Language and documentary material in French

Aids for external translators

Language magazine

National websites

Belgium, French and Luxembourg Institutional Sites

Belgium

• Chamber of Representatives
• Constitution
• Conseil Central de l'Économie (CCE) (Central Council of Economy) - also in Dutch
• Council of State - English, German, French and Dutch
• Cour de Cassation (Court of Cassation) - also in Dutch
• Cour des Comptes (Court of Accounts) - English, German, French and Dutch
• European Governments - Belgium
• Le Moniteur Belge - Ministry of Justice Law Official Journal 
• NATLEX - national labour, social security and related human rights legislation

France

• Affaires Publiques - index only in English
• National Assembly - also in English, German, Spanish and Italian
• Constitution
• Court of Accounts- also in English and German
• Constitutional Council - presentation of the Council in English, German, Spanish and Italian
• Social and Economic Council (CES) - also in English and Spanish
• Council of State
• Cour de Cassation - in English, Spanish and Italian
• European Governments - France 
• Journal Officiel
• Légifrance
• NATLEX - national labour, social security and related human rights legislation
• Penal Code

Luxembourg

• European Governments - Luxembourg 

Other links from Belgium and France

Belgium

• Administration Générale de l'Enseignement et de la Recherche Scientifique (General Administration of Education and Scientific Research)
• Belgian Foreign Trade Office (OBCE)
• Belgian Institute of Postal Services and Telecommunications (IBPT)
• Centre for Equal Opportunities and Opposition to Racism
• Federal Council for Sustainable Development (CFDD)
• Federal Services for Scientific, Technical and Cultural Affairs (SSTC)
• 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

• Assemblée des Chambres Françaises de Commerce et d'Industrie (ACFCI) (Assembly of the French Chambers of Commerce and Industry)
• Assemblée des Départements de France (ADF) (Assembly of the Departments of France)
• Afnor - French Association for Normalisation
• Banque de France
• Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) (National Centre of Scientific Research)
• Institut National Français de Statistiques (INSEE) (National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies)
• Mission Interministérielle de Lutte contre la Drogue et la Toxicomanie (MILDT) (Interministerial Mission against Drugs and Toxicomomy)

Libraries

• France National Library
• Online Catalogue of All Belgian Libraries
• Virtual Library (OLF, Québec) - List of terminological documents in the Internet; multilingual, all areas.

Style and Grammar Guides, language campaigns

• Clear writing campaigns
  • In Belgium
  • In France

Online dictionaries, term banks and glossaries

Dictionaries & encyclopedias

• Dictionary of synonyms

• Grand dictionnaire terminologique

• Private law dictionary

• Wikipedia - the free encyclopedia

Multilingual dictionaries

• AllWords.com
• Cambridge Dictionaries
• Dicnet - Link to general and specialised dictionaries 
• Dictionary.com
• Dictionaries on the Internet - Links to dictionaries and free machine translation
• Dictionaries on the Web
• Ectaco.com - Multilingual dictionary including Bulgarian
• Eurodict - Multilingual dictionary
• Free dictionary (English from and to Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish)
• From Language to language
• ITU (International Telecommunication Union) - French-English-Spanish-Russian   
• Language automation - Link list
• Lexicool - Links to over 700 translation dictionaries and glossaries
• LexiLogos - Biilingual and multilingual dictionaries
• LookWAYup online dictionary and thesaurus
• Omniglot Online Dictionaries
• Online-dictionary.biz
• Online Film Dictionary
• PONSline (English, French, German, Polish)
• University of Paderborn (D)
• Wikiled Dictionary
• WordReference.com
• Word2Word.com
• YourDictionary.com

Bilingual dictionaries

French - Finnish

• Lexilogos - Dictionaries French - Finnish - English

English - French

• Bilingual French-English Dictionary
• WordReference English-French Dictionary 

Term banks & glossaries

• AGROVOC (agriculture, forestry, fisheries, food and related domains)
• Accountant Terminology
• Aqua Lingua
• ATILF - Computer Processing and Analysis of the French Language
• Avocat online (French)
• Balnéo - database of neologisms of the French language 
• Chancellerie de la Confédération Suisse - Services linguistiques centraux - various links to terminology sites; also in German and Italian
• CILF - Terminology bank of the International Council of the French language: modern French. Available in English, German and Spanish
• Codecision Glossary (EU Terminology)
• Competition Glossary (EU Terminology)
• CRITER - Corpus of the Terminology Interministerial Network, 3000 French terms, definitions and translations - French-English 
• Customs glossary (EU Terminology)
• Data Protection Glossary (EU Terminology)
• EEA glossary - 600 environmental terms with definitions and translations into the EEA-languages
• European Convention Glossary
• European Judicial Network in Civil and Commercial Matters Glossary
• EURYDICE - European Education Thesaurus
• External Trade Glossary
• FAOTERM - FAO terminology  Database  in Arab, Chinese, English, French and Spanish
• FishBase - dozens of languages
• Justice and Home Affairs: glossary (EU Terminology)
• IMF Terminology - Terminology database of the International Monetary Fund
• Information Society Terminology (collection of the French Governmental Portal)
• International Labour Standards (ILO)
• Internet Terminology Sites of JIAMCATT Partners
• Language Automation - Glossaries by language
• Legal Terms (EU Terminology)
• Le Glossaire Juridique (Ministère de la Justice, France) - legal glossary
• Le grand dictionnaire terminologique - Office de langue française (OLF), collection of 3 million terms of 200 domains in French and English
• Le Signet - 6 000 bilingual documents in the information technologies sector; English-French
• Public Procurement Common Vocabulary (EU Terminology)
• Research (EU Terminology)
• Regional Development Glossary
• Senate: Glossaires & Abréviations - only in French 
• Statistical terms - Multilingual glossary by the International Statistical Institute (ISI)
• Technical and popular medical terms
• Technical and Scientific Information Service (French, English, Spanish)
• Terminology Banks Catalogue - Rint: Réseau international de néologie et de terminologie
• Terminology database - French, German, English and Dutch
• Union Latine - Intergovernmental  Organisation of the neolatine language States
• Wikipedia - the free encyclopedia
• World bird database
• WTO terminology (English, French, Spanish)