French and French Culture Web Sites

Directories and MetaSites

BUBL LINK-French Language - Maintained by Andersonian Library,
Strathclyde University, Scotland.
http://link.bubl.ac.uk/french/

Tennessee Bob's Famous French Links - An incredible collection of frequently updated links to over 10,000 sites maintained by French Professor Bob Peckham of the University of Tennessee.
http://www.utm.edu/departments/french/french.html

Yahoo French Directory- Extensive site in French.
http://fr.yahoo.com/

General Sites

Art History Resources on the Web. This huge general site includes links to all genres and periods of European Art.
http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHLinks.html

Cultural Services of the French Embassy
http://www.frenchculture.org/

Deconstruction: What is it? An answer from Stamford Univ. http://prelectur.stanford.edu/lecturers/derrida/deconstruction.html

Existentialism. General overview of this philosophy with numerous biographies.
http://www.thecry.com/existentialism/index.html

Embassy of France in the United States- Official site sponsored by the French Embassy.
http://www.info-france-usa.org/

Franceway - A commercial site covering culture, history, politics, geography and travel in France.
http://www.franceway.com/

French Cooking. Recipes included.
http://www.cooking-french.com/recipes/

French Cultural Iconography - A collection and description of French cultural icons
http://globegate.utm.edu/french/globegate_mirror/fricon.html

French Film and Filmmakers
http://www.frenchculture.org/cinema/archives3.html

Images of Medieval French Art and Architecture
http://www.pitt.edu/~medart/menufrance/mainfran.html

Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophie - Includes French Philosophers http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/

Michelin Racing - One of France's most profitable companies, and the people that gave us the Michelin Man, present racing in Europe. Site in English.
http://www.michelinf1.com/servlet/srt/f1/races

The National Front: Analyses of its politics by a Professor at the University of Sunderland, UK.
http://www.sunderland.ac.uk/~os0tmc/contemp1/lepen.htm

Place de Vendome
http://www.place-vendome.net/html/intro_flash.html

Peugeot/Citroen - Website for the parent company that makes those strange little cars.
http://www.psa.fr/

Philosophy Pages: Includes French philosophers like Decartes and Sartre.
http://www.philosophypages.com

PopCulture: Criticism and complete texts of many notable French ultural critics and philosophers.
http://www.popcultures.com/theorists/

French History

Age of Enlightenment - French History - Another site created by the tireless Professor Bob Peckham, of the Univ. of Tennessee.
http://globegate.utm.edu/french/globegate_mirror/franxviii.html

Battle of France - WWII
http://history.acusd.edu/gen/WW2Timeline/Europe07a.html

Diplomatic Documents - The French Yellow Book - Primary Source Material of World War II
http://www.ibiblio.org/pha/fyb/fyb-preface.html

Fordham University's Medieval Links Index
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/medweb/

French Revolution - Extensive links to documents. http://history.hanover.edu/modern/frenchrv.htm

French Revolution Pamphlets - Rare texts online.
http://humanities.uchicago.edu/homes/mark/fr_rev.html

Historie de France - Extensive site sponsored by Cornell.
http://instruct1.cit.cornell.edu/Courses/french_history/

History of the Senate - 1795 through 1958
http://www.senat.fr/english//histoire/index.html

Illuminations of Charles V - Illuminated manuscripts http://www.bnf.fr/enluminures/accueil.shtm

Internet Modern History Source Book- The French Revolution
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook13.html

Liberation of Paris - 50th year Commemoration
http://www.paris.org/Expos/Liberation/

Liberty, Equality and Fraternity: Exploring the French
Revolution. Site created by George Mason University and the
American Social History Project.
http://chnm.gmu.edu/revolution/

Life in the Middle Ages -From food to clothes to entertainment http://www.philippe-auguste.com/uk/quotidien/index.html

Links on the French Revolution - University of Portsmouth http://userwww.port.ac.uk/andressd/frlinks.htm

Mining Company-Medieval History - General History includes links to French Medieval history
http://historymedren.miningco.com/

Napoleon Bonaparte Internet Guide - Extensive links to documents and sites.
http://www.napoleonbonaparte.nl/

New Historians of Modern France - A site maintained by William Beik at Emory University.
http://www.emory.edu/HISTORY/BEIK/

Siege and Commune of Paris - 1871 - Extensive archival documentation.
http://www.library.northwestern.edu/spec/siege/

