L'Alsace, région française au coeur de l'Europe (FR 4.038)
one audiocassette and livret pédagogique produced by the American Association of Teachers of French, Association Alsace Etats-Unis and Association Régionale des Enseignants de Français Langue Etrangère; recorded interviews and dialogues dealing with cultural elements of the Alsace region of France; includes segments about: le minitel, une Winstub, le Conseil de l'Europe, les vins d'Alsace, la statue de la liberté et Auguste Bartholdi, les littératures en Alsace; 32-page livret pédagogique includes script of interviews and dialogues, comprehension questions, vocabulary; 33 minutes.

Cet énigmatique Charles de Gaulle (FR 4.033)
audio-livre by Henri Guillemin, approximately 60 minutes.

Charles de Gaulle (FR 4.004)

Les Français de notre temps (FR 1.021/FR 1.022)
15-20 minute talks by notable figures in French society and culture, for example: Architecture: Aillaud, Le Corbusier; Biologie: Jean Hamburger, Wolff, Monod; Cinéma: Jean Renoir; Droit: Garçon; Economie: Masse, les Syndicalistes, les Jeunes Agriculteurs; Histoire: François-Poncet; Lettres: Bazin, Beauvoir, Bosco, Chamson, Genevoix, Giono, Lévi- Strauss, Mauriac, Maurois, Robbe-Grillet, Sarraute, Sartre; Musique: Boulez, Messiaen, Milhaud, Poulenc, Xenakis; Peinture: Delaunay, Gromaire, Kahnweiler; Physique: De Broglie, Le Prince-Ringuet, Kastler; Presse: Beuve-Méry; Religion: Boegner, Carré; Sociologie: Armand, Millot, Sullerot; Technique: Hereil; Théâtre: Barrault, Ionesco, Marceau.

La France de la Renaissance (FR 4.007)

La Guerre d'Algérie (FR 4.030.001-.007)
seven 60/90-minute audiocassettes produced by Radio France in 1987; sound footage and unedited accounts of the Algerian War (1954-1962) as told by eyewitnesses; approximately 10 hours (total time).

Il était une fois ... La Révolution Française(FR 4.034.001/.002)
two 90-minute audiocassettes; authentic writings, speeches, accounts of the Revolutionary period (1789-1794) read by Paul-Emile Deiber; source material = texts of precursors Montaigne, Voltaire, Rousseau; speeches, accounts, letters and commentaries of protagonists and famous eyewitnesses: Mirabeau, Danton, Saint-Just, Marat, Robespierre, Mme de Staël, Billaud-Varenne, a journalist from the provinces, the king's valet...; commentaries by Châteaubriand, Hugo, Michelet; recorded at the Théâtre de Boulogne-Billancourt in 1989; approximately 2 hours 52 minutes (total time).

Les journées de février, 1848 (FR 4.006 - open reel)

Lafayette (FR 4.008)

Leclerc vous parle: Histoire de la 2ème D.B. (FR 4.038 (CD))

La libération de Paris (FR 4.036)
audiocassette of eyewitness accounts and archival recordings of the period August 19-22, 1944, when the people of Paris rose up against the troops of General Von Cholitz and General Leclerc's 2nd tank division entered Paris; part of the series L'histoire en direct broadcast on France Culture (Radio France); 60 minutes.

Lettres d'amour de Napoléon à Joséphine (FR 4.009 - open reel)

Mai 68 (FR 4.029)
livre cassette by Michel Winock, recorded by Michel Derain; analysis of the student uprising and strikes of May 1968; 60 minutes.

Le mécontentement en France à la fin du règne de Louis XIV (FR 4.011 - open reel)

Pétain - De Gaulle (FR 4.028)
livre cassette by Jean-Pierre Rioux, recorded by Jean Topart; study of the personalities of Maréchal Pétain and Général De Gaulle; 60 minutes.

Le procès de Jeanne d'Arc (FR 4.012 - open reel)

Radioscopie avec Jacques Chancel (FR 4.021 - 4.024; 4.026, 4.027, 4.040)
interviews conducted by Jacques Chancel of Radio France with noted French personalities of the 20th century: Roland Barthes, Jacques Brel, Joseph Kessel, Jean Lacouture, Simone Signoret, Pierre Viansson Ponte, Marguerite Yourcenar.

Rambouillet et ses hôtes (FR 4.013 - open reel)

La Résistance, ses chants et ses poètes (FR 4.037-CD)
two compact discs of songs and poems of the Resistance presented by Pierre Seghers; includes such songs as "Chant des Marais", "Chant des Partisans", poems by Aragon, Cayrol, Desnos, Eluard ("Liberté"), Emmanuel, Jacob, Seghers and others; also includes excerpts of two speeches by De Gaulle; 1 hour 22 minutes.

Les SS français (FR 4.035)
audiocassette of eyewitness accounts told without remorse by three French soldiers who, in 1943, joined the elite Nazi troops known as the SS; part of the series L'histoire en direct broadcast on France Culture (Radio France); 60 minutes.

Les témoins de notre temps
Céleste Albaret/Louis Gautier-Vignal (FR 4.025)

Les temps forts de la Révolution (FR 4.032)
audiocassette recording by Michel Winock; description/analysis of thirteen important moments during the French Revolution; part of a Radio France Internationale presentation entitled 1789 Aujourd'hui: Regards des jeunes du monde sur la Révolution française; 83 minutes.

Le temps que nous vivons - 1/1/58 - 30/9/59 (FR 4.016 - open reel)

Tours de France (FR 4.031)
travaux pratiques de civilisationby J.-C. Beacco and S. Lieutaud (Hachette, c.1985); authentic documentation, information and activities designed to develop cultural competency; one audiocassette, student textbook and pedagogical guide available; audiocassette = approximately 30 minutes.

Visages d'Henri IV (Fr 4.017 - open reel)

Visages de Louis XIV (FR 4.018 - open reel)