French Language: Web Sites

Treasures from the Bibliothèque Nationale de France

Gilbert Sigaux was an editor, critic, author, and professor. He edited over one hundred literary and dramatic texts for publication and served as literary editor and consultant for several French publishing companies.

Informational site produced by the French Embassy in Washington,D.C.

The official web site about Asterix and company.

Comprehensive site with links to government, education, literature,
culture, and e-resources.

It offers full text documents, inclduing periodicals, manuscripts, sound recordings, images, scores, etc.

MEMO (created in 1998) is a free site providing access to a rich array of “cultural voyages” relating to French and European historical heritage. It is extremely rich in contents, including encyclopedic information as well as thousands of historical and cultural “dossiers” created by researchers, historians, and university faculty

ABU is a digital library of French texts in public domain. Currently it includes 288 texts by 101 authors.