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France
Archives and Libraries
- Archives d'Histoire contemporaine at the Centre d'histoire de l'Europe du vingtième siècle, École des Sciences politiques (Paris). Overview of the collections, the papers of Léon Blum among them.
- Archives nationales de France On the server of the Ministry of Culture.
- Bibliothèque de documentation internationale contemporaine (Nanterre). The largest collection on labour history in France. Online catalog.
- Bibliothèque marxiste de Paris Important communist archival holdings (pre-1945). Collections information.
- Bibliothèque nationale de France The French national library. Its Gallica project offers a large collection of digitized publications on topics like industrial and world fairs, Saint-Simonism, syndicalism, anarchism, among many others.
- Centre Ascaso-Durruti (Montpellier). Home to the papers and library of Abel Paz (Diego Camacho), chiefly on the Spanish Revolution. Library catalog (over 2 Mb).
- Centre d'Etudes et de Documentation d'Information et d'Action sociales (Paris). General information about the Centre's activities, its collections and publications.
- Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches sur les Mouvements Trotskyste et Révolutionnaires Internationaux CERMTRI (Paris). General information.
- Centre d'Histoire du Travail (Nantes). Archival centre and library for French labour history, founded by the trade unions CGT, CGT-FO, and CFDT.
- Centre de recherche d'histoire sociale du XXe siècle CHS (ex- Centre de recherche d'histoire des mouvements sociaux et du syndicalisme).
- Centre des Archives du Monde du Travail (Roubaix). A subsidiary of the French National Archives, collecting social and economic history sources from its region.
- Centre historique minier de Lewarde Overview of the archival collection.
- Centre International de Recherches sur l'Anarchisme CIRA (Annexe de Marseille) Founded in Marseille in 1965, this repositoy of anarchist materials originally was a branch of the CIRA in Lausanne.
- CODHOS Collectif des centres de documentation en histoire ouvrière et sociale Association of labour history institutions in France. The website provides detailed information on the collections, addresses, opening hours etc. of the member institutions.
- Institut CGT d'Histoire sociale (Montreuil). Overview of the records of the Confédération générale du Travail and related organizations.
- Office universitaire de recherche socialiste L'OURS Information about this research centre, library and archives, activities and publications; extensive information about its collections which include the archives of the Parti socialiste SFIO (1944-1969).
- Parti communiste français - Archives Post-1945 records. Address, opening hours.
- Réseau ANACT (Lyon). Agence nationale pour l'Amélioration des Conditions de Travail. Documentation centre.
- Souvarine, La - Bibliothèque d'Histoire sociale des Hauts-de-Seine (Nanterre). Institute for the history of communism, socialism,
anarchism, and syndicalisme named after its founder, Boris Souvarine (1896-1985). Information on its library collections; online catalogue. The Souvarine publishes Les Cahiers d'Histoire sociale.
Data Archives
Research Institutions
- Centre d'Etudes et de Documentation d'Information et d'Action sociales (Paris). General information about the Centre's activities, its collections and publications.
- Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches sur les Migrations ibériques CERMI at the Bibliothèque de Documentation internationale contemporaine (Nanterre). General information, tables of contents of its journal.
- Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches sur les Mouvements Trotskyste et Révolutionnaires Internationaux CERMTRI (Paris). General information.
- Centre de recherche d'histoire sociale du XXe siècle CHS (ex- Centre de recherche d'histoire des mouvements sociaux et du syndicalisme).
- Clio site d'histoire sociale Bibliography, links, and conference information especially on immigration and ethnic relations in France.
- Laboratoire de Démographie historique (Paris). Research projects, publications.
- Maison des Sciences de l'Homme (Paris). Program information of a major coordinator of French and international historical and social science research.
- Office universitaire de recherche socialiste L'OURS Information about this research centre, library and archives, activities and publications; extensive information about its collections which include the archives of the Parti socialiste SFIO (1944-1969).
- Souvarine, La - Bibliothèque d'Histoire sociale des Hauts-de-Seine (Nanterre). Institute for the history of communism, socialism,
anarchism, and syndicalisme named after its founder, Boris Souvarine (1896-1985). Information on its library collections; online catalogue. The Souvarine publishes Les Cahiers d'Histoire sociale.
Museums
Associations and Societies
- Amis des Combattants en Espagne républicaine General information.
