French Novel Corpus (ELTeC-fra): April 2021 release

This is the French novel corpus for the ELTeC, the <em>European Literary Text Collection</em>, produced by the COST Action <em>Distant Reading for European Literary History</em> (CA16204, https://distant-reading.net). The current version is v1.0.1. An overview over the authors and works represented in the collection can be gained here: https://distantreading.github.io/ELTeC/fra/index.html. <strong>Contributors</strong> Collection editors: Christof Schöch and Lou Burnard Contributors: Pia Geißel, Rezearta Murati, Evegnia Fileva Sources: Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gallica), Ebooks libres et gratuits / Bibliothèque électronique du Québec, CLiGS textbox, Wikisource, Bibebook.com, Atramenta, OBVIL, Project Gutenberg. <strong>Licence</strong> All texts included in this collection are in the public domain. No claim to copyright or similar protections is made for the composition of the corpus, the collection and presentation of the metadata, or the transcription and encoding of the texts. <strong>Citation suggestion</strong> If you use this corpus in your research or teaching, please follow good scholarly practice and use the following citation suggestion to acknowledge your source: <em>French Novel Corpus (ELTeC-fra)</em>, edited by Christof Schöch and Lou Burnard. Version v1.0.1, April 2021. In: <em>European Literary Text Collection (ELTeC)</em>. COST Action Distant Reading for European Literary History. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4662433 <strong>Release v1.0.1</strong> Release v1.0.1 brings minor improvements to corpus metadata (and data on translations).