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CRL’s collection related to France is particularly strong in newspapers, official gazettes, legislative debates, and other government publications. Foreign government sets include dispatches and correspondence from U.S. consuls and the U.K. Foreign Office. CRL also has extensive collections of pamphlets and publications relating to the revolutions in France. French literature and drama (particularly 17th–19th centuries) are also well represented. CRL acquires common French newspapers on microfilm through various vendors and French dissertations are purchased through the library’s purchase on demand program.  French is one of our major languages, and the collection includes materials from various countries. 

CIFNAL (Collaborative Initiative for French Language Collections) improves access to French and French-language resources for North American partners as well as providing access to North American resources for French and Francophone partners. It also engages in consortium subscriptions (licensing agreements) to French-speaking databases that are less common in the United States.  CIFNAL has created a libguide that compiles a wide range of digital humanities projects in French and Francophone Studies that are currently underway in various parts of the world. A further project resulted in a database for French and Francophone collections at institutions in the United States and Canada (both hyperlinks to the project are listed on the right side).