France
ABOVE: Montmartre, Paris, with
Sacre Coeur in the background.
General Tourist Information
Maison de la France (French
Government Tourist Office)
Use the FGTO's international portal to reach official French tourism sites in
Britain, Canada, the United States, and elsewhere.
European National Tourist
Offices: France
europeforvisitors.com
Order printed literature or get answers to questions by using the addresses and
other contact information in my European
National Tourist Offices directory.
France for Freebooters
If you're "an independent traveler with adequate means, but without
extravagant tastes," Mike Kingdom-Hockings will show you places you'd never
find on your own.
An American in France
Jeff Steiner's site is geared toward U.S. visitors and expats, but much of its
information--such as the
Driving in France
section--is useful to anyone.
VVdeFrance.com
This French-language directory has links to official sites for cities,
towns, and villages throughout France.
Accommodations
Venere: France
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Discount rates for hotels, vacation apartments, and guesthouses in all price
categories. Properties are located in dozens of French cities and resorts.Chez Tim
Chinon, France (in the Loire Valley, 45 minutes from Tours) is the
location of this renovated 200-year-old house with a garden and swimming pool.
The house can be rented by the week, month, semester, or year.
Cote d'Azur
GuideRiviera.com
The French Riviera's official tourism site has information on travel throughout
the four seasons.
Cruising
A Barge Cruise in
France
europeforcruisers.com
Our 8-page review of La Renaissance from Go Barging / European
Waterways Ltd. is
accompanied by an 82-page, day-by-day
barge cruise
photo gallery.
Viking River Cruises: Southern
France
europeforcruisers.com
Follow the Viking Burgundy from Chalon-sur-Saône
to Avignon, with stops in Lyon, Arles, and other inland ports. My
192-page report includes a cruise review and
photo gallery.
Oceania Regatta:
Bordeaux
europeforcruisers.com
This port and sightseeing report is from a 28-page review of an
Oceania Regatta cruise
from Dover to Barcelona.
Language and Culture
French Language
Laura Lawless site provides a vast collection of resources and links
for beginning or advanced students of the French language. (But watch out for
popup and popunder ads.)
Fodor's Living Language
Hear common travel phrases through your computer's loudspeakers in French or
another language.
Living and Working in France
See Living and Working - Other
Countries
Languedoc
The Languedoc Page
Follow the sun to France's cowboy country.
Lyon
Lyon Convention &
Visitors Bureau
The city of Lyon is both a gastronomic mecca and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Maps
SpyMaps: France
europeforvisitors.com
View a quick-downloading CIA map of the country, then use the related links to
see other maps and geographical information.
Paris
Paris for Visitors
parisforvisitors.com
Plan your trip with hundreds of transportation and sightseeing articles,
travel links, photos, and other resources at our Parisian "site within the
site."
Provence
About Provence
Frieda Lekkerkerker's site has a "place of the month," interviews with
visitors to Provence, local tourism links, and more.
Photos
Paris Photos
parisforvisitors.com
More than 200 captioned pictures from from my European
Photo Galleries, where you'll also find pictures for other cities in
Europe.
FreeFoto.com:
France
Ian Britton's FreeFoto.com has dozens
of professional-quality photos taken in Paris and other parts of France. The
images are free for personal use and for sale to commercial users.
Spas
Spas
in France
A generous collection of links from Julie Register's Spas.
(But watch out for popup and popunder ads.)
Theme Parks
European
Amusement and Theme Parks: France
Robert H. Brown of Theme Park City
links to parks and zoos.
Transportation
SNCF
Use the French National Railways interactive timetable to
plan your domestic or international train travel.
European Rail Passes
europeforvisitors.com
A rail pass can save you money if you're
covering a lot of territory by train. Eurailpass is just one of your options:
other possibilities include national and multi-country passes or Rail & Drive.
Short-Term Car
Leasing
europeforvisitors.com
If you'll be driving in Europe for 17 days or longer, you can save money
and avoid insurance hassles with a leased Renault or Peugeot.
Auto Europe
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Rent cars, RVs, and cell phones from a company with nearly 50 years in
Europe.
For more transportation
advice, see our transportation
articles and Europe Travel Planner:
Transportation links.
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