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- ABU: la Bibliothèque Universelle - Over 288 searchable French e-texts, ranging from Balzac to Zola, listed alphabetically by author and title. The site is searchable and also provides access to several dictionaries, including Lorédan Larchey's Les Excentricités de la langue française, and Dictionnaires électroniques.
- L'Académie française - "Fondée en 1635, sous le règne du roi Louis XIII, par le Cardinal de Richelieu, est une des plus anciennes institutions de la France." Offers a searchable database of current and past Académie française members (Les Immortels). Provides "la liste des 696 académiciens français depuis l’origine, avec mention de leur date d’élection, de leur prédécesseur et de leur successeur, la biographie et la bibliographie des académiciens vivants."
- Académie Goncourt - Décerne chaque année des prix et bourses dont le Prix Goncourt
- Agence universitaire de la francophonie (AUF) - Comprised of 616 member institutions in 70 countries. You can search for members by region or country or view the entire list
- Alapage - French online book and music store
- Alliance Française - Paris. Also in English
- Alta Vista France- French search engine. Others include Google France, Yahoo France, HotBot France, Club-Internet, Lycos France, Nomade and Voilà.
- Amazon.fr
- American Association of the Teachers of French (AATF) - Provides links to other resources.
- American Journeys: Eyewitness Accounts of Early American Exploration and Settlement - This is a valuable resource for schools and universities. Funded by the U.S. Institute of Museum & Library Services and by private donors, American Journeys is a collaborative project of the Wisconsin Historical Society and National History Day. For example, the text of Father Allouez’s Journey to Lake Superior, 1665-1667 is available (in English) and fully searchable, along with historical background, map, and information on how to cite the document.
- Anthologie de Poésie Francophone - Jean-Pierre Rosnay
- ARTFL Project - Much of this University of Chicago French Studies project is restricted to subscribers but public resources include a French-English Dictionary, Dictionnaires d'autrefois, French dictionaries of the 16th, 17th, 18th and 19th centuries and the Louis Segond Bible. Pamphlets and Periodicals of the French Revolution of 1848 consists of over 100 pamphlets and periodicals from 1848 to 1851, browsable and searchable by title.
- Association of American Wives of Europeans (AAWE)
- Association des bibliothécaires francais - Has links to Catalogues de bibliothèque françaises and to Sites Web des bibliothèques françaises.
- Athena: Textes français - Pierre Perroud, Switzerland. Browse by author. There are also English translations of works by French authors.
- Babelfish - Alta Vista translation technology. Provide either plain text or the address (URL) of a Web page to translate. A similar resource is FreeTranslation.com.
- Banque de données d'histoire littéraire - Henri Béhar
- Base Merimee: patrimoine architectural - Database of French architecture and monuments provided by the Ministère de la culture et de la communication. The simplest way to use the database is to browse by region (accès cartographique aux notices illustrées). Click on the Midi Pyrenees region on the map, for example, and you will 200 results. The list is alphabetical by type of building. Items 99-200 are French farmhouses (fermes). Item 145, the ferme Salle in Armenteule, is a charming example of an 19th century farmhouse with courtyard. You can also search by clicking on consultation in the side bar. A Texte libre search for Victor Hugo retrieves 46 results which includes two photographs of the Maison natale de Victor Hugo in Besançon.
- Bibelec - Bibliothèque Electronique des Etudiants - With Documents en ligne.
- biblio-fr@cru.fr - "La liste de diffusion biblio-fr regroupe bibliothécaires et documentalistes francophones, et toute personne intéressée par la diffusion électronique de l'information documentaire."
- Bibliothèque electronique de Lisieux - With index and Les nouveautés. LexoTor "est une base de données textuelles interactive des ouvrages des collections de la Bibliothèque électronique de Lisieux."
- La Bibliothèque électronique du Québec - Jean-Yves Dupuis has created this collection of public domain documents from Canadian and American literature, related to Québec, French Canada and the French in the New World. Browsable by author. Includes a few texts in English.
