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This page will feature a variety of products, services, entertainment and resources of interest to francophiles. In many cases, these offers are totally free; others may require a shipping & handling charge or other commitment. You may be required to register, and to provide personal information, in order to qualify for certain offers. A number of links will take you to web sites not affiliated with DiscoverFrance.net. We assume no liability for the privacy practices of other sites; please read carefully any conditions or terms associated with offers.
Check back often, as this page will continually grow to accommodate new items we feel may interest our visitors. By all means, if you discover something free (or cheap) which would appeal to students, educators, erstwhile travelers, and francophiles everywhere, please let us know!
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FranceGuide Magazine
The French Government Tourist Office publishes a new edition annually of this colorful and informative magazine (96 pages). Available in English or Spanish version. Request your own free copy, or information on any region of France, using this form.
FranceGuide for the Jewish Traveler
The new and re-designed multi-color publication is a comprehensive guide covering the history of the Jewish community in France (24 pages). Request your own free copy, using this form.
Gay Friendly France
France is the gay-friendly destination par excellence. You'll find adventure, romance and playfulness — combined with that indescribable French flair — on almost every corner. Order your free copy of the 22-page booklet, using this form.
Good Value Guide
Order your free copy, using this form.
Welcome to the Vineyards of France
Order your free copy, using this form.
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Maps of French Cities
ViaMichelin provides a convenient method for generating maps of any region in France, and permits one to zoom in to street-level detail. A similar service is offered by Mappy.fr.
Paris Streets
If you know which Métro stop you'll be heading to, RATP provides hundreds of detailed neighborhood maps in color, showing every conceivable street, landmark, public park and body of water. Suitable for printing, all maps are in PDF format and require Acrobat™ Reader, free from Adobe.
Paris Transportation
The RATP offers a series of wonderfully detailed colored maps which you can print out, showing all the public transportation routes in Paris, including daytime bus routes, nighttime bus service (Noctambus), the Paris Métro, RER, and RATP-SNCF. In addition, they offer maps detailing which services, routes, and stations are handicapped-accessible (PBS — Personnes à Besoins Spécifiques). All maps are in PDF format and require Acrobat™ Reader, free from Adobe.
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Musique Française Pour le Monde — More Than 100 Radio Stations Live From France
Want to know what's pop in Paris, what's nice in Nice, or if you can hear Cher in Cherbourg? Head to tv-radio.com, where you'll find streaming feeds of music, news, and information from 100 different French radio stations.
The programming is extensive and varied. Browse music by station under "Web Radios" or "Tout Radio France"; or to hear local radio shows, use the map of France at "Toutes les Radios." Click on "Tous les Dom-Tom" to hear French-based radio from Guadeloupe, Guayana, Martinique, New Caledonia, and other exotic locales. And "Programmes Musiceaux" focuses on French groups, soul music, pop music, great singers, and classical favorites.
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French Music Downloads
MP3.com offers hundreds of house, trance, pop and other music downloads from France. No registration required. |
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QT bridge
If online (and downloadable) adventure games, puzzles and brain teasers are your thing, try this excellent French site, featuring QuickTime VR masterpieces such as Locus (from the creative minds of Francis Gorgé and Abdul Alafrez), or travel virtually to Guadeloupe to find hidden treasure. Most files require QuickTime 4.1.2 or higher, and a minimum 5.x version of the Explorer browser. |
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Carte-Postale
A resident of the charming seaport of Honfleur in Normandy, Bertrand Brelivet has created a wonderful site (in French & English) where one can view hundreds of scenic and vintage French postcards, with the option for sending many of them — along with a customized message — to your friends and colleagues via e-mail. |
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Scenes of France
The French Government Tourist Office has assembled a collection of colorful scenic vistas which you can use for desktop wallpaper — in either 800x600 or 1,024x768 sizes (jpg or bitmap formats) — plus some Windows-compatible screensavers. |
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Euro Fonts
Adobe is doing its share to support its customers in the new, global economy by offering three free, downloadable font families for the Euro symbol (in sans-serif, monospace, & serif styles), which are particularly useful for desktop publishing. Each PostScript® Type 1 font comes with regular, bold, italic, and bold italic variations.
Photos of the World
Patrick Verdier offers a generous collection of royalty-free photos to use as custom wall-paper on your computer desktop, for a travel scrapbook, homework assignment, web page, and any other personal or professional use.
Sherlock Search of DiscoverFrance.net
Apple Macintosh users on MacOS 8.5 and higher can download this free plug-in, which will add a complete index of all DiscoverFrance.net pages to the Sherlock search engine. Takes less than a minute to install, using the simple instructions.
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"France Today" & "Journal Français"
Every month, DiscoverFrance.net draws two names of people who subscribe to our free e-Bulletin, and awards them complimentary 1-year subscriptions to either France Today or Journal Français. Published by FrancePress, these two excellent publications offer a mix of French current events and special features. To enter the drawing, simply use this form to request our periodic e-Bulletins, which contain excerpts and links to recent news articles, fashion, food, and shopping tips. Note: Even if your name is not drawn for the 1-year magazine subscription, everyone will receive a free sample issue by postal mail! (Must be 18 years of age and a U.S. resident to qualify.) |
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Francophile Webmasters
As a webmaster hosting a francophile web site, perhaps you've been dissatisfied with the long URL your visitors must try to remember (like "http://www.geocities.com/albertson/vaux_le_vicomte.html" or worse!). Are you (and your visitors) vexed by the series of unstoppable pop-up ad windows and web bugs that plague every page of your site, dictated by the hosting service you use? Are you hosting your site with your ISP or AOL, and running out of your allotted disk space? If you answered 'yes' to any of these, perhaps it's time you considered hosting a real web domain with an easy-to-remember name, lots of server space (20-50MB or more), a CGI scripts library, personalized e-mail addresses, and no forced ads or web bugs! We can get you started with a FREE leased domain, if you host your site through DiscoverFrance.net.
Available free domains presently include: delightfulparis.com, discoveralsace.net, discoverauvergne.net, discoverbrittany.net, discoverburgundy.net, discoverchampagne.net, discoverloire.net, discoverloire.com, discovernormandy.net, discoverprovence.net, discoverprovinces.net, francekiosk.net, francekiosk.com, francekiosk.org, francekiosque.net, francekiosque.com, francekiosque.org, francexpress.org, francetravelguide.net, francetravelguide.org.
Take your pick, and the use of the domain is free, for as long as you host your site through us! No domain registration fees to pay. If you'd like more information, send us a description of your site, and we will provide you all the details and hosting options. |
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