The Project for American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language (ARTFL) is a cooperative enterprise of Analyse et Traitement Informatique de la Langue Française (ATILF) of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), the Division of the Humanities, the Division of the Social Sciences, and Electronic Text Services (ETS) of the University of Chicago.

Accented characters must be typed in as such or replaced with an uppercase letter (e.g., liberté or libertE). To search regardless of accentuation Turn on Caps Lock.

Punctuation and spacing must match entries exactly (e.g., enter abbat-jour or aujourd'huy). The program searches for strings. Entering peuple, for example, also finds Peupler and Repeupler, but realize that entering cher will retrieve Cherir, Fascher, and so forth. To anchor a match at the beginning of an entry a caret must precede the word (e.g., ^peuple finds only Peuple and Peupler). To find a single word anywhere in an entry surround the word with the @ sign (e.g., @peuple@ finds Peuple only and @champ@ finds Champ and Sur le champ). Sometimes accentuation will interfere with this wildcard search.

Uppercase AND, OR, and NOT serve as Boolean operators (e.g., chaque AND champ finds only A chaque bout de champ; peuple OR populace finds both; peuple NOT Dépeupler finds Peuple and Repeupler, but not Dépeupler.

Other wildcards available are:

• . (period): matches any single character (e.g., gentlem.n will retrieve gentleman and gentlemen).
• [abc] (brackets): matches a single character found in the specified range (e.g., ver[b-v]e will match Verbe, Verge, Verre, and Verve) or any letters within the brackets (e.g., aujourd'hu[iy] will match both Aujourd'hui and Aujourd'huy).

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