spain, During the War of Spanish Succession —
• French Old Regime Bureaucrats: Intendants de Province, 1661-1790 —
• Correspondance entre Louis XIV et Pontchartrain, secrétaire d'Etat de la Marine — Archim imagebank
• Memoir on the English Aggression —
• Marquis de la Galissoniere, Memoir on the French Colonies in North America —
• Collection of Documents from the French and Indian War in America —
• Treaty of Alliance between France and America —
• Edits, ârrets, ordonnances monétaires de l'autorité royale et des cours souveraines de Charles II à Louis XVI —
• Franco - American Diplomacy —
• Images et textes du XIXe siècle francophone —
• Paris Maps —
• Historic Cities of France — Historic Cities
• Arisitum: Chroniques de France —
• The French Ministry of Culture's Archim imagebank — search enginethematic "dossiers."
• Historical Text Archive: France —
• Histoires et Légendes de Savoie —
• Textes sur la Révolution française — Excerpts from letters, diaries, edicts, and other documents of the French Revolution. (1789-1796; French transcriptions)
• Visages de la Révolution — Documenting aftereffects of the Revolution on the Chroniques de France website. (French transcriptions)
• Documents sur la Révolution française de 1789 — Documents of the Revolution from the Ministry of Culture's Archim imagebank. (1789-1802; photo facsimiles)
• Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution — With over 600 documents. A joint project of George Mason University and City University of New York. (1789-1796 plus precursor and aftermath events; translations, image facsimiles, maps & timeline)
• The French Revolution — Texts & Archives (Translations)
• Imaging the French Revolution: Depictions of the French Revolutionary Crowd — A project of the Center for History & New Media, George Mason University and the Department of History, University of California, Los Angeles for the American Historical Review. (1789-1793; facsimile images and essays)
• Edmund Burke, Reflections On The Revolution In France
  And On The Proceedings In Certain Societies In London Relative To That Event
  In A Letter Intended To Have Been Sent To A Gentleman In Paris — From Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library (1790; English transcription)
• Edmund Burke on the Death of Marie Antoinette — (Transcription)
• Déclaration des droits de l'homme et du citoyen — (1789; transcription of French original)
• Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen — (1789; English translation)
• The Quasi (U.S.) War with France — Documents from the Avalon Project (1791-1800; transcriptions and translations).
• French Revolution & Napoleonic Wars — A collection of primary documents from the Internet Modern History Sourcebook. (Late 18th & early 19th centuries; transcriptions and translations)
• Napoleonica.org - Napoleonic Primary Sources — A masterful and growing collection of online documents with search engine from the Fondation Napoléon (French language transcriptions)
• The Napoleonic Guide — With collections of digital maps as well as documents and commentaries. Well over 1,000 webpages of Napoleonic information (Facsimiles and transcriptions)
• The McGill University Napoleon Collection — A growing digital collection of monographs, serials, maps, prints, and manuscripts on the Napoleonic era. Browse or search modes are available. (Facsimiles and transcriptions)
• Napoleon Period Collection — of French and English caricatures Satirical drawings, cartoons, caricatures of Napoleon and his era. A part of the University of Washington Libraries Digital Collections. (1793-1815; facsimiles)
• Napoleonic Caricatures — A rich collection of satires and caricature images of Napoleon. From the Center for Digitial Initiatives, Brown University. (Facsimiles and English commentary)
• Diplomatic Documents — from the Napoleon Series Treaties, speeches, diplomatic correspondence, etc. (1796-1815; English translations)
• Napoleonic Legislation, Decrees and Proclamations — (1798-1819; English translations)
• Napoleonic Code — The civil code that still affects present-day law. (1804-1810; English translation)
• L'homme Napoléon et sa légende: Documentation — A collection of Napoleonic documents from the website Histoire du Consulat et du Premier Empire (1792 - 1815; facsimiles with French-language transcriptions)
• Traités et Conventions — French Treaties & Conventions of the Napoleonic era from the website Histoire du Consulat et du Premier Empire (1799 - 1815; French-language transcriptions)
• Le Bulletin des Lois — Browsable and searchable database of Napoleonic laws from the website Histoire du Consulat et du Premier Empire (1798 - 1815; French-language transcriptions)
• Napoleon's Farewell to the Old Guard — (20 April, 1814; English translation)
• Letter of Lord Londonderry to Richard Rush — Regarding the death of Napoleon and the island of St. Helena (July 30, 1821; English transcription)
• France in America - France en Amérique — Digital library of Library of Congress in cooperation with the Bibliothèque nationale de France. A bilingual site offering digitized books, prints, maps and manuscripts on the French presence in North America. (16th - 19th centuries; facsimiles, transcriptions, and maps).
