Guide to French Language Research

French Language Reference Sources

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The following reference sources provide information relevant to French language topics.  They are available the Hilton M. Briggs Library collection or via the web if indicated.

Online Reference Works

French-language version of the World Book Student Discovery Encyclopedia. Articles, images, a visual dictionary, activities and reviewed websites are included. Access provided for South Dakota citizens by the South Dakota State Library and IMLS.

Reference Books

  • Collins Robert Unabridged French Dictionary. (Ref PC2640.C65 2002)
  • Dictionnaire des synonymes (Ref PC2591 B44 1983)
  • Dictionnaire québécois d'aujourd'hui: langue française, histoire, géographie, culture générale (Ref PC3635 D53 1993)
  • French verbs and essentials of grammar: A practical guide to the mastery of French (Ref PC2861 O83 1983)
  • Harrap's French and English Business Dictionary (Ref HF1002 .H3443 2005)
  • Harrap's French and English Science Dictionary (Ref Q123 H35 1985)
  • Larousse universel: Dictionnaire encyclopédique en deux volumes (Ref AE25 L32)
  • Le petit Larousse illustré, 1996 (Ref AG25 P47 1996)
  • The Macmillan Visual Dictionary:  Multilingual Edition. (Ref PD61.M28 1994)
  • N'ayons pas peur des mots: Dictionnaire du français argotique et populaire (Ref PC3741 C34 1988)
  • Newspaper French: A vocabulary of administrative and commercial idiom (Ref PC2460 R57 1990)
  • NTC's Dictionary of Canadian French (Ref PC3643 R62 1991)
  • NTC's Dictionary of French Faux Pas. (Ref PC2593.C76 1994)
  • Oxford-Duden pictorial French-English dictionary (Ref PC2680 O93 1988)
  • Québécois dictionary (Ref PC3637 B4613 1982)
  • Thésaurus Larousse: Des idées aux mots, des mots aux idées (Ref PC2591 T44 1992)

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