FREMER (the French Institute of Research and Exploitation of the Sea), a public establishment of industrial and commercial nature, created by a decree of 5 June 1984, is the only French body with an exclusively maritime vocation.

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Tennessee Bob's Famous French Links at http://www.utm.edu/departments/french/french.html currently has over 100 functional links to Francophone cultural resources, and it will have over 230 within 3 weeks.

Founded in 1432.

The Ecole Nationale Sup rieure des Mines de Saint-Etienne is a graduate engineering school with a population of over 300 graduate students and 150 Ph.D. candidates.

As early as 1423, the high reputation of the University of Franche-Comt was enough to attract famous teachers and students.

Institute has been a center for information reserch for 12 years.

Born in 1957, the school had quickly gained the status of ENSI (National College of Engineering), to become the ENSERG (National College of Electronic and Radioelectricity Engineering) in 1965.

Site has links to the three universities in Aix en Provence.

Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble is a technological university with scientific but also cultural and professional purposes.

Erick and Madeleine Vedel offer hands-on cooking classes and full-week workshops in Provencale cuisine in Arles, France, the heart of Provence. In small groups learn the healthy olive-oil based cooking of the region, taste the robust wines, listen to the history, and meet the artisans who've made their cheese, collected their honey, tended their vegetables and pressed the grapes as has been done for centuries.

The Natural History Museum of Bourges is specialised in the study of bats in the wild.

A compilation of links to resources in and about France and French topics

A tour of France based on visiting some of its vineyards. Every stage has been worked out so that you may also use it as the basis for a real tour. Author: Robert Heath Tel: 33 4 72 39 04 47 Fax: 33 4 72 39 04 47

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