Languages
and Linguistics: French Language and Literature
Gateways
and Other Sites
- American
University's French Studies Department Page.
- Assemblée
Parlementaire de la Francophonie Région Amérique
The official site for French speaking America.
This page has links to documents and meetings
and other sites of interest to French speakers.
(In French).
- Databases
from the French Ministry of Culture
This site contains resources on archeology,
architecture, libraries, museums and many other
resources related to French culture. (In
French).
- French
Language Newspapers Online/La Presse francophone
en ligne
This site, hosted by Agence France Press, has
links to national and regional newspapers from
France, Belgium, Canada and other Francophone
countries from around the world.
- French
Studies Web
The WESS French Studies Web provides links to
scholarly web resources covering France, and
the francophone regions of Belgium, Canada,
Switzerland, North Africa, Sub Saharan Africa,
North America and the Caribbean.
- Ministère
de la Culture et de la Communication
This site, hosted by the French Ministry of
Culture has links to current events, exhibitions
and recent publications. (In
French).
- Nomade
Similar in format to Yahoo! this is a subject-oriented
list of links to Web sites. This site also has
annotations and ratings for each site.
(In French).
- Tennessee
Bob's Famous French Links
This site has links French books and literature,
art, music, film, French history and language
sites.
- Yahoo!
France
Yahoo! of the francophone world.
(In French)
Language
Dictionaries
Literature
- African
& Caribbean Literature in French
Hosted by Howard University Libraries, this
site serves as a guide for research and documentation
in African & Caribbean French Literature. Links
include bibliographies and listings including:
history and criticism, drama, fiction, poetry,
research organizations and associations. This
guide should Help researchers in locating primary
and secondary materials for many research topics
in this field.
- ABU
: la Bibliothèque Universelle
This site offers a collection of classic French
reading texts. Over thirty full-text works exist
at present with more expected.
(In French).
- Athena
Textes français
This site has links to French texts and other
texts translated into French.
(In French).
- Francophone
African Women Writers
Hosted by the Department of French Studies at
the University of Western Australia, this site
has links to an alphabetical list of authors.
Each author link has a brief biography and a
bibliography of her works. There are also links
to critical literature, a who's who in African
literature and a list of "must read" works.
This site is in French and in English but the
French version is more comprehensive.
- Gallica
Hosted by the Bibliothèque nationale de France
this site has a large collection of texts and
images. Gallica Classique is a full-text collection
of French Literary Studies from the Middles
Ages to the 19th century.
(In French).
- L'ÎLE
- Le Centre de documentation virtuel sur la
littérature québécoise.
This database provides information on French-Canadian
authors and includes biographies, bibliographies
and some book reviews. (In
French).
- Labyrinthe
This site has links to a variety of contemporary
French literature resources including an index
of contemporary authors and other literary links.
(In French).
- Literature
and Culture of Francophone Africa and the Diaspora
This bilingual site features selected Internet
resources on Francophone African & Diasporic
cultural expression. It offers annotated descriptions
of web sites dedicated to literature, theater,
music, dance and the visual arts & cinema. Also
featured are links to African/Africana studies
programs & resources around the world.
- Poésie
Française
This site allows you to search a collection
of French poems by author, title, and line of
poetry. (In French).
Author
Sites
- Albert
Camus
The Camus Studies Association at the University
of Florida hosts this site that includes links
to the organization's activities and a bibliography
on recent works about Camus.
- Jean
de La Fontaine
This web site is dedicated to the life and works
of the author of Les Fables de la Fontaine
and other works. Links include information on
the author his life, and his contemporaries.
There are also links to other sites dedicated
to this author. (In French).
- Antoine
de Saint-Exupéry
This is the official site of the society dedicated
to perpetuating the memory of the author of
Le Petit Prince and other French classics.
(In French).
- Marcel
Proust
The Kolb-Proust Archive for Research, a project
of the Library of the University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign, is devoted to the study
of the French author Marcel Proust and his time.
- Jules
Vernes
This site, sponsored by the North American Jules
Verne Society, has links to other sites devoted
to Jules Verne, books by Jules Verne, and other
Jules Verne collections.
- Jules
Vernes - Zvi Har'El's Jules Verne Collection
Another site dedicated to Jules Verne. It contains
a comprehensive library of 18 novels, 8 short
stories, 2 essays, and 5 interviews, which are
all accessible in French, English, and Spanish.
There is also a bibliography and a collection
of scholarly articles and book reviews.
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