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- ABU: la Bibliotheque Universelle - 288 electronic texts by 101 authors, ranging from Balzac to Zola, searchable and listed alphabetically by author and title. Provides access to several word lists and dictionaries, including Lorédan Larchey's Les Excentricités de la langue française.
- 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) and a list of "des 708 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. Provides a chronological list of Les Palmarès. First awarded in 1903.
- Répertoire des bibliothèques “Adresses des Bibliothè\èques Publiques, bibliothèques départementales de prê\êt bibliothèques municipales.”
- Agence universitaire de la francophonie (AUF) - Comprised of 658 member institutions in 74 countries. You can search for members by region or country or view the entire list.
- alalettre: le site litteraire - With Interviews.
- Alapage - French online book and music store.
- Allen Ginsberg class on early 20th century French modernism. (August 11, 1981) - Ginsberg discusses "early 20th century French modernism, focusing on the poetry of Guillaume Apollinaire and Jules Laforgue, and the paintings of Paul Cezanne and the Cubists." Part of the Naropa Poetics Audio Archives, available through the Internet Archive Audio Archive.
- 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
- 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
- Architecture et Patrimoine - Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication.
- 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.
- AsapFrance - "A mine of information from France written by Geneviève Brame." ASAP is an acronymn for Apprendre, Savoir, Approfondir, Partager or Aujourd'hui Sans Attendre Plus.
- Association of American Wives of Europeans (AAWE)
- Association des bibliothécaires français - Has links to Catalogues de bibliothèque françaises and to Sites Web des bibliothèques françaises.
- Association pour la diffusion de la pensée française (ADPF) - Association for the Diffusion of French Thought, French Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Their Publications include:
- 100 books giving food for debate
- French Poetry Today
- The contemporary French Short Story
- Contemporary French Novel
- Contemporary French Theatre
- Athena: Textes français - Pierre Perroud, Switzerland. Browse by author. There are also English translations of works by French authors.
- Atwater Library and Computer Centre Poetry Project - Westmount, Québec, Canada. mp3casts in French include:
- Renée Gagnon - January 30, 2009
- Jean-Marc Desgent - Part I - November 13, 2008
- Jean-Marc Desgent - Part II - November 13, 2008
- Au fil des mots: Treize poètes québécois se racontent - The Bibliothèque et Archives Nationales du Québec presents thirteen contemporary québécois poets talking about their lives and their work and reading several of their poems. Each video is about twenty-five minutes long (in French).
- Claude Beausoleil (born in 1948)
- Nicole Brossard (born in 1943)
- Paul Chamberland (born in 1939)
- François Charron (born in 1952)
- Hélène Dorion (born in 1958)
- Louise Dupré (born in 1949)
- Michel Garneau (born in1939)
- Suzanne Jacob (born in 1943)
- Rachel Leclerc (born in 1955)
- Pierre Morency (born in 1942)
- Pierre Nepveu (born in 1946)
- Yves Préfontaine (born in 1937)
- Élise Turcotte (born in 1957)
- Babelfish - Translate a block of text or a web page. A similar resource is FreeTranslation.com.
- Bande dessinée
- Gilles Chaillet - Dans la Rome des Césars
- Emmanuel Guibert
- David Beauchard
- Banque de données d'histoire littéraire - "Développée à l'Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris III), depuis 1985, par une équipe de chercheurs et d'enseignants dirigée par le professeur Henri Béhar." [FAQ]
- 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.
- BiblioOnLine
- 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.
- Babar, Harry Potter et Compagnie: Livres d'enfants d'hier et d'aujourd'hui - See Présentation vidéo de l’exposition [4:31] by Corinne Gibello-Bernette.
- 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 Sonore Romande (BSR) - You can listen to a few extraits.
- 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
- Le Bon Usage - By Maurice Grevisse. Classic French grammar book published by Duculot
- Carlton Lake: An Inventory of His Collection at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center - University of Texas. “Over a period of six decades, Carlton Lake gathered together what has become the most extensive collection of modern French literary research materials anywhere outside of Paris. He collected books, photographs, artwork, and other original documents in addition to manuscripts, covers a broad range of French writers, artists, and musicians, such as:
- Guillaume Apollinaire
- Samuel Beckett
- André Breton
- Albert Camus
- Céline
- Jean Cocteau
- Colette
- Debussy
- Marcel Duchamp
- André Gide
- Alfred Jarry
- Henri Matisse
- Picasso
- Ravel
- Jean-Paul Sartre
- Erik Satie
- Toulouse-Lautrec
- Paul Valéry
- Maurice Saillet: An Inventory of His Collection of Sylvia Beach and Shakespeare and Company
- Librairie Dorbon-aîné
- Gertrude Stein
- 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 des Monuments Nationaux - The French Ministry of Culture and Communication provides information on French chateaux, monasteries, cathedrals, palaces, and other important monuments. (In French and in English.)
