As an online bookstore offering over 9000 titles from more than 20 leading French university presses, all available for same or next day shipping, the LCDPU.fr web site is presented in French. This page is meant to provide you with a simple outline in English of how to find and order books on our site.

While the book presentations are all in French, please note that our Shopping Basket has an English language version-- when you are purchasing your books on our site, you may choose to be guided through the Shopping Cart in English simply by clicking on the relevant flag.

All of our titles are in French, unless otherwise stated.

You can search by title, author, isbn, issn, or keyword. You can do this in the top left hand corner (rechercher dans le catalogue).
You can also do more advanced searches (Recherche avancée) using any of the above plus language (langue), format (support) and publication date (année de publication).
You can look at books by subject (domaines), by author (auteurs) or by publisher (editeurs) on the left hand side of the page.
You can also consult our list of periodicals by collection (revues).
There is also the possibility of clicking in our tag cloud at the bottom of the home page.

To see more details of any title just click on the title or image.
You can see a detailed description of the title in French (résume), content details when available (sommaire), and bibliographic details (détails).
To purchase the book, you can click on 'Ajouter au panier', then click on the relevant flag to change the language of your shopping basket to English.

If a title is temporarily out of stock, or is a forthcoming release, you can click on the link 'Prévenez-moi dès sa disponibilite!' on the book's presentation page, where you'll be invited to leave an email address in order to be informed when the title is ready for immediate shipping.