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NCSU Department of Foreign Languages

FRENCH WEB CATALOGUE

(Suggestions and updates to dstephens@ncsu.edu)

Art, Artists, and Museums

http://www.louvre.fr/ The Louvre, art museum, sculpture.

http://www.cnac-gp.fr/Pompidou/Accueil.nsf/Document/HomePage?OpenDocument&sessionM=1&L=1 Centre Pompidou, museum of modern art.

http://www.paris.org/Musees/ A complete list of all the museums of Paris, indexed by subject and topic. The best.website for Paris museums.

http://www.paris.org/Musees/Orsay/ The famous Impressionist museum in the old train station.

http://www.intermonet.com/oeuvre/oeuvre.htm Monet gallery.

http://www.giverny.org/gardens/jardins.htm Monet, Gardens at Giverny.

http://www.intermonet.com/biograph/monet.htm Monet biography.

http://www.intermonet.com/museums/museums.htm Monet in museums.

http://www.paris.org/Maps/MM/ Interactive Map of Monuments & Museums of Paris.

http://sunsite.unc.edu/wm/ Exhibits from The Louvre Museum, French art, sculpture. (WebMuseum)

http://www.chez.com/jeremy13/Van_gogh/ Very good Van Gogh site, with comparisons to other artists and schools of painting. Links to other sites.

http://www.chez.com/jeremy13/Van_gogh/impress.htm Impressionism.

http://www.blue.fr/vangogh/menu.htm Another fine Van Gogh site. View the pictures in the Gallery.

http://www.culture.fr/lumiere/documents/musee_virtuel.html Art of the 18^th C, Siècle de la Lumière. Museums of Paris.

http://www.arts-et-metiers.net/ A multimedia tour of the Musée des Arts et Métiers.

http://www2.lucidcafe.com/lucidcafe/library/95dec/matisse.html Matisse.

http://www.musee-rodin.fr/accueil.htm The famous Rodin Museum, near Les Invalides, with his works and those of Camille Claudel.

http://hapax.sbc.edu/index.html Wide variety of links to cathedrals, museums. Offline for awhile, but the current site has some interesting links.

http://www.artchive.com/theory/schapiro/schapiro.htm Meyer Schapiro on Cézanne.

http://www.learn.columbia.edu/Mcahweb/index-frame.html     The Amiens Cathedral Project. Excellent.

http://www.magritte.com/3.cfm     Virtual Magritte.

http://www.learn.columbia.edu/notre-dame/     Notre Dame (Paris).

http://www.bergerfoundation.ch/ A superior website on the history of art, with many hi-rez tableaux. Highly recommended. Themes, slide shows, audio, exhibition of the week. In English, but a fabulous inventory of artists.

http://www.videomuseum.fr/ Twentieth century art.

Authors and texts (Poetry listed separately below)

(Integral texts, various authors)

http://un2sg4.unige.ch/athena/html/francaut.html French and Francophone texts. Translations into and from French.

http://www.le-chateau.ilias.com/ Classical literature, novels, short stories, theater, poetry, essays. Links to other sites.

http://gallica.bnf.fr/ Official site of the Bibliothèque Nationale Française. General Catalog. Multimedia library. Archives de la parole. French texts.

http://www.le-chateau.ilias.com/contes.htm Short stories, contes, Perrault, Daudet

http://humanities.uchicago.edu/ARTFL/ARTFL.html General information on U. Chicago ARTFL project -- bibliographies, databases, encyclopedia project, links, resources, reference.

http://www1.appstate.edu/dept/fll/french_lit.html Literature links.

http://cedric.cnam.fr/ABU/ Universal Library, texts, authors, dictionaries. Bibliothèque Universelle.

http://www.lire.fr/ Excellent and very complete. Authors, texts, all genres.

http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/ The Oxford Text Archive. Wide variety of electronic texts.

http://www.vc.unipmn.it/~mori/e-texts/index_fr.htm Limited selection of clandestine 18^th century philosophical texts (U. of Turin-Vercelli).

http://humanities.uchicago.edu/ARTFL/projects/LFA/ Old French texts from the U. Chicago ARTFL project.

http://www.georgetown.edu/labyrinth/labyrinth-home.html Medieval studies from Georgetown.

http://www.le-chateau.ilias.com/roman.htm French novels, complete text.

(Individual Authors, alphabetically)

http://www.arts.uwa.edu.au/AFLIT/BaMariama.html Author Miriama Ba, women writers, women's studies, Africa.

http://www.furman.edu/~maiden/fr42/ba/ Miriama Ba.

http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/fr-on.html Balzac: Le Colonel Chabert from UVa.

http://lpshpd.lps.umontreal.ca/~lefebvre/citation/camus.html Camus quotations.

http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/fr-on.html Corneille: Cinna from UVa.

http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/fr-on.html Descartes: Discours de la Méthode from UVa.

http://www.contes.net/contes/daudet/cl9.html La dernière classe: Alphonse Daudet's touching little story about a French village in Alsace during WWI. Appropriate for 201.

http://www.sci.fi/~solaris/duras/ Duras.

http://www.uta.fi/~trkisa/duras/duras.html Duras.

http://perso.wanadoo.fr/jb.guinot/pages/accueil.html Flaubert.

http://perso.wanadoo.fr/jb.guinot/pages/textes.html Flaubert: integral texts of Voyage en enfer, Agonie, La Femme du monde, Smarh, La tentation de Saint Antoine (1849, 1856, 1874), Salammbô, Trois contes, Dictionnaire des Idées Reçues, many other excerpts.

http://www.lafontaine.net/ La Fontaine, Fables.

http://w3.teaser.fr/~jrvidaud/laf/lafon.htm Complete fables of La Fontaine.

http://callisto.si.usherb.ca/~gisweb/gis/fables/index.htm La Fontaine, Fables.

http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/fr-on.html Fontenelle: Entretiens sur la pluralité des mondes from UVa.

http://www.u-paris10.fr/atag/ Gide.

http://www.nt.ac-strasbourg.fr/pedago/lettres/Lecture/Gidebio.htm Gide.

http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/fr-on.html Maupassant: Le Horla from UVa.

http://humanities.uchicago.edu/humanities/montaigne/ Good Montaigne page.

http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/fr-on.html Nerval: La Main enchantée, Aurélia ou le rêve et la vie from UVa.

http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/fr-on.html Pascal: La Machine arithmétique from UVa.

http://www.well.com/user/vision/proust/index.html Proust.

http://webperso.alma-net.net/proust/ Proust.

http://www.egide.com/adapt/proust/proust.htm Integral texts of works of Proust.

http://www.library.uiuc.edu/kolbp/ Proust Archive on his works and times.

http://perso.wanadoo.fr/proust/proust/Index.htm Proust quotations.

http://www.well.com/user/vision/proust/proustgr.html Marcel Proust support group.

http://ancilla.unice.fr/rabelais.html Rabelais, big site: Rabelais et son temps.

