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Famous People - Personnages Célèbres

Science, Inventors | French writers | French Actors

French Artists | People in History | The French Revolution

Science, Inventors

http://www.rsb.org.au/braille.htm Information about Louis Braille who invented Braille.

http://www.greatbuildings.com/architects/Gustave_Eiffel.html The famous architect and Engineer.

http://ambafrance-ca.org/HYPERLAB/PEOPLE/_index.html French embassy in Canada link about famous scientists.

French actors

http://frenchfilms.topcities.com/index2.html Good links to French movies and actors.

http://www.theatrehistory.com/french/actors.html Lists famous actors and actresses past and present.

http://www.yourencyclopedia.net/Famous_French_people#Actors/Actresses A very long list of people on this site!

http://www.101language.com/foreignvids-fren-tautou.html A site on Audrey Tatou.

http://www.shady-acres.com/gerard_d/ Gerard Depardieu

http://www.yourencyclopedia.net/Famous_French_people#Filmmakers and a site for the cinéastes!

French writers (poetry/ novels…)

http://www.who2.com/victorhugo.html Victor Hugo, author of Les Misérables and the Hunchback of Notre Dame.

http://www.intelligentsianetwork.com/frenchwriters/frenchwriters.htm Links to writers and quotes.

http://www.infoplease.com/ce5/CE029350.html All about the fable writer La Fontaine

http://kids.infoplease.com/ce5/CE029350.html All about La Fontaine.

http://kirjasto.sci.fi/moliere.htm the great classic comedy playwright of France.

http://www.dargaud.com/front/home/default.aspx A link to the publishing house whose Bandes Dessinées cover Asterix and many others.

http://www.tintin.be/The official Tintin site.

http://www.vttoth.com/verne.htm More about Jules Verne

French Artists (Matisse, Monet, Manet, David, Rodin, Renoir, Cezanne, van Gogh, etc.)

http://metalab.unc.edu/wm/paint/auth/ for a big list of painters - BUT many are NOT French

http://infohost.nmt.edu/~sconrad/artistfr.htm Has many links to artists under the type of art .

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Famous French person/people in History

http://www.assumption.edu/HTML/Faculty/Gallo/Louis.html Louis XIV, the Sun King

http://www.ezwebsite.org/Page.asp?PID=911 This site offers many links to other sites with a great variety of famous people.

http://www.lucidcafe.com/library/95nov/antoinette.html Marie Antoinette - the tragic life of the Queen of France.

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/2WWmoulin.htm Jean Moulin the leader of the French Resistance in WWII, regarded as one of France's greatest men.

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/4934/rixmain.html A site dedicated to Vercingetorix and the Celts.

http://www.euronet.nl/users/wilfried/ww2/degaulle.htm Charles de Gaulle.

http://www.fact-index.com/n/na/napoleon_i_of_france.html the Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon_I_of_France The Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte

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The French Revolution - people or events

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Revolution Just about every theme is covered in this site.

http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/F/FrenchR1e.asp another global site on the Revolution

http://www.napoleonguide.com/guillotine_louis.htm The sad end of Louis XVI.

http://www.historyguide.org/intellect/louis_trial.html The sad end of Louis XVI.

http://www.napoleonguide.com/marieant.htm Marie Antoinette, and the French Revolution.

http://www.chateauversailles.fr/en/240_Marie-Antoinette.php Marie Antoinette's life at Versailles.

http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0831824.html Marie Antoinette's biography.

And .... if all else fails, try this one!

http://globegate.utm.edu/french/ Tennessee Bob's Famous French Links. A 4 500 link super site!! Themes include: books, literature, art, music, films, history, tourism, language, media, education and ...... and ......

Patricia Barry 11 October, 2005 15:37