Association des Bibliophiles Universels
ABU (Association des Bibliophiles Universels) is a volunteer association that has produced and distributed free full-text digital editions of French-language public-domain works on the Internet since 1993.
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Overview
ABU, the Association des Bibliophiles Universels, provides free access to the full text of French-language public-domain works on the Internet, a service it states has operated since 1993. Its texts are produced and distributed by volunteer members of the association. The ABU server is hosted by the 'Multimédia et Interaction Homme-Machine' team of CEDRIC at the CNAM in Paris. As of January 2002 the site listed 288 texts by 101 authors, along with several dictionaries, a searchable corpus, and the ABU Licence.
History
ABU states that it has provided free access to the full text of French-language public-domain works on the Internet since 1993. Its texts are produced and distributed by volunteer members of the Association des Bibliophiles Universels. The ABU server is hosted by the 'Multimédia et Interaction Homme-Machine' team of CEDRIC at the CNAM in Paris. As of January 2002, the site presented 288 texts by 101 authors, along with several dictionaries and word-search capability across the corpus.
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Free access to the full text of French-language public-domain works on the Internet since 1993.
ABU digital library (la Bibliothèque Universelle)
Free full-text access to French-language public-domain works, with a catalogue of authors and texts, word search, and dictionaries.
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