French Resources: Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

Founded in 1982 as a result of a collaboration between the French government and the University of Chicago, the ARTFL Project is a consortium-based service that provides its members with access to North America's largest collection of digitized French resources, including the Dictionnaires d'autrefois, the Encyclopédie of Diderot and d'Alembert, and the Bibliothèque Bleue de Troyes.

Important monolingual French dictionary which has been published by the Académie Française since 1694.

French dictionaries of the 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th centuries

An experimental approach to dictionary compilation that offers an interactive and community-oriented alternative to traditional methods of French lexicography developed by ARTFL as part of the NEH Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants Program.

Dictionary based on the print publication Le Grand Robert de la langue française, providing the content of all 6 volumes of the latest print edition. Includes supplements and unpublished extras. The digital version of the Grand Robert truly offers a new space for the largest and most up-to-date French-language dictionaries . It is the result of a vast editorial and IT project whose ambition has been both to reveal all the richness of the book and to set up new methods of consultation, fully exploiting all the possibilities of digital support, and especially hypertext links.