Licensed locally:

• Cultural-historical databases from the Archives Unbound (Gale), only available in Mainz:
  • Journaux de la Révolution de 1848 (Newspapers of the French Revolution 1848)
  • Affaire Dreyfus, L': Son Influence dans la Création de la France Moderne (The Dreyfus Affair in the Making of Modern France)
  • La France pendant la guerre 1939-1945: Résistance et journaux de Vichy (Voices from Wartime France 1939-1945: Clandestine Resistance and Vichy Newspapers)
  • European Colonialism in the Early 20th Century: French Colonialism in Africa: From Algeria to Madagascar, 1910-1930
  • French Mandate in The Lebanon, Christian-Muslim Relations, and the U.S.Consulate at Beirut, 1919-1935
  • Indochina, France, and the Viet Minh War, 1945 1954: Records of the U.S. State Department, Part 1 1945-1949
• Ecrits sur l‘art (Garnier)
• La Révolution et l’Empire par les écrivains et historiens du XIXe siècle (Garnier)
• Corpus de la première littérature francophone de l’Océan Indien
• Huguenots (Brill)

Major French portals with freely accessible full texts:

• Gallica (digital platform of the Bibliothèque nationale de France and its partners with millions of freely accessible media)
• Persée (government-supported portal; free access to numerous scientific collections and documents – mainly periodicals and series)
• OpenEdition (government-funded portal for the humanities and social sciences with free access to numerous scientific contents)

• New e-books in the research portal

In the Mainz collection:

• Approx. 450 periodicals, mostly in print form, of which 200 are only subscribed until 2012 (including 90 in unique possession in Germany)
• Tageszeitungen Le Monde, Le Figaro, Libération, L’ Humanité
• Wochenmagazine L’ Express, Le Point, L’ Obs

Encyclopedias (example):

• Larousse

Monolingual dictionaries:

• Le Petit Robert de la Langue Française

Monolingual historical dictionaries:

• Dictionnaires d'Autrefois - French Dictionaries of the 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th Centuries
• Dictionnaire de l’ancienne Langue Française et de tous ses Dialectes du 9e au 15e siècle / Frederic Godefroy
• Dicionnaire de la langue française du 16e siècle / Edmond Huguet

Bilingual dictionaries:

• Larousse dictionnaires bilingues
• LEO – German-French dictionary

More:

• DBIS

Also interesting:

• Resources en ligne; French Ministry of Culture; Language

Numerous Internet resources on France and the French-speaking world are collected and evaluated by the FID Romance Studies and the FID History:

• Romance Studies
• History

• Research data at Specialized Information Service Romance Studies

• Special collections on French Studies at the University Library Mainz
• Center for French and Francophone Studies (CFFS)
• Media library of the Institut Français
• Leibniz Institute of European History

• New acquisitions French Studies

• FID Romance Studies
• FID History
• Romanistik.de
• Deutscher Romanistenverband (DRV)
• Deutscher Frankoromanistenverband (FRV)
• Library of the DFI Ludwigsburg
• Library of the Deutsches Historisches Institut Paris
• Saar-Lor-Lux-Alsace Literary Archive

• French Ministry of Culture
• Deutsch-französische Hochschule / Université franco-allemande
• Deutsch-französisches Forum / Forum franco-allemand
• Numerous German-French study programs Mainz-Dijon