BnF catalogue général

The catalogue général de la BnF, online catalog contains records for most of the documents kept at all BnF sites.

It currently contains records for:

books and periodicals stored on open and closed shelves,
sound recordings (78-rpm records, LPs, compact disks, and audio cassettes), videos (video cassettes and videodiscs), multimedia, and electronic materials stored on physical media (CD- and DVD-ROMs, video games),
part of the modern manuscripts and archival documents (pamphlets, programs, scenarii, newspaper clippings, typescripts, correspondence, autograph letters…) relating to performing arts and music (theatre, cinema, opera, ballet…) (Richelieu-Louvois and Opéra Libraries)
graphic documents: engravings, photographs, posters…
part of the cartographic documents (atlases, maps, plans, globes…)
objects (engraved copper-plates and wood-blocks, lithographic stones, cloth…) (Richelieu Library),
part of the printed and manuscript music scores (Richelieu-Louvois and Opéra Libraries),
documents digitized by BnF,
part of microfiches and microfilms,
part of electronic periodicals of which BnF also has a printed version.

It does not currently have records for:

most of the manuscripts and archival holdings. The BnF archives et manuscrits online catalogue contains records of a part of manuscripts and archival holdings. Some of the catalogues of manuscripts have been digitized.

See

coins, medals, and antiques kept at the Coins, medals, and antiques department (département des Monnaies, médailles et antiques),
most works printed in non-Latin characters for which bibliographic records have not been transliterated into the Latin alphabet (the @ sign in a bibliographic record generally indicates the presence of non-Latin characters, currently unreadable) and which are listed in catalogs that have been digitised,