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French Studies: Bio-bibliographic Information

Guide to research in language, linguistics and literatures in the field of French Studies.

Finding bio-bibliographies: Databases

What are bio-bibliographies?

Bio-bibliographies contain background information about authors, a list of an author's complete works, discussions of an author's work, reviews, basic literary criticism, and a bibliography of further literary analyses.

Search an author directly in one or more of the literary bio-bibliographic databases, listed on the left.  

To find other encyclopedias about French-language authors, search the library catalogue, Omni, by subjectFrench-Canadian literature AND bio-bibliography or French literature AND bio-bibliography.

York University Libraries have a large collection of bio-bibliographies. Examples of French-language bio-bibliographies include these, below: 

Need Help?

Visit a research assistance desk at one of the libraries.

Call 416-736-5150 (press 3).