What follows is a list of recommended online resources. It is an attempt to provide a cross-section of relevant websites, in the hope that these will be prove useful to students as they pursue their own explorations.

Topics

Gateways / Podcasts / French Literature / French Authors / Francophone Literature / Thinkers and Philosophers / French and Francophone history and culture / Cinema / Work Experience 

Language Papers

Paper Fr.B1 / Paper Fr.B2 / Paper Fr.B3 

Scheduled Papers

Paper Fr.1 / Paper Fr.2 / Paper Fr.3 / Paper Fr.4 / Paper Fr.5 / Paper Fr.6 / Paper Fr.7 / Paper Fr.8 / Paper Fr.9 / Paper Fr.10 / Paper Fr.11 / Paper Fr.13

 

 

Gateways/Portals for French students/researchers

• Intute Subject Gateway French Studies Portal

• Internet Movie Database

• Institut National de L'Audiovisuel

• The Society for French Studies

• Literature Online

  Podcasts

Since the legalisation in France of podcasting ("baladodiffusion" for the purist) in January this year, Radio France has far outpaced the BBC in terms of the range of programmes it makes available. You'll find links through to all the major RF stations and the podcasts they offer at:

 

• Link to major RF stations and their podcast

• Legally, podcasts are made available until the next episode of a programme is broadcast. While many radio programmes remain accessible for a long period over the internet, the advantage of the podcast (MP3 file) is that it can be downloaded and listened to without an active internet connection, for example when you're travelling to work, walking the dog, cooking or whatever. All you need is an MP3 player and freely available software (typically iTunes, Doppler, Juice) to download the podcasts. You then drag and drop them to your MP3 player, unless of course you simply want to listen on your own computer (Windows Media Player is also an MP3 player). It couldn't be easier, and it's a terrific resource. France Culture, in particular, offers some of its best programmes in this way. 

French Literature

• Gallica

• Erudit's Études littéraires journal

 

French Authors

• gidiana.net

• andregide.org

• Guillaume Apollinaire

• Albert Camus (1913-1960)

 

Francophone Literature

• Littératures du Maghreb

• île en île

• Un site culturel et littéraire francophone

 

French philosophers and thinkers

• Maurice Blanchot

 

French & Francophone History & Culture

• Equinoxes: a graduate journal of french and francophone studies

• Journal of Contemporary French and Francophone Studies

 

Film & Cinema

• Media Art Net An excellent avant-garde film resource with plenty of clips and articles

• Blog from film theory legends David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson

• UbuWeb: a completely independent resource dedicated to all strains of the avant-garde, ethnopoetics, and outsider arts

• Rouge

• Radical Philosophy journal of socialist and feminist philosophy

• Diffusion des savoirs

• Bibliothèque du film

• Cadrage.net 1ère revue en ligne universitaire française de cinéma

• Cahiers du Cinéma.com

• Film-Philosophy.com

• Africultures Le Site et la Revue de Référence des Cultures Afraicaines

• le Film Francais.com

• Senses of Cinema

• Sundance Institute

• Forum des Images

• Departmental Film Collection

• Tout sur le cinéma

• Cadrage

• Film Philosophy

• Film Magazine

• Objectif Cinema

• Screen - journal of academic film and television studies

• The Film Journal

• Zéro de Consuite cinéma blog

• Arrêt sur images excellent site sur l'analyse des média

 

Work Experience

• CVs in French

 

Language Papers

Paper Fr B1 Use of French

• Programme du trimestre (Grammar)

• dossier Francophonie (Language Centre)

• dossier Mai 68 (Language Centre)

• Practice Use of French papers elaborated by students - Example 1 and Example 2

• lepointdufle.net an excellent site for French grammar and more

• "des banlieues"

• Études-littéraires.com (explore section "langue" in particular). Great for grammar, rhetorical terms, stylistics

• Le Conseil International d'Études Francophones recommended texts

• Le français par les peintres

• The Académie Française' Questions de Langue

• Centre Images Initiation au vocabulaire de l'analyse filmique

• Mondesfrancophone.com's Excellent site on Francophone writers/intellectuals

• Radio France International (incorporating some excellent pedagogical resources)

• TV5 Monde's audiocasts

• Linguee's combined dictionary and search engine- a great resource for contextual translations

• Recommended books, films and links (useful for Cambridge applicants and students!) 

• French by Repetition. Great website for key expressions - created by a former MML student!