• En quête d'aventure : La traite des fourrures au Canada et la Compagnie du Nord-Ouest — Searchable full-text database of the Masson Papers, digitised by McGill University. (1790 - 1820; searchable facsimiles with added transcriptions).
• Canadian Confederation — Provincial historical documents regarding English and French interests. Digitised by the National Library of Canada. (19th and 20th centuries; transcriptions).
• Canada in the Making: Primary Sources in Government Documents — Constitutional documents, treaties, and other primary sources regarding English and French interests in Canada. (1760 to the present; transcriptions).
• Textes sur la Restauration et la Révolution de 1830 en France — Documentary excerpts on the Restoration and the 1830 Revolution in France. (1828-1830; French transcriptions)
• Textes sur l'abolition de l'esclavage en France — Documentary excerpts on the abolition of slavery in France. (1789-1848; French transcriptions)
• Pamphlets and Periodicals of the French Revolution of 1848 — A joint project of the Center for Research Libraries (CRL), the University of Chicago Library, and the ARTFL Project. (1848; photo facsimiles)
• La deuxième République — Documentary excerpts on the 1848 Revolution and the Second Republic. (1848; French transcriptions)
• Siege of Paris and the Paris Commune — A searchable database from the Northwestern University Library. (1870-1871; photo facsimiles of portraits, political caricatures and handwritten notes)
• Les débuts de la IIIe République — Documentary excerpts on the the beginnings of the Third Republic. (1871-1880; French transcriptions)
• Constitutions de la France de 1789 à nos jours — Constitutional variants reproduced on the Ministry of Culture's Archim imagebank. (1789 - present; photo facsimiles) - To access, click on "Consultation" -
• French Old Regime Bureaucrats: Intendants de Province, 1661-1790 — containing names of Intendants and periods of incumbency in different intendances (French provinces). From the University of Wisconsin. (1661-1790; data files)
• Edits, ârrets, ordonnances monétaires de l'autorité royale et des cours souveraines de Charles II à Louis XVI — Royal monetary edicts and decrees from the mid ninth century until after the French Revolution. Also a good source for information on the succession of French kings. (843-1792; published transcriptions in pdf file). Under construction in reverse chronological order: most recent years available first.
• Franco - American Diplomacy — Documents from the Avalon Project (1778-1843; transcriptions and translations).
• Paris: Capital of the 19th Century — A Brown University Library Digital Collection. Online access to pictorial works and texts that provide a window into the cultural, political and social context of 19th century Parisian culture. (19th century; images and French language textual facsimiles)
• 19th Century France — A collection of primary documents from the Internet Modern History Sourcebook. (19th century; transcriptions and translations)
• Images et textes du XIXe siècle francophone — Documents and images from the French-speaking world in the 19th century Searchable database of the Bibliothèque nationale de France. (French facsimiles and transcriptions)
• Arisitum: Chroniques de France — A growing collection of documented texts. (From ancient times through 1914; Latin, Langue d'Oc, Langue d'Oil transcriptions and translations)
• La Bibliotheque Electronique de Lisieux — The Electronic Library of Lisieux With source texts, some archived in zip-format. (17th - 20th centuries; French transcriptions)
• France: Eighteenth Century — Lafayette Collection Click on digital facsimiles. Plethora of facsimiles ranging from Laffayete's family and private life to French politics. Images from the Maurepas Collection Facsimiles from Maurepas collection
• The French Ministry of Culture's Archim imagebank — Photographic reproductions of constitutions, edicts, treaties, letters, photos, atlases and official seals of relevance to French national and regional history -- available either by search engine or by thematic "dossiers."
