FREN 303: Women, Royalty and Power in the Literature of the Ancien Regime

A combination of an annotated bibliography and an encyclopedia; this resource directs researchers to significant scholarship on a variety of topics including:

* politics ("France in the 16th Century", "French Law and Justice")
* literature ("French literature, "Women Writing in French")
* religion ("Convent Culture", "Jansenism")
* social and cultural history ("Marriage and Dowry", "Widowhood")

More than 3,500 French-language texts of literary criticism, biology, history, economics, and philosophy, 12th-20th century.
Of special interest is the Dictionnaires d'autrefois, French dictionaries of the 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th centuries.

An interdisciplinary research tool that allows you to search over 300 reference works simultaneously, including limiting to audio or visual materials.