- Bibliothèque municipale internationale - Grenoble.
- Bibliothèque Nationale de France - Provides access to their online web catalog BN-OPALE PLUS, with over 7 million records.
- Bibliothèque nationale du Québec - Their Banque images et sons is a rich resource for electronic texts. For example, look for Indiens d'Amérique Iroquois (Indiens), or Algonquiens in the Index des sujets. Some of the titles which you will find in full-text are Histoire des Abénakis depuis 1605 jusqu'à nos jours (1866), Bref récit et succincte narration de la navigation faite en MDXXXV et MDXXXVI / par le capitaine Jacques Cartier aux îles de Canada, Hochelaga, Saguenay et autres (1863) and Vie de Catherine Tekakwitha, vierge iroquoise (1894). Other collections include maps (cartes géographiques), sheet music (Livres et partitions musicales) and 7,000 images of Québec from 1870 to 1907 in Revue d'un autre siècle.
- Bibliothèque Virtuelle de Périodiques - Lists 500 reviews and digital periodicals which offer digital content.
- Bibliothèque Virtuelle: Liste des sites - Annotated list (in French) of electronic text resources. (Ecole Normale Supérieure de Fontenay/Saint-Cloud).
- BiblioOnLine
- Biographie.net - Links to over 10,000 biographies (3725 biographies en français).
- Britannica.com: France
- C18-L: Resources for 18th-century studies across the disciplines - Includes Selected Readings, an interdisciplinary bibliography of eighteenth-century studies, which includes books, articles and online resources.
- Bulletin des Bibliothèques de France
- Catalogue Collectif de France - "Description détaillée de bibliothèques françaises de tous types et de toutes tailles, soit plus de 3 900 établissements, ainsi que la description de leurs fonds spécifiques...Le catalogue des fonds des bibliothèques municipales rétroconvertis permet de localiser plus de 2 millions de documents conservés dans les plus importantes bibliothèques municipales."
- Catalogue critique des ressources textuelles sur Internet (CCRTI) - "Ce catalogue critique a pour but d'aider les internautes en quête de textes littéraires en langue française à sélectionner, parmi les nombreux sites qui diffusent des ressources textuelles en ligne sur la Toile, ceux qui présentent les caractères les plus sérieux tant sur le plan du traitement éditorial que numérique des textes."
- Centenaire Stéphane Mallarmé - Par la ville de Sens
- Centre universitaire de lecture sociopoétique de l'épistolaire et des correspondances - Benoît Melançon, Département d'études françaises, Université de Montréal.
- Centre d'Edition de Textes Electroniques - Nantes
- Chapitre - Used and rare books
- Le Château: le salon de la littérature française - "Plus de 100 livres électroniques de la littérature classique française."
- Chronologie de l’Édition Française de 1900 a nos jours - Pascal Fouché
- Les Classiques des Sciences Sociales - Une bibliothèque virtuelle des grands classiques des sciences sociales en collaboration avec l'Université du Québec à Chicoutimi. Fondée et dirigée par Jean-Marie Tremblay, professeur de sociologie au Cégep de Chicoutimi.
- ClicNet: Littérature francophone virtuelle - "Un site culturel et littraire francophone" at Swarthmore. There's a useful collection of links to Dictionnaires et Lexiques.
- Comédie-Française - Paris.The Histoire sections provides biographies and images of actors.
- Comité des Associations Françaises
- Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques (CTHS) - Learned society formed in 1834 is organized into nine sections by discipline. There is an annual congress. You can search the publications catalogue.
- Concordance de Balzac: Recherche hypertextuelle dans la Comédie Humaine
- La Correspondance - With Index.
- Descartes' Meditations - Trilingual html edition edited by David B. Manley and Charles S. Taylor.
- Dictionnaire de l'Académie française: Base Échantillon analytique 1694-1935 - Use the Mode base de données (plein texte) to search for a word.
