Devant le mystère. Homme de pierre, comprends-moi !
    -- Breton

 

Useful Online Resources

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Places to Start

Middle Ages Dictionaries, Linguistics Media, Current Events
Sixteenth Century French Texts Online Newsgroups, Forums
Seventeenth Century History, Culture Publishers/Booksellers
Eighteenth Century Journals Search Engines
Nineteenth/Twentieth Century Language Teaching Theory
Francophonie Libraries


 
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ARTFL, the Project for American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language

UC Berkeley's French Collections (includes links to French presses)

The WESS site (Western European Specialists Section, University of Virginia Library).

6000+ French links collected by "TennesseeBob" (director of the Globegate project).

Clicnet (at Swarthmore College)

Voice of the Shuttle (UC Santa Barbara)

 

 
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What Every Medievalist Should Know

Globegate's Middle-Ages
This site includes information on: Didactic, Historical & Latin Literature; Medieval French Heroic Literature; Medieval French Lyric Poetry; Medieval French Roman; Medieval French Theater; Other Medieval French Narratives; La Socéité François Villon; Troubadour & Early Occitan Literature; Vie littéraire en France à l'époque de Villon

Labyrinth - Resources for Medieval Studies

Yahoo's Medieval Studies link

Internet Medieval source book

Medieval and Renaissance Web at WESS

DScriptorium - images of medieval manuscript pages

ORB - Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies

Institut de recherche et d'histoire des textes - codicolgical projects

Charette project - multimedia "edition" of the Chevalier de la Charette

Provençal poetry database

Societe Francois Villon

Societe Rencesvals (American-Canadian Branch)

The Camelot Project (University of Rochester)
Arthurian texts, images, bibliographies, and basic information

Medieval Literature and History Page maintained by Grover Furr

 

 
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The Renaissance at WESS

Early Modern Period Resources (Early Modern Center at UC Santa Barbara)

La Renaissance (Bibliothèque nationale de France)

The Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies

Renaissance Society of America

Montaigne Studies (An Interdisciplinary Forum)

Jacques Cartier (part of Discoverers Web)

The Legacy of Aldus Manutius and His Press

Alciato's Book of Emblems (English and Latin)

 

 
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Globegate's Seventeenth Century page
http://globegate.utm.edu/french/lit/neoclassical.html

Parisian Fairground Theatre - previously unavailable (or unknown) playtexts
http://www.brookes.ac.uk/schools/sol/foires/index.html#pieces

La monarchie absolue et son déclin (Bibliothèque nationale de France)

Mailing list; Send message to: Listserv@uga.cc.uga.edu
Message text: subscribe fr17-l FirstName LastName. Leave subject blank

 

 
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Globegate's Eighteenth Century page

Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des métiers et des arts

La monarchie absolue et son déclin (Bibliothèque nationale de France)

The Voltaire Foundation

American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies

Textes Électroniques Clandestins du dix-huitième siècle

Pamphlets and Periodicals of the French Revolution of 1848
(The Center for Research Libraries,the University of Chicago Library, and the ARTFL Project)

 

 
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Society of Dix-Neuviémistes

Globegate's Nineteenth Century page

Gallica/Gallica 2, la Bibliothèque numérique
(Bibliothèque nationale de France)

Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide
A journal of nineteenth-century visual culture

 

 
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Research Guide for the Study of Francophone Literature (New York University)

Maghrebi Studies

Conseil International d'Etudes Francophones

African Women's writing

 

 
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Anglo-Norman Dictionary (Anglo-Norman is the dialect of French spoken in medieval England)

French-English/English-French Dictionary (ARTFL Project)

French-English/English-French Dictionary (technical)

Le Barbery (online French rhyming dictionary)

Linguistics mailing list; send message to listserv@uga.cc.uga.edu
message subject: frling-l list

French TTS (text to speech) system. Converts any machine-readable text into speech

 

