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Language resources and useful links for French
Our translators' pick of useful sites for French terminology, including public-service sites for terms used in context.
National websites
Belgian, French and Luxembourgish institutional sites
Belgium
- Chamber of Representatives
- Central Council of Economy (Conseil Central de l'Économie — CCE) — in French and Dutch
- Constitution — French, Dutch and German
- Council of State — in English, German, French and Dutch
- Court of Accounts (Cour des Comptes) — in English, German, French and Dutch
- Court of Cassation (Cour de Cassation) — in French and Dutch
- Le Moniteur Belge — Belgian law gazette
- NATLEX — legislation (labour, social security, related human rights)
France
- Constitution
- Constitutional Council — presentation of the Council in English, German, Spanish and Italian
- Council of State
- Court of Accounts — also in English and German
- Cour de Cassation — in English, Spanish and Italian
- Journal Officiel — French law gazette
- Légifrance — French legal texts
- National Assembly — also in English, German, Spanish and Italian
- NATLEX — legislation (labour, social security and related human rights)
- Penal Code
- Public law (Affaires Publiques)
- Social and Economic Council (CES) — also in English and Spanish
Other links from Belgium, France and Luxembourg
Belgium
- Belgian Institute of Postal Services and Telecommunications (IBPT)
- Federal Council for Sustainable Development (CFDD)
- General Administration of Education and Scientific Research (Administration générale de l'enseignement et de la recherche scientifique)
- General Directorate of Youth Aid
- Government of the French Community of Belgium
- Ministry of the French Community of Belgium
- National Bank of Belgium
- National Institute of Statistics (INS)
- Research Centre for Nuclear Energy (CEN)
- Royal Meteorological Institute (IRM)
- Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage (IRPA)
- Scientific Institute of Public Health - Louis Pasteur (ISP)
- Tourism Promotion Office (OPT)
France
- Assembly of the Departments of France (Assemblée des départements de France — ADF)
- Assembly of the French Chambers of Commerce and Industry (Assemblée des chambres françaises de commerce et d'industrie — ACFCI)
- Association for Normalisation (Afnor)
- French central bank (Banque de France)
- Interministerial Mission against Drug Abuses (Mission interministérielle de lutte contre la drogue et la toxicomanie — MILDT)
- National Centre for Scientific Research (Centre national de la recherche scientifique — CNRS)
- National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies (Institut national français de statistiques — INSEE)
Libraries
Style and grammar guides, language campaigns
- How to write clearly — European Commission booklet (all EU languages) [March 2010]
Online dictionaries, term banks and glossaries
Dictionaries & encyclopaedias
- Dictionary of synonyms
- Grand dictionnaire terminologique
- Private law dictionary
- IT terminology (Trésor de la langue française informatisé)
Term banks & glossaries
- Agriculture, forestry, fisheries, food (AGROVOC)
- Accounting terminology
- Avocat online (French)
- Civil and commercial law glossary
- Customs glossary
- EU codecision glossary — EU Terminology
- EU justice and home affairs glossary
- EU regional development glossary
- FishBase — global information system on fish
- Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) — terminology databases, glossaries and thesauri
- FranceTerme (Interministerial Terminology Network) — 3 000 terms, definitions and translations (French-English)
- Glossaries by language
- Grand dictionnaire terminologique (L’Office québécois de la langue française)
- ILO international labour standards
- International Monetary Fund (IMF) — multilingual directory
- Latin union — countries using Latin languages
- Le Signet — 6 000 bilingual IT documents (English-French)
- Medical terms — technical and everyday
- Modern French (International Council of the French language) — in English, German and Spanish
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OECD dictionaries and glossaries
- Senate — glossaries and abbreviations, French only
- Statistics — multilingual glossary by the International Statistical Institute (ISI)
- Terminology database — French, German, English and Dutch
- Water (Aqua Lingua)
- World bird database
- WTOTERM — World Trade Organisation terminology