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Places to Start Middle Ages Sixteenth Century Seventeenth Century Eighteenth Century Nineteenth/Twentieth Century Francophonie

Dictionaries, Linguistics French Texts Online History, Culture Journals Language Teaching Libraries

Media, Current Events Newsgroups, Forums Publishers Search Engines Theory Universities

  Places to Start

Modern Language Association
http://www.mla.org/

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/

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/  

  Middle Ages

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

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

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

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

Provençal poetry database
http://humanities.uchicago.edu/forms/PROV.form.html

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

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

Medieval European History links - put up for k-12 teachers, but has links of interest to all levels
http://www.execpc.com/~dboals/mediev.html  

  Sixteenth Century

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

Renaissance Society of America
http://www.r-s-a.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/  

  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

Maximes de Marie de Sable
http://members.aol.com/agentmess/frenchrev/index.html  

  Eighteenth Century

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

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

Voltaire Foundation
http://www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk/aa.index.html

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/homes/mark/fr_rev.html

The Revolution
http://members.aol.com/agentmess/frenchrev/index.html  

  Nineteenth/Twentieth Century

  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/

Chateau - site on Vernes, Balzac, Proust, Rimbaud and more
http://www.le-chateau.ilias.com/recherc.htm

Contemporary Currents - theory, poetry etc.
http://www.nomade.fr/arts_culture/litterature/genres_litteraires/  

  Francophonie

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

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

  Dictionaries, Linguistics

  Hachette Dictionnaire de la francophone
http://www.francophonie.hachette-livre.fr

French-English/English-French 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

Dictionnaire de l'Ac. Francaise
http://www.epas.utoronto.ca:8080/~wulfric/academie/

List of orthographical reforms
http://www.fltr.ucl.ac.be/FLTR/ROM/ess.html  

  French Texts Online

  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

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  

  History, Culture

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

Musee des arts et metiers
http://web.cnam.fr/museum/

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

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/  

  Journals

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

  Language Teaching

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

  Libraries

  Bibliothèque Nationale
http://www.bnf.fr

Links to libraries in France, public and university
http://library.usask.ca/hytelnet/fr0/fr000.html

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/  

  Media, Current Events

  Le petit bouquet - online news, free subscription
http://le-petit-bouquet.com/une.html

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/  

  Newsgroups, Forums

  Listing of French Mailing Lists
http://www.cru.fr/listes/

Frognet - diffusion of Radio France Internationale. Daily news.
http://www.cru.fr/listes/frognet@list.cren.net/

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

  Publishers

  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/  

  Search Engines

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

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

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/  

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

  Universities

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

Web US Higher Education
http://www.utexas.edu/world/univ/