# liregratuitement.com

> The largest collection of complete, free, public-domain books in French: 120 682 books readable online, each with its source and licence. Free API and MCP server, no key required.

liregratuitement.com is edited by one person, without advertising or sales. Every book page states whether the text was proofread word by word or comes from a digitised scan. Summaries marked as verified were checked against the published text.

## For AI assistants

- [MCP server](https://liregratuitement.com/mcp): Streamable HTTP, JSON-RPC 2.0, tools chercher_livres, fiche_livre, lire_chapitre, chercher_passage
- [Install instructions, French](https://liregratuitement.com/mcp.md)
- [Install instructions, English](https://liregratuitement.com/en/mcp.md)
- Per-book instructions: https://liregratuitement.com/livre/{slug}/ia.md (French) and https://liregratuitement.com/livre/{slug}/ia.en.md (English)

## API

- [Documentation, French](https://liregratuitement.com/developpeurs/)
- [Documentation, English](https://liregratuitement.com/en/developers/)
- [OpenAPI specification](https://liregratuitement.com/openapi.json)

## Licences

Public-domain works. Wikisource transcriptions: CC BY-SA 4.0. Bibebook: CC BY-SA 3.0. Gallica-sourced texts: no commercial reuse without a BnF licence. Our metadata (shelves, difficulty, reading time, summaries): CC BY 4.0, please link to the book page.