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Welcome to the BFM website !

The Base de Français Médiéval database (or BFM) currently comprises 126 complete Old and Middle French texts. Thanks to its volume (approx. 3 550 000 words) and the diversity of the texts included, this database is unique in France for this period of the history of French.

To learn more about the database, go to the section Introduction to the BFM. To get information on research projects associated with the BFM, see the section Projets associés (in French).

  • Introduction to the BFM

    19 janvier 2005, par Alexei Lavrentiev

    The Base de Français Médiéval database (or BFM), founded in 1989, currently comprises 126 complete Old and Middle French texts. Thanks to its volume (approx. 3 550 000 words) and the diversity of the texts included, this database is unique in France for this period of the history of French. It has been used by a research community of approximately one hundred scholars, teachers, and students worldwide.
    The texts included in the BFM cover a considerable geographic area and an extensive (...)