Resources in French
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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).
- “TennesseeBob’s” Famous French Links (director of the Globegate project).
- Clicnet (at Swarthmore College)
- Voice of the Shuttle (UC Santa Barbara)
- French Links, Oxford University Language Centre
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Middle Ages
- What Every Medievalist Should Know
- Labyrinth – Resources for Medieval Studies
- 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
- Old French, Oxford University Language Centre
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Sixteenth Century
- The Renaissance at WESS
- Early Modern Period Resources (Early Modern Center at UC Santa Barbara)
- 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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Eighteenth Century
- 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
- 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
- Society of Dix-Neuviémistes
- 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
- 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
- Anglo-Norman Dictionary (Anglo-Norman is the dialect of French spoken in medieval England)
- French-English/English-French Dictionary (ARTFL Project)
- Le Barbery (online French rhyming dictionary)
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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
- 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
- Archives Nationales de France
- 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 correspondences - H-France
This is a collection of links compiled by the Scoiety for French Historical Studies - 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Adminet
French presses, radio, TV, magazines, etc. - Ministere des affaires etrangeres
- La Presse
Tunisian Newspapers
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Newsgroups, Forums
- Francopholistes
French Mailing Lists - Radio France Internationale
- French Talk Radio
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Publishers/Booksellers
- 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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Search Engines
- Google France
- Kagibi
- Voila
- Yahoo! France
- Information on the French Minitel.
- Minitel Homepage
- Adminet. News sources, pages jaunes, European Union, etc.
- French.com General French Tourist Information.
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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.