ABSTRACT
This chapter gives an overview of resources for students of French culture, including literature and cinema; it may be especially useful for undergraduates and postgraduates planning to write essays or dissertations. It also discusses those resources, such as reference works, magazines, newspapers, and scholarly journals, accessible in English-speaking countries and gives examples of helpful resources, including libraries, bookstores and videotheques in France. The chapter provides a digest of France on the Web, useful Internet sites that can be accessed anywhere from an on-line computer. Every city in France has municipal library branches open to the public. In Paris, the most user-friendly public library, the Bibliotheque publique d’information, is located at the Centre Pompidou on the rue Saint-Martin, a landmark called ’Beaubourg’. There is a large and growing amount of excellent material in French on the Web, but it is fair to say that France started off some four years behind the UK and further behind the US in this area.
