Useful Online Resources

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Places to Start

ARTFL, the Project for American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language
http://humanities.uchicago.edu/ARTFL/

The UCB Library's France Resources (includes links to French presses)
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/Collections/Romance/france.html

The WESS site (Western European Specialists Section, University of Virginia Library).
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/wess/

Globegate (at the University of Tennessee)
http://globegate.utm.edu/french/lit/

6000+ French links collected by "TennesseeBob" (director of the Globegate project).
http://www.utm.edu/departments/french/french.html

Clicnet (at Swarthmore College).
http://clicnet.swarthmore.edu/

Multilingual Web (at NYU) - provides links to French computing and general academic resources
http://www.nyu.edu/its/pubs/connect/archives/96fall/langjurowmultilingual.html

Voice of the Shuttle (UC Santa Barbara)
http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2719#id961

Globegate's Middle-Ages page
http://globegate.utm.edu/french/lit/middle.ages.html

Labyrinth - Resources for Medieval Studies
http://www.georgetown.edu/labyrinth/labyrinth-home.html

Yahoo's Medieval Studies link

Internet Medieval source book
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook.html

Medieval and Renaissance Web at WESS
http://library.jhu.edu/departments/rsc/other/wessubj/WESSMedRen.html

DScriptorium - images of medieval manuscript pages http://www.byu.edu/~hurlbut/dscriptorium/

ORB - Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies
http://www.the-orb.net/

Institut de recherche et d'histoire des textes (codicolgical projects)
http://www.irht.cnrs.fr/

Charette project - multimedia "edition" of the Chevalier de la Charette
http://www.princeton.edu/~lancelot/

Provençal poetry database
http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/efts/ARTFL/databases/PROV/

Societe Francois Villon
http://globegate.utm.edu/french/globegate_mirror/villon.html

Societe Rencesvals (American-Canadian Branch)

Arthurania links
http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/cphome.stm

Medieval History Page maintained by Grover Furr
http://chss.montclair.edu/english/furr/medieval.html

Globegate's Sixteenth Century page
http://globegate.utm.edu/french/lit/early.modern.html

The Renaissance at WESS
http://library.jhu.edu/departments/rsc/other/wessubj/WESSMedRen.html

Early Modern Period Links (at UC Santa Barbara)
http://emc.english.ucsb.edu/links.asp?id=2924

Renaissance mss at the BN
http://www.bnf.fr/loc/bnf0004.htm

Center for Reformation and Renaissance Studies
http://www.crrs.ca/

Renaissance Society of America
http://www.rsa.org/

Montaigne Studies home page
http://humanities.uchicago.edu/humanities/montaigne/

Jacques Cartier at Discoverers Web
http://www.win.tue.nl/cs/fm/engels/discovery/cartier.html

The legacy of Aldus Manutius and his press
http://library.byu.edu/~aldine/aldus.html

Alciato's Book of Emblems, English and Latin
http://www.mun.ca/alciato/

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

Mss at the BN
http://www.bnf.fr/loc/bnf0005.htm

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Globegate's Eighteenth Century page
http://globegate.utm.edu/french/lit/century.18.html

Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des métiers et des arts - still in progess, but very useable

mss at BN
http://www.bnf.fr/loc/bnf0005.htm

Voltaire Foundation
http://www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk/www_vf/default.ssi

American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies
http://www.press.jhu.edu/associations/asecs/

clandestine philosophical mss from 18th century
http://www.vc.unipmn.it/~mori/e-texts/index_fr.htm

French revolutionary pamphlets on line
http://humanities.uchicago.edu/orgs/ARTFL/projects/CRL/

Dix-Neuf-- sources and news for scholars of 19th century
http://www.sdn.ac.uk/listedixneuf/welcome.html

Globegate's Nineteenth Century page
http://globegate.utm.edu/french/lit/century.19.html

Images and texts of the 19th century at the BN
http://gallica.bnf.fr/

The Dreyfuss Affair
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/8632/index.html

Research Guide for the Study of Francophone Literature - at New York University
http://library.nyu.edu/research/french/francophone/

Maghrebi Studies
http://maghrebi-studies.nitle.org/newmaghrebistudies.nitle.org/index.php/maghrebi

Conseil International d'Etudes Francophones
http://www.cief.info

African Women's writing
http://www.arts.uwa.edu.au/AFLIT/FEMEChome.html

French-Eng./Eng.-Fr. Dictionary - 75000 terms
http://humanities.uchicago.edu/forms_unrest/FR-ENG.html

