Here are some more online resources from the wiki to help in the work of cataloging the pamphlets:
Place names
- Noms des communes sur la révolution – A list of those places where names were changed during the revolution and their modern equivalents.
Name Authority Resources
- BNF Catalog générale may be useful in resolving unqualified names when M&W isn’t. Under Recherches avancées, search Dans les index, which allows you to browse an index by Auteur (among others). Some names have authority records linked.
- ETANOT : ETat des NOTaires de Paris – Searchable database maintained by the Centre historique des Archives nationales containing biographical details and addresses of public notaries in France from the 15th century to the present.
- List of Convention nationale members – A convenient list of members of the Convention nationale, organised by département – useful for finding the right AF.
- Scholarly Societies Project – Sponsored by the University of Waterloo Library, this project concisely documents the histories, activities, and various names changes of scholarly societies throughout the world with a focus on societies in North America and Europe. Nearly 200 French societies are included. This site is helpful for dating pamphlets and for authority control.
Dictionaries and Grammar
- Le conjugueur – A convenient online tool for conjugating any French verb, or finding the root verb of a strange conjugation.
- Dictionnaire de l’Académie Française
- Dictionnaire des difficultés de la langue française – Dana kindly lent her copy to the project; at the island with the other dictionaries, etc.
- Dictionnaire des calembours et des jeux de mots, lazzis, coqs-à-l’âne, quolibets, quiproquos, amphigouris, etc. – a 19th century dictionary of French puns. Useful for figuring out some of the more obscure poetry, satire, etc.
- Le Nouveau dictionnaire complet du jargon de l’argot ou Le Langage des voleurs dévoilé (HTML version here) – a 19th century slang dictionary, useful for finding archaic slang
Legalese — I’ve found a couple of resources helpful in determining dates of laws and resolutions; search by month, date and key words of law or resolution. Helpful when you don’t have year of publication. Both are full text on Google books:
- Répertoire méthodique et alphabétique de législation, de doctrine et de jurisprudence en matière de droit civil, commercial, criminel, administratif, de droit des gens et de droit public
- Collection complète des lois, décrets d’intérêe général, traités internationaux, arrêtés, circulaires, instructions, etc.
- Code des délits et peines The full text of the criminal code published on 3 brumaire an 4. Useful for pamphlets that only refer to specific articles, etc.
Digitized Pamphlet Collections
- Gallica: French Digital Library – contains digitized versions of some of our FRC pamphlets.