http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/fr-on.html Racine: Athalie from UVa.

http://www.angelfire.com/ca/stephrimbaud/ Arthur Rimbaud: poet, poetry.

http://www.halfaya.org/robbegrillet/ Allain Robbe-Grillet bibliography.

http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/fr-on.html Rousseau: Les Rêveries du promeneur solitaire from UVa.

http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/fr-on.html Stendhal: La Duchesse de Palliano; Vittoria Accoramboni, duchesse de Bracciano; Les Cenci from UVa.

http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~smfriedm/exupery/ Saint-Exupéry.

http://www.petit-prince.fr.fm/ St.-Exupéry's Le Petit Prince, complete text and original color drawings, including failed drawings number one and number two, of hats...

http://www.laprovence.com/saint-exupery/bio.html Saint-Exupéry.

http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/fr-on.html Verne: De la Terre à la lune from UVa.

http://www.megatoon.com/~elmarto/boris.html Boris Vian.

http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/fr-on.html Voltaire: Candide ou l'optimisme, Micromégas from UVa.

http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/fr-on.html Zola: J'accuse from UVa.

http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/french/sable/zola/ Zola archives.

Bookstores

http://www.bol.fr/ French books to purchase online, bookstore.

http://www.livre-en-ligne.fr/ French online bookstore, books.

Cultural Organizations

http://globegate.utm.edu/french/globegate_mirror/alliance.html Worldwide Alliance Française addresses; widely recognized tests of French.

Dictionaries and Vocabulary

http://www.academie-francaise.fr/ French Academy dictionary.

http://elsap1.unicaen.fr/dicosyn.html U. Caen's dictionary of synonyms. A very important resource. Unlimited flexibility.

http://globegate.utm.edu/french/globegate_mirror/vocab.html French vocabulary acquisition, tests.

http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/rbeard/grammars.html Specialty on-line dictionaries (business, law, finance, sports, etc.)

http://cweb.middlebury.edu/cr/lexique A site prepared at Middlebury College. Contains a nice list of vocabulary words with descriptions, pictures, and the like. Useful for students in FLF 101, 102, 201, and 202 and in conversation classes, such as FLF 308.

http://humanities.uchicago.edu/ARTFL/ARTFL.html U. Chicago's project to put on line the complete Encyclopédie.

http://cedric.cnam.fr/ABU/ Universal Library, texts, authors, dictionaries. Bibliothèque Universelle.

http://clicnet.swarthmore.edu/dictionnaires.html Bilingual dictionaries.

Ecology and the environment

http://www.amisdelaterre.org/ecotoile/index.html Ecology links to French websites.

http://www.cousteau.org/ Cousteau, Calypso, ecology, ocean. Be ready for the music...

Education

http://www.merlot.org/Home.po MERLOT isn't good French wine after all: it stands for Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching. An excellent site with many contributions of pages, exercises, and projects by French teachers for French classes. What would Bordeaux be, then?

http://www.mhhe.com/socscience/foreignlang/french/acts/act2.htm A site with exercises on the subject of university education and choosing subjects to study in college.

http://www.univ-paris5.fr/ U. René Descartes homepage; diplomas in health sciences, including pharmacy and medicine, social sciences, law.

http://www.edufrance.org/ French schools/education abroad.

http://ustl.univ-lille1.fr/ustl/accueil/index.htm Homepage for Lille's U. of Science and Technology.

http://www.ens-fcl.fr/ Homepage of the Ecole Normale Supérieure (Fontenay/Saint-Cloud); professional formation of teachers in France.

http://cri.ensmp.fr/mesr/ The French education system, in English.

Etymology and Fun with Words

http://www.bric-a-brac.org/lettres/ Great word play: unusual genders of nouns, petnames, the infamous Lettre de Georges Sand à Alfred de Musset, contrepèteries, abécédaire romancé, palindromes, etc.

http://www.aescon.com/aescon/french/num1.htm Epigrammatic poem with questions; d'Antin Manuscript.

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jlawler/wow/ Linguistic fun and whimsy on U. Mich.'s linguistics course homepage. References and resources in linguistics.

http://globegate.utm.edu/french/globegate_mirror/etymol.html General discussion of etymology. Multiple and single etymologies. Link to Globe-Gate's Une Histoire de la langue française.

Film and cinema

http://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/Thema/dossier.asp?DOS=CINEMAMEDIA 100 years of French cinema. French film festivals. Links.

http://www.cinefil.com/ French, Belgian, and Swiss film website.

http://www.premiere.fr/ A magazine devoted to French film.

http://www.vdp.fr/ Videotheque film site, with information about coming film festivals in France.

http://hapax.sbc.edu/PARTS-OF-HAPAX/hapax-2-cinema.html Individual directors, general history, many links.

http://www.republique-des-lettres.com/cinema.html Films, scenarios, "webzine", film study.

http://www.as.wvu.edu/mlastinger/cinema.htm Internet movie database. Links to website Lumière and to the daily "cinézine" l'Écran noir.

http://www.lumiere.org/sommaire.html Critiques, directors, current films, general information about French cinema.

French Language

(Why Study French?)

(History of French Language)

http://globegate.utm.edu/french/globegate_mirror/histdico.html Historic dictionaries and historical French.

http://globegate.utm.edu/french/globegate_mirror/histfren.html Globe-Gate's Une Histoire de la langue française. Links to 100 sites.

(French and native minority languages in France)

http://globegate.utm.edu/french/topics/native.and.minority.lang.html A long list of links.

(Diversity, Francophone cultures other than France)

http://www.francophonie.org/ Site of International Organization of La Francophonie: publications, actions, calendar, etc.

http://www.metafort.org/rdvprojet/96-97/cefrans/index.html Lexicon of slang in general and verlan in particular.

http://www1.appstate.edu/dept/fll/canada.html Canada.

http://www.lehman.cuny.edu/depts/langlit/french/afrique.html Francophone Africa.

http://www1.appstate.edu/dept/fll/acadian_cajun.html Acadia and Louisiana.

(Correct usage)

http://www1.appstate.edu/dept/fll/langue_francaise.html Vast list of language resources, internet French lessons (some interactive or with sound), skill improvement, dictées, explications de texte, slang, exercises, quizzes, critical vocabulary, syllabi, business French, translation engines English/French and French/English.

(Business French)

http://docent.hogent.be/~fdw987/lettresmod.htm Models, templates, and exercises for business letters in French.

http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/plc/french/ffbcourse.html Vocabulary and phrases for a business French course at Penn.

http://trc.ucdavis.edu/french/reader106.pdf Le français commercial et pratique et sa correspondance, par
Simone Clay. An entire online book in pdf format.

Gay and Lesbian Studies

http://www.canoe.qc.ca/artdevivresociete/archives_b.html/ Gay and Lesbian archives from Canoe.

http://clicnet.swarthmore.edu/etudes.homosexuelles.html Links, sources, individual authors in the field of gay and lesbian studies.