- Nohant - Maison de George Sand
- Château de Voltaire à Ferney
- Centre de Recherche en Littérature Comparée de Paris 4 Sorbonne - Has Conférences en ligne including lectures from Les Rencontres du Cycle Paroles de traducteurs:
- Claire Malroux - Poète, traductrice d'anglais, critique littéraire, 1er juin 2006
- Monique Baccelli - Critique littéraire, traductrice d'italien, 8 juin 2006
- Jean-Charles Vegliante - Poète, traducteur d'italien, 15 juin 2006
- Pierre Grouix - Poète, traducteur, 26 juin 2006
- Centre Pour L'Édition Électronique Ouverte (Revues.org)
- Centre National du Livre (CNL)
- Centre universitaire de lecture sociopoétique de l'épistolaire et des correspondances - Benoît Melançon, Département d'études françaises, Université de Montréal.
- Centre d'Édition de Textes Electroniques - Nantes
- Les Champs Libres - Offers podcasts (in French) on the bande dessiné (comic strips) including:
- Jean-Paul Jennequin on American comic strips and superheroes - 3 juin 2009.
- Jean-Pierre Mercier on Robert Crumb - 4 juin 2009
- Xavier Guilbert, editor of Du9 - 6 juin 2009.
- Elettra Stamboulis on contemporary Italian comic strips - 5 juin 2009.
- Dmitry Yakovlev on Russion Comic srips - 3 juin 2010.
- Andy Mason, founder of the Center for Comic Book Illustration and Art (CCIB) at the University of Stellenbosc on comics in South Africa - 4 juin 2010
- Thierry Smolderen: Naissances de la bande dessinée (birth of the comic strip) - 2 juin 2010.
- 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 littéraire 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 des auteurs de langue française en Amérique du Nord - Réginald Hamel, John Hare et Paul Wyczynski, publiée en 1989 par les Éditions Fides. Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec.
- 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
- Eleanor Beardsley - NPR Paris Correspondent. See Reporting from Paris . Some of her stories include:
- Private Lives Become Public in France - Weekend Edition , October 20, 2007
- French Immigration Museum Highlights Hot Topic - Morning Edition, October 11, 2007
- Holocaust Victim's Lost Novels Help Daughter Heal - Weekend Edition, September 22, 2007
- Chinese Tourists Drawn to French Town's History - Morning Edition, July 10, 2007
- Paris Neighborhood Stores Thrive - Morning Edition, June 25, 2007
- Wines, Cheeses Showcased at French Farm Fair - All Things Considered, March 11, 2007
- Movie Recalls North Africans' Role in WWII [Indigènes] - Weekend Edition, October 7, 2006
- The Changing Face of France's Bistros - All Things Considered, September 27, 2005
- Reviving the Rich Legacy of the Bayeux Tapestry - Morning Edition, December 26, 2005. See Bayeux Broderie
- Cheese-Making Tradition Melts Away in Camembert - Weekend Edition, October 22, 2005
- Paris Eatery Leaves Diners in the Dark - Weekend Edition, September 4, 2004
- Electronic Text Center - University of Virginia holdings include French Online Resources.
- Emile Zola Archives - Department of French, University of Toronto.
- Empire Period Drama - 65 French plays from the Napoleonic Empire period (1800-1815) (University of Warwick Library).
- 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
- French @ Lehman, CUNY: Ressources Internet Francophones - Online since 1996, this subject directory has sections on Littérature de langue française en ligne and Presse francophone électronique
- Franco-American WebSite
- French Folksongs
- French Heritage Society - See French Heritage Society fetes 25 years of French-American alliance by Suzy Menkes, International Herald Tribune, October 15, 2007.
- French National Assembly (Assemblée nationale) - See also Sénat français, Journaux Officiels and La Documentation Française
- La Fureur de lire - 60 second readings (lectamatons) from bookstores, schools, libraries....."On peut expliquer les raisons pour lesquelles on a choisi cet extrait... Créativité, originalité, humour sont les bienvenus, mais toujours dans le respect d'autrui." A project of Radio télévision belge de la communauté française.
- 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. Here are some selections from the collection:
- Hugo, Victor. Oeuvres complètes de Victor Hugo. Multiple volumes.
- Je sais tout: magazine encyclopédique illustré - Published in Paris by P. Lafitte. Full text is available for 1905-1920. See, for example, the 15 août-15 déc. (N 091-95) 1912 issue.
- Gallimard - Publisher's catalog.
