Culturethèque is an online platform offering French cultural content such as e-books, films and audio books. Published by the Institut français du Royaume-Uni, the mission statement of this cultural cooperation tool is to present the best of French cultural events happening today in order to promote the presence of the French language online. Register with the site to access all its content for free.
Over a million free books, journals, manuscripts and images, mostly in French and published before 1900, digitised by the Bibliothèque Nationale de France.
Offers an online catalogue, description of collections and a virtual tour, including illuminations from the Manuscripts department. Some information in English.
Allows you to find a library in France via a searchable database of libraries in France and to locate a copy of a book via a union catalogue which searches across university and public library catalogues and that of the BNF (Bibliothèque national de France).
The largest scholarly organization for Francophone history and culture in the Anglophone world. Its e-mail discussion forum is of great value for those who wish to keep up-to-date with the latest developments in research. Also produces a number of free online scholarly publications.