- CODHOS Collectif des centres de documentation en histoire ouvrière et sociale Association of labour history institutions in France. The website provides detailed information on the collections, addresses, opening hours etc. of the member institutions.
- Comité Régional Nord Pas-de-Calais
d’Histoire de la Sécurité Sociale
et de la Protection Sociale
"Dictionnaire des acteurs sociaux de la région"; periodical Prévoyance, Passé, Présent, Avenir.
- Espaces Marx General information.
- Fourier, Charles - charlesfourier.fr Website of the Association d'études fouriéristes and the Cahiers Charles Fourier.
- Génériques Association for French migrant history working to preserve migrants' organizations archives and personal papers and to make them accessible. Its site gives acces to various resources, including guides to archival collections, databases for posters, newspapers, and biographical information.
- GERME (Groupe d'Etudes et de Recherches sur les Mouvements étudiants). Documents on the French student movement, 1968-1986. Under construction.
- Mémoire, Industrie, Patrimoine en Provence Directory, journal Industries en Provence, Musée industriel virtuel
- Proudhon - Société Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Infomation on its annual conference, a list of its publications, Les Travaux de l'Atelier Proudhon and Les Cahiers de la Société Proudhon, links.
- Réseau international de Recherche sur les Pays d'Europe centrale et orientale (RIDECO, Nanterre). General information, weekly chronicle.
Special Topics
- A Dozen Posters from Paris May '68 A small selection from the IISH collection on the May-June events in Paris 1968, which also includes many broadsheets, pamphlets, and bulletins.
- Annales historiques de la Révolution française
- Bianco: 100 ans de presse anarchiste Online version of the dissertation by René Bianco: Répertoire des périodiques anarchistes de langue française : un siècle de presse anarchiste d’expression française, 1880-1983, Aix-Marseille, 1987.
- Bibliothèque virtuelle sur les Premiers Socialismes Documents produced by Saint-Simonians, Fourieristes, Cabet and the Icarians, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon; with introductory texts and bibliographies; from collections at the Université de Poitiers.
- Cantinières and Vivandières of the French Army Cantinières and vivandières were women who served as official auxiliary personnel to French (and other) army combat units from early modern times until about the time of World War One. Their official task was to sell food and drink to the soldiers of their regiment to supplement the always inadequate army rations. On this site Thomas Cardoza provides information about cantinières and vivandières focusing specifically on cantinières and vivandières of the French army, but also on cantinières and vivandières from other countries and cantinières serving such non-military entities as the sapeurs-pompiers (firefighters).
- Centre historique minier de Lewarde Overview of the archival collection.
- Centre International de Recherches sur l'Anarchisme CIRA (Annexe de Marseille) Founded in Marseille in 1965, this repositoy of anarchist materials originally was a branch of the CIRA in Lausanne.
- Cité nationale de l'histoire de l'immigration (Paris). A museum for French immigration history, especially from the 19th century onwards.
- Clio site d'histoire sociale Bibliography, links, and conference information especially on immigration and ethnic relations in France.
- Commune de Paris Commemorating the events of 1871. Includes a portait gallery.
- Conservatoire des mémoires des et universitaires (CME) Organization for safeguarding the archives of student movements. The website gives access to digitized student periodicals and recorded interviews and more.
- Dejacque, Le Libertaire Joseph Déjacque (1822-1864), worker and poet, went into exile in London and Jersey after the Coup d’État of 1851. Later, in New York, he published Le Libertaire, Journal du mouvement social and the anarchist utopia L’Humanisphère. He returned to France in 1859 where he died in 1864. The website contains the complete text of Le Libertaire et La Question révolutionnaire (1854), Béranger au pilori (1857), La lettre à Proudhon, and more.
- Fourier, Charles - charlesfourier.fr Website of the Association d'études fouriéristes and the Cahiers Charles Fourier.
- Garibaldi et la France A virtual exhibition on the image (or images) of Giuseppe Garibaldi in France (19th-20th century). It is a collection of iconographic materials with French explanatory texts to document the construction of Garibaldi’s heroic image and the public uses of 'the Two Worlds' Hero' in France.
- Génériques Association for French migrant history working to preserve migrants' organizations archives and personal papers and to make them accessible. Its site gives acces to various resources, including guides to archival collections, databases for posters, newspapers, and biographical information.