- Gilbert Jeune - Place St-Michel, Paris. See A Little Bookshop Reminiscences in Paris by Alisa Krutovsky: "Overlooking the gothic figures of the Notre Dame de Paris cathedral’s exterior – the 75-year old bookshop has been originated in a perfect location. On the left side of the bookshop is a restaurant packed street, Pont Marie, where you can indulge in the most famous Parisian ice-cream - at Bertillon, on rue des Deux Ponts, and pastis drinks - at the 50s bar, Rallye Bar, which serves pastis by the meter. On the right side of the shop, aside from the view of the four bridges enfilading the Notre Dame under the sunset light, you will discover the oldest church of Paris, St-Julien-le-Pauvre,hidden in the charming public garden with modern sculptures and four centuries old acacia trees."
- 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.
- Relation du Voyage des François 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 écoles 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 (École 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.
- L'Institute de France - Le Parlement des Savants. Consists of five academies: Académie française, Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres, Académie des sciences, l’Académie des beaux-arts and Académie des sciences morales et politiques.
- Bibliotheque de l'Institute
- Institut National de la Langue Française - Their Catalogue critique des ressources textuelles sur Internet (CCRTI) is searchable by littérature générale or by auteur.
- Jean Touzot Librairie Internationale - Paris. "The Touzot bookshop was founded in 1930. We specialize in the humanities and serve both the scholarly and general reading public."
- 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. With index.
- 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
- Le Monde des Livres - Book section from the major French newspaper Le Monde.
- 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).
- New Yorker Magazine - Provides full-text access to selected articles from the current issue, including book, movie, theatre and music reviews. See also its The Year in Covers: 2007. Articles about French writers include:
- Stand By Your Man: The strange liaison of Sartre and Beauvoir by Louis Menand, New Yorker, September 26, 2005.
- Janet Flanner-Natalia Danesi Murray Papers - Library of Congress. Janet Flanner contributed stories to the New Yorker about Paris from1925 to 1975. Her first "Letter from Paris" appeared in the magazine on Oct. 10, 1925 (under the pen name Genêt) .
A search in the New Yorker archive retrieves the abstracts of over 400 items.
- Le Nouvel Observateur - Paris weekly news magazine. Bibliobs is "le site littéraire de NouvelObs.com."
- 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.
- Des Poètes Français contemporains (2001) - By Michel Deguy, Robert Davreu and Hedi Kaddour. This is a 132 page publication, in French and English, by the Association for the Diffusion of French Thought (Association pour la diffusion de la pensée française (ADPF).
- Poètes du 19e siècle - Baudelaire, Verlaine, Rimbaud et les romantiques: Hugo, Lamartine, Musset, Nerval et Aloysius Bertrand.
- La Presse Quotidienne - 19th and 20th century newspaper digitization project of the Bibliotheque Nationale de France. See Le dossier de presse: Deux siecles de journaux en ligne. For example, front page headlines in La Croix include
"L'Allemagne ayant attaque la Pologne, la mobilisation generale est decretee en France" (September 2, 1939) and
"La Belgique, La Hollande, Le Luxembourg ont subi l'agression de l'Allemagne" (May 11, 1940). Newspapers digitized so far include:
- La Croix (1880-1968)
- Figaro: journal non politique - With supplement litteraire
- Le Gaulois (1868-1929)
- L'Humanite (1904-1939)
- Le Journal des debats
- Journal de l'Empire
- Ouest-Eclair - editions de Rennes, Caen et Nantes
- Le Petit Parisien - "et son supplement hebdomadaire"
- La Presse - Paris. See dates available
- Le Temps
- Le Prix du Québec
- Prix Goncourt
- Prix Renaudot - Le Site officiel.
- Project Gutenberg - Michael Hart's huge undertaking to digitize public domain texts has a categories for Audio Book, human-read and French.
- Quid
- Radio France: Le Coin de Poètes - With links to other resources.
- Le Rayon litteraire - "Une collection de pages consacrées à quelques auteurs français et francophones du domaine public."
- Réseau francophone numérique - Created "à Paris par les bibliothèques nationales de Belgique, du Canada, de France, du Luxembourg, du Québec et de Suisse, auxquelles se joint la Bibliothèque d’Alexandrie quelques mois plus tard."
- La république des livres - Le blog de Pierre Assouline, Le Monde.
- 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
- Le Sel de la Semaine - Radio Canada Archives. Interviews (in French) by Fernand Seguin with such personnages as Jeanne Moreau; Lawrence Durrell; Jean Piaget; Yousuf Karsh; Jack Kerouac (March 7, 1967); Albert Moravia;
- Un Siècle d'écrivains - France 3 en ligne. Collection dirigée et présentée par Bernard Rapp. With archives of auteurs.