 
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Athena
Links to hundreds of French texts online. Also has links to other literatures, especially English, and to translations

WESS
Electronic Text Collections in Western European Literature

French Studies Web
Provides annotated links to scholarly web resources

French Language Resources and Texts
Some of these resources are available only to University of Virginia users

ABU: la Bibliothèque Universelle
Search by author, title, and words in text

ABU's Catalogue des Textes

C.E.T.E.: Centre d'Edition de Textes Electroniques
Online texts: Moyen-Age; XVIème siècle; l'Afrique au XIXème siècle; Mémoires et travaux

Vive Voix: anthologie sonore de poésie
French Poetry

Poésie française
Poémes de langue française du Moyen Âge au début du XXème siècle

Poésie sur la Toile

 

 
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Archives Nationales de France

Canada: Tracing the History of New France
This website is produced by the Library and Archives of Canada

Club des poètes

Creating French Culture
Treasures from the Bibliothèque Nationale de France

The Enlightenment (Internet History Sourcebook Project)
Aspects of the Enlightenment as told through documents, texts and correspondances

The French Revolution (Internet History Sourcebook Project)
The revolution told through documents, texts and correspondances

The French Revolution
Excellent, easy to read overview of the French Revolution

H-France
This is a collection of links compiled by the Scoiety for French Historical Studies

Historical Maps of Paris

Illuminated manuscripts at the BN
1000 pages with bibliographic citations

Ministere de la culture

Musee des arts et metiers

Legifrance
French Constitution, laws, and other government documents


Louvre

Napolen.Org

Reunion des musees nationaux

 

 
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Modern Language Notes

Republique des lettres

Persee
Scientific journals in social and human sciences. The website's mission is the digitisation and online distribution of back collections of a vast corpus of periodicals.

 

 
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Tex's French Grammar
Grammar site at the University of Texas. This site includes exercises, mp3s, detailed explanations and a verb conjugator

American Association of Teachers of French

How to write a C.V in French

 

 
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Bibliothèque Nationale de France

Western European Library Catalogues

Bibliothèque publique d'information

Bibliothèque du Film

Institut National de l'Audiovisuel
First audiovisual archive center in the world and the first digital image databank in Europe

 

 
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Adminet
French presses, radio, TV, magazines, etc.

Ministere des affaires etrangeres

La Presse
Tunisian Newspapers

 

 
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Francopholistes
French Mailing Lists

Radio France Internationale

French Talk Radio

 

 
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Alapage
Online bookstore

Albin-Michel 

Alibris
Great source for new and used books. A good alternative to Amazon. You can find rare and out of print books here

Armand Colin 

BIEF (Bureau International de l'Edition Française)
This is a list of French publishers around the world

Jean Touzot
Comprehensive selection of mongraphs and serials

European Books
Their selection is very limited, but they are located in San Francisco, so you can get books quickly
 

Gallimard
Includes the following imprints: Éditions Denoël; Les Éditions du Mercure de France; Nouveaux Loisirs (tourist guides); Futuropolis; Gallimard Jeunesse; P.O.L. (88 %); Les Éditions de la Table Ronde

Les Editions de Minuit 

Presses Universitaires de France or PUF 

Powell's Books
Not a good selection of books in French, but an excellent selection (rivals Amazon) for any new or used crtical theory books

10/18

 

 
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Google France

Kagibi

Voila

WoYaa!
An African search engine

Yahoo! France

Information on the French Minitel

Minitel Homepage

Adminet
News sources, pages jaunes, European Union, etc.

Franceway
General French Tourist Information

French.com
General French Tourist Information

 

 
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Spoon Collective
Archives of lists on Avant-Garde, Bataille, Baudrillard, Blanchot, Deleuze-Guattari, Foucault, Frankfurt-School, French-Feminism, Habermas, Heidegger, Lyotard, Marxism, Nietzsche, Ontology, Postcolonial, Resist-to-Theory