Back to Most recent 'Current sites of the week ' 2010 onwards
Previous sites of the week:
Language Exchange The objective is to bring together native English speakers and native French speakers giving both parties the opportunity to have a conversation or exchange e-mails in their second language.
Ressources terminologiques pour la traduction (Délégation Générale à la Langue Française et aux langues de France)
Journées européennes du Patrimoine 20 & 21 septembre 2008, incl. Moment musical devant l'Hôpital Laennec : 15h.-18h., le 20 septembre 2008
Rentrée scolaire 2008 : coût des fournitures scolaires essentielles Ministère de l'Education nationale
Language Café the concept, the movement
SIBMAS list of museums, libraries, arts and cultural centres in Paris and in France town by town, especially re: performing arts
Le Tour de France 2008 en direct
Internet resources for Olympic studies
Routes into Languages Aim: increasing the take-up of languages from schools to university - regional consortia established where groups of universities will work together, with schools and colleges, to enthuse and encourage people to study languages. National networks promote translation and interpreting as careers.
Librairie Ulysse Travel bookshop ("Au coeur de l'Ile Saint Louis, la première librairie au monde à s'être consacrée au voyage")
Académie française and Institut de France with links to the other Académies
On-line Dictionnaire des synonymes "Un tout nouveau dictionnaire des synonymes en ligne réunissant quelque 300.000 synonymes et 50.000 antonymes méthodiquement répartis sur 36.000 entrées; regroupe les synonymes et antonymes par sens."
Fred Vargas The Independent's interview with the French crime writer and twice winner of The Crime Writers' Association's International prize; also portrait in L'Express
The Times Stephen Spender prize for poetry translation 2008
The Free Dictionary by Farlex, includes thesaurus, specialist dictionaries, acronyms, idioms, encyclopaedia and more
Anne Roumanoff's satirical take on the Sarko-Bruni affair on French public service television
Musée national du sport now re-opened, includes link to sports databases
www.webooks.co.uk new site featuring ebooks (pdf) on the practicalities of buying property, living, and working in France and Spain, including The Homeowner's Guide to Living in France, Buy to Let in France and Starting a Business in France
Plantu's home site (Le Monde's political cartoonist)
nonfiction.fr ce site d'actualité des idées et de critiques des livres, animé par un collectif de chercheurs et de journalistes, propose des comptes rendus de livres de " non-fiction " et d'articles autour des sciences sociales et humaines.
Apollinaire reading 'Le Pont Mirabeau' on www.ubu.com resource centre for avant-garde literature and art
Louis-Jean.Calvet personal site of sociolinguist and one of best writers on history of 'chanson'
North-East-Life all you need to know for living in, visiting, and doing business in the north-east of England
Théâtre Sans Frontières based in North-East England
Rugby World Cup 2007 page web officielle ; and Fédération Française de Rugby
Etudiants : bien se préparer pour dénicher un logement Le Monde article on finding accommodation in France (+ links to http://www.adele.org/ and http://www.pap.fr/ )
France Football twice weekly magazine
La Pinacothèque de Paris 200 square metres of new exhibition space (expo: Roy Lichtenstein, du 15 juin au 23 septembre 2007)
So Foot compte rendu (Lucas de SoFoot) de la journée d’études sur le spectacle sportif 28 juin 2007 and So Foot homepage and their music radio
Tour de France started in London 7/7/2007
Les résultats du bac 2007 recherchez un candidat
Acrimed critique of media and its links with political world by independent professional association
Ségolène's "coming-out" France Inter interview
Histoire@Politique new academic review of contemporary history emanating from Sciences Po Paris, first issue on women in politics
Arrêts de jeu Le Monde's football blog by Erwan Le Duc
www.barbery.net Stéphane Barbéry's personal site with his French anagram generator and dictionary of rhyme, etc.
Copainsdavant.com French site with similar aims to Friends Reunited, but with more ads.