- Dictionnaire Universel Francophone - Hachette/Edicef
- Early Modern French Women Writers - University of Minnesota Libraries Electronic Text Research Center
- Educnet: Lettres - Ministère de l'Education Nationale
- Electronic Text Center - University of Virginia holdings include French Online Resources.
- Emile Zola Archives - Department of French, University of Toronto.
- L'Encyclopédie de L'Agora - Created in 1998 by Jacques Dufresne and Hélène Laberge and edited by Bernard Lebleu, Stéphane Stapinsky and Patrick Dionne. Associated with the magazineL'Agora. See the entry, for example, on Yann Martel, author of Life of Pi.
- Florilège: Anthologie hypertextuelle de la Poésie Française - This anthology of French poetry, accessible by author, date, theme or form, is provided by Xian (who is also responsible for
Ouébographie Poétique, a collection of links to French poetry resources).
- La foire aux textes: une petite bibliothèque portative - Ministère des Affaires étrangères (France)
- France in America / La France en Amérique - Bilingual digital library made available by the Library of Congress
- France3: Programmes
- Franco-American WebSite
- French Folksongs
- French National Assembly (Assemblée nationale) - See also Sénat français, Journaux Officiels and La Documentation Francaise
- FYI France - Jack Kessler's careful selection of "resources, and services, of and about libraries and publishing and online digital information in France and generally in Europe, useful to librarians, Internet and Minitel users, researchers, teachers, students, writers, book - collectors, book - dealers, publishers, and anyone interested in the Internet, libraries, France and Europe." (Some of the site is available to subscribers only.)
- Gallica: Images et Texts du XIX Siècle Francophone - Vast resource from the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. Provides access to the Dictionnaire du Moyen Français and makes available over 500 full-texts of French literary works from the 19th century. Gallica Classique is a collection of full-texts from the 12th-20th centuries.
- Gallimard - Publisher's catalog
- Göttinger Digitalisierungszentrums - Digital Library at the Lower Saxony State and University Library, Göttingen, consists of over 2800 volumes, including a good collection of early travel books, many in French. You can search or browse. Among the digitized titles are: Voyage de Mr. le Chevalier de Chastellux en Amérique (1785) by François Jean Chastellux, Relation du voyage du Port Royal de l'Acadie ou de la Nouvelle France (1710) by N. Dièreville and Relation du Voyage des Francois fait au Cap de Nord en Amerique (1654) by Jean de Laon. Voyage fait dans les années 1816 et 1817 de New-Yorck a la Nouvelle-Orléans et de l´Orénoque au Mississipi, par les Petites et les Grandes-Antilles by the Baron de Montlezun is of particular interest. According to Frank Managhan, author of French Travellers in the United States (Antiquarian Press, 1961), "this is one of the rarest and most valuable of the accounts of nineteenth-century French travellers in America. The first entry is dated August 17, 1816, at Norfolk; volume one is entirely devoted to his American experiences; there is considerable material in volume two on Charleston and South Carolina. Montlezun visited Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe; he travelled through and describes the following places: Norfolk, Baltimore, Washington, Fredericksburg, Montpelier, Monticello, Philadelphia, Trenton, New York, New Orleans and Charleston. Montlezun was a Parisian and an ultra-royalist, and the Americans and their manners are bitterly satirized; he viewed with animosity the absence of Parisian comforts and luxuries in the United States and he could not tolerate the blunt and ready speech which he found everywhere. His book was attacked in France as an unwarranted misrepresentation of the Americans and French refugees. For a contemporary review see The Monthly Review, London, 1819, v. 88, p. 504-509."
- Grande Bibliothèque Poétique - Damien Berdot. With menu.
- Le grand dictionnaire terminologique - "Un ouvrage de référence unique rassemblant un fonds terminologique d'envergure de 3 millions de termes français et anglais dans 200 domaines d'activité."
- Haiku sans frontieres: une anthologie mondiale - Conception: Olivera Skiljevic Direction littéraire: André Duhaime .