• Historical Text Archive: France — Includes primary and secondary documents, provided by Don Mabry. (Transcriptions, facsimiles and commentaries, mostly in English)
• Paris Maps — 100 historical maps of Paris. (18th and 19th century; facsimiles -- GIF files)
• Historic Cities of France — A set of historical maps from Dr. Ronnie Ellenblum's Historic Cities (Facsimiles).
• Histoires et Légendes de Savoie — Historical documents and commentary on the region -- former duchy -- of Savoy. (1100 - present; French & Latin transcriptions, facsimiles and commentaries)
• Paris: Capital of the 19th Century — A Brown University Library Digital Collection. Online access to pictorial works and texts that provide a window into the cultural, political and social context of 19th century Parisian culture. (19th century; images and French language textual facsimiles)
• Textes sur les rapports franco-russe (fin XIXe siècle) — Documentary excerpts on Franco-Russian relations at the end of the 19th century. (1892-1896; French transcriptions)
• Dreyfus Affair: J'accuse! of Émile Zola — (13 January 1898; French language transcription of L'Aurore article)
• Textes sur l'affaire Dreyfus et l'Action française — Documentary excerpts on the the Dreyfus Affair and the counterrepublican movement, Action française. (1894-1908; French transcriptions)
• France's Grim Action Against German Spies — By Major Darnley Stewart-Stephens From Penny Illustrated Paper found on the British Library Website (3 December 1910;Facsimiles)
• The Entente Cordiale Between England and France — Full text of the Franco-British agreement and declaration, with a link to the Secret Articles signed at the same time. (8 April, 1904; English version taken from the 1911 Parliamentary Papers)
• Canadian Confederation — Provincial historical documents regarding English and French interests. Digitised by the National Library of Canada. (19th and 20th centuries; transcriptions).
• World War I Document Archive — (pre-1914 - post-1918; translations and transcriptions) Major Resource
• The French Yellow Book — Diplomatic documents related to the outbreak of World War I. (1913-1914; English translations)
• World War I — A collection of primary documents from the Internet Modern History Sourcebook. (1914-1918; transcriptions and translations)
• Documents of World War I — Digital primary documents assembled at Mount Holyoke College. (1914-1919; translations)
• Documents of the Interwar Period — Digital primary documents assembled at Mount Holyoke College. (1918-1941; translations)
• Texte sur la colonisation française dans les années trente — Documentary excerpt on French colonization in the 1930s. (1931; French transcription)
• Lutte politique en France, années trente — Documentary excerpt on the political crisis of 1932. (17 April 1932; French transcription)
• Munich Pact — Agreement concluded at Munich between Germany, Great Britain, France and Italy (29 September 1938; English translation)
• The French Yellow Book — of diplomatic documents. "Papers relative to the events and negotiations which preceded the opening of hostilities between Germany on the one hand, and Poland, Great Britain and France on the other hand." Electronic version by permission of the French Government. (1938-1939; English translations)
• Edouard Daladier, Premier of France: "Nazis' Aim is Slavery" — Radio address a few months before the German attack on France. (29 January 1940; English translation)
• Franco-German Armistice — (25 June 1940; English translation)
• Lettres de Prison -- Victor Renelle — Prison letters of a trade unionist prior to his execution. An example of French resistance during the early Vichy regime. (1940-1941; French transcriptions)
• Archives de guerre — An archive of images and documents from the French perspective of World War II. Requires video software for the clips. (1940-1944; videos, photo images and transcriptions)
• In Europe World War II in Europe — A collection of primary documents from the Internet Modern History Sourcebook. (1939-1945; transcriptions and translations)
• World War II — A collection of documents related to WWII. From the Avalon Project.
