Ampère et l'histoire de l'électricité is a digital history essay and portal loaded at the Computing Center of the CNRS (IN2P3/CNRS), Villeurbanne, France, dedicated to the life and works of André-Marie Ampère (1775–1836). The website not only offers a digital library of primary sources on the life and time of the French scientist. Together with essays, bibliographies, full text access to a selection of Ampere's works, the site offers also Ampere's manuscripts and his correspondence together with secondary sources and reference materials written about his life and work.