On Thu, 25 Nov 2004, Michael Hart wrote:
Will there be a particular interest in doing eBooks in French?
If so, would you be willing to cooperate with volunteers who actually live in France [and other French speaking countries]?
One volunteer (Renald Levesque) has been contributing many texts in French to PG, including Canadian ones, using pages scans from the Bibliothque Nationale du Quebec. I would imagine he is mostly responsible for the greatly increasing amount of French texts in PG. (For a long while, it seemed as though French and German representation in PG were staying quite consistantly close to each other in numbers, but now French has pulled ahead with 410 items in the catalog, while we have 315 in German.) Also worth adding is that I have been in touch with the person who runs the "Bibliotheque virtuelle", which has some French Canadian texts digitized in rtf files. (http://www.fsj.ualberta.ca/biblio/default.htm) He has said PG is welcome to reformat any texts from there. I have copyright cleared a handful of them, and done the comparison needed at the library, but have stalled on actually getting the files ready for posting. Andrew