French Studies: Subject websites

Collections of French resources

• Culturethèque: the online platform of the institut français du Royaume-Uni, provides access to a range of ebooks (including fiction and language-learning), short films and audio-material.  Register to access these resources.
• Le Ministère de la Culture: is a good starting point to discover the online presence of France and the French.
• Pascal and Francis offers a free access to more than 14 million bibliographic references of articles, conference papers and conference proceedings produced by the Inist-CNRS from 1984 to 2015 for PASCAL (12 millions) and from 1972 to 2015 for FRANCIS (2 millions). The site is an archive of the PASCAL and FRANCIS bibliographic databases in human and social sciences.
• Persée

• English-French/French-English Dictionary: contains approximately 75,000 entries. Maintained at the University of Chicago. You are advised to cross-check with an English-English or French-French dictionary before accepting translations offered by this dictionary.
• ARTFL - Project for American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language: includes the ARTFL bibliography. Some services are limited to ARTFL subscribing institutions. Maintained at the University of Chicago.
• Organisation internationale de la francophonie
• French pronunciation lessons and activities
• Le plaisir d'apprendre
• Larousse
• Le conjugueur
• Synonymes

• Association des Bibliophiles Universels: provides a collection of public domain texts in French.
• Gallica
• Reseau francophone numerique
• eBooks libres et gratuits
• French revolution digital archive
• TEL (Theses-en-ligne)

• Le Monde diplomatique: offers full-text of some articles.
• Radio France Internationale: provides a daily review of the French press.
• Insitut national de l'audiovisuel

• The CIA World Factbook- France: provides fundamental information and statistics about France.
• The Paris Pages: comprehensive source of information on all aspects of Paris.

• La Bibliothèque Nationale de France:  frequently features online exhibitions of French culture.

• European film gateway
• Europeana
• EU Screen