LINKS FOR FRENCH RESOURCES ON THE NET

Many links on this page were contributed by students. You are encouraged to send me your discoveries and to let me know if any links are no longer valid.

Feasts and Holidays

La Fête des Rois
Santons de France

Food in Paris (for other regions, see below, Regions of France)

Poilâne (boulangerie)

French Culture, Science

The Paris Observatory

General Sites (for a variety of information)

Voilà
France Central
MegaConverter (to convert distances, weights, etc.)
French Patrimony (info on major monuments and historical sites in all of France)
France.com
Les pages jaunes (web cams, vrtual walk through a variety of cities, including Paris)
France for Visitors
France Today (website of the magazine with information about travel, etiquette, language, etc.)

 

Grammar Practice & Language Resources

General:
Bonjour de France (grammar, vocabulary, and lots more)
Grammar Exercises (Vassar College)
Grammar Exercises (Swarthmore College)
Les Faux Amis
French Grammar Central
Vocabulary (Middlebury College)
English Grammar for Students of French (list of corresponding chapters in Allons-y! and this grammar book)
Online French Course for Beginners (from Carnegie Mellon University)

Pronouncing Numbers :
70 (Wikipedia article about "soixante-dix")
De 70 à 99: Pourquoi? Questions about pronunciation.
Pronunciation of Numbers (type in the number you want, and listen to it pronounced!)

Dictionaries:
Dictionnaire des synonymes
Online bi-lingual dictionaries (WordReference.com Especially good for French/Spanish/French)
Bi-lingual Dictionaries to download

Monolingual Dictionaries and Synonyms (advanced students:
These dictionaries contain synonyms, verb conjugations, etymologies, literary citations, as well as translations of words and explanations of levels of meaning. The "translators" that are sometimes included are extremely unreliable, however. Use the translators at your own risk!
Reverso (based on Collins dictionary)
Dictionnaire des synonymes
Encyclopédie Larousse
Le Dictionnaire

Tongue Twisters (les virelangues) and Pronunciation Exercises:
TV5 tongue twisters
Tongue twisters with English translations
Phonétique Free (for tongue twisters and pronunciation)

 

 

Literature Online

Poetry (listen, read, recite)
La Poésie française
Children's Poetry, Songs (Good for beginning students)
Jean de la Fontaine

 

Media

FranceLink (for all media links)
The Internet Movie database
Voilà: Site des médias
VeryFunnyAds.com (international selection)

Music:
Two excellent sites for finding lyrics to songs: www.paroles.net, and letras.terra.com.br (a Brazilian site)

Artists:

Claude François:

Quelquefois (sung with Mireille Mathieu)
Comme d'habitude
Do a grammar exercise based on Comme d' habitude
C'est comme ça
Chanson populaire 1
Chanson populaire 2
Biographie de Claude François
News of the sudden death of Claude François (a second video as well--"une mort stupide")

 

Mireille Mathieu:

Trois milliards de gens sur terre

À quoi tu penses?
La Marseillaise
(French national anthem sung in May 2007, for Nicolas Sarkozy's election as President of France)

Mon credo (1966 TV appearance featuring her first international hit)
40 years later (singing Ce soir ils vont s'aimer, at the Olympia theater in Paris

Demoiselle d'Orléans (her tribute to Jeanne d'Arc and a warning about modern French life)

Celebrating 40 years as France's most popular international singer (2006)

Jacques Dutronc:

Paris s'éveille (video clip)
Paris s'éveille (paroles)

TV:

France 2
TF1
FR3
La Cinquième
M6
TV Mag
Télérama
TV5.org (site of TV5 monde cable station available in US)

Radio:
RTL

Radio France

Press:
Le Figaro
Libération
Elle
Site des journaux français

Cinema:
Allô Ciné
Ecran Noir
Pariscope
The Internet Movie Database

Specialized TV Programs:
Côté Maison (home repair)
Gourmandia.com (food)

Paris (General Info and Tourism)

RATP (métro, buses)
Paris Métro pages (history, maps, etc.)
Inside Paris
Paris Balades (Walks)
Tout Paris
Smart Web (MagicParis.com--general info on Paris)
Paris Pages
The Mairie de Paris
Paris Office of Tourism
Bonjour Paris
Vélib (getting around Paris by bike)
Vélib et moi (personal stories by people using this popular service)
Paris Visit
Paris City Guide: Paris Digest
Paris Live! webcam

Museums (in and around Paris)

Centre Pompidou
Le Château de Versailles (the English pages will take you to podcasts and tours of the château, the gardens, and historical information)
Claude Monet et Giverney
Welcome to Claude Monet's!
Musée des Arts et Métiers
Musée d'Orsay
Musée Carnavalet
Le Louvre
Les Invalides (Musée de l'Armée et le tombeau de Napoléon)
Monuments de Paris
Cité des Sciences
Le Musée du vin
Les Égouts de Paris (yes, a visit of the sewers...)
Les Égouts de Paris 2
La Monnaie de Paris 1: There is a museum of the history of money as well as excellent documentation in the two sites mentioned here.
La Monnaie de Paris 2

Paris (Specific Placies)

Père Lachaise Cemetery (find the graves of the famous and infamous!)
London Necropolis (photos of some of the famous graves from Paris cemeteries as well as those of London)
Les Champs Elysées
La Comédie Française
Discover the Arrondissements in Paris
Paris Les Champs Elysées
La Tour Eiffel
La Conciergierie
Cathédrale de Chartres en lumière
L'Arc de Triomphe
Cathédrale de Notre Dame de Paris

Regions of France

The Riviera
Aix en Provence
La Creuse
Restaurant Paul Bocuse (Lyon)

La Corrèze
Le Périgord

Suivez-nous en Périgord

Bordeaux
Lyon
Ville de Lyon

Provence/Alpes
Ski in France
La Savoie/Haute Savoie
Strasbourg
La Bourgogne
La Bretagne
France Guide
Gardens in Provence
Le Languedoc/Le Roussillon
Tarascon
La Gastronomie en Périgord (Dordogne)
Ski France

 

Shopping

Agnès-b
France Antiques
La FNAC
Yves Saint Laurent
Les Galeries Lafayette