This project, initiated by the French Studies and Comparative Literature Departments, facilitates research across disciplines by digitizing library resources in various formats and media, and centralizes access to materials related to 19th century Paris.

The OED implementation developed here at STG was, at the time, groundbreaking in the sense that it offered ways of saving state (i.e., building on previously constructed searches) that few contemporary Web systems offered. Close collaboration with the Brown University Library Reference and Systems staff ensured that the system design would meet the needs of faculty and students. Brown University's library has subscribed to the OED online. This gives Brown users access to the newer edition of the OED, and since it is the version supported by the library, we are no longer supporting a local version.

Paris, Capital of the 19th Century is a project of Comparative Literature