French and Francophone Studies Subject Guide
Electronic Resources
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ABU: La Bibliotheque Universelle
Free access to 288 French texts from 101 authors.
Has pointers to an extensive list of sites, organized by region, country, and subject, dealing with Francophone Africa.
Chicago's French cultural and learning center dedicated to the study of French language,cultural exchange, and friendship between Americans and French speaking people.
Besancon.fr Official website to Bensancon
Official website to Besancon with links to culture, tourism, and everyday life.
Provides access to a wide variety of online resources in French, including pointers to news and reference sources.
Culture.fr Portal to French Culture
Edited by the Minstery of Culture and Communication, contains information on cultural and current events,exhibitions and more. Can be searched by region.
Gallica is the name of the digital library of the Bibliotheque Nationale de France. It offers over 90,000 volumes in image format, 1,200 volumes in searchable text format, 500 sound recordings, 80,000 still images.
Lyon.fr Official Website to Lyon
Official site to Lyon with information on tourism, culture, sports, everyday life, and much more.
The official site of the Parisian government. Links to culture, tourism , studying and visiting Paris. English version: http://www.v1.paris.fr/en/
Official site to the Quebec government with links to tourism, culture, etc...
Project Gutenberg : French Texts
Project Gutenberg is the first and largest single collection of free electronic books, or eBooks. This is the link to texts in French only.
Tennessee Bob's Famous French Links
http://www.utm.edu/departments/french/french.html Compiled by Robert Peckham at the University of Tennessee, Martin, this site links the user to thousands of French culture and language webpages. Included are Francophone sites, books, art, music, film, language study, and many other topics.
A database produced by the American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language (University of Chicago) of nearly 2000 texts ranging from classic French literature to nonfiction and technical writing. Includes medieval and Renaissance as well as 18th, 19th, and 20th century works in many genres, such as fiction, poetry, theater, journalism, essays, correspondence and treatises. Subjects include literary criticism, biology, history, economics, and philosophy.
E-collections at the Center for Research Libraries
The Center for Research Libraries acquires and preserves a wide range of newspapers, journals, documents, archives and other traditional and digital resources for research and teaching. With this digital collection their goal is to provide all CRL holdings in electronic form within the next few years.