Les noms de famille les plus portés en France (L'Internaute)
Quiz : Etes-vous Ségo ou Sarko? (Le Monde)
Les sites des candidats du 2e tour Ségolène Royal; Nicolas Sarkozy
frenchleague.com an English-language site launched by the French Football League (LFP) in January 2007
The Brussels Declaration: A Vision for Europe a declaration of liberal, secular values in Europe, our common heritage
Conseil constitutionnel - site pages dedicated to 2007 Presidential election official candidates announced 17h30, 19 March 2007
Charles Bremner's blog Charles Bremner is Paris Correspondent for The Times
We are Football Association Cultures Mémoires Histoire - French academic articles on world and French football
9e Printemps des Poètes du 5 au 18 mars 2007 sur le thème 'le poème d'amour'
Lexilogos mots et merveilles des langues d'ici et d'ailleurs (site fascinated with words and dictionaries; links to many dictionaries on line)
Dossier Présidentielle de Radio France one of best sites covering forthcoming elections
France 24 new 24 hour international news channel in English or French or click on the live broadcast
Jacques Martin, animateur de télévision in Wikipédia en français
Montmartre in the Jazz Age CATI (Sorbonne) virtual site, incl. visit to the Lapin Agile
Paris en images Thousands of photos from City of Paris archives, telling history of the capital since 1850
Guardian article and links to videos of Ségolène Royal's "controversial" statements
Parisrama webcam clear views of Tour Eiffel, Tour Montparnasse and weather
Météo-Paris Paris and France weather with webcam links
Naked Translations Céline Graciet's blog on translation, with links to related sites
Flights to Lyon from various parts of Europe
French-English Glossary of Linguistic terms 7000 terms : gives the equivalent(s) in the other language. A special definitions section covers key concepts underlying French terminology, giving access to innovative aspects of francophone linguistic thought and methodology.
Google Actualités France French version of Google News at http://news.google.fr/
Zidane vs Materazzi - le jeu video by TonaZ on dotball.net, and "Zidane headbutt outrage" as seen from the point of view of various countries (The Register)
Les Cahiers du Football 'premier journal satirique pour les amoureux du ballon rond'
Dictionnaires et glossaires a huge list of on-line translation aids from Liensutiles.org
INA : Institut National de l'Audiovisuel: access to French TV's video archives some free some payable.
Les 23 Bleus pour la Coupe du Monde Raymond Domenech's squad for Germany
Désirs d'avenir - Ségolène Royal Ségolène Royal's home site - building her presidential programme
Samuel Beckett Centenary This Beckett site lists centenary events from April 2006
ViaMichelin European street map and route map finder; and English language version Michelin maps from street to Europewide
The Guardian's recent reports on France
Le Quartier français du village planétaire (Janice Paulsen); teachers and learners see the page Making French REAL
Renault Formula 1 World Champions
Instituto Cervantes New York (Spanish equivalent of Alliance française)
Alliance française de Newcastle upon Tyne
Rapport de la Commission d'évaluation du CIO pour les Jeux [Olympiques] de 2012 en français
New French government in Libération and in Le Monde
New York University Centre for French Civilisation and Culture
European Association for Sport management
SOUFFLE- Apprendre le français en France "18 French language schools signed up to a Quality Charter and undergo regular quality assurance inspections"
Olympique Lyonnais official site of Lyon soccer team about to become French champions for fourth time in succession
Alliance française Paris and Worldwide
UNESCO's Index Translationum the database of translated works across the world since 1979 on-line
European Audiovisual Observatory (Strasbourg) "The information portal for the audiovisual sector, a European public service organisation, founded 1992"
Orthonet Spelling and grammar help for the French (Conseil international de la langue française)
expatica.com News and analysis aimed at the English-speaking community in France.
BNF'S gallica site ever-growing library of digitized texts (out of copyright), includes links to photograph collections, e.g.Atget
Ellen MacArthur her team's site in French and English, audio clips of Ellen's reports in French and English [site now unavailable, Feb.2007]
Du Temps des cerises aux Feuilles mortes la chanson française de la fin du Second Empire aux années cinquante, includes recording, for example Reynaldo Hahn accompanying Arletty
Wordchamp vocabulary learning and Webdecoder translation reading aid.
Maison de la France Tourist Guide (for UK)
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Last updated 21 March 2014 by Geoff Hare.
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