French literature scholars will be happy to learn that the Library recently initiated a subscription to Grand Corpus des littératures, the Great Corpus of French and Francophone Literature, from the Middle Ages to the 20th Century.
This resource includes more than 14,000 texts and close to 300 authors' complete works from the 10th to 20th centuries – all of which are completely searchable. Authors include widely-recognizable names such as Victor Hugo, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Émile Zola, and many more.
Produced by Classiques Garnier Numérique with the support of the National Centre for Distance Teaching (CNED), the French Ministry of Education, and the Intergovernmental Agency for Francophone culture, the corpus includes these 4 online collections of literature:
The Grand Corpus is available to current students, faculty, and staff of the University of Waterloo. It is accessible via Primo (under the collective title), the Research Databases page (under “G”), and through the French Studies Subject Guide. Records for individual titles in the database will be added to Primo as time permits.
For more information on this resource, see the publisher's database information page, or contact:
Liaison Librarian for French, Germanic and Slavic, Spanish and Latin American Studies
Ext. 32611
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Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1
519 888 4883
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