- Higher Education in France - Higher education in France has been the subject of two recent articles:
Elite French Schools Block The Poor's Path to Power, by Craig S. Smith, New York Times, December 18, 2005 (pg. 1.8) and Is Elite School France's Failing? by John Carreyrou, Wall Street Journal, January 16, 2006 (pg. A13). The grandes ecoles are France's premier institutions of higher education and two of the most prestigious are
the Paris Institute of Political Studies (Institut d'études politiques de Paris), better known as Sciences Po, and
the French National School of Public Administration (Ecole Nationale d'Administration). "Graduates of ENA are referred to as enarques and form a quasicaste, known as the enarchy, that controls the levers of the French state." (Carreyrou)
- L'ILE: L'infocentre littérature des écrivains québécois - Biographies and bibliographies for over 1,000 Quebec authors.
- Institut National de la Langue Française - Their Catalogue critique des ressources textuelles sur Internet (CCRTI) is searchable by littérature générale or by auteur.
- Jean de la Fontaine - Provides 124 Fables in French, English and Latin. La Cigale et la Fourmi, for example, is also translated into English (The Cicada and the Ant) and Latin (Cicada et Noctua) and you can also hear the fable being read (in French) by clicking on the postage stamp illustration. (Put online during their school vacation by Francois, Julien, Pierre et Emilie Vidaud.)
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Oeuvres et documents (Athena.)
- Koopman Collection - "Unique collection of French literary works of the 20th century in special editions" in the Koninklijke Bibliotheek - National library of the Netherlands.
- lettres.net - Étude et enseignement du français, bac français. La Porte des Letters is a searchable subject directory of French literature sites ("moteur de recherche sur les lettres, le français et l'éducation les sites éducatifs"). There is also a 4-part online course on Techniques littéraires and a useful Lexique des Termes Litteraires.
- Les Liaisons Dangereuses (1782) - Pierre Choderlos de Laclos (1741-1803). Numérisé par Vincent Maret.
- Littérature de langue française en ligne - PhD Program in French at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
- Magazine littéraire - Avec un index detaille des articles publies dans le Magazine litteraire depuis 1986 et Trésors d' archives.
- Les Manuels scolaires québécois - Searchable database of over 7,000 Québec school books from 1765 to 1964. Includes illustrations par thème, texts and history. Maintained by Paul Aubin, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières. (In French). Also available in pdf format.
- Marcel Proust - Société des Amis de Marcel Proust et des Amis de Combray
- Maupassant par les textes - Thierry Selva
- Meilleurs Prenoms - Popular French names
- l’Office québécois de la langue française - Quebec government site which deals with the regulations and compliance issues for the Charter of the French language (Charte de la langue française). Provides useful Ressources linguistiques consisting of Le Grand dictionnaire terminologique and La banque de dépannage linguistique. In Le Signet ("moteur de recherche vous propose 6 000 fiches bilingues dans le secteur des technologies de l'information) you can find Internet Terminology (terminologie d'Internet) with illustrations and links to French search engines (Moteurs de recherche en français).
- Oh Paris!
- Ouébographie Poétique - Collection of links to French poetry resources provided by Éditions du Moulin Veste. (See also their Florilège: Anthologie hypertextuelle de la Poésie Française).
- Page Molière
- Pamphlets and Periodicals of the French Revolution of 1848 - "Comprised of over 100 pamphlets and periodicals from 1848 to 1851. Currently, one can search the database by title and by call numbers..."
- Paris: Capital of the 19th Century - "Initiated by the French Studies and Comparative Literature Departments of Brown University, provides a window into the cultural, political and social context of 19th century Parisian culture. It offers online access to pictorial works and texts selected from the collections of the Art Slide Library, the Rockefeller Library and the John Hay Library at Brown University."
- Paris Maps - Prof. Barry Bergdoll's slide list for Art History course at Columbia
- Pataphysik Symbolismus Surrealismus - Hartmut Gatzke and Alfred Tautz. Includes Remy de Gourmont: Le Livre des Masques
- La petite bibliothèque de France [L'Espace Culturel] - Electronic texts, biographies, bibliographies, and images.