 

Paper Fr B2 Translation of French and Oral B

French to English

• Gustave Flaubert — Madame Bovary (Sylvia Huot)

• Gustave Flaubert — Madame Bovary II (Sylvia Huot)

• André Gide - Les Faux Monnayeurs (Sylvia Huot)

• Madame de Lafayette - La Princesse de Clèves (1678) (Sylvia Huot)

• De l'expérience - Michel de Montaigne (Sylvia Huot)

• François Rabelais - Pantagruel (Le Quart Livre) (Sylvia Huot)

 

Paper Fr B3 Translation into French and French though audio-visual media

Please also consult the FR11 section on cinema for more film reviews in French

English to French

• Talking it Over, 1992 - Julian Barnes (Christophe Gagne)

• Travels with my Aunt - Graham Greene

• The Golden Notebook, 1962 - Doris Lessing

• A Year in Provence - Peter Mayle (Michèle Hagard)

• Passage from Mister God this is Anna (Student example work: Camilla and Annie)

• Captain Corelli's Mandolin (Student example work: Natalie S. Higgins, Sarah Nye Jen Wainwright)

• Guy Browning – How to...lie in (Student example work: Paul Moyses and Latifa Sadoc)

• The Importance of Being Earnest and its translation (Student example work: George Walkden, Natasha Mann, Alastair Shaw )

• Alice in Wonderland, its translation and commentary (Student example work: George Austin-Cliff, Polly Dickson)

• The poetry and musings of Stanford Fraser

• The Académie Française' Questions de Langue

• Centre Images Initiation au vocabulaire de l'analyse filmique

• Radio France International (incorporating some excellent pedagogical resources)

• TV5 Monde's audiocasts

• Jenny Chamarette's site dedicated to Cléo de 5 à 7

Useful links

• Zéro de Conduite Cinéma blog

• Mock Exam and Corrections

• Online Videos (Language Centre)

• france5.fr

• INA clips, (analyse de l'image section, Jalons de l'histoire), a brilliant website to work on your FRAV skills and learn more about French History

• Teledoc: a brilliant website to work on your film analysis skills (dossiers pédagogiques, télé è la loupe)

• Études-littéraires.com

• A selection of five inspiring TED.com talks in French

 

Scheduled Paper Resources

Paper Fr 1 Introduction to the structures and varieties of modern French

General

• Languefrancaise

• Introduction à la linguistique française

• French language

• Études-littéraires.com

• SIL International French/English Dictionary of Linguistic Terms

Grammar and Structures

• French Language

Phonetics

Regional variation within France

• A general introduction to French linguistics

• Phonetics and phonology

• Phonetics (good for practising sound recognition)

• Délégation à la langue française (neologisms, borrowings in the 'vocabulaire et terminologie' section)

• Phonetics (regional variation within France)

• Occitan

French in the world

• Québécois

• Walloon

• On creoles

 

Paper Fr 2 French literary texts: an introduction

• Études-littéraires.com a great website to learn more about French literature

Cléo de 5 à 7

• muse.jhu.ed on Cleo and its context

• From Feminine Masquerade to Flâneuse: Agnès Varda's Cléo in the City Janice Mouton. Cinema Journal, Vol. 40, No. 2 (Winter, 2001), pp. 3-16

• Reflections in a Broken Mirror: Varda's Cléo de 5 à 7 Roy Jay Nelson. The French Review, Vol. 56, No. 5 (Apr., 1983), pp. 735-743

• Jenny Chamarette's site dedicated to Cléo de 5 è 7

Phèdre

• Medea, Poison, and the Epistemology of Error in Phèdre Amy Wygant. The Modern Language Review, Vol. 95, No. 1 (Jan., 2000), pp. 62-71

• Guérin's Painting of Phèdre and the Post-Revolutionary Revival of Racine James Henry Rubin. The Art Bulletin, Vol. 59, No. 4 (Dec., 1977), pp. 601-618

• Phèdre et les dieux Carlo François. The French Review, Vol. 35, No. 3 (Jan., 1962), pp. 269-278

• Politics and Passion in Phèdre C. E. Nelson. The French Review, Vol. 39, No. 1 (Oct., 1965), pp. 22-3

• Double Vision in Racine's Phèdre Thomas J. Braga. The French Review, Vol. 64, No. 2 (Dec., 1990), pp. 289-298

• Une Aventure théâtrale en classe: Phèdre Claude Abraham. The French Review, Vol. 60, No. 2 (Dec., 1986), pp. 209-215

• The "Labyrinthe": A Metaphor of Dramatic Action in "Phedre" Pierre Han. South Atlantic Bulletin, Vol. 34, No. 4 (Nov., 1969), pp. 15-17

• Phèdre, ou la liberté dans l'acte héroïque Michelle Coquillat. The French Review, Vol. 47, No. 5 (Apr., 1974), pp. 857-864

• The Space of Phedre Anne Ubersfeld, Mya Weinberger, J. Cairncross. Poetics Today, Vol. 2, No. 3, Drama, Theater, Performance: A Semiotic Perspective (Spring, 1981), pp. 201-210