World War II Links - Extensive links to primary and secondary material, includes material about the French.
http://history.acusd.edu/gen/ww2_links.html

French Language and Reference

About French Language:
http://french.about.com/

ABU: la Bibliotheque Universelle - French public
domain texts, maintained by the Association des Bibliophiles Universels
http://abu.cnam.fr/

le Centre historique des Archives nationals -
Archives housing materials from the M³rovingiens to the late 20th Century
http://www.archivesnationales.culture.gouv.fr/chan/

Dictionnaire de l'Acad³mie fran­aise Base Ächantillon, 1694-1935
Contains a sampling of articles taken from the eight complete editions of the Dictionnaire. This index project is part of the Dictionnaire de l'Acad³mie Fran­ais Database Project.
http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wulfric/academie/

L'Internet Culturel - Site in French created by French Government
http://www.portail.culture.fr/sdx/pic/culture/int/index.htm

Le Chäteau
This site provides some full-text resources in French literature.
Arranged by literary type, the resources are downloadable in compressed files
http://www.le-chateau.ilias.com/

Constitution of the Fifth Republic
http://www.adminet.com/cons58.txt

French Dictionaries - Links to French language
resources and dictionaries.
http://www.yourdictionary.com/languages/romance.html#french

Maison Francais - Site of NYU's French language and cultural center.
http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/french/Maison.html

French Literature

Charles Baudeleire - Poems Online
http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Arc/5340/bflowers.htm

Classical Authors - A collection of full text works in English translation of authors world wide, including such French authors as Balzac, De Maupassant, Alexandre Dumas, de Toqueville,de Volney, Descartes and DeTroyes.
http://authorsdirectory.com/biography_online_book_portrait_picture/d_authors.shtml

Histories of the Literature: 19th Century
19th Century French Literature
http://globegate.utm.edu/french/globegate_mirror/19.html

Histories of the Literature: 18th Century - The Enlightenment
http://globegate.utm.edu/french/lit/century.18.html

Kolb-Proust Research Library
The Kolb-Proust Archive for Research is a project of the Library of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The site (available in English or French) contains a bibliography, correspondence, and related websites.
http://www.library.uiuc.edu/kolbp/

Blaise Pascal - One France's great Philosophers
http://www.littlebluelight.com/pascalmain.html

Project Gutenburg - Hundreds of classic books online, including numerous French authors such as Zola, .
http://promo.net/pg/

Rimbaud Web - The Poet and his works.
http://www.imaginet.fr/rimbaud/

Rousseau-Full text of the Confessions in English http://eserver.org/philosophy/rousseau-confessions.txt

Voltaire Foundation- Oxford University - In French and English
http://www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk/

Paul Verlaine - Excerpts of Poems and Biography
http://www.littlebluelight.com/verlainemain.html

French Personalities- 20th Century

Roland Barthes- Online course from the University of Sunderland
http://www.sunderland.ac.uk/~os0tmc/myth.htm

Roland Barthes - Texts and Criticism. Includes many full texts.
http://www.popcultures.com/theorists/barthes.html

Roland Barthes Web Page
http://we.got.net/~tuttle/

Baudrillard on the Web
http://www.uta.edu/english/apt/collab/baudweb.html

Georges Bracque- Biography of this cubist artist by the Guggenheim Museum, NYC.
http://www.guggenheimcollection.org/site/artist_bio_23.html

Robert Bresson - Lyrical, mystical maker of filmic mythologies.
http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/24/bresson.html

Robert Bresson - Article from Cross Currents Magazine.
http://www.crosscurrents.org/bresson.htm

Robert Bresson - Biography
http://members.netscapeonline.co.uk/jameswtravers
/nf_rbresson.html

Maurice Chevalier
http://pw1.netcom.com/~druxy/Chevalier.htm

Jean Cocteau - The great artist, writer and filmmaker. http://www.netcomuk.co.uk/~lenin/JeanCocteau.html

About Charles de Gaulle: (Includes general modern French
History also.)
http://history1900s.about.com/cs/degaullecharles/

Charles DeGaulle: French site
http://www.adminet.com/min/pr/deGaulle.html

Charles de Gaulle: English biography.
http://econ161.berkeley.edu/TCEH/charlesdegaulle.html

Politics of Jacques Derrida - Reprinted from the New
York Review of Books
http://jya.com/lilla-derrida.htm

