france:

• on first arriving in France – driving
• travelling by rail to and within France
• Rail Europe map of railway line routes
• le pique-nique
• 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’
• the French umbrella & Aurillac

départements

les landes (dept. 40)

• 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

pyrénées-atlantiques

• 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

• Marianne - a French national symbol
• Marianne part 2: town hall statues
  
  
• la belle époque
  
  
• dating old postcards
  
  
• centenary restoration: Grand Palais, Paris
  
  
• tallest, longest: Viaduct de Millau
  
  
• 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

• cité d’espace
• cité de l'espace 2: photos
• futuroscope
• futuroscope 2:
  photos
• volcanoes at vulcania

• short biography of
  Pierre (Peter) Abelard
• Le Pallet, birthplace of Pierre Abelard

• 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 2005: the Armstrong years
• 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

• cathedrals introduction:
  reading stained glass
  
  
• gothic cathedral and church construction
  
  
• stained glass - development and techniques
  
  
• history of art relating to stained glass
  
• cathedrals 1:
  rouen cathedral illuminated
  analysis of a stained glass story window
  
  
• cathedrals 2:
  dax and church iconography
  photographs
  
  
• cathedrals 3:
  poitiers, neglected masterpiece
  photographs 1
  photographs 2
  
  
• cathedrals 4:
  angers, at the heart of the angevin empire
  photographs
  
  
• cathedrals 5:
  laon, the midst of the gothic transition, with added oxen
  photographs

• motorway aires, introduction
• the nicknames of french motorways
• Mas d’Agenais, A62
• Garonne, A62
• Dunes, A62
• Lozay, A10
• Les Pyrénées, A64
• Pech Loubat, A61
• Les Bréguières, A8
• Hastingues, A64
• Port-Laurgarais, A61
• aires on the A75 autoroute from Clermont-Ferrand to Béziers
• Viaduct de Millau
• Tavel nord, A9
• Catalan village, A9
• Fortresse de Salses, A9
• Fitou, A9
• aires on the autoroute of two seas - the A62
• aires on the A89 autoroute from Bordeaux to Clermont-Ferrand and beyond
• aires on the busy A7 autoroute from Lyons to Marseille
• aires on the A9 autoroute from spain to orange

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]