• Hyperwar: A Hypertext History of the Second World War — Official (mainly U.S.) government histories, source documents, and other primary references. (1939-1945; English transcriptions and translations)
• Documents of World War II — Digital primary documents assembled at Mount Holyoke College. (1939-1945; facsimiles)
• Camps français d'internement — Photos of internment camps in France during World War II. A part of the Archim national cultural and historical database. (1939-1944; translations)
• Collaboration et Résistance —
• Vie quotidienne sous l'occupation — Documentary excerpts on French collaboration, resistance, and daily life during the German occupation. (1940-1944; French transcriptions)
• D-Day, The Invasion of Normandy — Documents of the Eisenhower Library. (1943-1944; facsimiles & photos)
• Eisenhower Communiques — Daily battle communiques from Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force Europe (SHAEF). Searchable database with full-text facsimiles. (6 June 1944 - 8 May 1945; text-searchable facsimiles)
• Paris libéré — The liberation of Paris (25 August 1945; transcriptions, facsimiles and maps)
• Paris Maps — 100 historical maps of Paris. (18th and 19th century; facsimiles -- GIF files)
• Historic Cities of France — A set of historical maps from Dr. Ronnie Ellenblum's Historic Cities(Facsimiles).
• Chroniques de France — A growing collection of documented texts. (From ancient times through 1914; Latin, Langue d'Oc, Langue d'Oil transcriptions and translations)
• La Bibliotheque Electronique de Lisieux — The Electronic Library of Lisieux With source texts, some archived in zip-format. (17th - 20th centuries; French transcriptions)
• The French Ministry of Culture's Archim imagebank — Photographic reproductions of constitutions, edicts, treaties, letters, photos, atlases and official seals of relevance to French national and regional history -- available either by search engine or by thematic "dossiers."
• Historical Text Archive: France — Includes primary and secondary documents, provided by Don Mabry. (Transcriptions, facsimiles and commentaries, mostly in English)
• Histoires et Légendes de Savoie — Historical documents and commentary on the region -- former duchy -- of Savoy. (1100 - present; French & Latin transcriptions, facsimiles and commentaries)
• La Constitution de la IVeme République (27 octobre 1946) — French Constitution of 27 October 1946 - Fourth Republic (French transcriptions)
• La Constitution de la Veme République (4 octobre 1958) —
• Legifrance version including English, German and Spanish translations — Constitutional Law of 4 October 1958 - Fifth Republic. (French transcriptions; 4 October 1958 with updates to 2003)
• Base Pacte: Engagements Internationaux de la France — A database of unilateral and multilateral treaties of which France is a signatory. With links to the full-text versions of each treaty and accord. (French transcriptions)
• La France après 1945 — Documentary excerpts on the political landscape from De Gaulle to Mitterand (1947-1981; French transcriptions)
• War Western European States France Since 1945 — (Scroll down to France) A collection of primary documents from the Internet Modern History Sourcebook. (1945 to the present; transcriptions and translations)
• Discours de Schuman sur la création de la CECA — Excerpt from the French foreign minister on the creation of a European economic union. This coal and steel community marked the first steps toward a European Union. (9 May 1950; French transcription)
• La Guerre d'Algérie — Documentary excerpts from Algeria's war of independence against France. (1954-1962; chronology and French transcriptions)
• La loi Toubon — Law stipulating the use of the French language to be obligatory in commerce. (4 August 1994; French transcription)
• Textes sur la crise algérienne — Documenting the Algerian crisis and terrorism of the 1990s. (1991-1998; French transcriptions)
• Paris Maps — 100 historical maps of Paris. (18th and 19th century; facsimiles -- GIF files)
• Historic Cities of France — A set of historical maps from Dr. Ronnie Ellenblum's Historic Cities (Facsimiles).
• La Bibliotheque Electronique de Lisieux — The Electronic Library of Lisieux With source texts, some archived in zip-format. (17th - 20th centuries; French transcriptions)
• President Reagan Address at the U.S.-French Ceremony at Omaha Beach — on the 40th Anniversary of D-Day (June 6, 1984; English transcription).
• President Reagan's Pointe de Hoc Speech — The 40th anniversary of D-Day (June 6, 1984; English transcription).