French-English dictionary (technical)
http://www-rocq.inria.fr/~deschamp/www/CMTI/LFA.html

English-French dictionary (technical)
http://www-rocq.inria.fr/~deschamp/www/CMTI/LAF.html

Le Barbery -- online French rhyming dictionary
http://www.barbery.net/lebarbery/
List of orthographical reforms
http://www.fltr.ucl.ac.be/FLTR/ROM/ess.html

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
http://www.bell-labs.com/project/tts/french.html

Athena - Links to hundreds of French texts online. Also has links to other literatures, especially English, and to translations.
http://un2sg4.unige.ch/athena/html/francaut.html

WESS list of Western European texts online
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/wess/etexts.html

French Studies Web: Literary Texts
http://lotus.libs.uga.edu/erms/wess/

Viriginia's collection of on-line texts (some available only to Univ. of Virginia)
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/collections/languages/french/

Bibliotheque universelle (ABU) - Search by author, title, and words in text
http://cedric.cnam.fr/ABU/

The ABU's at-a-glance list of 200 or so texts accessible online
http://cedric.cnam.fr/ABU/BIB/

Univ. de Nantes online texts. Divisions into Moyen Age, 16me siecle, l'Afrique au 19me.
http://palissy.humana.univ-nantes.fr/CETE/CETE.html

Vive Voix -- French Poetry
http://www2.wheatonma.edu/Academic/AcademicDept/French/ViveVoix/Resources/parauteur.html

Poésie française
http://poesie.webnet.fr/

Poetes.com
http://www.poetes.com/

Poésie sur la Toile -- French versification manual
http://www.anthologie.free.fr/traite/traite.htm

Ministere de la culture
http://www.culture.gouv.fr/

Musee des arts et metiers
http://www.arts-et-metiers.net/

Louvre
http://mistral.culture.fr/louvre/

French Constitution and other government documents
http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/html/index.html

Illuminated manuscripts at the BN (1000 pages with bibliographic citations)
http://www.bnf.fr/enluminures/aaccueil.htm

Club des poètes
http://www.franceweb.fr/poesie/

Le Francophile - magazine of French culture
http://lefrancophile.com/

Modern Language Notes
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/mln/

Republique des lettres
http://www.republique-des-lettres.fr/

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.
www.persee.fr

American Association of Teachers of French
http://www.frenchteachers.org/

How to write a C.V in French
http://french.about.com/library/writing/bl-cv.htm

Discussions on explications de texte in classroom
http://globegate.utm.edu/french/globegate_mirror/exptext.html

Bibliothèque Nationale
http://www.bnf.fr

Western European Library catalogues
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/wess/eurocats.html

Direct link to catalog search at the BN
http://www.culture.fr/culture/sedocum/bnf.htm

Bibliothèque publique d'information
http://www.bpi.fr/

Bibliothèque du Film
www.bifi.fr

Institut National de l'Audiovisuel -- First audiovisual archive center in the world and the first digital image databank in Europe
www.ina.fr

Adminet's links to French presses, radio
http://www.adminet.com/press

Ministere des affaires etrangeres
http://www.france.diplomatie.fr/

Tunisian Newspapers Online
http://www.lapresse.tn/

Listing of French Mailing Lists
http://www.francopholistes.com/

Radio France Internationale
http://www.rfi.fr/

FrenchTalk - French language discussion particularly for French ex-pats around the world.
http://www.frenchtalk.cc-pays-de-gex.fr/

Links to publishers, online book orders, and related topics
http://globegate.utm.edu/french/globegate_mirror/libr.html

Online bookstore
http://www.alapage.tm.fr/

Yahoo in France
http://www.yahoo.fr/

Another French search engine
http://www.echo.fr/

WoYaa! - An African search engine
http://www.woyaa.com/

Information on the French Minitel
http://www.adminet.com/minitel/

Minitel Homepage
http://www.minitel.fr/

Lots of links, incl. news sources, pages jaunes, Minitel etc. at Adminet
http://www.adminet.com/index_fr.html

General French tourist information
http://www.franceway.com/

More General French tourist information
http://www.france.com/

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http://lists.village.Virginia.EDU/~spoons/

List of French universities
http://www.ensmp.fr:80/~scherer/euni/fr/