France: Historical Collections
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- With search interfaces, an online library of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France.
- (17th- 20th century; facsimiles)
- Important historical parchments digitized by the Martynas Mazvydas Lithuanian National Library
- (1460-1811; facsimiles)
- French and francophone digital libraries.
- Strong representation of local and regional digital depositories (Grenoble, Lille, Lisieux, Lyon, Normandy, Troyes, etc.)
- (Facsimiles, transcriptions and commentary)
- Digitization projects in France, a list compiled by Klaus Graf.
- Scroll down to "Frankreich."
- Constitutional variants reproduced on the Ministry of Culture's Archim imagebank.
- (1789 - present; photo facsimiles)
- Tissandier Collection - Balloon flights and aeronautics in France and Europe
- Digitized from the collections of the Library of Congress.
- "Subjects include general and technical images of balloons, airships, and flying machines; portraits of famous balloonists; views of numerous ascensions, accidents, and world’s fairs; cartoons featuring balloon themes; pictorial and textual broadsides; and colorful ephemera and poster advertisements."
- (1773-1910; searchable database of facsimiles)
- Highlights from the University of Utrecht's collection of maps and atlases in digital format.
- Search digitized maps or browse by title, atlas/map series, geographical area, or collection.
- (16th - 19th centuries; facsimile maps with annotations, from Belgium, France, Germany, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom)
- A set of historical maps from Dr. Ronnie Ellenblum's Historic Cities
- (Facsimiles).
- 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."
- A collection of excerpts from various epochs of history.
- Especially strong in French and Swiss history sources.
- (French transcriptions and translations)
- Including essays of important economic thinkers from Austria, England, France, Germany, Italy, and other countries.
- (English transcriptions and translations)
- Includes primary and secondary documents, provided by Don Mabry.
- (Transcriptions, facsimiles and commentaries, mostly in English)
- (Facsimiles).
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Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, USA.
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