French: Web Pages

The largest national association of French teachers in the world with nearly 10,000 members.

AFLS was founded in 1981 to encourage and promote language teaching activies and research in French Language and Linguistics as areas worthy of consideration in their own right. The Association acts as a forum for scholarly discussion and for the exchange of information among those interested and engaged in teaching French in Higher Education.

The official website of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the United States

The International Organisation of La Francophonie was created in 1970. Its mission is to embody the active solidarity between its 70 member states and governments (56 members and 14 observers), which together represent over one-third of the United Nations’ member states and account for a population of over 870 million people, including 200 million French speakers.

National professional organization devoted to representing Bilingual Learners and Bilingual Education professionals.

The Society for French Studies, the oldest and leading learned association for French studies in the UK and Ireland, exists to promote teaching and research in French studies in higher education.

The French Studies Web provides annotated links to scholarly web resources and includes sites of particular interest to librarians specializing in Western Europe. It does not strive for exhaustiveness. Where possible, links to high-quality, scholarly meta-sites are given.

Europeana.eu is about ideas and inspiration. It links you to 6 million digital items.

* Images - paintings, drawings, maps, photos and pictures of museum objects
* Texts - books, newspapers, letters, diaries and archival papers
* Sounds - music and spoken word from cylinders, tapes, discs and radio broadcasts
* Videos - films, newsreels and TV broadcasts

Bibliothèque Nationale, France. An experimental web site created to give scholars access to digitized holdings of the French National Library. Search engine provides access to over 100,000 fully digitized volumes (full text!) and 300,000 digitized images.

The Google Books Library Project is an effort by Google to scan and make searchable the collections of several major research libraries. If a book is out of copyright and in the public domain, the book is fully available to read or to download.

A guide to resources on the web for research on the literature & culture of Francophone Africa and the Diaspora

Project Gutenberg is the place where you can download over 30,000 free ebooks to read on your PC, iPhone, Kindle, Sony Reader or other portable device.