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Archives and Libraries

Bibliothèque Nationale de France
            www.bnf.fr

Archives Nationales
            www.culture.fr/culture/editions/c-an.htm

Archives Départmentales, Municipales, Territoriales
             www.culture.fr/culture/editions/c-at.htm

Service d'Archives (Hours, Annual Schedules, Addresses, Phone and Fax Numbers)
             http://indy.culture.fr/Isite/arc/index.html

Bibliothèques Départmentales, Municipales, Universités (FYI France; addresses, phone and fax numbers
            for hundreds of French libraries)
             http://www.fyifrance.com/fyi1plib.htm

French Institutes and Research Centers  (Contact information and links)
         http://www.mesr.fr/organism.htm
 
Library of Congress
            lcweb.loc.gov/catalog/

Folger Library, Washington
             http://www.folger.edu/

Electronic Texts

Athena Electronic Texts (2,000 French texts, mostly early modern-modern)
             http://un2sg4.unige.ch/athena/html/athome.html
 
The Eurodocs Project (60 document collections, many translated into English, medieval-modern, BYU)
           www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/eurodocs
 
Oxford Text Archive (2,500 texts, English and some French, medieval-modern, Oxford University)
             http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/

Britannica Internet Links to French History (~100 links, medieval-modern, including e-text links)
             http://www.ebig.com/

Medieval and Classical Library (Hundred of texts, UC Berkeley)
             http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/OMACL/#top

Internet Medieval Sourcebook (Hundreds of primary and secondary texts, Fordham University)
             http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook.html

The Labyrinth, Resources for Medieval Studies (Medieval texts, images, and links, Georgetown University)
             http://www.georgetown.edu/labyrinth/subjects/france/france.html

Medieval/Old French Texts (ARTFL Project, University of Chicago)
             http://humanities.uchicago.edu/ARTFL/projects/LFA/

Enlightenment and French Revolution Texts (ARTFL Project, University of Chicago)
            tuna.uchicago.edu/homes/jack/course.materials.html

Clandestine Texts from the Eighteenth Century (15 texts,University of Turin)
             http://www.vc.unipmn.it/~mori/e-texts/default.htm

Internet Modern History Sourcebook (Thousands of full-texts and excerpts for Western Civ, early modern-modern, Fordham University)
              http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook.html

Museums, Exhibitions and Multimedia

Musée d'Orsay
             www.musee-orsay.fr:8081/ORSAY/

Chateau de Versaillles
             www.chateauversailles.fr/

Reunion des Musées Nationaux (Links to or information on all regional and Parisian museums)
             www.rmn.fr/musees/fmusees.html

WebMuseum Paris  (Images and text for thousands of paintings )
             www.oir.ucf.edu/wm

The National Gallery of Art, Washington
            www.nga.gov/

The Tate Gallery, London
             http://www.tate.org.uk/

The Bodleian Library, Oxford
             www.rsl.ox.ac.uk/imacat.html

J. Paul Getty Museum
             http://www.getty.edu/museum/main/Painting.htm

The Hermitage, St. Petersburg
             http://www.hermitage.ru/indexeng.htm
 

Tres Riches Heures du Duc de Berry
             http://humanities.uchicago.edu/images/heures/heures.html

Age of Charles V (1,000 illuminated manuscripts from the BN)
             http://www.bnf.fr/enluminures/aaccueil.htm

BNF Gallica Images (10,000 images from the BNF, medieval-modern)
             http://gallica.bnf.fr/

Modern History Image Bank (Hundreds of West. Civ. images, many French; early modern-19th c, CUNY Brooklyn)
             http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/history/core/pics/

World Art Treasures (2,200 French architectural and art images)
             http://sgwww.epfl.ch/BERGER/Voyages/english/

Ministry of Culture, France (Links to Temporary French Exhibitions with images)
             www.culture.fr/

University of Chicago/ARTFL Project (Mostly 18th-century images and maps)
             tuna.uchicago.edu/homes/jack/course.materials.html
 

Maps and Cartography

PCL Historical Map Collection (35 European maps, middle ages-19th century)
             http://mahogany.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/PCL/Map_collection/map_sites/hist_sites.html#europe
 
