Super-Links
The world of French Culture and Education in the USA
http://www.frenchculture.org/
Students of French can look for internships in France at:
www.frenchculture.org/education
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/macmillan/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:
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:
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/
Oeuvres littéraires de la Louisiane sur internet:
http://www.centenary.edu/french/louisiane.html
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
(back to French Studies)
- 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
(back to French Studies)
- 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
Francis Assaf's Personal Page
Homepage of Professor Francis Assaf, of the University of Georgia. Has links to all professional organizations related to the seventeenth century, including SE-17 (Society for Interdisciplinary French Seventeenth-Century Studies), CIR-17 (Centre International de Rencontres sur le 17e siècle), and NASSCFL (North American Society for Seventeenth Century French Literature)
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
(back to French Studies)
- 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
(back to French Studies)
- 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 (British Society of 19th century French studies)
http://www.bristol.ac.uk/dix-neuf/
The American Journal in Nineteenth-Century French Studies
http://www.unl.edu/ncfs/
Web site for the Paris-based Société des Etudes romantiques:
http://www.etudes-romantiques.org/index.html
Images and texts of the 19th century at the BNF:
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
The Society of Germaine de Stael Studies
Société des etudes staëliennes
Maison de Balzac:
http://www.paris.fr/musees/balzac/
Balzac Site of the Groupe d'études balzaciennes (University of Paris-4 Sorbonne):
www.balzac-etudes.paris4.sorbonne.fr
Web pages on Baudelaire:
http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Metro/1301/
http://baudelaire.litteratura.com/
Tocqueville Site of the French
Ministry of Culture
http://www.tocqueville.culture.fr/
(back to French Studies)
- 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
Poésie française:
http://poesie.webnet.fr/
(back to French 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
(back to French Studies)
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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:
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:
- Définition de l'analyse littéraire:
http://www.lettres.net/pdf/methodes/definir-analyse-litt.PDF
- Lexique de l'analyse littéraire:
http://www.lettres.net/lexique/
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
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Newspapers and Media
See the useful links on the Portal of the French Cultural Services in Los Angeles:
http://www.consulfrance-losangeles.org/
French Cinema in the World: check the site of Unifrance.
French Media:
Francophone Media:
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Happily Seeking France: Shopping, Travel and More
Look for the new Géoportail, which will present you with fine-grained details of France and its overseas territories and departments, including "lieux remarquables" such as Mont Saint-Michel, Tour Eiffel, etc...
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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Updated : 7/21/06. Prepared by Catherine Nesci. Please send me your links!