- Poésies de Stéphane Mallarmé (1842-1898) - Denis Constales
- Poésie française - "Plus de 1500 poèmes français,de La Renaissance au début du XXème siècle."Provides a list of poets. Includes 48 RealAudio poems by Verlaine, Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Ronsard, Hugo and others.
- Le Prix du Québec
- Quid
- Radio France: Le Coin de Poètes - With links to other resources.
- Poètes du 19e siècle - Baudelaire, Verlaine, Rimbaud et les romantiques: Hugo, Lamartine, Musset, Nerval et Aloysius Bertrand.
- Le Rayon litteraire - "Une collection de pages consacrées à quelques auteurs français et francophones du domaine public."
- République Internationale des Lettres - "Un journal mensuel d'informations culturelles, de débats intellectuels et de critique littéraire." Provides browsable archives.
- Rimbaud / Baudelaire / Verlaine - Jacques Lemaire, professeur de Lettres au Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf.
- La Revue des Livres pour Enfants - "La Revue des Livres pour Enfants publie bimestriellement un panorama critique des nouveautés de l'édition, des informations, interviews, échos, articles et dossiers thématiques sur le livre et la lecture des jeunes."
- RimbaudWeb
- Salon du Livre - Paris
- Un Siècle d'écrivains - France 3 en ligne. Collection dirigée et présentée par Bernard Rapp. With archives of auteurs.
- Le site de poesie de Marie
- Site Lettres de l'Académie d'Aix-Marseille - See also department sites at Strasbourg, Amiens and Besançon. Links to other serveurs lettres des sites académiques and to Ressources des serveurs académiques have been compiled by lettres.net and the Ministère de l'Education Nationale respectively.
- Studies in Canadian Literature (Études en littérature canadien) - "Biannual, bilingual journal devoted to the study of Canadian literature in English and French, and published at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton." The journal is searchable and provides full-text access to most issues beginning with Volume 1 (1976). A search for Roy, for example, retrieves four articles on Gabrielle Roy, two in French and two in English.
- Syndicat national de l'édition - "The rench Publishers Association (SNE) is France's trade association of book publishers. It represents approximately 400 member companies whose combined business endeavors account for the bulk of French publishing."
- Systeme Universitaire de Documentation (le catalogue du Sudoc) - Also available in English, this online catalog of the Agence bibliographique de l'enseignement supérieur (Abes) allows you to search over 5 million records in 2900 French academic libraries and institutions.
- Tex's French Grammar - "Pedagogical reference grammar that combines explanations with surreal dialogues and cartoon images." (University of Texas at Austin)
- Text-e.org - "Virtual symposium dedicated to investigating the impact of the Web on reading, writing and the diffusion of knowledge." There's a new conference every two weeks which can be downloaded to the Ebook Player. (In French, Italian and English.)
- Textes Électroniques Clandestins du dix-huitième siècle - Edités par Gianluca Mori.
- Textes Rares - Textes et images du XVIe au XIXe siècles / Texts and pictures from the 16th to the 19th century.
- Théodore de Banville: Complete Poetic Works - Peter Edwards, Mount Allison University, Sackville, N.B. Canada.
- THESA - Les thèses en préparation dans les grandes Ecoles
- TheseNet - Database of French dissertations indexed by the Agence Bibliographique de l'Enseignement Superieur.
- Le trésor de la langue française, en texte intégral
- Zvi Har'El's Jules Verne Collection - In English and in French, the site provides the full-text of 12 novels and 8 short stories as well as scholarly articles and book reviews.
- Vive Voix poèmes à écouter: anthologie sonore de poésie francaise - Created by Kirk Anderson, Associate Professor of French at Wheaton College. Text and audio (in French) of several hundred poems, which are listed by author, title and first line.
Last updated 25 September 2006