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Listed below are some helpful resources regarding French literature and culture. Included here are WWW resouces and some recommended resources available through the LION Databases page. Please contact the author, if you have any suggestions or difficulties with the resources.

You are strongly encouraged to carefully evaluate each resource to determine its accuracy and usefullness. Send any comments, suggestions or report broken links to Craig Wheeler.

Databases/Websites/Portals

• The Project for American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language is sponsored by the University of Chicago, and is a cooperative effort with the Analyses et Traitements Informatiques du Lexique Français (ATILF) of the Center National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and the Division of Social Sciences, and Electronic Text Services (ETS) of the University of Chicago. This is a subscription service.
• Resources for Students and Teachers of French as a second language. This website offers many links to various resources including dictionaries, learning resources, and verb conjugation.
• Ethnologue This website offers resources in several languages. It includes geo-statistical and ethno-statistical information.
• Humanities: Languages & Literature: French Language & Literature Resource is a resource page offered by the Yale Library. This page has a wide variety of resources: gateways, book trade, newspapers/periodicals, listservs and newsgroups.
• Marshall University resource page authored by John Mullens.
• Aston University School of Languages and European Studies website.
• University of Sussex French language webwsite.
• Tennesee Bob's Famous French Links offers links to books, literature, music, art, film, general culture, history, tourism, media, education, curriculum, and links to other Francophone sites. This is a very useful site.
• I Love Languages website is an internet guide to languages with links to a wide variety of resources. This is a redesign of the Human-Languages Page and the Languges catalog of the WWW Virtual Library.

Dictionaries

• From Language to Language multi-lingual dictionary. This site offers a log-in feature that allows the user to set language preferences and screen colors, an anagram contest, and a download to enable a browers integrated dictionary.
• Univeristy of Chicago ARTFUL: Project: French-English Dictionary Form

Libraries & Catalogues

• Bibliothèque nationale Québec
• Cataloque collectif de France document locator.
• Francophone Public Libraries & Special Collections has links to various institutions and collections.

Online French Texts

• Bibliothèque de Association des Bibliophiles Universels
• Explication de Texte is Globe-Gate's resources for literary analysis with links to texts and other resources.

French Cinema

• The Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the U.S. offers links relating to French film in the U.S.A. This site includes descriptions of new releases, regional calendar, cinema archive, new books, and other sites.
• The Children of the French Cinema/Les Enfants du Cinéma Français is a regional (Florida) website offering local show times and short descriptions (in English) of French films. There are also links to French government, events, media, radio/tv, film festivals, film organizations, and magazines.
• The Centre National de la Cinématographie is a French site offering listings for premiers, release information, statistics, and press information.
• The IMDb guide to french language films.

French Music

• The French Music Organization website offering information on French concerts abroad, new releases, French artist database, and French record company database.
• University of North Texas, Music Library digitized scores of works by Jean-Baptist Lully. This site includes links to some biographies, bibliography, discography, French Opera and France at the time of Lully.

French Culture

• The French Embassy in the U.S. has a website that offers links to all aspects of French culture: art, books, cinema, education, music, news, performing arts, and tv/radio. This site also has a regional calendar, a subscription based newletter, and a site search.

Just for Fun

• The official Asterix website.
• Babelfish Translator from Alta Vista. Translations of long, complicated, or archaic texts are often wrong, but it is interesting to see the kinds of results it delivers.

Gee Library Resources

Subject Searching (on the LION online catalog)

Searching by subject is a powerful tool. Try one of the following subject searches. Some of the searches will bring up more detailed lists. For example, a search by "France history" will show a list divided by distinct time periods.

• French language
• French language textbooks
• French language self instruction
• French language study and teaching
• French language dictionaries
• France history
• French literature
• France social life and customs
• France description and travel
• Art France
• Music France

Each search may return results that are more detailed. The listings may include more narrow subject headings that indicate specific genre, time periods and/or geographical areas.

Dictionaries on LION

Doing a subject search on LION for dictionaries will allow you to browse a list of dictionaries. Some dictionaries may be specialized (i.e. scientific or technical). Try the following search:

• French language dictionaries

Other LION resources you may try:

• Electronic journals through LION (i.e. JSTOR, MLN)
• Indexes and Abstracts through LION (i.e. Humanities Abstracts)
• Electronic, full-text articles through LION (i.e. MUSE)