WEB SITES offer an encyclopaedia of information for holidaymakers planning their trips to France, with facts, photos and maps available at any hour of the day or night.
The French tourist office in Britain, Maison de la France, has its own website, www.fr-holidaystore.co.uk providing lots of regional and travel information as well as special offers from tour operators.
www.franceguide.com is Maison de la France's main web site with a diary of events around the country, special dossiers of activity holidays, sporting, cultural and unusual breaks, as well as links to many local and regional sites.
Using the search engine www.yahoo.fr and surfing to Tourisme, then France, and then Offices de Tourisme leads to links to nearly 100 sites for departements and cities.
The site www.tourisme.fr also connects directly to many regional Web Pages.
A fully comprehensive site for information on
every aspect of French life, from pollen counts
in the Auvergne to distilleries in Guadeloupe is

www.francekeys.com. Most regional websites feature sections on cultural and sporting events and local history, with maps and photographs and contact details.
   Many provide links to accommodation services in the area; some have fully comprehensive search engines to create itineraries, and suggestions for dining, sightseeing and activities tailor-made for each traveller.
   Other basic sites may be found on regional information bases.
www.visitprovence.com has a reservation and information service
www.tourism-touraine.com features a treasure hunt through the region's history and attractions, with links to the
www.bourgogne-tourisme.com site about the attractions of Burgundy's cuisine, cellars and sights.
www.cr-pays-de-la-loire.fr is a good information site and excellent background resource.
   Other specialised links are shown below:

OTHER REGIONS
www.tourisme-champagne-ard.com
interfrance.com/en/fc/franche-comte.html
www.cr-limousin.fr
www.corsica.sitec.fr
www.pyrenees-online.fr
www.cr-aquitaine.fr
www.cr-lorraine.fr
www.crt-riviera.fr
www.tourisme.enprovence.com
www.pas-de-calais.com
www.lyon-france.com
www.letouquet.com

PARIS PAGES
www.paris-touristoffice.com Excellent listings and information resource, an online edition of the Paris User's Guide.
www.paris.org
www.opera-de-paris.fr
www.pariscope.fr
www.timeout.com
www.perso.hol.fr/~dallain/wpar1/ pargif/s4a.htm (maps and streetfinder)
www.ratp.fr Public transport guide, with route planner, fares and interactive maps
www.parisbalades.com Recommended walks in Paris
Compuserve subscribers can access local information by entering Go France, then
Guide Spectacles

MUSEUMS AND SIGHTS
Many web sites for larger museums feature a virtual tour of the exhibits.
www.guidepo.com National listings
www.intermusees.com
www.pariserve.tm.fr/culture/00culture
www.cite-musique.fr
www.cite-science.fr
www.cnac-gp.fr The Pompidou Centre in Paris
www.cofrase.com/artforum/mamparis Museum of Modern Art
www.erotic-museum.com
www.fondation.cartier.fr
www.imarabe.org Institute of the Arab World
www.invalides.org
mistral.culture.fr/louvre
www.mnhn.fr Natural History Museum
www.musee-orsay.fr
www.smartweb.fr/fr/orsay
www.musee-rodin.fr
www.chateauversailles.fr
www.tour-eiffel.fr
www.bpi.fr
www.pasteur.fr
www.oda.fr/aa/musee-picasso
www.tourmontparnasse56.com

SHOPPING
www.galerieslafayette.com
www.smartweb.fr/printemps
www.monoprix.fr
www.smartweb.fr/carrousel
www.bhv.fr
www.virgin.fr
www.fnac.fr (Hi-fi stores and
ticket agencies)
www.frenchfashion.com
www.gibertjoseph.fr (Books)
www.prochain-of-limoges.com

PHONE DIRECTORY
www.pageszoom.com
On-line phone-book with detailed street maps and photos of each address.

NEWS
www.lemonde.fr
www.lefigaro.fr
www.liberation.fr
www.leparisien.fr
www.afp.com
www.reuters.fr
www.sipa.com Photo agency

WEATHER
www.meteo.fr
www.cairanne.iap.fr/saf  

TRANSPORT
www.ratp.fr (Guides to regional
and Paris metro)
www.sncf.fr
www.britrail.co.uk
www.eurostar.co.uk
www.raileurope.com
www.iti.fr (route planner)
www.autoroutes.fr
www.sytadin.tm.fr (traffic reports around Paris/Ile de France)

ACCOMMODATION
www.chatotel.com (chateaux and independent hotels)
www.fuaj.org (youth hostels)
www.hotels.fr
www.ini.fr
www.relaischateaux.fr
www.campingfrance.com
www.gites-de-france.fr

RESTAURANTS
www.bottin-gourmand.com
www.calvacom.fr/savoy

WEBCAMS
Live pictures of Paris 24 hours a day:
www.allocine.fr/live Champs-Elysees
www.topin.ch/fr/paris/default.asp Etoile
www.tfl.fr/livecam/cam Eiffel Tower.

SKI
www.skifrance.fr
www.satobus-alps.com Transport to and from Alpine ski resorts.
OTHER SITES
www.disneylandparis.com
www.mer-et-sante.asso.fr Thalasso
www.pratique.fr/net/tourisme
www.boujour.com
www.nordnet.fr/chti Northern France guide
www.onf.fr Forests
www.premier-ministre.gouv.fr Prime Minister's Office
www.elysee.fr Office of the President
www.alliancefrancaise.fr Language courses around the country

CYBERCAFES
Cybercafes allow you to surf the Internet, even collect your own emails from your home address, for a half-hourly fee. Listed below are a few of the many cafes with their own web sites. Most cities have more than one cybercafe. The organisations
www.cyberis.fr and www.francetelecom.fr/internet have "cyberstations" nationwide
Paris A dozen or more establishments include:
www.webbar.fr
www.cybercube.fr
www.internet-rivegauche.com
www.abcvoyage.com/travelcafe.html
www.bistrointernet.fr Inside the Galeries Lafayette department store
Aix-en-Provence: www.logidrake.com
Annecy: www.syndrome.com
Antibes: www.mediaglobe.fr
Beauvais: www.cci-oise.fr/cyber
Bordeaux: www.cyberstation.fr
Brest: www.multimania.com/brestnet/ableues
Cavalaire: perso.wanadoo.fr/cybercafe.cavalaire
Grenoble: www.neptune.fr/CyberNetCafe
Lisieux: www.cpod.com/monoweb/cybersta
Lyon: www.connectik.fr
Marseille: horsliites.gulliver.fr
Metz: www.i2m.fr/netcafe/netcafe.htm
Mont-de-Marsan: www.oxygene.fr
Montreuil: www.entrasite.fr
Morlaix: perso.wanadoo.fr/moa
Nantes: www.cyberhouse.fr
Nice: www.webstore.fr
St Raphael:
www.pacwan.net/raw/blue-jibe
Toulon: www.tvt.fr/cybercafe
Rennes: www.galeode.fr/cybernet
Strasbourg: www.sdv.fr
Toulouse: www.favrek.fr
Troyes: www.dnetservice.com/cyber.htm
Villeurbanne: www.smiley.fr