General Culture and Civilization

http://hapax.sbc.edu/PARTS-OF-HAPAX/hapax-3-culture.html Variety of sources on French culture.

http://www.canoe.qc.ca/ArtdevivreCouples/aou14_amour_b.html Love à la française.

http://www.canoe.qc.ca/artdevivremodebeaute/index.html Fashion, style, and beauty.

http://www.cortland.edu/flteach/civ/ French civilization course (interactive or non-interactive).

http://www.canoe.qc.ca/artdevivrecarriere/index.html Career and profession.

http://www.mmania.com/vb/html/french/index.html The Virtual Baguette, information on everything French, from bidet to pédé.

http://www.canoe.qc.ca/artdevivrefamille/index.html Family, children, and parenting, à la française.

http://www.metafort.org/rdvprojet/96-97/cefrans/index.html Lexicon of slang in general and verlan in particular.

http://www.epas.utoronto.ca:8080/french/sites/ La Culture Francophone -- University of Toronto, a very rich site with links to Canadian, Belgian, and French websites on French history, psychology, language, linguistics, culture, media, communication, science, technology, pedagogy, etc.

http://www.canoe.qc.ca/maison/index.html House and garden, decoration, and redecoration.

http://mistral.culture.fr/ An extremely rich site. There are links to festivals, regions, cultural events, you name it.

http://www.canoe.qc.ca/artdevivresociete/index.html Society, social issues, living in the world of people.

http://www.parismatch.com/ Paris Match online. News, sports, fashion, people, personalities, travel.

http://www.canoe.qc.ca/artdevivresante/index.html Health, diet, nutrition, and psychology.

http://clicnet.swarthmore.edu Media, press, radio, television, society, popular culture.

http://www.paris.org:80/Expos/Liberation The Liberation of Paris is an interesting site, appropriate for use in FLF 315, French Culture and Civilization. World War II.

http://www.rosenheim.baynet.de/~muecke/flags.htm Flags and national anthems.

www.culture.fr/culture/noel/franc/noel.htm This is a nice site on Christmas traditions in France and Canada, good for students in FLF 101-201. Origins of Christmas, Middle Ages, Renaissance, family celebrations.

General Information

http://french.about.com/mbody.htm    A very rich site with high-quality pages on everything from punctuation to genuine French gestures. A voir.

http://home.netscape.com/fr/index.html/     Has the following and more: actualités, infos économie, infos sport, infos tourisme-voyage, loisirs, horoscope, sorties, cinémas, expos, petites annonces, santé, finances, maison, météo, régions, shopping, etc.

http://www.les.aston.ac.uk/freweb.html     Cities, postal codes, general information, much more.

http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/french/sites/     University of Toronto Library -- French Resources.

http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/     Essentials of French law.

Grammar

http://www.langueauchat.com/ A new and very good site with pages on grammar, pronunciation [NB: Québec pronunciation!], very useful page on abbreviations, etc.

http://www.frenchlesson.com/ A very good intermediate website with quite good explanations and exercises.

http://www.pomme.ualberta.ca/devoir/ French verb conjugator. Note the very bad play on words in the title.

http://french.chass.utoronto.ca/fre180/ Online French grammar, with very good texts for reading.

http://www.quia.com/french_grammar.html Create one's own games and quizzes. Avoir idioms, adjective agreement, tenses, conjugations, questions, interrogative/demonstrative/possessive adjectives and pronouns, object pronouns, qui/que, etc.

http://globegate.utm.edu/french/globegate_mirror/gramm.html French Grammar Central. Exhaustive review of grammar.

http://www.mhhe.com/socscience/foreignlang/french/gram.htm Exercises on grammar review.

http://www1.appstate.edu/dept/fll/langue_francaise.html Correct usage.

http://humanities.uchicago.edu/forms_unrest/inflect.query.html ARTFL verb conjugation project.

http://www.ambafrance.org/ALF/ Interactive course for beginners. Requires plug-in for audio/voxware

http://www.ciel.fr/scripts/fastsql.exe?script=/qcm/qcm&id=1 Multiple choice questions, beginning to advanced.

http://www.swarthmore.edu/Humanities/clicnet/fle.html Beginning through advanced lessons and resources for students.

http://www.jump-gate.com/languages/french/index.html On-line French course: 9 lessons for writing and reading.

History

http://www.histoweb.fr.st/ Excellent historical site, France, Europe, World. High quality pages.

http://www.bnf.fr/loc/bnf0001.htm The Bibliothèque Nationale Française's Naissance de la culture française site, with history and culture from end of the 8th C to present.

http://hapax.sbc.edu/PARTS-OF-HAPAX/hapax-10-history.html Specific subjects, bibliography, essays, maps.

http://www.france.diplomatie.fr/france/histoire.html History of France.

http://www.multimania.com/cliannaz/ History.

http://perso.wanadoo.fr/famille.renard/histoire.htm History of the Church.

http://www.pariserve.tm.fr/quartier/paris.htm History of Paris

http://www.urich.edu/~jpaulsen/civfrw3.html Prehistory through the 20^th century.

http://www.history4war.com/ Famous French battlefields and campaigns from 1700 to the present.

http://perso.wanadoo.fr/roger.castelain/ Good general history site for France, its kings, queens, mistresses, boundaries, crusades and campaigns.

http://instruct1.cit.cornell.edu/Courses/french_history/ Cornell site on French history. Facts and links to French culture and history. Film. Historical periods: Middle Ages through the 20th century.

http://www.as.wvu.edu/mlastinger/ages.htm#ages Web Encyclopedia on French history. Hundreds of links to French history, authors and personalities, literary and philosophical movements, etc.

http://perso.club-internet.fr/lauhic/ History of France, chronology.

(Middle Ages)

http://globegate.utm.edu/french/lit/middle.ages.html Long list of sites with French medieval content, sites for literature, sites by author.

http://www.cssh.qc.ca/projets/carnetsma/index2.html Major medieval events, music, celebrities of the Middle Ages, recipe for Hugues Capet's favorite dish, languages and dialects, crossword puzzles, bibliography.

http://www.multimania.com/historel/moyenage/index.htm History and religion in Europe in the Middle Ages.

http://www.multimania.com/historel/moyenage/index.htm Castles, cathedrals, knights, commerce, monks, crusades, in the Middle Ages.

http://www.multimania.com/cbrass/mesins.htm Musical instruments in the French Middle Ages.

http://perso.wanadoo.fr/jean-francois.mangin/ Middle Ages, history, timeline, kings and queens of Europe and France.

http://instruct1.cit.cornell.edu/Courses/french_history/middle.html Pages of links to websites dealing with the French middle ages, up through Villon.

http://www.class.csupomona.edu/efl/french308/Histoire_ancienne.html Outline of the history of France in French, from the Celts to the Edit de Nantes, with quiz.

http://perso.wanadoo.fr/roger.castelain Vercingetorix and history of France.

http://www.alesia.asso.fr/alesia/pg/Vercingetorix/home-Vercingetorix.htm Vercingetorix.

