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Links verified , updated 2/9/2008.

Art

• Allison Carmichael, Artist, illustrator and website designer - a landscape and portrait painter based in Languedoc, South France. She paints with elegance and style and also creates professional illustrations and designs websites
• Art in Bormes les Mimosas - Pastels, at the Galerie de Michel Ségalen (French)
• Art In Provence - Paintings, Sculptures, Photography from artists living in Provence (English)
• Arts et Metiers Museum - science and technology museum-Paris
• Capetiens et croisades - art exhibit: text, color slides, voice (French)
• Centre National d'Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou - "Beaubourg" Cultural Center in Paris (French)
• Cezanne Paul Cézanne Studio - the most popular museum in Aix en Provence. A very classy and informative website; includes a virtual tour, a history of the artist's life. (French, English, German, Italian, Japanese)
• LOUVRE Museum -
• Web Museum, Paris - (English)

Culture, Literature

• ARTFL Project - American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language (University of Chicago)
• Association des Bibliophiles Universelle - French literary texts
• Bibliotheque Nationale de France -
• Centre d'Edition de Textes Electroniques -
• Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers - (French, English, German, Spanish, Portuguese)
• Culture - Ministère de la Culture - (French, English, Spanish)
   
• Festival of Underwater Film - Antibes - The annual Festival Mondial de l'Image Sous Marine in Antibes-Juan-les-Pins, Oct-Nov.
• French Word-A-Day - A rather unusual and interesting website (and idea). Offering a daily e-mail with a French word, a useful phrase and an inspiring French quote, and a daily anecdote on life in France.
   
• Labyrinth Library - French Literature - a short list of French literature sites
• The Da Vinci Game - Riddle board game - contains 800 riddles, codes and anagrams players race to solve.
• Treasures from the Bibliothèque Nationale de France - (English)
• Tres Riches Heures du Duc de Berry - the classic medieval book of hours (English)
• Vauban Marshal Vauban - a web with an excellent history of Marshal Vauban (English)
• Voltaire Fondation - University of Oxford (English, French)

History

• Amiens Cathedral - A Multimedia Project for the Columbia University Core Curriculum
• French Page, The - A history of France and its nobility of the 900's A.D. (French)
• History of Gothic Architecture -
• Maginot Line World - la Ligne Maginot (English, French, German, Italian)
• Medieval Paris - Historical information about Paris streets, monuments and other sites (English)
• Paris at the Time of Philip Augustus - Includes images and a plan of the wall built by Philip Augustus. (English, French)
• Riez - Roman Archeology - this web has details of inscriptions from the Roman artifacts located at Riez. (English)

Language

• ARTFL: U.Chicago project - Treasury of the French Language (French, English, German, Spanish, Japanese)
• French Language Courses - Gathering the best, and most relevant, resources online about learning the french language! (English)
• I.L.A. France - Learn and study French in France (French, English)
• Learn French in Boston - the web by a Boston French Tutor offers a book and CD; the web has a number of useful links (English)
• Occitane La Page de la Langue Occitane - (Occitane, French, English)
• Paroles de Cuisines - This club is entirely dedicated to exchanging culinary talents and acquiring French as a plus to enhance the pleasure of being in Provence. (English, French)