• Deracination: Phedre's Monstrous Pedagogy Krystian Czerniecki. MLN, Vol. 103, No. 5, Comparative Literature (Dec., 1988), pp. 1012-1030

• Phedre: Le Monde reel et les mondes imaginaires dans le theatre de Racine Marie-Rose Carré. PMLA, Vol. 81, No. 5 (Oct., 1966), pp. 369-376

• Narcisse mortifié et mortifère: le regard chez Racine Renée Morel. The French Review, Vol. 64, No. 6 (May, 1991), pp. 921-933

• Sappho, c'est moi, selon Racine: Coming of Age in Neo-Classical Theater Joan Dejean. Yale French Studies, No. 76, Autour de Racine: Studies in Intertextuality (1989), pp. 3-20

• Les Faux Miroirs: The Good Woman/Bad Woman Dichotomy in Racine's Tragedies Véronique Desnain. The Modern Language Review, Vol. 96, No. 1 (Jan., 2001), pp. 38-46

• The Theatricality of Discourse in Racinian Tragedy Henry Phillips. The Modern Language Review, Vol. 84, No. 1 (Jan., 1989), pp. 37-50

Thérèse Raquin

• Thérèse Raquin et Manet: harmonie en gris Jurate D. Kaminskas. The French Review, Vol. 57, No. 3 (Feb., 1984), pp. 309-319

• The Mirror, The Window, and The Eye in Zola's Fiction Philip Walker. Yale French Studies, No. 42, Zola (1969), pp. 52-67

L'Heptaméron

• Aspects of the Psychology of Love in the Heptameron Mary J. Baker. The Sixteenth Century Journal, Vol. 19, No. 1 (Spring, 1988), pp. 81-87

• Gendered Virtue, Vernacular Theology, and the Nature of Authority in the Heptameron Carol Thysell. The Sixteenth Century Journal, Vol. 29, No. 1 (Spring, 1998), pp. 39-53

• Platonism - Myth or Reality in the Heptameron? Robert W. Bernard. The Sixteenth Century Journal, Vol. 5, No. 1 (Apr., 1974), pp. 3-14

• Feminine Authority in the "Heptaméron": A Reading of Oysille Paula Sommers. Modern Language Studies, Vol. 13, No. 2 (Spring, 1983), pp. 52-59

• Fictional Truth and the Prologue of the "Heptameron" Sylvie L. F. Richards. Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature, Vol. 48, No. 1 (1994), pp. 61-76

• Magdalen's Skull: Allegory and Iconography in Heptameron 32 Francois Rigolot. Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 47, No. 1 (Spring, 1994), pp. 57-73

• Marguerite de Navarre's Heptaméron: The Case for the Cornice Paula Sommers. The French Review, Vol. 57, No. 6 (May, 1984), pp. 786-793

• Vision and Voyeurism in the "Heptaméron: Re-Reading the 43rd Novella" Paula Sommers. Modern Language Studies, Vol. 22, No. 1 (Winter, 1992), pp. 88-95

• Realism and Closure in the "Heptameron": Marguerite de Navarre and Boccaccio John D. Bernard. The Modern Language Review, Vol. 84, No. 2 (Apr., 1989), pp. 305-318

• Death's Desire: Sensuality and Spirituality in Marguerite de Navarre's "Heptaméron" Richard Regosin. MLN, Vol. 116, No. 4, French Issue (Sep., 2001), pp. 770-794

• Didacticism and the Heptaméron: The Misinterpretation of the Tenth Tale as an Exemplum M. J. Baker. The French Review. Special Issue, No. 3, Medieval and Renaissance Studies (Autumn, 1971), pp. 84-90

• The Heptaméron and the Foundation of Critical Narrative John D. Lyons. Yale French Studies, No. 70, Images of Power Medieval History/Discourse/Literature (1986), pp. 150-163

Les Lettres persanes

• La Pensée et l'action dans les Lettres persanes Bernard Picard. The French Review, Vol. 42, No. 6 (May, 1969), pp. 857-864

• The Would-Be Invisible Chain in Les Lettres persanes R. L. Frautschi. The French Review, Vol. 40, No. 5 (Apr., 1967), pp. 604-612

• Montesquieu the Novelist and Some Imitations of the "Lettres Persanes" F. C. Green. The Modern Language Review, Vol. 20, No. 1 (Jan., 1925), pp. 32-42

• Libertarian Demography: Montesquieu's Essay on Depopulation in the Lettres Persanes David B. Young. Journal of the History of Ideas, Vol. 36, No. 4 (Oct. - Dec., 1975), pp. 669-682

• Rereadings in Orientalism: Oriental Inventions and Inventions of the Orient in Montesquieu's "Lettres persanes" Lisa Lowe. Cultural Critique, No. 15 (Spring, 1990), pp. 115-143