http://perso.club-internet.fr/melly/cathy3fr.htm Celts.

http://pages.infinit.net/photos/les.htm Celts, Gaulois, dress, culture.

http://globegate.utm.edu/french/globegate_mirror/roisma.html French kings of the Middle Ages.

http://philae.sas.upenn.edu/French/french.html Images, text and sound in a multimedia medieval history French language series. From the French Page, U. Penn. (copyright: J. Alter, 1994) Paris.

http://www2.lucidcafe.com/lucidcafe/library/96apr/charlemagne.html Charlemagne.

http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/santiago/bulrlnd.html Charlemagne, Roland, and Turpin.

http://www.public.iastate.edu/~flng_info/medieval-fr.html Links to French sites on the Middle Ages.

http://www.heraldica.org/topics/france/ French Heraldry.

http://philae.sas.upenn.edu/French/caroly.html 6-part series on the Capetians and the Crusades.

http://www1.pitt.edu/~medart/menufrance/mainfran.html Medieval French art and architecture.

http://www.millersv.edu/~english/homepage/duncan/medfem/domestic.html Medieval domestic life.

http://www.colba.net/~clermont/jeannedarc.htm Joan of Arc. A good site.

http://www.jeanne-darc.com/ Site of Jeanne d'Arc Museum in Rouen. Life. Times. 100 Years' War. Museum visits. Questions pédagogiques. Links to other sites on Sainte Jeanne, Rouen, Normandy, Middle Ages.

http://mahogany.lib.utexas.edu:1000/Libs/PCL/portraits/joanofarc.jpg

(Renaissance)

http://pages.globetrotter.net/pcbcr/renaiss.html Great names of the Renaissance.

http://instruct1.cit.cornell.edu/Courses/french_history/renaissa.html

http://world.std.com/~cti/lepg.html

http://www.geocities.com/~publius_hist/fr1.htm François I.

(Louis XIV)

http://www.assumption.edu/HTML/Faculty/Gallo/Louis.html

http://staff.vscht.cz/~paurf/ludva.html

http://www.urich.edu/~jpaulsen/versail1.html Versailles, Louis XIV, life at Versailles.

http://www.chateauversailles.fr/ Versailles, official site.

http://www.smartweb.fr/fr/versailles/index.html Versailles.

http://www.multimania.com/jouve/ The mistresses of Louis XIV and Louis XV.

http://www.chateauversailles.fr/fr/210.asp Louis XIV.

http://www.kipar.org/history_france_louis.html A day in the life of Louis XIV.

(17^th Century)

http://instruct1.cit.cornell.edu/Courses/french_history/17thcentury.html

(18^th Century)

http://www.culture.fr/lumiere/documents/genealogie.html Genealogy of the kings of France, 18^th Century.

http://mistral.culture.fr/files/imaginary_exhibition.html Age of Enlightenment.

http://www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk/aa.index.html Voltaire.

http://fileroom.aa.uic.edu/FileRoom/documents/Cases/173diderot.html Diderot, Encyclopedia

http://mahogany.lib.utexas.edu:1000/Libs/PCL/portraits/diderot.jpg

(Revolution)

http://home.worldnet.fr/~lasseron/ French Revolution: chronology, documents, portraits, songs, test, bibliography. Be sure to click on the quotation in order to continue.

http://perso.club-internet.fr/lacomune/pages/parent.html The Commune.

http://www.napoleon.fr/ Napoleon.

http://perso.club-internet.fr/ameliefr/index-france.html Napoleon. Very complete; many links.

http://humanities.uchicago.edu/homes/mark/fr_rev.html Rare French revolutionary pamphlets, scanned and placed online by University of Chicago.

(19^th Century)

http://www.as.wvu.edu/mlastinger/19.htm 19^th C.

(Modern)

http://www.charles-de-gaulle.org/naviga/plansite.htm DeGaulle. Very complete; many links.

http://partisans.ifrance.com/partisans/ French Resistance in World War Two.

Humor and entertainment

http://www.langueauchat.com/ A new and very good site with games and humor.

http://www1.appstate.edu/dept/fll/enfants.html Asterix and the Simpsons. Cartoons, humor, entertainment.

http://www.petit-prince.fr.fm/ St.-Exupéry's Le Petit Prince, complete text and original color drawings, including failed drawings number one and number two, of hats...

http://hapax.sbc.edu/PARTS-OF-HAPAX/hapax-11-humour.html Les Guignols, Tintin; possibility of audio.

http://www.swarthmore.edu/Humanities/clicnet/humour.html Humor.

http://www.asterix.tm.fr/ ASTERIX® - Le site officiel cartoon. The official Asterix website.

http://www.captage.com/ Le bal du prince, the Cinderella game, an interactive game in which the heroine attempts to win the heart of the prince through strategy and the French language.

http://www.republique-des-lettres.com/bdessinee.html Bande dessinée, cartoons.

http://clicnet.swarthmore.edu/ Virtual resources for French students, teachers, Francophiles. Very high quality.

h ttp://members.aol.com/maestro12/web/wadir.html

http://www.tintin.be/ Tintin, cartoons.

http://www.tintin.qc.ca/ Tintin, cartoons.

http://www.mage.univ-mulhouse.fr/riviere/bd/asterix/ Asterix, cartoons.

Learning and teaching, pedagogical applications, exercises, lessons.

http://www.rfi.fr/fichiers/langue_francaise/index.asp RFI's excellent new site with graded, edited, authentic materials for reading, listening comprehension, etc.

http://web.mit.edu/french/culturaNEH/ Cultura, an important new project and approach developed at MIT. I heard the presentation at a CALICO conference years ago, and the authors have developed new ways of producing interactivity between our students and native French speakers, to arrive at a real functional and cultural level of linguistic awareness.

http://www.merlot.org/Home.po MERLOT isn't good French wine after all: it stands for Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching. An excellent site with many contributions of pages, exercises, and projects by French teachers for French classes. What would Bordeaux be, then?

http://www.cortland.edu/www/flteach/civ/ Civilisation française, by Marie Ponterio, advanced elementary to intermediate lessons in all aspects of French culture with text, audio, and video. Interactive.

http://www.momes.net/education/index.html A wealth of links to pages on reading, writing, pronunciation, and all subjects.

http://www.clta.net/lessons/ Internet activities for FL classes. Use of the web in the classroom. Favorite Teacher URL's. 480 links to authentic documents. Sample web lessons in French, Spanish, Italian, German, ESL/EFL, Japanese.

http://clicnet.swarthmore.edu Virtual resources for French students, teachers, Francophiles. Very high quality.

http://www.urich.edu/~jpaulsen/pedagog.html Le centre pédagogique. Many resources for teachers.

http://humanities.uchicago.edu/romance/resources/french/ University of Chicago links to French net resources in four categories: textual, visual, cultural, and pedagogical.

http://globegate.utm.edu/french/globegate_mirror/oral.html Many listening comp, speaking and assessment strategies, ACTFL-based. Audio sites fiz F'phone TV/radio. Materials adequate through advanced levels.

