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Montreal by Mme Hervy; images take a little time to load.  See also Francophone sites below.  For information on the French Educational System:

Search Engines:

Nomade: Guide des sites Internet

Yahoo! in French

Portal Sites

Le Centre Pedagogique: resources et applications des TICE* en et du francais
    *TICE=Les Technologies de L'information et la Communication dans l'Enseignement

The French Connection

Philagora.net

Tennessee Bob's Famous French Links

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References:

Le college virtuel pour apprendre le francais - site of College de Bois de Boulogne, Quebec, Eric Lesage

Dictionnaires et Lexiques (The ClicNet)

Questions de grammaire? (The ClicNet)

Full Text Sources:

French Language Resources--Electronic Text Center

ClicNet: Litterature francophone virtuelle

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Associations, Cultural Institutions, Travel Guides, etc.:

Aix-en-Provence 

American Association of Teachers of French

Bonjour Paris

Centre Pompidou

Excite Travel - France

Grenoble situ

Lyon

Marseille - seconde ville francaise pour la population, second port europeen.

Nantes

Nice

Paris by the Water - fountains, bridges, walks

Paris, Ile de France. Agence Regionale de Developpement

Strasbourg - requires Flash software for maximum effect

Strasbourg Online

Web Museum, Paris (Search by artist or theme; see also special exhibits) 

 

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Francophone Sites:

When doing research on French speaking countries, the following are excellent beginning points:

Les etats en chiffre - Par Jean Villette; up-to date information (en francais) pour 233 French-speaking areas of the world

Eldis Country Profiles - Excellent information for the third world; you must know which countries are French-speaking, which is true for the following two sites also.

Library of Congress Country Studies/Area Studies - Hypertext full-length histories of most of the countries of the world; may be searched topic by topic.

The following sites provide information exclusively on francophone countries:

Francophone African Poets in English (U. of Fla. site with translated excerpts from African poets)

French Speaking Countries...l'art de vivre (Multimedia site--hear music, see art)

French Speaking Countries Web Quest (Lesson plan with student work)

Ile en ile (information on all the islands, large and small, where French is spoken

Maghrebi Studies - Maghrebi Studies

Lire les femmes ecrivains et les litteratures africaines - Focusses on women writers of French-speaking sub-Saharan Africa; includes biographical information, texts, bibliographies, interviews, links to related sites and a search engine.  Website in French with modified English choices.

Official French-Speaking Countries

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French Educational System:

Bienvenue sur education.gouv.fr  (en francais, bien entendu)
    Official site of the French government for education.

A Guide to French Education System and Understanding French C.V.'s
    Good statement from the Engineering Dept. of Cambridge University on how to interpret curriculum vitae and higher education for technical/scientific students.

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September 2008