Online Resources for the Study of French and
Francophone Literature and Culture  (top) 

Why Study French?

Humanities Research

Curricular Materials

Super-Links

Information, Media and Art

Happily Seeking France: Travel & More
 

Why Study French?

On the importance of knowing French; the argument for French;
the French Language and its Supporters; France and the World
http://www.utm.edu/~globeg/profren.shtml

Useful Ideas for Promoting French In and Out of the Classroom
http://www.frenchteachers.org/nfw/resources/articles.htm

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Super-Links

The world of French Culture and Education in the USA
http://www.frenchculture.org/

Centre de ressources sur la francophonie académique, scientifique et culturelle:
http://www.francofil.net/

Tennessee Bob's Famous French Links:
http://www.utm.edu/departments/french/french.html

La Navigation francophone avec CUNY
http://www.lehman.cuny.edu/deanhum/langlit/french/bonsites.html

Clicnet: Directory of Francophone Resources
http://clicnet.swarthmore.edu/

Internet Portal based at LSU for French-speaking educators and all francophiles.
http://www.espacefrancophone.org/

The French Resource Center at the University of Madison
(learning and access to the French language and francophone cultures)
http://www.france-synergies.org/

French Resource Center at Rutgers University :
http://frenchrc.rutgers.edu/

Yale University Resource Center for the Teaching of French
http://www.yale.edu/ycias/pier/rctf/

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Online Local Resources:

Humanities Research:

Portal for Humanities Research at UCSB: The Voice of the Shuttle
http://vos.ucsb.edu/

The French Page of UCSB Davidson Library:
http://www.library.ucsb.edu/subjects/french/french.html

Santa Barbara Events:

What's going on in Santa Barbara?
http://www.santabarbaralive.com/

Free French Conversation Group

The largest French celebration in the Western USA: Bastille Day in Santa Barbara.
Santa Barbara French Festival.

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Dictionaries and Study of Rhetoric

Dictionaries:

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

Dictionnaires spécialisés français par l'Université de Sherbrooke
http://www.usherbrooke.ca/biblio/internet/dictio/dicspfra.htm

French-Eng./Eng.-Fr. 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

Search Engine for Dictionaries:
http://www.reacteur.com/search?kw=Dictionnaires%20classiques&searchzone=local

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

Portals for the Study of Rhetoric:

http://eserver.org/rhetoric/

http://humanities.byu.edu/rhetoric/silva.htm

http://www.coppoweb.com/rhetoric/rhet_dic.html

Encyclopedia Universalis en français
Encyclopédie Universalis

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French Texts Online &
General Sites for French Studies

The ARTFL Project: analyses, traitement de textes, manuscrits
http://humanities.uchicago.edu/orgs/ARTFL/

Athena - Links to French texts online
http://un2sg4.unige.ch/athena/html/francaut.html

Bibliothèque universelle (ABU) - Search by author, title, and words in text
http://cedric.cnam.fr/ABU/

Documents numérisés à la Bibliothèque Nationale de France
http://gallica.bnf.fr/

Clicnet: Directory of Francophone Resources
http://clicnet.swarthmore.edu/

Fabula, la recherche en Littérature:
http://www.fabula.org/

La République des Lettres:
http://www.republique-des-lettres.com/

Literature Guide on the Internet:
http://www.online-literature.com/

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French Studies & Humanities Research

Middle Ages / Sixteenth Cent. and Renaissance Studies /
Seventeenth-Cent. Studies / Eighteenth Cent. and Enlightenment Studies /
Nineteenth-Cent.  French Studies / Twentieth and Twenty-First Cent. Studies /
Francophone Studies and Francophone Associations

  • Click here for H-France, French History in the US
  • Middle Ages

Globegate's Middle-Ages page
http://globegate.utm.edu/french/lit/middle.ages.html

French Medieval History and Manuscripts at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France:
http://www.bnf.fr/loc/bnf0003.htm

Labyrinth - Resources for Medieval Studies
http://www.georgetown.edu/labyrinth/labyrinth-home.html

The Gutenberg Bible at the British Library:
http://www.bl.uk/treasures/gutenberg/homepage.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/

Société François Villon
http://globegate.utm.edu/french/globegate_mirror/villon.html

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

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  • Sixteenth Century &
    Renaissance Studies