- GERME (Groupe d'Etudes et de Recherches sur les Mouvements étudiants). Documents on the French student movement, 1968-1986. Under construction.
- Granier, Caroline. "Nous sommes des briseurs de formules". Les écrivains anarchistes en France à la fin du dix-neuvième siècle. . This dissertation (l'Université Paris 8, 2003) is available on the Research on Anarchism website.
- Imaging the French Revolution Popular images of the French Revolution and essays by various scholars that analyze differing depictions of the Revolutionary crowd; from the Center for History & New Media at George Mason University and the Department of History at UCLA. You need the Macromedia Flash Player.
- König, Mareike, Bibliotheken deutscher Einwanderer in Paris (1850 - 1914) : Benutzer und Bestände In the 19th century a large number of German speaking migrants from different strata of society lived in Paris. Several German reading rooms, such as the Deutscher Sozialdemokratischer Leseklub (Paris) Archives and libraries of these immigrants ensured that through literature they did not loose contact with their home country and native language.
- La Bataille socialiste A French educational site, named after the French Marxist paper of the nineteen thirties, containing topical and historical information, documentary sources, short biographies of Marxist thinkers and militants, book reviews and more.
- Le site des médecins du travail des hôpitaux: dossier histoire French texts on the history of occupational health on the website of Association nationale de médecine du travail et d'ergonomie du personnel des hôpitaux.
- Maitron. Site d'histoire sociale Dictionnaire biographique du mouvement ouvrier. Information on this series.
- Palante - Georges Palante (1862-1925) Website devoted to the French individualist philosopher. Biography, bibliography, online texts, photographs, related links.
- Paris, May '68 at the University of Toronto Library: "icons of revolution", a poster exhibition.
- Pelloutier.net - Histoire du syndicalisme révolutionnaire et de l'anarcho-syndicalisme Biography, digitized documents and articles on Fernand Pelloutier (1867-1901), secretary of the Fédération nationale des Bourses du travail, and revolutionary syndicalism in Europe, the USA and Africa.
- Proudhon - Société Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Infomation on its annual conference, a list of its publications, Les Travaux de l'Atelier Proudhon and Les Cahiers de la Société Proudhon, links.
- Révolution française.net Resources for students of the French Revolution
- Schifres, Sébastien, Le Mouvement autonome en Italie et en France (1973-1984) This online MA thesis (Université Paris VIII) is a sequel to another text on the same subject published in 2004. Both texts are available from this website.
- Siege and Commune of Paris at Northwestern University: 1,500 photographs, drawings, political cartoons etc on the events of 1870-1871.
- What Is the Third Estate? at the University of Maryland Libraries: from the collections pertaining to the French Revolution.
Journals
Reference
 Album des sciences sociales The Virtual Library History of France, or, Vlib Histoire, has changed its title but remains affiliated to the WWW Virtual Library project.- Association des Bibliophiles universels Free access to public domain works in French, including the Déclaration des droits de l'homme et du citoyen, and texts by Pierre de Coubertin, Denis Diderot, Charles Fourier, Victor Hugo, Karl Marx, Louise Michel, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, George Sand, Voltaire, Emile Zola and other - mainly French - writers.
- Bianco: 100 ans de presse anarchiste Online version of the dissertation by René Bianco: Répertoire des périodiques anarchistes de langue française : un siècle de presse anarchiste d’expression française, 1880-1983, Aix-Marseille, 1987.
- Granier, Caroline. "Nous sommes des briseurs de formules". Les écrivains anarchistes en France à la fin du dix-neuvième siècle. . This dissertation (l'Université Paris 8, 2003) is available on the Research on Anarchism website.
- König, Mareike, Bibliotheken deutscher Einwanderer in Paris (1850 - 1914) : Benutzer und Bestände In the 19th century a large number of German speaking migrants from different strata of society lived in Paris. Several German reading rooms, such as the Deutscher Sozialdemokratischer Leseklub (Paris) Archives and libraries of these immigrants ensured that through literature they did not loose contact with their home country and native language.
- Schifres, Sébastien, Le Mouvement autonome en Italie et en France (1973-1984) This online MA thesis (Université Paris VIII) is a sequel to another text on the same subject published in 2004. Both texts are available from this website.
- WWW Virtual Library History of France
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