- Site de libraires professionnels du livre d'occasion, anciens et modernes - M. Pascal Chartier. "589 librairies, 3 060 687 livres d'occasion, anciens et modernes." The Annuaire électronique is searchable by region, name and specialty.
- 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 de la librairie française (SLF) - See the video of SLF President Benoît Bougerol, speaking at a Sénat Français Colloquium - La filière du livre à l'heure du numérique (The Book Trade in the Digital Age) on 28 April 2010.
- Syndicat National de la Librairie Ancienne et Moderne (SLAM)
- Syndicat national de l'édition - "The French 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.
- Théâtrales - "Collection de textes et d'hypertextes en français sur le théâtre qui a été fondée le 1er mai 1995 par André G. Bourassa, professeur à l'Université de Québec à Montréal, et par Barry Russell, Visiting Fellow de l'Université Brookes d'Oxford."
- 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
- TSR Archives (Les Archives de la TSR) - Genève. Swiss public broadcasting. Has video clips of over 1200 interviews (primarily in French) including:
- Roberto Rossellini (1906-1977) - by Jo Excoffier, 30 August 1958 [26:08].
- Federico Fellini (1920-1993) - by François Challet, Gilbert Bovay, 12 June 1960 [4:19] (In French and Italian).
- Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) - by Maurice Huelin, 29 June 1960 [9:32].
- Jean-Paul Belmondo - by Claude Mossé, 1 October 1961 [9:11].
- Peter Ustinov (1921-2004) - by Georges Kleinmann, 20 October 1961 [9:13].
- Joséphine Baker - by Colette Jan, Carrefour, 25 October 1961 [6:24].
- Jacques Prévert (1900-1977) - by Claude Mossé, 29 October 1961 .
[13:19].
- Joseph Kessel (1898-1979) - by Benjamin Romieux, 18 January 1962 [14:39].
- Romy Schneider (1938-1982) - by Georges Kleinmann, 19 February 1962 [3:17].
- Alain Tanner (1929- ) - by Rodolphe Arlaud, 17 October 1964 [1:48].
- Agnes Varda - by Rodolphe-Maurice Arlaud, 23 January 1965 [5:57].
- Jacques Brel (1929-1978) - Carrefour, 20 March 1965 [9:51].
- Le Corbusier (1887-1965) - Words spoken in his memory, 3 September 1965 [32:13].
- François Mitterrand (1916-1996) - 7 October 1965 [11:10].
- Jean Tinguely (1925-1991) - by Georges Kleinmann, 15 November 1965 [35:20].
- Charles Trenet (1913-2001) - by Guy Ackermann, 27 November 1965 [16:49].
- Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975) - by Rodolphe-M. Arlaud, 24 May 1966 [4:53].
- Jacques Tati (1907-1982) - French actor and director, also known as Jacques Tatischeff, Carrefour, 29 December 1967 [5:43].
- William Klein (1928-) - by Rodolphe-Maurice Arlaud, 29 May 1968 [12:12]. Klein is a painter, photographer and director who worked with Louis Malle on Zazie dans le métro..
- Serge Gainsbourg (1928-1991) - by Gilbert Schnyder, 9 November 1968 [16:26].
- Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986) - by Louis-Albert Zbinden, 30 March 1970 [14:07].
- Ulrich Steiner - by Jean-François Nicod, 16 December 1972 [31:37]. On April 2, 1973, in Mulhouse, Steiner departed in the sailboat he had constructed with the intention of eventually reaching Australia..
- Georges Simenon (1903-1989) - by Catherine Charbon, 10 February 1975 [13:32].
- Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985) - by Guy de Belleval, 26 February 1976 [12:12].
- Charles Bukowski - by Claude Torracinta, 23 May 1986 [28:23].
- Jean-Luc Godard (1930-) - by Christian Defaye, 28 May 1990 [5:27].
- Virtual International Authority File (VIAF) - "Implemented and hosted by OCLC, is joint project of several national libraries plus selected regional and trans-national library agencies. The project's goal is to lower the cost and increase the utility of library authority files by matching and linking widely-used authority files and making that information available on the Web."
- 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.
- WGBH Forum Network - Archived lectures related to French Culture and Heritage include:
- Eccentricities of French Language -
Jean-Loup Chiflet, Alliance Française d'Atlanta, April 11, 2008.
- Babel is Not a Curse: Embracing Second Languages - Jean Harzic, October 12, 2007.
- Zvi Har'El's Jules Verne Collection - Text of 12 novels and 8 short stories as well as scholarly articles and book reviews. In English and in French.
Last updated 30 Septembre 2012