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

Renaissance and Early 17th century History and manuscripts at the BNF
http://www.bnf.fr/loc/bnf0004.htm

The Renaissance in print, University of Virginia Library
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/rmds/collections/gordon/index.html

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  • Seventeenth-Century Studies

Globegate's Seventeenth Century page
http://globegate.utm.edu/french/lit/neoclassical.html

Links to sites on Seventeenth-Century France.
http://www.dpo.uab.edu/~danielou/17thCentFrance_links.html

Complete works of Molière, biography & Molière criticism.
http://toutmoliere.net

Extensive bibliography of francophone theater.
http://www.scenepremiere.com

Tricentennial Racine Site:
http://www.cg78.fr/racine/

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

Complete text of Scudéry novel Artamène ou le Grand Cyrus.
http:www.artamene.org

“Textes et contextes du 17e siècle”. A series of texts mostly unpublished since the 17th century.
http://solinux.brookes.ac.uk/mark/textes/index.html
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  • Eighteenth Century &
     Enlightenment Studies

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

History of Early Modern France at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France:
http://www.bnf.fr/loc/bnf0005.htm

Voltaire Foundation
http://www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk/

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
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  • Nineteenth-Century French Studies

Globegate Nineteenth Century Page:
http://globegate.utm.edu/french/lit/century.19.html

Le Dix-Neuvième siècle, y compris études d'auteurs:
http://www.as.wvu.edu/mlastinger/19.htm

SDN: Le Forum 19
http://www.bristol.ac.uk/dix-neuf/

The American Journal in Nineteenth-Century French Studies
http://www.unl.edu/ncfs/

Images and texts of the 19th century at the BN
http://gallica.bnf.fr/

George Sand Association:
http://people.hofstra.edu/faculty/David_A_Powell/GSA/

The George Sand site by the French Ministry of Culture:
http://www.georgesand.culture.fr

Maison de Balzac:
http://www.paris.fr/musees/balzac/

Web page on Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal:
http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Metro/1301/

Chateau - Online texts by Balzac, Proust, Rimbaud, Vernes and more
http://www.le-chateau.ilias.com/recherc.htm
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  • Twentieth and Twenty-First Cent. Studies

Pictures of Proust's manuscripts and proofs at the French National Library:
http://expositions.bnf.fr/proust/grand/04-5.htm
http://expositions.bnf.fr/proust/grand/combray.htm
http://expositions.bnf.fr/proust/grand/307.htm

STCL, Studies in 20th C. Lit

Victor Segalen, Stèles

Poésie française:
http://poesie.webnet.fr/
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  • Francophone Studies

Afrique Francophone:
http://www.lehman.cuny.edu/deanhum/langlit/french/afrique.html

The premier journal of African literary studies worldwide: Research in African Literatures
http://www.indiana.edu/~iupress/journals/ral/

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

Francophone Associations:

ACELF
Association canadienne d'éducation de la langue française

Agence Intergouvernementale de la Francophonie

Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie
 
Association Internationale des Maires Francophones

Commission Internationale du Théâtre Francophone

Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie
 
Journée internationale de la francophonie
 
Semaine de la langue française
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Magazines, Journals and Periodicals :

Searchable engine to find articles:
http://www.findarticles.com

Erudit: Canadian Search Engines for Periodicals

Women's Studies

Ecofeminist Philosophy:
http://www.erraticimpact.com/~ecofeminism/

Femmes qui écrivent:
http://www.roquade.nl/womenwriters/

Feminist Literary Criticism and Theory:
http://www.cddc.vt.edu/feminism/lit.html

French Feminist Theory, including Simone de Beauvoir, Hélène Cixous, Luce Irigaray, Julia Kristeva and Monique Wittig:
http://bailiwick.lib.uiowa.edu/wstudies/frenchfem.html

Philosophy and Feminist Theory Sites:
http://www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/WomensStudies/philos.htm

Women's Studies Resources, Feminist Theory
http://bailiwick.lib.uiowa.edu/wstudies/theory.html

Women's Studies and Feminist Theory by our local Voice of the Shuttle:
http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2828

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Sites for Literary and Cultural Theory:

UCSB Portal for Literary and Cultural Theory:
http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2718

