SUMMARY : A lexical database for contemporary french on internet :LEXIQUEWe pr{\'{e}}sent a new lexical database of French, named Lexique. Based on acorpus oftexts written since 1950 which contained 31 million words, Lexiqueyields 130 000 entries including the inflected forms of verbs, nouns andadjectives. Each entry provides several kinds of information includingfrequency, gender, number, phonological form, graphemic and phonemicunicity points. Several tables give additional statistics such as the frequencies ofvarious units : letters, bigrams, trigrams, phon{\`{e}}mes and syllables. Thedatabase is available for free on the Internet.Key words : word r{\'{e}}cognition, database, frequencies