Living and working in France

Useful sites for people wishing to enter France to live and/or work:

SOS Net : Etrangers en France practical guide to residence and working formalities in France for non-French people

France diplomatie site an official government site includes
Venir en France formalities for entry into France to visit, live, work or study

Organisation internationale pour les migrations

Practical tips for Visiting France on French Embassy USA site - see header 'Going to France'

France Pratique for daily practicalities and 'démarches' of living in France

Vie-Publique.fr Portal for the French citizen's information on and participation in public life.

www.webooks.co.uk new site featuring ebooks (pdf) on the practicalities of buying property, living, and working in France and Spain, including Starting a Business in France

Accommodation and property

Tout sur le logement étudiant en France

De particulier à particulier ventes et locations immobilières: France's foremost private purchases and private let agency

Comprehensive Guides to buying property and living in France on a property-for-sale site claiming to be largest French property portal on the Internet (also contains other guides, e.g. on taxation, banking and letting out a property in France)

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

Sites à la disposition des Expatriés

Assemblée des Français de l’étranger l’Assemblée représentative des quelque deux millions de Français établis à l’étranger

Consulat général de France à Londres/French Consulate General administre la communauté française du Royaume Uni et assure la protection des ressortissants, personnes physiques et morales de la France, conformément aux lois du Royaume Uni (passeports, visas, vote ...)

Maison des Français de l'étranger for French expatriates living and working abroad

FIAFE (Fédération Internationale des Accueils Français et francophones à l'étranger). Créée en 1984 à Paris, la FIAFE a pour objectif de promouvoir l’accueil français dans le monde en aidant à l’adaptation des Français et des francophones nouvellement arrivés dans le pays d’accueil.

homeland-services.com (« L'Ange Gardien des Expatriés ») une socété de services « sur mesure » à la disposition des Expatriés (société privée)

Places and Maps

Maps of France (general and specialist) - FPSi long list, many free to re-use (France Property and Information site)

French Regions Links to French regions and towns; Maps of French regions and departments

Toutenville became Orange's En Ville Local information on major French towns and cities

Quid encyclopaedia Liens aux 36 851 Villes et villages de France (et Dom-Tom)

Nancy Tourist Office and web sites in Nancy area - twin town of Newcastle - see Newcastle City Council

Visit Newcastle Gateshead all the tourist needs to know, official

North-East-Life all you need to know for living in, visiting, and doing business in the north-east of England
Lorien's Newcastle site

Lyon-Mairie and Lyon David Gatwood's Lyon links [off-line since July 2007]

Paris: culture, leisure, tourism, Pariscope - What's On in Paris

Ville de Paris (Mairie), Paris: Office de Tourisme et des Congrès

Villes Lintern@ute site: chiffres clé/useful links on all French towns

Tourism and Transport

Flight to Lyon

ViaMichelin Michelin maps from street to Europewide; English version European street map and route map finder

Maison de la France Tourist Guide aimed at French; Maison de la France Tourist Guide (for UK)

Tourist Information Paris; Paris for Beginners

Need a hotel in Paris? or a cheaper Foyer/Hostel

RATP - Paris Metro & buses, incl. Plans de quartier, & Unofficial Paris metro site

French - SNCF - timetable, fares ... and National Rail UK rail timetable enquiries - Click Planning your journey

Air France flights; Air France flights departing from UK

Weather? Météo France; Météo-Paris; Average weather conditions (BBC) Paris, Lyon, Marseille, Bordeaux.

What's on in Paris? Bienvenue sur Pariscope

Tour of Paris by night Framboise's view of Paris by night Click on link & scroll horizontally, 360 degrees wrap-around rooftop view

France in Images Tennessee Bob's links to French image banks and image search engines

French wine regions; Wines of France

French Food and Easy French Recipes (France Property and Information site)

A.F.Touch Cuisine French foods and gastronomy, 2600 selected restaurants, 125 French specialities, free chef recipes ...

National Thalassotherapy federation

Travel France Guide to France including regions, towns, places of interest, activities and events. Also travel information. (justfrance.org)

France Today "The Magazine of French Culture & Travel"

Parisrama webcam clear views of Tour Eiffel, Tour Montparnasse and weather; Webcams France; Webcams Paris (some here no longer current)

Converters The Interactive Currency Table ; Metric converter: length, weight, volume, area, temperature, etc (FPSi - France Property and Information site)

Walking tours:
Walking Languedoc "themed self-guided walking tours in Languedoc and Provence France with a pay-as-you-go approach to hotels, car hire and luggage transfers"
Regordane Info Anglo-French portal of Le Chemin Saint-Gilles : LePuy en Velay to le Gard, the once important pilgrimage route
The Enlightened Traveller "designs original self-guided and group walking tour packages, plus opportunities for active learning, recreation and regeneration in Languedoc and in Provence"

Telephone numbers, post codes ...

Want to look up a French telephone number or address?

