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Se jeter dans les extrêmes, voilà la règle du poète. Garder en tout un juste milieu, voilà le bonheur.
-- Diderot
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Useful Online Resources
Please note: Links on these pages to commercial sites do not
represent endorsement by the University of California or its
affiliates.
Places to Start
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Places to Start |
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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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Middle Ages |
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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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Sixteenth Century |
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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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Seventeenth Century |
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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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Eighteenth Century |
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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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Nineteenth/Twentieth Century |
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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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Francophonie |
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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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Dictionaries, Linguistics |
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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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French Texts Online |
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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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History and Culture |
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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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Journals |
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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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Language Teaching |
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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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Libraries |
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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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Media, Current Events |
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Adminet
French presses, radio, TV, magazines, etc.
Ministere
des affaires etrangeres
La Presse
Tunisian Newspapers
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Newsgroups, Forums |
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Francopholistes
French Mailing Lists
Radio France Internationale
French Talk Radio
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Publishers/Booksellers |
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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
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Search Engines |
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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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Theory |
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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
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