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The
Alliance Française Dublin is
closed and all our French Cultural Programme is cancelled
until
further notice. But who says you can't go out when there are so many
services on the Internet that will whisk you away to different places?
Here is a short
selection of some of our favourite platforms and curated links for free
reading, watching, listening, exploring, dreaming with the French
culture
to escape the confinement! Ou
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Reading in French
on Culturethèque |
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French TV and Series
on Madelen
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Virtual Tours of
French Museums |
We are delighted to offer
you all the digital library Culturethèque free of charge until May 30th!
The revolutionary
online platform developed by Institut
Français is accessible 24/7, anywhere from any digital
device,
and offers over
150,000
online French titles including magazines, newspapers, books, audiobooks, comics & graphic novels, learning modules and so much more!
Our Selection: The
French Library team has curated special collections for you : "Stay At Home" Top Picks // New
Novels // Crime Fiction // Children's Corner
with books, magazines & recordings // Rentrée Littéraire et Prix 2019 //
New Audio Books 2020 // Gastronomy Magazines and many
other selections by theme, age, interests and level in the French
Language.
Contact the
Library
to set up your free account.
This service is free for 2 months
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The Institut National de
l'Audiovisuel (INA), the repository of all
French audiovisual archives, has created the streaming platform Madelen
featuring +130,000 TV
programmes, series,
fiction,
performances
and documentaries!
Our Selection: Cult TV Series Belphégor, Fantômas, Les Rois Maudits, Les
Cinq Dernières Minutes, Aux frontières du possible, Noires
sont les galaxies, La Brigade des maléfices // Cult TV programmes Chorus
(live music), Strip tease (society), Droit de réponse (politics), Bouillon
de culture (culture), Alain
Decaux raconte (History), Les
Dossiers de l'écran (society) // Animated series Les Shadoks, Le Roman de Renart and a special Festival du film d'animation d'Annecy
retrospective // Iconic
Theatre adaptations Oh
les beaux jours, Dom Juan, and a whole La Comédie Française season.
This service is free for 3 months
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France has many of the most significant art collections
in the world with museums
attracting millions every year. Nowadays you can very easily access these paintings and artefacts online!
Our
Selection: Immersive Virtual Tours
of some of the greatest museums in the world: Louvre,
Musée d'Orsay, Musée de l'Orangerie, Palais de Versailles, Musée du quai Branly, Opéra National de Paris; and one
of the oldest: les Grottes de Lascaux! // Online Collections
at Centre Pompidou, Musées
de la ville de Paris, Musée des Beaux Arts de Lyon, Musée des Abattoirs de Toulouse, Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris //
Many museums and cultural institutions are also organising live tours & activities
on their social networks, check out the #CultureChezNous
initiative and the POP
platform created by the French
Ministry of Culture for more information!
These services are free
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French Music
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French Concerts and
Shows on Youtube |
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Visit French Landmarks
with Google |
Deezer
is the French
Spotify where you can find a much more diverse music from
France and all the French-speaking areas around the world.
Our
Selection: 60's pop dubbed "yéyé", inluding Serge
Gainsbourg, Jacques
Dutronc, Françoise
Hardy, France
Gall, Polnareff,
Claude
François and Dalida
// 19th Century
Impressionist Classical music including Claude
Debussy, Maurice
Ravel, Érik
Satie, Camille
Saint-Saëns, Jules
Massenet, Gabriel
Fauré and Paul
Dukas // Electronic
Music including Daft
Punk, Jean-Michel
Jarre, Justice,
Cerrone,
Air,
Saint
Germain, Laurent
Garnier, Yuksek,
Mr
Oizo and Fakear
// Current sensations
like Angèle,
Christine
and the Queens, Feu!
Chatteron, Clara
Luciani, Petit
Biscuit and Nekfeu.
This service is free for 3 months
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Going to a show is
certainly what we'll miss the most during this confinement time. With Youtube
you can immerse yourself in an infinity of live
performances!
Our Selection: The excellent Concerts à emporter organised
by La
Blogotheque // full concerts for all
tastes, Daft Punk, Stromae, Serge Gainsbourg, NTM, Indochine, Jacqueline Dupré, Alain Bashung, Édith Piaf, Christine and the Queens and have
you seen the Orchestre National de France performing
Ravel's Boléro through video conferencing? // Full plays like Art,
Le Père Noël est une ordure, 8 Femmes, Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac, Molière's L'Avare, and Jean Anouilh's Antigone // Stand-Up comedy by Gad Elmaleh, Kyan
Khojandi, Professeur Rollin, and many more!
This service is free
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Online globetrotting is
the new tourism! There is no reason why this confinement should
prevent you from exploring
cities and landscapes. With Goggle tools such as Street View, Earth,
and Arts
& Culture, the world is at your fingertips!
Our Selection: Visit French landmarks and get
inside La Tour Eiffel, Le Mont St Michel, Le Château de Chambord, L'Opéra National de Paris, Le Château de Fontainebeau // Go
for a refreshing walk on the Falaises d'Etretat, les Jardins du Palais de Versailles, the lavender fields of Provence, or l'Ile de la Pietra in Corsica // Go on a casual stroll in one
of France's biggest cities
and get
lost in the streets of Paris, Lyon, Marseille, Bordeaux, Toulouse, Nantes // take a boat trip around Nice // or even
take the Mont Blanc hiking trail!
This service is free
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regular cultural programme will resume as soon as possible! Subscribe
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for updates on our next free screenings, talks, concerts,
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