Guides: HST 435 (Kimble): Modern France: Historical Newspapers

French Newspapers

French Historical Newspapers
Important daily papers, digitized, including Le Figaro (1826-1942), Le temps (1861-1939), L'humanité (1904-1944).

Access World News This link opens in a new window
Contains local, regional, and national U.S. newspapers as well as full-text content of key international sources including newspapers, magazines, broadcast transcripts, newswires, and news videos.
Extent: Multidisciplinary

News articles from the time period can provide good primary sources on your topic.

Times Digital Archive (Gale Primary Sources) This link opens in a new window
Provides electronic access to full-page images of every issue of The Times (London) from 1785 to 2014.
Dates Covered: 1785-2014.
New York Times Historical Content This link opens in a new window
Provides access to the complete paper version of the newspaper, cover-to-cover, with full-page and article images in easily downloadable PDF format going back to 1851.
Dates Covered: 1851-2017.
Extent: Multidisciplinary
Chicago Tribune Historical Content This link opens in a new window
Provides access to the complete paper version of the newspaper, cover-to-cover, with full-page and article images in easily downloadable PDF format. More recent years of the Chicago Tribune are available through the Chicago Tribune Current Content collection as well as US Newsstream (ProQuest).
Dates Covered: 1849-2010.