External websites

A collection of 3,000 coloured and black-and-white prints, sketches and maps, dating from 1770 to 1840 and covering the period of the French Revolution, the rise of Napoleon, his Campaigns, defeat and banishment, and restoration of the Monarchy.

Online Public Access Catalogues of Europe's National Libraries.

Online public access to Spain's National Library.

The online catalogue of the book collection (largely in English) of the Napoleonic collector Leslie Kuehner, bequeathed to Christian Brothers University.

Unified access to the catalogues of some of the largest university research libraries in the UK and Ireland, this database is an excellent complement to the Library of Congress.

The online catalogue of the British Library.

a real virtual library! boasting every text written in French which is in the public domain as well as lists of words and dictionaries.

Bibliothèque Nationale de France, France's national library, department of manuscripts, access to the BN-Opale catalogue (books and periodicals since 1970), the BN-Opaline catalogue (specialised collections), and that of the new Tolbiac site. Access is also available to the remarkable project of the 'virtual library' Gallica, images and texts of the Francophone 19th century.

One of the largest libraries in the world. If you don't find the bibliographical references here, try COPAC – also on this page.

Archive of historical texts.