Simone DeBeauvoir
http://www.thecry.com/existentialism/debeauvoir/index.html

Marcel Duchamp: The Bride Stripped Bare. Has numerous Scholarly links and interesting graphics.
http://www.marcelduchamp.net/

Michel Foucault - A very Un-Foucaultian Biography
From Stamford University
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/HPS/BirthOfTheClinic/biohome.htm

Foucault Biography: Includes scholarly links.
http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~rsauzier/Foucault.html

Anatole France - Biography from the Noble Museum.
http://www.nobel.se/literature/laureates/1921/france-bio.html

Jean Luc Godard Directory - Frances most outrageous film directors.
http://dir.yahoo.com/Entertainment/Movies_and_Film
/Filmmaking/Directing/Directors/Godard__Jean_Luc/

Jean Luc Godard- British Film Institute Site
http://www.bfi.org.uk/features/godard/

Jean-Fran­ois Lyotard - Philosopher, writer. Collected works. Biography compiled by Univ. of California, Irvine.
http://sun3.lib.uci.edu/~scctr/Wellek/lyotard/

Jacques Maritain - Important French Theologian
http://www.nd.edu/Departments/Maritain/jm.htm

Edith Piaf
http://www.little-sparrow.co.uk/

Jean Renoir - One of the finest, most endearing French Filmmakers
of the mid-twentieth century. Director of The Rules of the Game and The Grand Illusion, both classics.
http://dir.yahoo.com/Entertainment/Movies_and_Film/Filmmaking
/Directing/Directors/Renoir__Jean__1894_1979_/

Alain Resnais- Tribute to the great filmmaker
http://www.frenchculture.org/cinema/festival/resnais/

Jean Paul Sartre - Major leader of the Existentialist movement.
http://www.thecry.com/existentialism/sartre/index.html

Francios Truffaut - One of France's brillian movie directors.
http://dir.yahoo.com/Entertainment/Movies_and_Film/Filmmaking/
Directing/Directors/Truffaut__Francois__1932_1984_/

Paul Valery Archive
http://www.kalin.lm.com/vale.html

Paul Valery
http://www.littlebluelight.com/valerymain.html

French Regions

Aix en Provence: Official site of the region
http://www.aixenprovencetourism.com/

BonJour Paris -Gateway to France: Articles, discussion and links to commercial sites.
http://www.bonjourparis.com/

Bretagne: Official site of Bretagne, (In French)
http://www.bretagne.com/

Burgandy: Official Site for Burgandy. English version available.
http://www.burgundy-tourism.com/

Carcassonne - The beautiful walled city in the South of France. Site in English and in French.
http://www.carcassonneinfo.com/

Normandy: Official site for Information on Normandy. English version available.
http://www.normandy-tourism.org/

Provence: Beyond the French Riviera
http://www.provencebeyond.com/

Region des Pays de la Loire - Official site for the Loire Region. Click the little British Flag for English version.
http://www.paysdelaloire.fr/indexflash.htm

Paris

Centre Pompidou- Official site of the Georges Pompidou museum.
http://www.cnac-gp.fr/Pompidou/Home.nsf/docs/fhome

Eiffel Tower Webcams - Webcam Paris Eiffel Tower webcam live
from Paris, all Paris webcams, Pictures of the Eiffel Tower
http://www.abcparislive.com/

EXPLORE THE PEOPLE OF NOTRE-DAME - A site constructed by the Media Center For Art History at Columbia University
http://www.mcah.columbia.edu/notre-dame/

The official site of the Eiffel Tower - The latest news. The recent past. A century ago. Documents. Tower structure. Facts & Figures.
http://www.tour-eiffel.fr/teiffel/uk/

Louvre - The Official Site
http://www.louvre.fr/louvrea.htm

Paris Pages; Notre Dame de Paris (Cathedrale) - Notre Dame de Paris (Cath³drale).
http://www.paris.org/Monuments/NDame/info.html

Paris Pages; Notre Dame - The history and story of the Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris
http://www.paris.org/Monuments/NDame/

Le site officiel de la Tour Eiffel - Gagnez des tickets pour visiter la Tour Eiffel ! Derni²res actualit³s. Le pass³ proche. Journal de la Tour. Dossiers. Structure de la Tour.
http://www.tour-eiffel.fr/