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Posters 2 France
Arts and Crafts
Description: Michelle offers a great selection of French posters: art, vintage, landscape, etc.
Special Features: Take a bird's eye view of Paris in 1630 or get a Métro map for your office wall!
www.posters2france.com

Francophile Forum
Boards and Chat
Description: A civil, and civilized, forum to discuss everything French: culture, politics, food, trips, restaurants and more. Very friendly, helpful and knowledgeable group.
Special Features: I post there...
forums.delphiforums.com/PBProvence/start/

Chocolate and Zucchini
Cuisine
Description: Clotilde Dusoulier is a young food writer who lives in Paris. Her very engaging blog is filled with delicious recipes, interesting vignettes about French cuisine, and her own culinary adventures.
Special Features: Don't miss Clotilde's bloxicon: a fun way to learn French food terms.
www.chocolateandzucchini.com/

Alliances Françaises in the US
Culture and Language
Description: Alliance Française offers cultural events and language classes all over the USA: find your local chapter here.
Special Features: Detailed background information on the lecturers involved in this year's lecture series.
www.afusa.org

Black Coat Press
Culture and Language
Description: An independant publisher that aims to bring French popular literature to an American audience. Specializes in mystery, fantasy, science-fiction and comic books.
Special Features: Check out Maurice Leblanc, Paul Féval and a new unabridged and illustrated edition of Gaston Leroux's Phantom of the Opera.
www.blackcoatpress.com

French culture in the USA
Culture and Language
Description: A great source of information on French art, books, cinema, music, news and the performing arts in the USA.
Special Features: Features a monthly listing of French films showing on American TV: broadcast, cable, and Pay-per-view.
www.frenchculture.org/

French-Word-A-Day
Culture and Language
Description: Learn a new word everyday! A useful phrase, inspiring quote and an anecdote on life in France are also included. All words are archived on the web site or you can sign up to get a daily e-mail delivery.
Special Features: Check out the great pictures in the slide show.
www.french-word-a-day.com/

Momes.net
Culture and Language
Description: A great site for francophone kids, their parents and French teachers. Of special interest is a section with hundreds of traditional French children songs, their lyrics and the melodies.
Special Features: You can even print sheet music of many favorite comptines.
www.momes.net/comptines/index.html

Paroles
Culture and Language
Description: Find and print the lyrics of 20,000 French songs: Piaf's L'Hymne à l'Amour, Souchon's Foule Sentimentale, Christmas songs...
Special Features: Search by title, artist or category.
www.paroles.net

Sacramento French Film Fest.
Culture and Language
Description: The 6th Sacramento French Film Festival will take place at the Crest Theater on 7/20, 7/21, 7/22, 7/28, and 7/29/2007. Programming details will be announced in June.
Special Features: Joie de Vivre is a sponsor of this exciting event!
www.sacramentofrenchfilmfestival.org/

Online Conversion
Fun and Useful
Description: Convert just about anything to anything else. A very useful site for the math, metric or memory-challenged among us...
Special Features: Don't miss the Fun Stuff!
www.onlineconversion.com

Voila Translation
Fun and Useful
Description: Copy and paste French text to translate into English, or vice-versa.
Special Features: Will also translate all text of a specified Web page without altering graphics or layout.
tr.voila.fr

e-gravures
Fun and Useful
Description: An interesting twist on virtual postcards: this site offers a broad selection of 19th century gravures.
Special Features: I especially like the reproductions of the old métiers.
www.e-gravures.com

Pétanque America
Sports and Hobbies
Description: A large, and well-priced selection of O'But boules for amateurs and professionals.
Special Features: The rules of the game are posted. Check out pétanque on the moon...
www.petanque-america.com

French Webcams
Travel and Tourism
Description: Check out the tide at Mont St. Michel, the snow at Chamonix or the traffic on the Paris Boulevard Périphérique...
Special Features: Hundreds of webcams set up all over France, in large cities and small resorts.
www-compat.tf1.fr/livecam//

Intimate France
Travel and Tourism
Description: Specializes in organizing and leading regional tours for small groups.
Special Features: Download their free French Food Glossary; it's quite complete. You'll always know what's on the menu... or in your plate.
www.intimatefrance.com

La France Pittoresque
Travel and Tourism
Description: An excellent source of information on the history, geography, culture of smaller French towns and villages.
Special Features: Also: legends, traditions, old trades, clothing throughout the centuries.
www.france-pittoresque.com

Photos de Villes
Travel and Tourism
Description: Want to check what your Paris hotel or rental looks like? Enter an address: see a photo of the facade!
Special Features: Also works for addresses in Lille, Lyon, Marseille, Nantes, Nice, and Toulouse.
photos.voila.fr

Walking Tours of France
Travel and Tourism
Description: This Atlanta-based company offers a very extensive selection of walking tour guidebooks, hiking trail guides, and maps (such as IGN, and all Michelin products). Whether you want to do a randonnée in the Pyrénées or thoroughly explore Aix-en-Provence, their guides will help you plan your trip.
Special Features: You'll find walking tour guidebooks for over 100 French cities and Paris arrondissements.
www.francewalkingtours.com