• The Place and Sense of the "Outsider:" Structuralism and the Lettres Persanes Suzanne Gearhart. MLN, Vol. 92, No. 4, French Issue (May, 1977), pp. 724-748

• CRASSH Quentin Skinner Lecture 2024: William Selinger: Love and despotism in Montesquieu’s Persian Letters

 

Paper Fr 3 French literature, thought, and history, before 1300

• Andreea Weisl-Shaw's website for students of Fr 3

• Études-littéraires.com

 

Paper Fr 4 Occitan Literature, Thought, and History, before 1356

• Études-littéraires.com

 

Paper Fr 5 French literature, thought, and history, from 1300 to 1510

• Études-littéraires.com

 

Paper Fr 6 French literature, thought, and history, from 1510 to 1622

• The Société Française d'Etude du Seizième Siècle

• Epistemon

 

Paper Fr 7 French literature, thought, and history, from 1594 to 1700

• Eglal Henein, Deux visages de L'Astrée, critical edition of the first and second volume of Honoré d'Urfé's L'Astrée, 2005, 2007, 2010

 

Paper Fr 8 French literature, thought, and history, from 1690 to 1799

• Eighteenth-century resources

• Eighteenth-century studies

• From the University of Portsmouth: excellent overviews on some of the key historical aspects of the period you are studying

 

Paper Fr 9 French Literature, Thought and History from 1789 to 1898

• Dix-Neuf, the Society of Dix-Neuviémistes

• J.-K. Huysmans (1848-1907)

• L'Histoire de France par l'image

• ClicNet: Littérature francophone virtuelle du XIXe siècle

• Gallica - Images et textes du XIXe siècle (click on Découverte, then XIXe to access a list of C19 themes)

• Brown University Library Center for Digital Initiatives (on C19 Paris)

• 19th-Century French Studies Resources

• Le XIXème siècle (1815-1914)

• Balzac, La Comédie Humaine en ligne

• From the University of Portsmouth: excellent overviews on some of the key historical aspects of the period you are studying

• Le français par les peintres

 

Paper Fr 10 French Literature, Visual Culture, Thought and History from 1890 to 1958

• Gidiana.net

• Le site officiel Guillaume Apollinaire

• FR10: French Literature, History and Thought since 1890

• le magazine littéraire

• pennsound: an excellent site for French poetry

• From the University of Portsmouth: excellent overviews on some of the key historical aspects of the period you are studying

• Le français par les peintres

 

Paper Fr 11: Literature, Visual Culture, Thought and History in the French-speaking World Since 1945

• La Cinémathèque Bibliothèque du film

• Francophone Internet Resources @ Lehman College, CUNY

• Cadrage.net 1ère revue en ligne universitaire française de cinéma

• Cahiers du Cinéma.com

• Film-Philosophy.com

• Africultures Le Site et la Revue de Référence des Cultures Afraicaines

• Albert Camus (1913-1960)

• Equinoxes: a graduate journal of french and francophone studies

• Internet Movie Database

• Institut National de L'Audiovisuel

• le Film Francais.com

• île en île

• Littératures du Maghreb

• Senses of Cinema

• The Society for French Studies

• Sundance Institute

• Journal of Contemporary French and Francophone Studies

• Vacarme

• Forum des Images

• Collectif Littéerature

• Jean-Michel Maulpoix

• Littèrature contemporaine

• Tout sur le cinéma

• La Revue des Ressources

• le magazine littéraire

• Francophonie

• Jean Khalfa's Fanon Podcast

• pennsound: an excellent site for French poetry

• From the University of Portsmouth: excellent overviews on some of the key historical aspects of the period you are studying

• Le Conseil International d'Études Francophones recommended texts

• Mondesfrancophone.com's Excellent site on Francophone writers/intellectuals

 

Paper Fr 13 The French Language: Variation and Change

Language Contact

• Summer Institute of Linguists Languages in Contact Website

• Codeswitching Bibliography Database

• Foundation for Endangered Languages

• Podcast of Professor Peter Trudgill's talk "Languages in Contact and Isolation: Mature Phenomena and Societies of Intimates"

Regional French and Dialectology

• Accents de France

• Jerriais (1)

• Guernesiais

• Norman dictionaries

• The Anglo-Norman Correspondence Corpus

• Anglo-Norman On-line hub

• Continental Norman

• Sercquais

Language Planning

• Rapport Barère

• Rapport Grégoire

• Diwan

• Seselwa

History of the French Language

• Database of French texts

• Old French

• Histoire de la langue française

Language Endangerment

• UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger

• Podcast of Christopher Moseley's talk "Mapping Linguistic Endangerment: The UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger"