LibGuides: French : Books

Finding Books: Call Numbers

Library of Congress call numbers for French include:

DC1-947 - French history
DQ1-851 - Swiss history
F1001-1145.2 Canadian History
F1170 - French America
JV1-9480 - Colonies, emigrations, and immigrations
PC2001-3761 - French language (including former French colonies)
PQ1-3999 - French literature

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Some Selected Titles

Using French by R. E. Batchelor; M. H. Offord
Call Number: PC2460 .B37 2000
ISBN: 052164593X
Here find guidance for those who have already acquired the basics of French and wish to extend their knowledge of the language. It gives special attention to those areas of the vocabulary and grammatical usage of contemporary French that cause most difficulty to English-speakers, and incorporates the concept of register differences throughout.
Émigrés by Richard Scholar
Call Number: ONLINE
ISBN: 9780691209586
Find here the fascinating history of French words that have entered the English language and the fertile but fraught relationship between English- and French-speaking cultures across the world.
The Migrant Canon in Twenty-First-Century France by Oana Sabo
Call Number: ONLINE
ISBN: 9781496205605
This work explores the causes of twenty-first-century global migrations and their impact on French literature and the French literary establishment.

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