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Database information for ARTFL Project (University of Chicago)

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• Coverage: 1200-current
• Type(s) of Content: Full Text
• Subject Areas: Arts and Humanities ; General
• Library of Congress Clasification: pq1
• Short Description:
  Database of nearly 2000 texts in French, ranging from classic works of French literature to various kinds of non-fiction prose and technical writing. The eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries are about equally represented. smaller selection of seventeenth century texts as well as some medieval and Renaissance texts.
• Annotation:
  Genres include novels, verse, theater, journalism, essays, correspondence, and treatises. Subjects include literary criticism, biology, history, economics, and philosophy. In most cases standard scholarly editions were used in converting the text into machine-readable form, and the data contain page references to these editions. The Project for American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language (ARTFL) is a cooperative enterprise of Analyse et Traitement Informatique de la Langue Française (ATILF) of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), the Division of the Humanities, the Division of the Social Sciences, and Electronic Text Services (ETS) of the University of Chicago