http://isef.ntic.org "Index de sites éducatifs francophones." "Cours et exercices interactifs."

http://members.aol.com/maestro12/web/wadir.html How to write web activities, reading strategies, evaluation, 480 links to authentic documents. Favorite teacher URL's.

http://www.furman.edu/~pecoy/mfl195/aides.html Useful for teachers seeking to use web for instruction.

http://globegate.utm.edu/french/globegate_mirror/writing.html

http://globegate.utm.edu/french/globegate_mirror/reading.html

http://noe-education.com/ Noë. Excellent site for teachers of French; many links to pedagogical resources and aids.

http://www.lirmm.fr/~cies/Cours/Francais/malraux.html Interactive exercise on reading and comprehending a literary text by André Malraux.

http://www.francelink.com/radio_stations/sorbonne/ Sorbonne-Radio France -- lectures from the Sorbonne. You can listen to these lectures live with RealAudio.

http://www.jump-gate.com/languages/french/french1.html French Pronunciation Guidelines.

http://www.mhhe.com/socscience/foreignlang/french/acts/act2.htm Exercise on university, choosing courses in French.

http://www.mhhe.com/socscience/foreignlang/french/acts/act7.htm Exercises on eating, drinking, ordering, names of foods, shopping for food, in French.

http://www.mhhe.com/socscience/foreignlang/french/acts/act4.htm Exercise on renting a villa or apartment in France.

http://www.mhhe.com/socscience/foreignlang/french/acts/act5.htm Exercise on children, games, house space, etc.

http://www.mhhe.com/socscience/foreignlang/french/acts/act6.htm Two exercises on wine and chocolate.

http://www.mhhe.com/socscience/foreignlang/french/acts/act13.htm Exercise on spas, health and beauty products, internet magazine Biovert.

http://www.mhhe.com/socscience/foreignlang/french/acts/act8.htm Exercise on hotels, vacation.

http://www.mhhe.com/socscience/foreignlang/french/acts/act9.htm Exercise on travel, transportation, trips, vacation.

http://www.mhhe.com/socscience/foreignlang/french/acts/act10.htm Exercise on newspaper and media.

http://www.mhhe.com/socscience/foreignlang/french/acts/act11.htm Exercise on city life, Marseilles, Dinan.

http://www.mhhe.com/socscience/foreignlang/french/acts/act12.htm Exercise on art, museums, and music.

http://www.mhhe.com/socscience/foreignlang/french/acts/act14.htm Exercise on choosing a career or profession, and on the banking profession.

http://www.mhhe.com/socscience/foreignlang/french/acts/act15.htm Exercise on parachuting and on using the Pariscope.

http://members.aol.com/maestro12/web/wadir.html Internet activities for foreign language teaching, lesson plans and exercises for teachers of Spanish and French. Links to lessons and useful sites.

http://www.mhhe.com/socscience/foreignlang/french/gram.htm Exercises on grammar review.

http://www1.appstate.edu/dept/fll/enseignement.html Resources for instructors, teachers, professors, of French. Teaching and learning.

ftp://ftp.dartmouth.edu/pub/LLTI-IALL/365german-news/tw/index.htm French Crossword Puzzles

http://qsilver.queensu.ca/french/Cours/215/index.html Introduction à la Linguistique Française, Introduction to French linguistics.

http://www.paris.org.:80/Participate/ Interactive Communication; The Paris Pages; Student Participation.

http://www.itp.berkeley.edu/french/main.html This student project, adored by thousands, depicts the University of California at Berkeley through the eyes of a second semester French class.

Linguistics

http://qsilver.queensu.ca/french/Cours/215/index.html French linguistics: concepts, phonology, phonetics, morphology, syntax, lexicology, semantics. Good introduction.

http://qsilver.queensu.ca/french/Cours/215/index.html Introduction à la Linguistique Française, Introduction to French linguistics.

http://humanities.uchicago.edu/forms_unrest/analyze.query.html Morphological analysis using the INFL analyzer.

http://french.chass.utoronto.ca/linguistique/prosodie/pmartin/index.html French intonation.

Literary and artistic analysis, critique, explication de texte

http://globegate.utm.edu/french/globegate_mirror/exptext.html Explication de texte and links on literary analysis.

http://www.cudenver.edu/~mryder/itc_data/postmodern.html Postmodern thought.

http://www.mygale.org/04/belvtt/discours.htm Analysis of a poem by Prévert.

http://www.cafe.umontreal.ca/genres/lst-gnr.html Literary genres.

http://globegate.utm.edu/french/globegate_mirror/writing.html Various links for writing French.

http://www.ucs.mun.ca/~lemelin/THEORIE.htm Detailed history of literary criticism and analysis.

http://www.hydra.umn.edu/derrida/content.html Deconstruction and Derrida.

http://www-rci.rutgers.edu/~edmunds/theory.html Dictionaries of literary theory and related areas.

http://www.mygale.org/00/simonnet/sitfen/narrat/narr0001.htm Elements of narration including description, place, time, characters, bibliography.

http://www.labs.climoilou.qc.ca/~lessardc/ Survey of French literature syllabus with emphasis on classicism and 19^th century.

http://cafe.etfra.umontreal.ca/cle/ Inventory of literary and stylistic devices.

http://quarles.unbc.edu/aristscan.html Index of Aristotle's Poetics.

http://www.labs.climoilou.qc.ca/~lessardc/def_al.htm Literary analysis; deconstruction; editing.

http://www.labs.climoilou.qc.ca/~lessardc/co_litl.htm Major literary movements.

http://hapax.sbc.edu/ Literary criticism and theory: many links

Maps and pictures

http://sunsite.unc.edu/wm/ Exhibits from The Louvre (WebMuseum).

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/arthistory/courses/parismaps/ Maps of Paris (18th/19th century) -- Prof. Barry Bergdoll, Columbia University.

http://www.cnam.fr/ Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers -- includes virtual tour of Paris. Maps and tours of Paris.

http://www.urec.cnrs.fr/France/France.html Interactive Map of France.

http://www.paris.org/Maps/MM/ Interactive Map of Monuments & Museums of Paris.

