French Websites

Bilingual (French/English) site dedicated to the strange and mystical French poet, Oscar V. de Lubicz-Milosz.

A game about language paradoxes, the poetry of Rebecca Behar in five languages, and the manifesto of intermittent poetry.

A sampling of French surrealist poetry by Desnos, Eluard, Reverdy and Soupault in English translation.

French surrealist poetry by Arp, Breton, Dalí, Péret, Picasso, Ribemont-Dessaignes and Unik in English translation by David Gascoyne.

The poem is the first of the great French heroic poems known as "chansons de geste."

Poems by Jacques-Bernard Brunius, Paul Eluard and Joyce Mansour in English translation.

Introduction to French lyric poetry. Includes English introduction, French texts, and biographical notes, but no translations. In many formats for computer and PDA. Text from Project Gutenberg.

Translation of "Spilled Blood" and bibliographic data on the translation into English by Keith Hollaman of a selection of poems by French surrealist Benjamin Péret.

Modern English translation of La Chanson de Roland (11th century).

English translation of text by André Breton and Paul Eluard.

Sonnets. In French, some of them also in English translation. Site also contains translations into Dutch, German, Italian and Spanish.

Bérenger of the Long Arse, 13th cent. fabliau in modern English translation.

Anonymous French fabliau (13th century).

The Lais (12th century), in a verse translation by Judith P. Shoaf.