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A reduction in the work's scope following volume two meant that succeeding volumes included far fewer quotations from texts.

Reprint of the 1881 Paris Hachette edition with the addition of a mid-twentieth century supplement.

Volumes nine and ten are supplementary and include words surviving in modfern French.

Also includes titles and full-text links from J-STOR and Project Muse, Wiley-Blackwell and Taylor & Francis.

In addition to hosting a number of open-access databases (the Dictionnaires d'autrefois collection, the Encyclopédie of Diderot and d'Alembert, and the Bibliothèque Bleue de Troyes) ARTFL also offers the following to its subscribers:
French Women Writers, over 100 works by French women authors from the 16th to the 19th century.
Provençal Poetry, 38 collections of texts from the 12th and 13th centuries.
Textes de Français Ancien (TFA), 103 works from the 12th through 15th century.
The Journal de Trévoux, ou Mémoires pour l'Histoire des Sciences & des Beaux-Arts. 109 volumes, 1751-1758.
Pierre Bayle, Dictionnaire historique et critique (5th Edition, 1740).
Louis Moréri, Le Grand dictionnaire historique, ou le Mélange curieux de l'Histoire sacrée et profane, etc. (1759).

Primarily based on titles listed in the Short-title catalogue of books printed in France and of French books printed in other countries from 1470 to 1600 now in the British Museum.

Based on V. F. Goldsmith short title catalogue of French books 1601-1700 in the Library of the British Museum.