Media

http://www.urich.edu/~jpaulsen/journaux.html Access to French periodicals, newspapers, radio - a wide variety of links.

http://www.grolier.fr/europe2/ Europe 2. Les programmes de la semaine, des dialogues IRC en direct, clips de chanson en fichiers audio, où sortir, une boutique, des
récits d'aventure.

http://www.rtl2.fr/home.htm RTL2. Radio musicale qui diffuse en direct.

http://www.rfi.fr Radio France Internationale
Des revues de presse, des titres, des débats et "Parler au quotidien", une émission sur la langue française.

http://www.brume.org/brume/brfrench.html Radio Brume. Radio étudiante diffusée à Lyon et à Grenoble. Page d'accueil en anglais, horaire des programmes.

http://207.61.192.2/abc/flash/flashe.html Flashe. Site d'humour québécois en style radiophonique qui semble faire bien rire son auteur. Cependant, le site est bien fait.

http://www.rock-detente.com Un très beau site, sophistiqué et interactif, avec des programmes, de la musique et des concours.

http://radio-canada.ca/radio/ Radio Canada (en direct). La radio AM en français et en direct: deux stations, une générale et une culturelle.

http://www.comfm.fr/sites/rdirect/ Annuaire des radios en direct. Site permettant de se brancher directement sur toutes les radios émettant en direct sur l'Internet où qu'elles se trouvent dans
le monde.

http://fbwww.epfl.ch/ La première radio universitaire de Suisse. Swiss student radio.

http://www.europe1.fr/ Europe 1 radio.

http://www.limsi.fr/~krus/frogmag/ French E-magazine published by its readers.

http://www.as.wvu.edu/mlastinger/medias.htm French media links, magazines, e-zines, radio, television, press, newspapers.

http://globegate.utm.edu/french/globegate_mirror/infos.html Learning to read a French newspaper.

http://www.parismatch.com/ Paris Match online. News, sports, fashion, people, personalities, travel.

http://www.monaco.mc/actualite/index.html Monaco Actualité.

http://www.lemonde.fr/ Le Monde -- major French newspaper.

http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/md/index.html Le Monde diplomatique.

http://www.nicematin.fr/ Nice Matin -- principal newspaper of Nice.

http://www.lesoir.com/ Le Soir -- newspaper.

http://www.leparisien.fr/ Le Parisien newspaper, big daily of Paris and surrounding region, like USA Today. News, weather, traffic.

http://quotidien.nouvelobs.com/ Le Nouvel Observateur, politics, economics, news, commentary, sports, culture.

www.lexpress.fr Archives 35,000 articles and provides links to current events as well as other rubrics in the magazine -- sciences, culture, etc.

http://www.elle.fr/home/accueil/accueil/index.php3 Elle magazine, fashion, style, clothes, makeup, sales.

http://www.afp.com/ Latest news, images. Subscription for corporate/institutional clients.

http://www.les.aston.ac.uk/freweb.html

http://www.liberation.fr/ Liberation (newspaper).

(Television)

http://www.tf1.fr/ TF1. Les infos, le groupe TF1, les programmes, les nouvelles technologies.

http://www.france2.fr/ France 2. Des nouvelles en ligne toute la journée. Des reportages, une grille horaire et une partie magazine. Un très bon serveur avec des émissions en à voir sur le Web.

http://www.france3.fr/ France 3. Les événements et les émissions de la semaine, Info vidéo 3, lexique, chronique du site, régions.

http://www.cplus.fr Canal +. Tout sur la chaîne câblée française. L'Hebdo de Michel Field, le sport, la nuit cyber, les Guignols de l'Info, l'oeil du cyclone, cyberflash, cyberculture, Canal+ Multimédia, foire aux questions.

http://www.lacinquieme.fr/ Sites français du savoir, de la formation et de l'emploi, informations sur la chaîne, forums et grands débats, planète Blanche avec Jean-Louis Etienne, courrier.

http://www.sdv.fr/arte/index.html ARTE. Serveur officiel de la chaîne culturelle et éducative franco-allemande.

http://www.canalsatellite.fr/canalsa/chaines/tv/lci.html LCI, une chaîne d'information émettant 24 heures sur 24.

http://www.tv5.org/ TV 5. Tout sur les émissions phares de la chaîne et sur la grille proposée.

http://www.rfo.fr RFO. La radio-télévision des DOM-TOM

http://www.buttle.com/tv/schedule.htm Television Schedules of the World. Un point de départ pour connaître les adresses de toutes les télévisions en ligne par pays

http://www.eurotv.com/ EuroTV. Tous les programmes des TVs européennes.

http://home.comfm.fr/ COMFM, Guide de la Radio, Guide des Ressources Médias. Un site totalement consacré au monde des médias.

Music, Song, and Singers

http://www.mediaradio.com/radio-en-direct/qdn99-2.html Hundreds of online direct radio stations, including many Francophone stations, for music on the net.

http://persoweb.francenet.fr/~ymorin/ma.html Period music.

http://globegate.utm.edu/french/topics/music.html The biggest collection of French music links.

http://www1.appstate.edu/dept/fll/frenchmusic.html French music.

(Classical)

(Jazz)

http://www.erb.com/cdefr/jazzfr.htm Jazz in France

http://www.jazzmagazine.com/ Major jazz magazine in France. French jazz.

(Rap)

http://www.multimania.com/epsilone/rap/rapocalypse.htm French rap, in MP3 and RealAudio.

http://www.rapmp3.fr.fm/ French rap.

http://surf.to/rapfr/ French rap.

http://www.lerapfrancais.com/ French rap.

http://www.multimania.com/rap/ French rap.

http://www.citeweb.net/roots French rap.

(Folk)

http://www.worldnet.fr/~zowyz/muscelt.htm Celtic music.

http://www.ina.fr/Music/index.html Afro-Caribbean music.

http://www.bme.jhu.edu/~jrice/cz.html Big Cajun and zydeco site.

http://www.cajunfrenchmusic.org/ Cajun French Music Association.

http://www.cajunculture.com Encyclopedia of Cajun Culture.

http://www.cajunculture.com Cajun and Zydeco dance.

http://www.meloche.net/accordio.htm Cajun music and culture.

http://www.interlog.com/~spm/louisiane/home.html French history, language, and music in Louisiana.

http://www.dirtynelson.com/linen/feature/60cajun.html History of Cajun music.

Song and singers

http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Disco/3039/cube/jacques.htm/ Jacques Brel! 20 ans d'Amour chanson music songs.

http://members.tripod.com/~baltaro/ Song words.

http://pantheon.cis.yale.edu/~bodoin/edith_piaf.html Edith Piaf

http://ensem.u-nancy.fr/~mbensaie/brassens.html Georges Brassens

http://dieudonne.unice.fr:80/musique/src/b/georges_brassens/ Georges Brassens

http://home4.freegates.be/jacquesbrel/     Jacques Brel, chanson, music.

http://www.julienclerc.com     Julien Clerc

http://www.celineonline.com     Céline Dion

http://www.leo-ferre.com     Leo Ferre -- songs, music.

http://www.eerie.fr/~collet/dion.html     Céline Dion

http://www.polnaweb.com     Michel Polnaroff

http://perso.wanadoo.fr/aze/sanson.htm     Veronique Sanson

http://perso.wanadoo.fr/jhiss/html/vanessa.htm     Vanessa Paradis

http://www.smeth.demon.co.uk/     Piaf and her Paris.

http://www.liberation.com/quotidien/portrait/aznavour.html     Aznavour

http://www.chez.com/astgen/brel/j_brel.htm     Jacques Brel

http://www.europictures.com/brel/page01.htm     Brel

http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Hills/5423/montand.html     Yves Montand

http://gaston.unice.fr/~paubert/musique/src/francais.html      French words to over 200 songs.