• Les Communiqués de Presse — Press Releases of the French Senate (1997 - present; French transcriptions)
• Historical Text Archive: France — Includes primary and secondary documents, provided by Don Mabry. (Transcriptions, facsimiles and commentaries, mostly in English)
• The Ordinance of Louis the Pious — dividing the empire (817; English translation)
• Treaty at Aix Between Louis II and Charles the Bald Concerning the Division of the Kingdom of Lothar II — (870; English translation)
• Treaty of Alliance between France and America — (1778; bilingual English / French facsimile and English transcription)
• Canadian Confederation — Provincial historical documents regarding English and French interests. Digitised by the National Library of Canada. (19th and 20th centuries; transcriptions).
• Canada in the Making: Primary Sources in Government Documents — Constitutional documents, treaties, and other primary sources regarding English and French interests in Canada. (1760 to the present; transcriptions).
• Déclaration des droits de l'homme et du citoyen — (1789; transcription of French original)
• Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen — (1789; English translation)
• Traités et Conventions — French Treaties & Conventions of the Napoleonic era From the website Histoire du Consulat et du Premier Empire (1799 - 1815; French-language transcriptions)
• Le Bulletin des Lois — Browable and searchable database of French laws during the Napoleonic era From the website Histoire du Consulat et du Premier Empire (1798 - 1815; French-language transcriptions)
• Napoleonic Legislation, Decrees and Proclamations — (1798-1819; English translations)
• Napoleonic Code — The civil code that still affects present-day law. (1804-1810; English translation)
• Edits, ârrets, ordonnances monétaires de l'autorité royale et des cours souveraines de Charles II à Louis XVI — Royal monetary edicts and decrees from the mid ninth century until after the French Revolution. Also a good source for information on the succession of French kings. (843-1792; published transcriptions in pdf file). Under construction in reverse chronological order: most recent years available first.
• Franco - American Diplomacy — Documents from the Avalon Project (1778-1843; transcriptions and translations).
• Munich Pact — Agreement concluded at Munich between Germany, Great Britain, France and Italy (29 September 1938; English translation)
• Franco-German Armistice — (25 June 1940; English translation)
• Les textes constitutionells — Ten French national constitutions since 1789 - compiled in the archives of the Prime Minister. (1789- present; transcriptions)
• Constitutions de la France de 1789 à nos jours — Constitutional variants reproduced on the Ministry of Culture's Archim imagebank. (1789 - present; photo facsimiles)
• Various Versions of the French Constitution, including an English translation — Provided by the University of Würzburg.
• Les codes en vigeur — Current French civil and criminal codes in effect. Compiled by Legifrance. (French transcriptions)
• La loi Toubon — Law stipulating the use of the French language to be obligatory in commerce. (4 August 1994; French transcription)
• Les Communiqués de Presse — Press Releases of the French Senate (1997 - present; French transcriptions)
• Legifrance: Le service public de la diffusion du droit — Public website for access to French legal texts (French-language transcriptions with additional links to English and Spanish translations)
• Cartulaire du Saint Aubin — A Cartulary or archival document trove from the Abbey of St. Aubin in Angers. Two searchable volumes, of which only the first is online at present. (11th century events: transcribed 12th century)
• Great Archaeological Sites of France — Including virtual visits to the Cave of Lascaux, other caves, and the ancient town of Vienne. (prehistoric to antiquity; facsimiles and reproductions)
• La Bibliotheque Electronique de Lisieux — The Electronic Library of Lisieux. With source texts, some archived in zip-format. (17th - 20th centuries; French transcriptions)
• La Bibliothèque Virtuelle (de Narbonne) — Early digitized books, some with primary documentation of Narbonne regional history. (15th-18th centuries; book facsimiles)
• Paris, Ville Antique — Photographs and virtual reconstructions of Paris during the Roman Empire. (Photo facsimiles and reproductions)
• Siege of Paris and the Paris Commune — (1870-1871; photo facsimiles of portraits, political caricatures and handwritten notes)
• Paris: Capital of the 19th Century — A Brown University Library Digital Collection. Online access to pictorial works and texts that provide a window into the context of 19th century Parisian culture. (19th century; images and French language textual facsimiles)
• Paris libéré — The liberation of Paris (25 August 1945; transcriptions, facsimiles and maps)
• Paris Maps — 100 historical maps of Paris. (18th and 19th century; facsimiles -- GIF files)
• Cartulaire blanc de Saint-Denis — "White Cartulary:" archival documents of the Abbey of St. Denis - Tremblay (Paris). Important for economic, agrarian and social history. (1270-1320; transcriptions)
• Relation: Aller Fuernemmen und gedenckwuerdigen Historien... — Strasbourg newspaper digitized by Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg. (1609; German-language facsimiles)
• Des fonds anciens des bibliothèques universitaires toulousaines — Early modern historical monographs and documents from Toulouse and environs. Including Spanish items digitised at libraries in Toulouse. (16th-18th centuries; facsimiles)
• Historic Cities of France — A set of historical maps from Dr. Ronnie Ellenblum's Historic Cities (Facsimiles).