Try Voila.fr or: L'Annuaire Electronique: Les Pages jaunes (includes Les Pages blanches)

Want to look up a French post code?

ixquick.com International phone search

Copainsdavant.com French site with similar aims to Friends Reunited, but with more ads.

Academic Associations and Mailing lists

AFLS Association for French Language Studies, and afls-news mailing list

ALL - Association for Language Learning a major UK subject association for teachers of foreign languages.

The French Review official journal of the American Association of Teachers of French

ASMCF Association for the Study of Modern and Contemporary France

france-media, and FMRG (ex-NMRG) French Media Research Group

Francofil discussion list for university French Studies

Society for French Studies, Seventeenth Century French Studies, Society of Dix-Neuviémistes, Society for Francophone Postcolonial Studies

AUPHF Association of University Professors of French

Australian Society for French Studies

BCLA British Comparative Literature Association

H-France (Humanities On-Line)

Historians of Early Modern France

Society for the Study of French History UK and SSFH's Links to resources

Society for French Historical Studies North America

Western Society for French History (USA)

Francopholistes

JISCmail the National Academic Mailing List Service - it provides infrastructure for electronic mailing lists for learning, teaching and research communities on every subject.

Libraries and Book Shops (incl. on-line book shops)

Newcastle University Library home and search catalogue

La Bibliothèque Nationale de France (Bn-Opale plus);
La Bibliographie nationale française La Bibliographie nationale française rassemble les notices bibliographiques des documents édités ou diffusés en France, et reçus par la BnF au titre du dépôt légal; and
Catalogue collectif de France (CCFr) - regroupe les notices de 3900 bib. publiques (documents imprimés ET manuscrits).

BPI la Bibliothèque publique d'information, Centre Pompidou, Paris

Grenoble Academic Library Resources and search consolidated catalogue Odysée

SIBEL Catalogue des bibliothèques francophones (ENSSIB) French University and Public Libraries searchable catalogues

L'association des directeurs de bibliothèques départementales de prêt (ADBPD),
L'association des bibliothécaires de France,
ADBS - L'association des professionnels de l'information et de la documentation,
L'Association des archivistes français (AAF)

COPAC (academic and national library catalogue) Search UK research library consolidated catalogues

HERO OPACs - UK Higher Education Library Catalogues

The European Library Gateway to Europe's Libraries [ex-Gabriel]

Portico British Library

National Library of Scotland and Discover NLS its Quarterly Magazine [the Library has extensive French holdings]

National Library of Wales (Aberystwyth)

How do you refer to web information sources? Citing Electronic Sources (IPL - The Internet Public Library)

Online Bookshops

French Internet Booksellers: Chapitre.Com, Alapage.com, Amazon.fr, L'Ex-Libris, Decitre (Lyon)

La FNAC

Librairie Tekhne specialist communications & media bookshop, Paris

French Book News (French Book Attaché French Embassy in London)

AaZ books Librairie indépendante en ligne: livres anciens, rares et d'occasion

Bookstore-France (Philippe's books in English about France)

Que des livres Company specializing in book searches fro university lecturers and students [off-line July 2007]

Other: Amazon.com worldwide coverage or Amazon.co.uk for UK focus, and

Blackwell's Online Bookshop, and Waterstone's Online

Grant & Cutler Foreign Language Booksellers

Sports Books Direct / Sports Pages

Universities

France

List of titles and addresses of Universities in France includes link to their International Relations site

L'Annuaire des centres de FLE French University courses for French as a Foreign Language

Université d'Angers

Université Stendhal Grenoble

Université Lumière Lyon 2 and IEP de Lyon / Sciences Po Lyon 2
thèses Lyon 2 pionnière dans l'archivage et la diffusion électroniques des résultats de la recherche scientifique, Lyon 2 met en ligne sa 1000ème thèse électronique - l'intégralité des thèses de doctorat soutenues à Lyon 2 depuis l'an 2000; and archives.univ-lyon2.fr "un service d'archive ouverte à destination des étudiants avancés et des chercheurs. Qu'il s'agisse de mémoires, d'articles, de communications lors de colloques, de travaux inédits ou de textes publiés, chacun de ces documents fait partie du patrimoine scientifique de l'Université qu'il s'agit de transmettre au plus grand nombre dans le respect des normes de diffusion en vigueur."

Université de Nancy 2 and Pôle Universitaire européeen de Nancy-Metz [off-line? June 2008]

Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour

University of London Institute in Paris formerly British Institute in Paris

UK Universities

HERO official gateway to universities, colleges and research organisations in the UK

Sensitive Map of UK University sites one click to any UK University site [unavailable June 2008]

Tyne & Wear

Durham University School of Modern Languages and Cultures

Newcastle University School of Modern Languages and Newcastle University Alumni News

University of Northumbria Modern Foreign Languages

Sunderland University French Studies

Last updated 21st June 2008 by Geoff Hare.
Sites on this page last checked 21st June 2008 by Geoff Hare (geoff@frenchlinks.org.uk )

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