French History On-Line
Medieval
Early Modern
18th-19th Centuries
20th Century
General
Medieval
- IRHT Institut de recherche et d'histoire des textes.
- Ménestral: Ressources et outils documentaires sur Internet pour les médiévistes
- Institute for Medieval Studies at the University of Leeds
- Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies at Georgetown University. The first and still probably the most comprehensive collection of medieval resources
- Medieval Institute at Kalamazoo
- Paris at the time of Philippe Auguste: The site covers the urban planning history and everyday life of Paris.
- Voyage en Terre d'Oc, le catharisme : An extensive site on the Cathar religion and the Albigensian Crusade; it includes a timeline and images of some of the major towns: Albi, Carcassone, Toulouse, to name a few.
- The Avignonese Papacy
- Archaeological Dig at Lac de Paladru from the year 1000
- The Battle of Hastings By a confessed non-historian, a resident of Battle. Slow to download, big, baroque, and glitzy.
Early Modern
- Historians of Eary Modern France: Ongoing Research Projects
- The History of Witchcraft Research Guide: University of Pennsylvania
- Le théâtre de la foire à Paris (by Barry Russell): Vous trouverez ici les débuts d'un tableau du théâtre de la foire, tel qu'il existait à Paris au 17e et, éventuellement, au 18e siècles. Textes et documents.
- Catalog of the Scientific Community: 16th and 17th Centuries : Part of the Galileo Project at Rice University. This is an impressive biography database with over 130 entries on French scientists of the period.
- The official Versailles web site
18th and 19th Centuries
- The French Revolution Edited by Lynn Hunt and Jack R. Censer, includes images, texts, maps, songs, and more
- The French Revolution : Articles from the Encyclopedia Britannica pertaining to the French Revolution.
- Dave Andress' French Revolution Links
- The Eighteenth Century: The International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies; bibliographies, notices of conferences and exhibitions, and some electronic texts, as well as links to other eighteenth-century web sites.
- Napoleon Series: An electronic magazine dedicated to Napoleon and his era. Includes links to other sites, a virtual tour of the Waterloo Battlefield, and the battle orders.
- Napoleon: Created by "La Fondation Napoléon," this site is dedicated to the civil and military achievements of the First and Second Empires. In the Documentation Center are articles with bibliographical references, images, and electronic texts.
- Napoléon Bonaparte: Empereur de France et des Français. This site is well organized and contains images, music, biographies, links and E-text.
- Northwestern University Library - Special Collections: The Siege and Commune of Paris, 1870-1871 : 1500 caricatures, 68 newspapers, hundreds of books and pamphlets, and about 1000 posters. A search engine on the site allows phrase searches.
- Tableau de Concordance entre Le Calendrier Republicain et Le Calendrier Gregorien : An easy tool for comparing the Republican calendar dates to Gregorian calendar dates.
- The Project for American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language (ARTFL)
- Les Scientifiques célèbres
20th Century
- Simon Kitson's Vichy Web Site From Dr Simon Kitson, French Studies, University of Birmingham. Lists, chronologies, and documentation for the Vichy regime.
- World War I: Trenches on the Web: An Internet History of the Great War: This is an excellent web page which offers biographies, battles, and atlases pertaining to the "Great War."
- Battle of Verdun: A private Dutch web site with maps, photos, links, but not documented
- The Schuman Plan Collection from Leiden University
- Paris Liberation : An extensive online chronology of events of August 1944 in France, this page was created a few years ago to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the liberation of Paris.
- World War II Commemoration: Grolier Online : Biographies and articles on Charles de Gaulle, Maginot Line, Henri Philippe Petain are available at this site.
- Radio Libre: La vie d'un radio clandestin en France pendant la dernière guerre
- Historical Archives of the European Communities
- Vietnam War Bibliography : While this site's bibliographies concentrate on U.S. involvement in Vietnam, there is also a bibliography on "World War II and the First Indochina War".
General
- Zoe Schneider's French History Website: Links to French History from Professor Schneider of Georgetown University
- WESS French Studies Web from the Western European Specialists Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries
- EDF: Histoire d'electricité
- L'Histoire du Tour de France: A chronology of the major events in the history of the Tour de France.
- Paris: Urban Sanitation Before the 20th Century: This site is devoted to the history of waste management in Paris.
- Paris Maps: See Paris Maps link for a collection of historical maps of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Paris.
- Histoire de la Provence: Short but informative histories on the major towns and villages in the Provence region.
- Directory of Royal Genealogical Data: Of interest are the complete genealogies of the monarchs of France, Duchy of Anjou, Aquitaine, Bourbonnaise, Brittany, Champagne, Normandy, Provence, and Toulouse down to the present time.