diff --git a/materio_base_en/conf/stopwords.txt b/materio_base_en/conf/stopwords.txt
index d7f243e..2c164c0 100644
--- a/materio_base_en/conf/stopwords.txt
+++ b/materio_base_en/conf/stopwords.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,54 @@
-# Contains words which shouldn't be indexed for fulltext fields, e.g., because
-# they're too common. For documentation of the format, see
-# http://wiki.apache.org/solr/AnalyzersTokenizersTokenFilters#solr.StopFilterFactory
-# (Lines starting with a pound character # are ignored.)
+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+# contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+# this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+# The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+# (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+# the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+# a couple of test stopwords to test that the words are really being
+# configured from this file:
+stopworda
+stopwordb
+
+# Standard english stop words taken from Lucene's StopAnalyzer
+a
+an
+and
+are
+as
+at
+be
+but
+by
+for
+if
+in
+into
+is
+it
+no
+not
+of
+on
+or
+such
+that
+the
+their
+then
+there
+these
+they
+this
+to
+was
+will
+with
diff --git a/materio_base_fr/conf/stopwords.txt b/materio_base_fr/conf/stopwords.txt
index d7f243e..0721045 100644
--- a/materio_base_fr/conf/stopwords.txt
+++ b/materio_base_fr/conf/stopwords.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,182 @@
-# Contains words which shouldn't be indexed for fulltext fields, e.g., because
-# they're too common. For documentation of the format, see
-# http://wiki.apache.org/solr/AnalyzersTokenizersTokenFilters#solr.StopFilterFactory
-# (Lines starting with a pound character # are ignored.)
+| From svn.tartarus.org/snowball/trunk/website/algorithms/french/stop.txt
+| This file is distributed under the BSD License.
+| See http://snowball.tartarus.org/license.php
+| Also see http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.html
+|  - Encoding was converted to UTF-8.
+|  - This notice was added.
+
+| A French stop word list. Comments begin with vertical bar. Each stop
+| word is at the start of a line.
+
+au             |  a + le
+aux            |  a + les
+avec           |  with
+ce             |  this
+ces            |  these
+dans           |  with
+de             |  of
+des            |  de + les
+du             |  de + le
+elle           |  she
+en             |  `of them' etc
+et             |  and
+eux            |  them
+il             |  he
+je             |  I
+la             |  the
+le             |  the
+leur           |  their
+lui            |  him
+ma             |  my (fem)
+mais           |  but
+me             |  me
+même           |  same; as in moi-même (myself) etc
+mes            |  me (pl)
+moi            |  me
+mon            |  my (masc)
+ne             |  not
+nos            |  our (pl)
+notre          |  our
+nous           |  we
+on             |  one
+ou             |  where
+par            |  by
+pas            |  not
+pour           |  for
+qu             |  que before vowel
+que            |  that
+qui            |  who
+sa             |  his, her (fem)
+se             |  oneself
+ses            |  his (pl)
+son            |  his, her (masc)
+sur            |  on
+ta             |  thy (fem)
+te             |  thee
+tes            |  thy (pl)
+toi            |  thee
+ton            |  thy (masc)
+tu             |  thou
+un             |  a
+une            |  a
+vos            |  your (pl)
+votre          |  your
+vous           |  you
+
+              |  single letter forms
+
+c              |  c'
+d              |  d'
+j              |  j'
+l              |  l'
+à              |  to, at
+m              |  m'
+n              |  n'
+s              |  s'
+t              |  t'
+y              |  there
+
+              | forms of être (not including the infinitive):
+été
+étée
+étées
+étés
+étant
+suis
+es
+est
+sommes
+êtes
+sont
+serai
+seras
+sera
+serons
+serez
+seront
+serais
+serait
+serions
+seriez
+seraient
+étais
+était
+étions
+étiez
+étaient
+fus
+fut
+fûmes
+fûtes
+furent
+sois
+soit
+soyons
+soyez
+soient
+fusse
+fusses
+fût
+fussions
+fussiez
+fussent
+
+              | forms of avoir (not including the infinitive):
+ayant
+eu
+eue
+eues
+eus
+ai
+as
+avons
+avez
+ont
+aurai
+auras
+aura
+aurons
+aurez
+auront
+aurais
+aurait
+aurions
+auriez
+auraient
+avais
+avait
+avions
+aviez
+avaient
+eut
+eûmes
+eûtes
+eurent
+aie
+aies
+ait
+ayons
+ayez
+aient
+eusse
+eusses
+eût
+eussions
+eussiez
+eussent
+
+              | Later additions (from Jean-Christophe Deschamps)
+ceci           |  this
+celà           |  that
+cet            |  this
+cette          |  this
+ici            |  here
+ils            |  they
+les            |  the (pl)
+leurs          |  their (pl)
+quel           |  which
+quels          |  which
+quelle         |  which
+quelles        |  which
+sans           |  without
+soi            |  oneself