Paris

http://stitt.res.enst.fr/CyberRout/     A guide to bars and restaurants in Paris!

http://meteora.ucsd.edu/~norman/paris/     An elegant multimedia montage of Paris, including museums, cafés, the metro.

http://www.paris.org/Metro/gifs/metro.map.jpg     Paris metro map.

http://www.paris.org/        Interactive maps, accomodations, transportation, exchange rates.

http://www.thiscityparis.com        This City Paris, a magazine site that contains articles about Paris museums, etc.

http://www.paris.org/parisF.html     The Paris Pages.

http://www.maison-de-la-france.com     Maison de la France, French Government Tourist Office.

http://www.cnam.fr/       Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers; includes virtual tour of Paris.

http://www.paris-tourisme.com     Paris tourism.

http://www.pariserve.tm.fr/quartier/paris.htmHistory of Paris.

http://www.ritzparis.com/fr/    A look at one of the grand old hotels of Paris.

Philosophy

http://www.republique-des-lettres.com/philosophie.html General site catalogued by author, movement, etc.

http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/hypertext/landow/SSPCluster/Barthes.html Barthes

http://www.connect.net/ron/beauvoir.html Beauvoir.

http://www.bvx.ca/RobeNoire/Beauvoir/Beauvoir.html Simone de Beauvoir.

http://www.duke.edu/~thp2/camus/index.html Camus.

http://members.xoom.com/powerlifting/Camus/camus.html Camus.

http://georges.benicourt.free.fr/webcamus/index.html Web Camus: philosophy, Albert Camus, existentialism.

http://members.xoom.com/powerlifting/Camus/camus.html Albert Camus, thought, Philosophy Camus, existentialism.

http://www.citeweb.net/CamusNet/ CamusNet: Philosophy, Albert Camus existentialism.

http://twine.stg.brown.edu/projects/hypertext/landow/SSPCluster/Derrida.html     Derrida.

http://www.cas.usf.edu/journal/fobo/jd.html     Derrida.

http://www.tile.net/tile/listserv/derrida.html     Derrida.

http://www.hydra.umn.edu/derrida/content.html Deconstruction and Derrida.

http://www.citeweb.net/penseur/ Conceptions philosophiques de l'Etre humain : Descartes, Marx, Freud, Sartre.

http://www.radicalacademy.com/adiphiexistentialism.htm     Existentialism.

http://www.radicalacademy.com/adiphiexistentialism2.htm     Existentialism.

http://www.tameri.com/csw/exist/     Existentialism.

http://www.csun.edu/~hfspc002/foucault.home.html Foucault.

http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/hypertext/landow/SSPCluster/Foucault.html Foucault.

http://www.whistler.net/worldtour/homepage/ejournal/foucault.htm Foucault.

http://www.english.upenn.edu/~jenglish/Courses/barsanti2.html Lacan.

http://www.france.diplomatie.fr/culture/france/biblio/folio/levi/index.html Claude Lévi-Strauss.

http://www.le-chateau.ilias.com/essais.htm Essays of Pascal and Descartes. French Philosophy.

http://home.navisoft.com/darkstar/exist/Sartre.html Sartre.

http://www.cudenver.edu/~mryder/itc_data/semiotics.html Semiotics.

http://www.france.diplomatie.fr/culture/france/biblio/folio/voltaire/index.html/ Voltaire philosophe [L'Espace culturel] Philosophy.

http://www.europa.com/~cafenet/simone_weil.html Simone Weil.

http://www.vc.unipmn.it/~mori/e-texts/index_fr.htm Limited selection of clandestine 18^th century philosophical texts (U. of Turin-Vercelli).

Phonetics, pronunciation, listening, and speaking

http://www.unil.ch/ling/phon/index.html Phonetics, sounds, pronunciation.

http://globegate.utm.edu/french/globegate_mirror/oral.html A superb list of links to all aspects of phonology, phonetics, acoustics, pronunciation, oral comprehension, listening, and speaking.

Poetry

http://www.franceweb.fr/poesie/index2.html

http://poesie.webnet.fr/ French poetry from the Renaissance to the beginning of the 20^th C, with RealAudio listening!

http://www.france.diplomatie.fr/culture/france/biblio/folio/poesie/

(Modern French poetry)

http://www.angelfire.com/ca/stephrimbaud/       Rimbaud, poems, poetry.

http://www.mygale.org/04/belvtt/discours.htm

http://www.sdv.fr/pages/poesie1/     16^th C French poetry.

http://www.ucs.mun.ca/~lemelin/automne.html

http://www.le-chateau.ilias.com/

http://www.franceweb.fr/poesie/poetesfr.htm     Poetry: selected Francophone poets.

http://www.uqac.uquebec.ca/dal/poesie/definition.htm

http://www.nomade.fr/Arts_culture/litterature/genres_courants_litteraires_ecrivains/poesie/

http://www.franceweb.fr/poesie/cocto2.htm     Cocteau.

http://www.charm.net/~brooklyn/People/ArthurRimbaud.html     Poems and biography of Rimbaud.

http://www.sura.org/~patois/poesie/     Collection of poems.

http://www.le-chateau.ilias.com/poesie.htm    Texts of Rimbaud, Baudelaire, La Fontaine.

http://www.twics.com/~berlol/musique.htm     A la musique, Arthur Rimbaud.

http://un2sg1.unige.ch/www/athena/baudelaire/baud_flm.html     Les fleurs du mal, Baudelaire.

Politics

http://www.parti-socialiste.fr/     French Socialist Party website socialism politics

http://www.udf.org/

http://www.front-nat.fr/

http://www.france.diplomatie.fr/index.html

http://www.info-france-usa.org/fr/     French Embassy in Washington website, good links.

http://www.les.aston.ac.uk/freweb.html     All French ministries, political parties, government.

Proverbs and quotations

http://globegate.utm.edu/french/globegate_mirror/proverb.html French proverbs, sayings, folk wisdom.

http://www.citationsdumonde.com/ French quotations by author and topic.

http://www.les-citations.com/ Quotations by author and topic.

http://perso.wanadoo.fr/combes/Art/citation.html In this site, note that the pink Capital Letter at the left is also a link to more quotations on topics beginning with that letter.

http://bellescitations.free.fr/index1.htm Quotations by theme, including special section of humorous ones, as well as a Pantheon of the best.

Research

http://humanities.uchicago.edu/ARTFL/ARTFL.html     This is a serious site, appropriate for scholars.

http://www.bnf.fr/     Official site of the Bibliothèque Nationale Française.

http://www.urec.cnrs.fr/annuaire/     CNRS L'enseignement superieur et la recherche en France, research, science, scientific.

