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Search Engines:
Nomade: Guide des sites Internet
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
Tennessee Bob's Famous French Links
References:
Le college virtuel pour apprendre le francais - site of College de Bois de
Dictionnaires et Lexiques (The ClicNet)
Questions de grammaire? (The ClicNet)
Full Text Sources:
French Language Resources--Electronic Text Center
ClicNet: Litterature francophone virtuelle
Associations, Cultural Institutions, Travel Guides, etc.:
American Association of Teachers of French
Marseille - seconde ville francaise pour la population, second port europeen.
Paris by the Water - fountains, bridges, walks
Paris, Ile de France. Agence Regionale de Developpement
Strasbourg - requires Flash software for maximum effect
Web Museum, Paris (Search by artist or theme; see also special exhibits)
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 (
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
Official French-Speaking Countries
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.