Resources

• Places to Start

• 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)

• Middle Ages

• 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

• Sixteenth Century

• 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)

• Seventeenth Century

• 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
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• Eighteenth Century

• 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)

• Nineteenth/Twentieth Century

• 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

• Francophonie

• Research Guide for the Study of Francophone Literature (New York University)
• Maghrebi Studies
• Conseil International d’Etudes Francophones
• African Women’s writing

• Dictionaries, Linguistics

• 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

• French Texts Online

• 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

• History and Culture

• 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

• Journals

• 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.

• Language Teaching

• 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

• Libraries

• 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.

• Media, Current Events

• Adminet
  French presses, radio, TV, magazines, etc.
• Ministere des affaires etrangeres
• La Presse
  Tunisian Newspapers

• Newsgroups, Forums

• Francopholistes
  French Mailing Lists
• Radio France Internationale
• French Talk Radio

• Publishers/Booksellers

• 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

• Search Engines

• 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.

• Theory

• 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.