Regional History

• Hérésies médiévales: Documenting Medieval Heresies — Source documents, contemporary polemics, and inquisition records from Languedoc. (11th - 14th centuries; Latin & Occitain transcriptions and French translations)
• Canada-France Archives — Database of document descriptions and reproductions concerning "New France" -- Canada, Acadia, Newfoundland, the Great Lakes region, and Louisiana -- A portion of the New France - New Horizons website. (mostly 1500 - 1763; searchable facsimiles of documents and photos)
• France in America - France en Amérique — Digital library of Library of Congress in cooperation with the Bibliothèque nationale de France. A bilingual site offering digitized books, prints, maps and manuscripts on the French presence in North America. (16th - 19th centuries; facsimiles, transcriptions, and maps).
• Histoire de Provençaux — Documenting the history of Provence. (1789-1918; French transcriptions and commentary)
• Histoires et Légendes de Savoie — Historical documents and commentary on the region -- former duchy -- of Savoy. (1100 - present; French & Latin transcriptions, facsimiles and commentaries)
• Liberation Journals — A searchable database of journals for Black Africans and Québecois. (1930s-1970s; facsimiles)
• International Civic Coats of Arms: French Provinces and Regions —
• International Civic Coats of Arms: French Counties(Départements) — (Facsimiles).
• French books of the 17th - 20th centuries — Digitized for Europeana, an online library of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. (17th- 20th century; facsimiles)
• Historical Documents of France — Important historical parchments digitized by the Martynas Mazvydas Lithuanian National Library (1460-1811; facsimiles)
• Constitutions de la France de 1789 à nos jours — Constitutional variants reproduced on the Ministry of Culture's Archim imagebank. (1789 - present; photo facsimiles)
• Tissandier Collection — - Balloon flights and aeronautics in France and Europe Digitized from the collections of the Library of Congress. "Subjects include general and technical images of balloons, airships, and flying machines; portraits of famous balloonists; views of numerous ascensions, accidents, and world’s fairs; cartoons featuring balloon themes; pictorial and textual broadsides; and colorful ephemera and poster advertisements." (1773-1910; searchable database of facsimiles)
• Historic Cities of France — A set of historical maps from Dr. Ronnie Ellenblum's Historic Cities(Facsimiles).
• Arisitum: Chroniques de France — A growing collection of documented texts. (From ancient times through 1914; Latin, Langue d'Oc, Langue d'Oil transcriptions and translations)
• The French Ministry of Culture's Archim imagebank — Photographic reproductions of constitutions, edicts, treaties, letters, photos, atlases and official seals of relevance to French national and regional history -- available either by search engine or by thematic "dossiers."
• Cliotexte — A collection of excerpts from various epochs of history. Especially strong in French and Swiss history sources. (French transcriptions and translations)
• McMaster University Archive for the History of Economic Thought — Including essays of important economic thinkers from Austria, England, France, Germany, Italy, and other countries. (English transcriptions and translations)
• Historical Text Archive: France — Includes primary and secondary documents, provided by Don Mabry. (Transcriptions, facsimiles and commentaries, mostly in English)

Länderinformationen

Geschichte

• Geschichte der französischen Revolution bis zur Stiftung der Republik, Bruno Bauer, Leipzig, 1847. - Band 1 - Band 2 (Gallica)