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*'''[http://www.culture.gouv.fr/culture/arcnat/en/ Great Archaeological Sites of France]'''
::Including virtual visits to the Cave of Lascaux, other caves, and the ancient town of Vienne.
::(prehistoric to antiquity; facsimiles and reproductions)
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*'''[http://www.paris.culture.fr/ <i>Paris, Ville Antique</i>]'''
::Photographs and virtual reconstructions of Paris during the Roman Empire.
::(Photo facsimiles and reproductions)
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*'''[http://avalon.law.yale.edu/medieval/capitula.asp Capitulary of Charlemagne]'''
::(802; English translation)
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*'''[http://avalon.law.yale.edu/medieval/verdun.asp The Ordinance of Louis the Pious]''' dividing the empire
::(817; English translation)
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*'''[http://avalon.law.yale.edu/medieval/aix.asp Treaty at Aix Between Louis II and Charles the Bald Concerning the Division of the Kingdom of Lothar II]'''
::(870; English translation)
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*'''[http://vlib.iue.it/carrie/documents/planctus/index.html The <i>Planctus</i> for William Longsword]'''
::This mourning poem "is by far the earliest work written about the Normans from the Norman point of view...."
::It also serves as "an excellent laboratory in medieval philology."
::(943; Latin facsimiles and variant text transcriptions with English and German translations)
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*'''[http://www.culture.gouv.fr/documentation/archim/documentsmedievaux.htm <i>Documents m&eacute;di&eacute;vaux conserv&eacute;s au Mus&eacute;e de l'histoire de France</i>]'''
::Medieval documents reproduced on the Ministry of Culture's [http://www.culture.gouv.fr/documentation/archim/accueil.html Archim imagebank].
::(7th to 16th centuries; photo facsimiles)
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*'''[http://www.culture.gouv.fr/documentation/archim/sceauxdebourgogne.htm <i>Sceaux de Bourgogne</i>]'''
::Royal seals of the Bourgogne dynasty reproduced on the Ministry of Culture's [http://www.culture.gouv.fr/documentation/archim/accueil.html Archim imagebank].
::(9th to 16th centuries; photo facsimiles)
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*'''[http://www.enluminures.culture.fr <i>Enluminures</i>]'''
::Reproductions of manuscript illuminations and decor
::Preserved in French municipal libraries, linked in a database searchable by multiple criteria.
::Produced through the auspices of [http://www.cnrs.fr/ CNRS].
::(8th to 18th centuries; facsimiles and metadata)
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*'''[http://philae.sas.upenn.edu/French/french.html French History and Civilization: Les Cap&eacute;tiens et les croisades]'''
::(987-1291; photo facsimiles, sound files and commentaries)
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*'''[http://www.ordonnances.org/ <i>Edits, &#226;rrets, ordonnances mon&eacute;taires de l'autorit&eacute; royale et des cours souveraines de Charles II &agrave; Louis XVI</i>]'''
::Royal monetary edicts and decrees from the mid ninth century until after the French Revolution.
:: Also a good source for information on the succession of French kings.
::(843-1792; published transcriptions in pdf file).
::Under construction in reverse chronological order: most recent years available first. 
 
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*'''[http://icp.ge.ch/po/cliotexte/sites/Arisitum/adihaf/cf1796.html <i> Arisitum</i>: Chroniques de France]'''
::A growing collection of documented texts.
::(From ancient times through 1914; Latin, Langue d'Oc, Langue d'Oil transcriptions and translations)
::Another version of this site is found at Fordham University as [http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook-francais.html <i>Livre des sources m&eacute;di&eacute;vales</i>]''' 
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*'''[http://www.culture.gouv.fr/documentation/archim/accueil.html The French Ministry of Culture's <i>Archim</i> imagebank]'''
::Photographic reproductions of constitutions, edicts, treaties, letters, photos, atlases and official seals
::of relevance to French national and regional history --
::available either by [http://www.culture.gouv.fr/public/mistral/caran_fr?ACTION=NOUVEAU&USRNAME=nobody&USRPWD=4$4P search engine] or by [http://www.culture.gouv.fr/documentation/archim/dossiers.htm thematic "dossiers."]
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*'''[http://historicaltextarchive.com/links.php?op=viewslink&sid=40 Historical Text Archive: France]'''
::Includes primary and secondary documents, provided by Don Mabry.
::(Transcriptions, facsimiles and commentaries, mostly in English)


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