Science

http://thebigbang.citeweb.net/pages/accueil/tout_accueil.htm Great French astronomy site with good photos of planets, satellites, nebulae, galaxies, etc., and lots of interesting information about them. A well-conceived site.

http://globegate.utm.edu/french/globegate_mirror/dicosci.html

http://www.cnrs.fr/The highly reputed and prestigious Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.

http://www.cnrs.fr/SDV/ CNRS lifesciences.

http://www.cnrs.fr/cw/dossiers/Origine/index.html Anthropology. CNRS dossier on the origins of man.

http://www.cnrs.fr/SHS/Pdom/lsc.htm CNRS humanities, languages, linguistics, musicology, etc.

Search Engines

http://www.francite.com/    FRANCITÉ search engine.

http://www.ctrouve.com/     Eurêka, c'est trouvé ! - L'annuaire de l'internet francophone search engine

http://www.ecila.fr/french/index.html     Ecila search engine.

http://www.lokace.com/    Lokace search engine.

http://www.nomade.fr/     Nomade.fr - Le guide qui trouve search engine.

http://carrefour.net/     Carrefour search engine.

http://fr.yahoo.com/     Yahoo Français search engine.

http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~john.trollope/ressources/moteurs.htm

http://www.debriefing.com/france/     Debriefing.com search engine.

http://www.cpod.fr/provider/resource/allinone/     Tout en Un! French and English search engine.

http://www.he.net/~kamus/usefr.htm     Use it! Multi-lingual search engine.

http://savvy.search.com/lang/french.html     SavvySearch.

http://www.voila.fr/     Voila search engine.

http://cui.unige.ch/trouver/     U. Genève, University of Geneva search engine.

http://www.toile.qc.ca/    La toile du Québec, Quebec search and information.

http://www.franco.ca/     La francophonie canadienne, Canadian French search engine.

http://www.netscan.fr     Netscan; Francophone search engine.

http://www.wanadoo.fr/quiquoiou/bin/quiquoiou.cgi?     Quiquoiou: a Wanadoo search engine. Good general site.

http://roadhouse.bel/     RoadHouse (unofficial Belgian web directory).

http://www.switch.ch/        Switch (Swiss Academic and Research Network).

http://www/search.ch/index.html.fr        SwissSearch (only Swiss sites; Fren., Ger., Ital., Eng. language).

http://www.yweb.com/home-fr.html    Yellow web Europe Directory (6 languages).

http://www.excite.fr/     Excite French search engine.

Shopping

http://www.minitel.fr/     Big department stores, shopping.

http://www.fnac.fr/     Department stores, books, cds, shopping.

http://3suisses.fr/     Catalogs, records, household, clothing, everything. There is a link on the homepage for "offres d'emplois, stages, métiers" as well as the possibility of an entretien vidéo exclusif avec [e.g.] Christian Lacroix and another video with Yannick.

http://www.laredoute.fr/     Big department stores, shopping.

http://www.chanel.com/       Chanel, fashion, haute couture.

http://www.givenchy.fr/      Givenchy mode, perfume and fashion

Sports and Games

http://www1.appstate.edu/dept/fll/sports.html     French sports.

http://globegate.utm.edu/french/globegate_mirror/dicospor.html

http://www.letour.fr/     The Tour de France, cycling, bike racing, sports.

http://www.laboulebleue.com/     Pétanque, boules.

http://www.dakar.fr/     Paris-Dakar, car, auto racing, rally, sports.

http://www.rolandgarros.org/     Tennis, French Open, sports.

http://www.planetesport.com/athletisme/     Track and field.

http://www.lesport.com/main.htm     Sportmania. All French sports.

Theater and Drama

http://www.momes.net/education/oral/oral.html Treasure of links on theater farther down the page.

http://www.le-chateau.ilias.com/theatre.htm     Corneille, Molière, Racine, Marivaux: plays, drama, theater.

http://www.momes.net/education/oral/theatre/cyrano.html     Cyrano de Bergerac, Edmond Rostand.

http://www.comedie-francaise.fr/     Home page of the Comédie Française

gopher://musicbox.mse.jhu.edu:70/00/spcoll/FrenchPlays     736 popular French plays from the late 18^th century through the 2^nd Empire.

http://fr.dir.yahoo.com/art_et_culture/Litterature/Genres/Theatre/Dramaturges/ Yahoo's! French theater site.

(Molière)

http://www.site-moliere.com/intro.htm

http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/fr-on.html    Molière: L'Avare, Dom Juan ou les festins de Pierre, Le Tartuffe ou l'imposteur from UVa.

http://ns.icor.fr/tournesol-theatre/moliere/sommolie.html    Excellent Moliere site with biography, bibliography, and plays.

http://www.mygale.org/moliere/tartuffe.html    Tartuffe: Molière, theater, plays.

http://www.mygale.org/moliere/piectartu.html        Le Tartuffe ou l'imposteur: Molière, theater, plays.

http://websites.earthlink.net/~omniverse/elactheatre/library/plays.htm#moliiere

http://fileroom.aa.uic.edu/FileRoom/documents/Cases/166moliere.html

http://web.cnam.fr/ABU/abu_server.html?pub/ABU/anteABU/tartuf.txt

Tourism and Cuisine

http://www.canoe.qc.ca/artdevivrecuisine/index.html Recipes, menus, and wine advice.

http://www.marmiton.org/

http://www.epicuria.fr/

http://cri.ensmp.fr/font.html

http://www.finest.tm.fr/fr/index.html

http://www.doucefrance.com/

http://www.LaBonneCuisine.com

http://www.ensta.fr/~oinos/     French wine-tasting organization. Wine.

http://www.roy.fr/

http://hapax.sbc.edu/PARTS-OF-HAPAX/hapax-9-gastronomy.html    Links to many sites treating food, recipes, regional specialties, wine, cheese.

http://www.mhhe.com/socscience/foreignlang/french/acts/act7.htm     Exercises on eating, ordering in restaurants, food, French cuisine, regional specialities. 101, 102, 201, 202.

http://www.france.diplomatie.fr/culture/france/ressources/letour/fr/texregio.html      Le tour de France en 80 étapes [L'Espace culturel], regions of France with cultural, political information.

http://www.lagardere.fr/index.shtml    Access to a variety of web sites, e.g., le Guide Routard. Travel, tourism, regions of France, sites to visit.

Weather

http://www.meteo.org/index.htm Site by Eve Christian, in Montreal, with some astronomy, too.

http://www.meteo.fr/temps/     Weather and climate.

http://www.france3.fr/meteo.html     Weather on video.

http://www.tf1.fr     Weather on TF1, French television.

Women's Studies and French Feminist Studies

http://bailiwick.lib.uiowa.edu/wstudies/frenchfem.html

http://clicnet.swarthmore.edu/etudes.feministes.html Large variety of links to individual Francophone writers and sources.

http://www.haverford.edu/library/reference/mschaus/mfi/mfi.html Medieval feminist index.

Writing

http://globegate.utm.edu/french/globegate_mirror/writing.html Complete list of links for learning to write French, including penpals, chatrooms, correspondence, grammar, style, etc.

(Suggestions and updates to dstephens@ncsu.edu)