France: 1454 - 1788

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Medieval documents reproduced on the Ministry of Culture's Archim imagebank.
(7th to 16th centuries; photo facsimiles)
Royal seals of the Bourgogne dynasty reproduced on the Ministry of Culture's Archim imagebank.
(9th to 16th centuries; photo facsimiles)
Reproductions of manuscript illuminations and decor
Preserved in French municipal libraries, linked in a database searchable by multiple criteria.
Produced through the auspices of CNRS.
(8th to 18th centuries; facsimiles and metadata)
This section includes primary documents of post-1066 France online.
(1066 - 1603; facsimiles and transcriptions)
King Réné of Anjou's tournament guidelines
(1460; Middle French transcription and English translation)
Prayer book from early 16th century France.
(16th century; Latin-text manuscript)
German translation of the memoirs of Philippe de Commynes,
treating the times of King Louis XI and Duke Carle of Burgundy.
(late 15th - early 16th century; German translation)
Database of document descriptions and reproductions concerning "New France" -- Canada, Acadia, Newfoundland, the Great Lakes region, and Louisiana.
A portion of the New France - New Horizons website.
(Mostly 1500 - 1763; searchable facsimiles of documents and photos)
Missionary texts on the early years of French colonization in North America.
With chronological access to the texts themselves and the Reuben Gold Thwaites English translations.
(1610 - 1791; French, Italian & Latin originals with English translations)
Including first-hand accounts of Samuel de Champlain's journeys in New France
(1609 - 1635; searchable access to French transcriptions with synoptic English translations)
Database from the National Archives of Canada
  with more than 50,000 digitised images of colonial history.
(Searchable access to facsimiles)
Part of Exploration, Fur Trade and the Hudson's Bay Company website.
(18th century, searchable access to facsimiles)
Constitutional documents, treaties, and other primary sources regarding English and French interests in Canada.
(1760 to the present; transcriptions).
Digital library of Library of Congress in cooperation with the Bibliothèque nationale de France.
A bilingual site offering digitized books, prints, maps and manuscripts on the French presence in North America.
(16th - 19th centuries; facsimiles, transcriptions, and maps).
(1592-1597, facsimiles).
Texts & Archives
(Translations)
Peace Treaty ending the Thirty Years War.
(24 October 1648, English translation)
Documents from the Wars of Religion to the Edict of Tolerance
reproduced on the Ministry of Culture's Archim imagebank.
(approx. 1540 - 1788; photo facsimiles)
A growing collection, ultimately to grow to 2,100 political pamphlets from the holdings of BYU Special Collections.
(1547-1626; facsimiles)
Excerpts from letters, diaries, edicts, and other documents of the age.
(16th - 18th centuries; French transcriptions)
A collection of primary documents from the Internet Modern History Sourcebook.
(16th - 17th centuries; transcriptions and translations)
Important 17th-century contemporary newspaper available online.
Includes subject indexes of the various volumes.
Digitized by the Groupe de Recherches Interdisciplinaires sur l'Histoire du Littéraire
(1605-1643; facsimiles)
Excerpts from letters, diaries, edicts, and other documents of the age.
(17th - 18th centuries; French transcriptions)
Excerpts from diaries and documents on the revocation of the Edict of Nantes.
(1685; French transcriptions)
(31 December 1701; transcription).
From the journals of British Admiral Sir George Rooke, recounting battles against the French and Spanish forces.
(17 - 23 October, 1702; transcriptions)
Digitized by David Stewart of Hillsdale College.
containing names of Intendants and periods of incumbency in different intendances (French provinces).
From the University of Wisconsin.
(1661-1790; data files)
Letters between King Louis XIV and his Naval Secretary Pontchartrain
reproduced on the Ministry of Culture's Archim imagebank.
(1703-1714; photo facsimiles)
(October 1750; transcription).
(December 1750; English translation)
An exhibition celebrating the 250th birthday of the Marquis de LaFayette.
With primary documents, artifacts and commentary from Cornell University.
(1757-1834; facsimiles of documents and objects)
(1778; bilingual English / French facsimile)
Royal monetary edicts and decrees from the mid ninth century until after the French Revolution.
Also a good source for information on the succession of French kings.
(843-1792; published transcriptions in pdf file).
Under construction in reverse chronological order: most recent years available first.
Documents from the Avalon Project
(1778-1843; transcriptions and translations).
Documents and images from the French-speaking world in the 19th century
Courtesy of the Bibliothèque nationale de France
(French facsimiles and transcriptions)
100 historical maps of Paris.
(18th and 19th century; facsimiles -- GIF files)
A set of historical maps from Dr. Ronnie Ellenblum's Historic Cities
(Facsimiles).
Scores of contemporary texts, browsable by author, by date or by topic
A digital archive of Stanford University Libraries
(1716-1897; scalable French-language facsimile texts)
Digital library on the history of science and technology.
(18th - 20th centuries; French-language facsimiles of old books and periodicals)
Electronic resources dealing with the history of medicine and dentistry.
Digitization project of the BIUM ("Bibliothèque interuniversitaire de médecine", Paris) Department for the History of Medicine.
(16th - 19th centuries; facsimiles)
Lafayette Collection
Click on digital facsimiles.
Plethora of facsimiles ranging from Lafayette's family and private life to French politics.
Images from the Maurepas Collection
Facsimiles from Maurepas collection
A growing collection of documented texts.
(From ancient times through 1914; Latin, Langue d'Oc, Langue d'Oil transcriptions and translations)
Photographic reproductions of constitutions, edicts, treaties, letters, photos, atlases and official seals
of relevance to French national and regional history --
available either by search engine or by thematic "dossiers."
Includes primary and secondary documents, provided by Don Mabry.
(Transcriptions, facsimiles and commentaries, mostly in English)
Historical documents and commentary on the region -- former duchy -- of Savoy.
(1100 - present; French & Latin transcriptions, facsimiles and commentaries)
The Roubaix Digital Library in the region Nord-Pas-de-Calais aims to concentrate all the local primary sources for the history of the city in one digital library.
Browse by theme, collection or chronological era.
(15th - 20th centuries; Facsimiles, pictures and descriptions)

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