French Web Resources

Jobs, Internships and Fellowships

• French Cultural Services: offers a range of fellowships, summer internships, summer cultural events grants, teaching assistantships (teach English in France for one year), and news about France
• U.S. State Department: has a listing of student internship programs and jobs available with the U.S. government or other international agencies--many of which require French skills!
• Council on International Educational Exchange: has information about language study, internships and work abroad, including a program that grants 3-month European work visas to students and recent graduates
• Overseas Jobs: an international job search site (research the company before accepting a position as there are no guarantees of reputability)
• Idealist: hosts listings of national and international nonprofit organizations with internship opportunities and job listings searchable by geographic location, language(s) required or skills

Language & Grammar

• Dictionnaire Bilingue: a French-English and English-French online dictionary
• Dictionnaire des Synonymes: a French thesaurus
• Dictionnaire Universel Francophone: a French dictionary that gives French definitions of French words (type a word and click on "chercher"; then select from the list that appears below)
• ARTFL Project: verb conjugations and other language tools
• About French: resources on language learning, grammar, speaking, etc.
  

Literature & Culture

• ABU Bibliotheque Universelle: online full-text of public domain texts in French--all the great French authors free!
• ClicNet: literary resources (e-texts, biographies, criticims) of French and Francophone literature
• Jack Lynch's 18th-Century Resources: online resources for Eighteenth-Century Studies
• Bibliotheque Tintamarre: online full-texts in French by authors from Louisiana
• Tambou/Tambour: trilingual Haitian literary and political magazine
• Litterature Quebecoise: information on Quebecois authors and texts
• Femmes Ecrivains et litteratures africaines: full-text of short stories, novellas and novels in French by African women writers