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Turn the pages of the guide.
 
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Other Resources
France.Com: a website for the aspiring Francophile, the text is English, the culture is Francaise.
The Cultural Explorer: a fun site organized around a virtual Eiffel Tower with intelligent information on France.
The Paris Pages: a huge site devoted completely to cultural information in the capital city.
The Virtual Baguette: an opinionated website that puts a humorous spin on all things French.
The Louvre: no list of France links would be complete without a visit to the world's largest and grandest museum.
Samizdat: a site which covers countercultural happenings. (In French)
Pariscope: a weekly guide to all the current cultural events in Paris.
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The Berkeley Guides:
Berkeley Guide to Europe:
France
France sits squarely in the middle of Western Europe; according to many of the French and assorted Francophiles, it might just as well be the center of the universe. France has been a center of European intellectual life ever since the founding of the Sorbonne in Paris in the 13th century. Over the next few centuries, the entire Western world began to adopt the French language and aspects of French culture. Then, with the French Revolution of 1789 and Napoléon's frolic over the European continent, France established herself as a world political, as well as cultural, power--a fact the proud French obviously have not forgotten, although the rest of the world may have.
In more recent years, the tables have turned, and foreign cultures have been invading France. Young French people often emulate foreigners in the way they dress, the music they listen to, and even in their manner of speaking. The French pay exorbitantly for American clothes in thrift stores; old American Levis are the current fashion passion. Buskers sing Bob Dylan tunes in the streets and American blues bands brood in the bars. The French even give their nightclubs pseudo-English names: Le Crazy Boy, Le Nickel Chrome, Studio Circus, Le Manhattan. Increasingly, the French are abandoning baguettes for Big Macs; there are currently more than 100 McDonald's in France, including a 400-seater on the Champs-Elysées.
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