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French Forum

academic journal

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 21, 2025
Entity authorityQ5501769 ↗
Source-derived summary

French Forum is a peer-reviewed academic journal. It covers research about French and Francophone literature and film. It is published by the University of Pennsylvania Press. The editor-in-chief is Philippe Met.

Overview

The journal was established by Virginia and Raymond La Charité in 1975. It is produced by the French Section of the Department of Romance Languages at the University of Pennsylvania.

Articles are both in English and French. It uses The Chicago Manual of Style.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “French Forum” as academic journal. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1975—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2001-01-01. The account is most persuasive where French, Forum and academic can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as academic journal. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 21, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q5501769. 6 of 6 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1975.

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This entry incorporates text from “French Forum” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.