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Montgomery Library's Guide to Resources for French Studies

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Library Guide to French Resources

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New to the Shelf!

Students and faculty online and at regional centers may request books by mail through CU Library Exchange.

E-Books for Students of French

eBook Collection by EBSCOhost

Additional e-books not available through CU Search can be found at EBSCOhost's ebook collection, which contains over 180,000 books.

Recent Titles in Print

Find these books and many others in the reference and circulating collections of Montgomery Library:

HISTORY      
DC137 .H369 2016     The Life of Louis XVI
DC 148 .M4535 2016     Liberty or Death: The French Revolution
DC205 .G8413 2015     Bonaparte: 1769-1802
DC 731 .R37 2017     The Unruly City : Paris, London and New York in the Age of Revolution
DG 445 .C378 2021     The Italian Renaissance and the Origins of the Modern Humanities: An Intellectual History, 1400-1800
       
LANGUAGE ACQUISITION      
P 118.2 .S28 2017     Introducing Second Language Acquisition
P 118.2 .C356 2013     The Cambridge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition
P 118.2 .R68 2012       The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition
       
TRANSLATING      
P 306.5 .M39 2022     The Routledge Guide to Teaching Translation and Interpreting Online
P 306 .M865 2022     Introducing Translation Studies Theories and Applications
P 308 .U53 2022     Using Technologies for Creative-Text Translation
       
FRENCH LANGUAGE       
PC 2117 .A4225 2005     C'est la vie!: A French Reader
PC 2117 .G646 2007     Graded French Reader: Première étape
       
MOTION PICTURES      
PN1993.5 .F7 L33 2015     French Cinema: From its Beginnings to the Present
PN1995.9 .Y6 S37 2021     Screening Youth: Contemporary French and Francophone cinema
PN1998.3 .T374 T87 2020     Play time : Jacques Tati and comedic modernism
       
FRENCH LITERATURE      
PQ 1643 .D39513 2017     Montaigne: A Life
PQ 2353 .L56 2020     Guy de Maupassant
PQ2605 .A3734 E836 2016      Looking for the Stranger : Albert Camus and the Life of a Literary Classic

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Interlibrary Loan
CU Search includes an Interlibrary Loan tool for finding books and articles at other libraries that are not available at the Montgomery Library. Through Interlibrary Loan, these items may be obtained free of charge unless a fee is required by the lending library. Allow at least two weeks for delivery of materials. Learn how to request Interlibrary loan items using the link below:

Browse the Collection

Use these call numbers to browse the reference and circulating collections on Montgomery Library's first floor.

Library of Congress Classification Guide to Resources for French: 

DC 1-947   History of France
PC 2001-3761   French language
PQ 1-3999      French literature
PQ 1-771        History and criticism
PQ 845        Juvenile Literature
PQ 1100-1297        Collections
PQ 1300-1595        Old French literature
PQ 1600-2726        Modern literature
PQ 1600-2147             16th - 18th century
PQ 2149-2551             19th century
PQ 2600-2726             1900 - present
PQ 3800-3999        Provincial, local, colonial, etc.

 

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