Fabula: la recherche en littérature
http://www.fabula.org

Glossary of Literary Theory: (University of Toronto)
http://www.library.utoronto.ca/utel/glossary/headerindex.html

Online sites for literary and cultural theory:

General site with complete guide to literary and cultural theory by Dino Felluga:
http://www.cla.purdue.edu/english/theory/index.html

Within that site, click on link to narratology:
http://www.cla.purdue.edu/english/theory/narratology/

& link to psychoanalysis:
http://www.cla.purdue.edu/english/theory/psychoanalysis/

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Philosophy:

The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy:
www.iep.utm.edu/

The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy:
http://plato.stanford.edu/contents.html

Online Guide to Philosophy on the Internet:
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/philinks.htm

Ressources pour l'étude et la réflexion philosophiques:
http://www.cvm.qc.ca/encephi/cadres.htm
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Libraries

UCSB French Collection Library
http://www.library.ucsb.edu/subjects/french/french.html

Bibliothèque numérique de la BnF:
http://gallica.bnf.fr/

Recherches bibliographiques sur les collections
de bibliothèques universitaires françaises:
http://www.sudoc.abes.fr/

The British Library Integratred Catalogue:
http://catalogue.bl.uk/

Library of Congress Online Catalogue:
http://catalog.loc.gov/
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Teaching Materials

French Language Study:

Tools for French Composition:
http://users.skynet.be/fralica/dispo56/info56/listach.htm#ecrire

Tools for Film analysis:

http://cinehig.clionautes.org/article.php3?id_article=43

http://www.gros-plan.org/Lexique/Lexique.htm

Tools for Literary Analysis:

  • Définitions de l'analyse littéraire:

http://www.lettres.net/pdf/methodes/definir-analyse-litt.PDF

http://www.urich.edu/~kkasongo/prosesyllabus.htm

  • Lexique de l'analyse littéraire:

http://www.educnet.education.fr/lettres/res/term.htm#r4

http://www.lettres.net/lexique/

http://www.acs.appstate.edu/dept/fll/fre_critical_vocab.html

  • Méthodes d'analyse littéraire:

http://www.virtuel.collegebdeb.qc.ca/francais/gravel/fra.101/texte/schemad'analyse.html

http://www.ciep.fr/formations/belcete04/b212analyse_litt.htm

http://www.webzinemaker.com/admi/m6/page.php3?num_web=8526&rubr=2&id=73355

  • Bibliographie pour la recherche littéraire:

http://www.bibliotheques.uqam.ca/recherche/Thematiques/Et_litteraires/Recherche.html
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Visual Arts & Museums:

Arts, Culture, Livres, Médias, Édition:
http://www.republique-des-lettres.fr/

The World of French Education and Culture in the US:
http://www.frenchculture.org/

Site de la Réunion des Musées Nationaux:
www.rmn.fr

Le Musée des Lettres et Manuscrits:
http://www.museedeslettres.fr

Site du Louvre:
www.louvre.fr

Musée d'Orsay:
www.musee-orsay.fr

Musées sur site du Ministère de la Culture:
www.culture.gouv.fr/culture/sedocum/musees.htm

Musée de Louvain (Belgique):
www.muse.ucl.ac.be

Links with Museums sites at:
www.discoverfrance.net/France/DF_museums.shtml

DOWNLOADS -- WebMuseum

Words of Art, On-Line Glossary
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Newspapers and Media

See links on the Portal of the French Cultural Services in Los Angeles:
http://www.consulfrance-losangeles.org/

French Media:

Francophone Media:

Happily Seeking France: Shopping, Travel and More

Looking for France:

Online Bookstores:

Tourism:

  • The official site for the French Government Tourist Office.
    France Tourism
  • Agenda, weather, hotels, forum... or browse by region! In French and English.
    French Travel Gallery
  • A travel and language site: hotel database, currency exchange rates and the possibility to learn French - or any other of 70 different languages!
    TravLang
  • Wine tours and wine travel in French countryside
    France in your glass
  • A guide to festivals, expositions, trade-shows in France. Search or browse by region. In French and English.
    Via France
  • A guide to Paris, written for "anglos".
    Paris-Anglo
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Dossier prepared by Catherine Nesci
Please e-mail your suggestions for links and comments to:
lolly@french-ital.ucsb.edu

Updated CN August 25, 2005