International Francophonie Day / French language day - share our favourite resources!

International Francophonie Day (French: Journée internationale de la Francophonie) is observed within the International Organization of La Francophonie's 77 member states every March 20 to celebrate the French language and Francophone culture

Find out more on the official website
and on the UN website

find out how many people speak French Worldwide in this 2018 report by the Observatoire Francophonie. Lots more great data and infographics on this from the main website


Our favourite French Language resources - all these are free!

Gallica from the Bibliotheque Nationale de France thousands of free historic books and images

from colouring books to the social history of cooking and recipe books

Institut National de l'Audiovisuel
100,000 radio and television programmes available to download.
includes free aces to some historic adverts. and dossiers on politics, economic and society in which many individual clips are free.

Culturethèque
from the the Institut français du Royaume-Uni,register to get free acess to online books, magazines and journals including those for french language learners.

Theses.Fr Portail des thèses confié à l’ABES included theses in preparation.

Persee free ejournal articles.  lUniversité de Lyon, du CNRS et de l'ENS de Lyon