The ARTFL Project

Founded in 1982 as a result of a collaboration between the French government and the University of Chicago, the ARTFL Project is a consortium-based service that provides its members with access to North America's largest collection of digitized French resources. Along with ARTFL's flagship database ARTFL-FRANTEXT, ARTFL members are also given access to a large variety of otherSubscriber Databases.

In addition to our member services, ARTFL also supports many Public Access databases including theDictionnaires d'autrefois, the Encyclopédie of Diderot and d'Alembert, and the Bibliothèque Bleue de Troyes. As we move forward, we continue to foster a spirit of digital collaboration at ARTFL, which has resulted in a host of French and non-French projects with various research partners in North America and abroad, as well the development of a suite of open source search and retrieval products that build upon our original PhiloLogic search engine.

June 19, 2014: The ARTFL Project announces the PhiloLogic4 demonstration release of our flagship database ARTFL-FRANTEXT.

June 10, 2014: The ARTFL Project announces the PhiloLogic4 demonstration release of The Complete Plays of William Shakespeare. ARTFL will be releasing more PhiloLogic4 demonstration databases in the weeks to come.


The Project for American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language (ARTFL) is a cooperative enterprise of the Laboratoire ATILF (Analyse et Traitement Informatique de la Langue Française) of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), the Division of the Humanities and Electronic Text Services (ETS) of the University of Chicago.