Early Map Collection, Institute of Historical Research (Gateway to internet map and cartography sites)
              http://www.ihrinfo.ac.uk/maps/

Mapping Early Modern Worlds (Folger Library Exhibit)
             http://www.folger.edu/public/exhibit/Maps/mapexh.htm

Library of Congress Digital Maps, 1544-1996
              http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/gmdhome.html

Paris Maps, 18th-19th c.
             http://www.columbia.edu/cu/arthistory/courses/parismaps/
 

Medieval to Modern French History

H-Net France (85+ sites, medieval-modern)
            http://www.h-net.msu.edu/~france/history.html

Britannica Internet Links to French History (~100 links, medieval-modern, including e-text links, Encycl. Brittanica)
             http://www.britannica.com/history/index.html 

The History Index (16 French links, medieval-modern, U. of Kansas)
             http://www.ukans.edu/history/#france

History Links on the Web (20 French medieval links, CSS Jounal)
             http://www.cssjournal.com/hisdoc.html

The Labyrinth, Resources for Medieval Studies (20 French links, medieval texts and images, Georgetown University)
             http://www.georgetown.edu/labyrinth/subjects/france/france.html

French History on the Web (23 links, medieval-19th century, U. of Colorado)
             http://web.uccs.edu/~history/index/france.html

French Revolution Links (20 links, 18th c., U. of Portsmouth)
             http://www.hs.port.ac.uk/Users/david.andress/frlinks.htm
 

French Bookstores and Multimedia Sources

Bibliofind (9 million rare and used)
             http://www.bibliofind.com/

Blackwell's (UK) (New books)
            bookshop.blackwell.co.uk

Boutique de l'Histoire (New and used)
            www.bhistoire.com

Chapitre (Includes rare and used)
             http://www.chapitre.com/

Electronic Directory of International Used Booksellers
            www.livre-rare-book.com/anninter/annuaire.html

Films for the Humanities (Films and CD-Roms on France; rental or purchase)
            www.films.com

FNAC, France (New books)
             http://www.fnac.fr/

Furet du Nord  (New books)
             http://www1.furet.com/

Librarie Alapage (New books)
             http://www.alapage.fr/

Tricolor Books (Rare and used)
            http://www.angelfire.com/ny/tricolorbks/
 

Professional Resources

Directory of French Universities (H-France)
             http://www.h-net.msu.edu/~france/universities.html

French Telephone Directory
             http://www.epita.fr:5000/11/

H-France (H-Net and National Endowment for the Humanities)
             http://www.h-net.msu.edu/~france/

Society for French Historical Studies 2000
             http://www.asu.edu/clas/history/sfhs/index.html

National Endowment for the Humanities
             http://www.neh.gov/

American Historical Association
             http://www.theaha.org/

American Association of University Professors
             http://www.aaup.org/

Embassy of France, Washington, D.C. (Visa and Cultural Information)
            www.info-france-usa.org

Society for Eighteenth-Century French Studies
             http://www.udel.edu/braun/personal/secfs.html

Stanford Seminar on Enlightenment and Revolution (SER)
            www.stanford.edu/group/SER/SER_HomePage.html
 
International Medieval Institute
             http://www.leeds.ac.uk/imi/
 

Chronicle of Higher Education, History Career Network
             http://chronicle.com/free/jobs/faculty/humanities/history/links.htm

University of Nevada-Las Vegas (French Revolution; Greg Brown)
            www.unlv.edu/faculty/gbrown/hist462/index.html
 

Early Modern French Sources in Translation (David Bell and Jeffrey Merrick)
            jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu/~dabell/sources.html

French Revolution Bibliography (University of Warwick, UK)
            www.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/teaching/french-rev
 

French Newspapers, Radio Stations and Television (123 links to both national and local media)
             http://www.newo.com/news/news_location.htl?lctn_search=31800

French Radio in Real Time (25 radio stations; requires RealAudio to listen)
             http://www.sunsetradio.com/nations/fra/fra01.html

Brief Citation Guide for Internet Sources in History and the Humanities
             http://www.h-net.msu.edu/about/citation/

Western European Specialists Section, French Studies Web
            www.nyu.edu/pages/wessfrench/

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