france:

• on first arriving in France – driving
• travelling by rail to and within France
• France’s western isles: Ile de Ré
• Rail Europe map of railway line routes
• hermès scarves
• mardi gras! carnival in Basque country
• what a hair cut! m & french pop/rock
• country life in france: the poultry fair
• bastide towns: monpazier, ‘pearl of england’
• bastide: beaumont-du-perigord
• the French umbrella & Aurillac
• kissing in France
• Germans in France

départements

interactive map of Aquitaine and Pays Basque

Les Landes (dept. 40)

• after the whirlwind, in les landes  
• its forestry industry 1: life before the forest
• its forestry industry 2: working in the forest : lumber
• its forestry industry 3: resin products
• the forest as seen by francois mauriac, and today
• places and playtime
• roundabout art of les landes
• frédéric bastiat—free markets
• fortified churches, mostly in Les Landes

Pyrénées-atlantiques (dept. 64)

• Pyrénées-Atlantiques 1 - the Département
• Pyrénées-Atlantiques 2 - Pays Basque
• Pyrénées-Atlantiques 3 - on the coast and the interior
• Pyrénées-Atlantiques - photos
• Pyrénées-Atlantiques - photos 2

The Pyrénées mountain range

Département 65: Hautes-Pyrénées

Charente Maritimes

• France’s western isles: Ile de Ré
• France’s western iles: Ile d’Oleron

• Marianne - a French national symbol
• Marianne part 2: town hall statues
• the calendar of the French Revolution
• la belle époque
• 
• dating old postcards
• centenary restoration: Grand Palais, Paris
  
  bridges and viaducts
  
• tallest, longest: Viaduct de Millau
• A fifth bridge coming to Bordeaux: Pont Bacalan-Bastide, a new vertical lift bridge
• a dream unfulfilled - the transporter bridge [pont transbordeur], Bordeaux
• Gustave Eiffel’s first work: the Eiffel passerelle, Bordeaux
• the 6th bridge at Rouen: Pont Gustave Flaubert, new vertical lift bridge
• 50 years old: Citroën DS
• the Citroën 2CV: a French motoring icon
• the calendar of the French Revolution

The Tour de France

• le Tour de France 1:
  the greatest show on Earth
• le Tour de France 2:
  preparing for the Great Day
• le Tour de France 3:
  the Great Day arrives
• le Tour de France 4:
  in the Pyrenées
• Le Tour de France : cycling tactics
• Le Tour 2005: the Armstrong years
• Le Tour 2006 - a new era starts
• Le Tour 2007 - shadowed by doping
• Le Tour 2008 -the race renewed
• The Tour de France, 2009
• The Tour de France, 2010
• The Tour de France, 2011
• The Tour de France, 2012
• Tour de France, 2013 - the centenary year!
• Tour de France, 2014 - English start, French continuation
• Le Tour: photo album 1
• Le Tour: photo album 2
• Lance Armstrong, Richard Virenque and Jan Ullrich, 2004
• Kloden, Armstrong, Basso, Ullrich and others power up the Col de Soulor, 2005

pages in French
les pages en français

These pages, translating hearing damage by loud music, children and television violence and now Highest, longest: the Viaduct de Millau, are new pages on the abelard.org site that are not in English. It is intended that foreign language translations of abelard.org pages will be expanded over time as resources become available.

• Les troubles de l'ouïe et la musique forte
• le plus haut, le plus long : le viaduc de Millau,
• Les enfants et violence de télévision,
• Pourquoi la logique Aristotélicienne (Descartienne) ne fonctionne pas,
• Systèmes de classification de l'homme, en utilisant l'exemple de la classification des « organismes vivants » (taxonomie)

theme parks
• cité d’espace, Toulouse
• cité de l'espace 2: photos
• futuroscope, Poitiers
• futuroscope 2:
  photos
• volcanoes at vulcania, Puy-de-Dome

• short biography of
  Pierre (Peter) Abelard
• Le Pallet, birthplace of Pierre Abelard
• Ile de France, Paris: in the context of Abelard and of French cathedrals
• where Pierre Abelard taught: Sainte Geneviève and Saint Etienne, Paris