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A Cartulary or archival document trove from the Abbey of St. Aubin in Angers.
Two searchable volumes, of which only the first is online at present.
(11th century events: transcribed 12th century)

Including virtual visits to the Cave of Lascaux, other caves, and the ancient town of Vienne.
(prehistoric to antiquity; facsimiles and reproductions)

Municipal digital collections of Grenoble.
(Photographs and manuscript facsimiles)

Municipal digital collections of Lille.
(Image facsimiles, manuscripts and maps)

The Electronic Library of Lisieux.
With source texts, some archived in zip-format.
(17th - 20th centuries; French transcriptions)

Municipal digital collections of Lyon.
(Journals, manuscript facsimiles and photographs)

Early digitized books, some with primary documentation of Narbonne regional history.
(15th-18th centuries; book facsimiles)

Photographs and virtual reconstructions of Paris during the Roman Empire.
(Photo facsimiles and reproductions)
(1870-1871; photo facsimiles of portraits, political caricatures and handwritten notes)
Part of the University of Wisconsin Digital Collections.
Especially notable for images of the rebuilding of Paris under Emperor Napoleon III.
(ca. 1855-1870; dual stereoscopic facsimile images)
A Brown University Library Digital Collection.
Online access to pictorial works and texts that provide a window into the context of 19th century Parisian culture.
(19th century; images and French language textual facsimiles)
The liberation of Paris
(25 August 1945; transcriptions, facsimiles and maps)
100 historical maps of Paris.
(18th and 19th century; facsimiles -- GIF files)
"White Cartulary:" archival documents of the Abbey of St. Denis - Tremblay (Paris).
Important for economic, agrarian and social history.
(1270-1320; transcriptions)

Strasbourg newspaper digitized by Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg.
(1609; German-language facsimiles)

Municipal digital collections of Troyes.
(Images, books, colportage collection, manuscripts and maps)

Early modern historical monographs and documents from Toulouse and environs.
Including Spanish items digitised at libraries in Toulouse.
(16th-18th centuries; facsimiles)

A set of historical maps from Dr. Ronnie Ellenblum's Historic Cities
(Facsimiles).

Regional History

Source documents, contemporary polemics, and inquisition records from Languedoc.
(11th - 14th centuries; Latin & Occitain transcriptions and French translations)

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)
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).

Digital library for the region of Normandy.
(Book & manscript facsimiles with transcriptions)

Documenting the history of Provence.
(1789-1918; French transcriptions and commentary)

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)

Historical documents and commentary on the region -- former duchy -- of Savoy.
(1100 - present; French & Latin transcriptions, facsimiles and commentaries)

A searchable database of journals for Black Africans and Québecois.
(1930s-1970s; facsimiles)

(Facsimiles).

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