Gallica

The digital library of the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF, National Library of France) comprises 6.7 million documents (as of May 2020). These include around 692,000 books (more than half of which are full-text searchable), 176,000 maps, 146,000 manuscripts, 1.4 million images, 51,000 music scores, 51,000 sound recordings and over 4 million issues of magazines and newspapers. The majority are copyright-free works (whose author has been dead for at least 70 years) from the holdings of the BnF. In addition, a third of the 70,000 prints currently digitised by the BnF per year come from around fifty partner libraries. The content focus is on French cultural history from the Middle Ages to the end of the 19th century, including fiction, scientific literature, dictionaries, journals and manuscripts. Most copyright-free books and journals can be downloaded free of charge for non-commercial use.

Some important contents included in the digital library:

• Zeitschrift für Romanische Philologie. Supplement: Bibliographie (reporting period 1875 - 1939)
  and its successor Romanische Bibliographie(from 1965 - 1992 = reporting period 1961 - 1990) Publications on Romance linguistics and literary studies (from volume 1971/72 excluding French literary studies), monographs and articles from numerous journals, congress proceedings and compilations.
• Journal Général de la Littérature de France Digitized issues of the years 1798-1826. Review journal on French-language literature.
• Bibliographie de la France Digitised versions of the French National Bibliography for the years 1811-1971.
• Bibliographie Biographique Universelle Tome Premier (A-M)
• Bibliographie Biographique Universelle Tome Second (N-Z)