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).
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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)
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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)
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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
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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)
- French-English/English-French Dictionary (technical)
- Le Barbery (online French rhyming dictionary)
- French TTS (text to speech) system. Converts any machine-readable text into speech
Linguistics mailing list; send message to listserv@uga.cc.uga.edu
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Web 2.0 Research and Collaboration Tools
- Townsend Humanities Lab
The Townsend Humanities Lab is a community-driven digital resource offering a suite of Web 2.0 tools to foster interdisciplinary teaching, research, and collaboration among Berkeley scholars and their affiliates. The Lab offers tools for project organization and communication (event listings, file sharing, news broadcasts, and RSS feeds), as well as newer collaborative tools for text and image annotation, visualizations, mapping, and collaborative authoring.
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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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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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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.
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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.