Historical
General French Army
French site dedicated to the French army of the Great War, including battle histories, regimental battle histories, photographs and soldiers journals:
http://www.chtimiste.com/
French site that features the historicals of most regiments/battalions in the French army during the Great War:
http://www.genemilassoc.fr
French site where one can search for historicals of French divisions by regiment, division, place-name or battle:
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/champagne1418/parcours/parcours.htm
Site operated by the French Ministry of Defense where one can search for the Marching and Operations Journals (JMO) of French formations (from army down to regiment):
http://www.memoiredeshommes.sga.defense.gouv.fr/jmo
French Army Order of Battle in 1914:
http://home.comcast.net/~markconrad/FR1914.html
French site where one can search for all units on a corps, division, brigade or regiment level based off a number of parameters, including geographic:
http://www.memoiredelagrandeguerre.com/
French site listing of all large formations, from division on up, taken from the official history of the French army, 1914-1918. Also see the abbreviations listing:
http://toaw.free.fr/afgg
French site about the French army at the Battle of Verdun:
http://orkide.club.fr/index.htm
Site operated by the French Ministry of Defense where one can search for the death certificate of every French soldier who died in the Great War:
http://www.memoiredeshommes.sga.defense.gouv.fr
French site where one can search for the death certificate of a French soldier who died in the Great War by name, place or unit (not a comprehensive listing):
http://www.memorial-genweb.org/~memorial2/html/base1418/arme.php
Site operated by the French Ministry of Defense where one can search for the grave location of every (identified) French soldier who died in the Great War:
http://www.sepulturesdeguerre.sga.defense.gouv.fr/
French site on French army losses, by period, region, class, etc.:
http://vestiges.1914.1918.free.fr/Pertes.htm
French site featuring a table of every French soldier or officer who was cited in the orders of the army or the Legion of Honor, and those who received the Military Medal:
http://jeanluc.dron.free.fr/th/THindex.htm
French site with a breakdown of the French Army Corps by division, brigade, regiment and region:
http://iabem.free.fr/meet.html
French site about tirailleurs, zouaves and colonials:
http://vinny03.club.fr/1418.htm
French site on the French military postal system, including the different types of postal stamps:
http://pagesperso-orange.fr/cartesfm1418/obliterations/secteurpostal/SP.htm
French site on the different types of postal cards used by French soldiers for correspondance:
http://pagesperso-orange.fr/cartesfm1418/accueil.htm
Web site of the 151st R.I. Military Veterans Association:
http://anciens-du-151-rancourt-verdun.perso.sfr.fr
Weaponry and Equipment
French site featuring extensive uniform pages:
http://www.lesfrancaisaverdun-1916.fr
French site featuring detailed information, with many photos, on all French army fire-arms:
http://armesfrancaises.free.fr/sommaire.html
Site featuring photos, diagrams and basic descriptions of French grenades:
http://members.lycos.nl/lexpev/hobbies0.html
Another site featuring diagrams and basic descriptions of French grenades:
http://militaria14-18.pagesperso-orange.fr/p3.htm#aasen
French site featuring, among other things, information on the medals rewarded to French soldiers and civilians:
http://www.memoiredelagrandeguerre.com/
French site featuring information on the medals rewarded in the French army:
http://medaille.decoration.free.fr/France/P_Medaille/Fourragere.htm
Site about the Lebel 8 mm bullet (translation available on site):
http://www.8lebel.org/
French site about the Adrian helmet:
http://salg71.free.fr/page2.html
Another French site about the Adrian helmet:
http://www.world-war-helmets.com/fiches/Casque-Adrian-Mle-15.php
French site covering all of the machine guns of the Great War:
http://pageperso.aol.fr/Mitraille123/
French site about the artillery canons of the Great War:
http://canonspgmww1guns.canalblog.com
French site about the 75 mm canon:
http://canonde75.free.fr
French site featuring info on the tanks and armored cars of the French army:
http://www.chars-francais.net/des-origines-a-1930.htm
French site about the war of gas -- types of gas used, masks, etc.:
http://pageperso.aol.fr/Guerredesgaz/index.htm
General Great War History
Comprehensive site on multiple facets of the Great War:
www.worldwar1.com
Site containing multiple articles on different facets of the Great War:
www.greatwardifferent.com
A nice French site on multiple facets of the Great War (Note: particularly check out the "Documents" section):
http://www.grande-guerre.org
The Western Front Association -- a UK organization dedicated to the study and to the memory of the Great War (Note: check out the "Map Room"): http://www.westernfront.co.uk/
French site about POWs during the war:
http://prisonniers-de-guerre-1914-1918.chez-alice.fr/
Site dedicated to the moemory of the Great War, focusing on recovered battlefield debris. Notable also is the grenade description section: http://www.passioncompassion1418.com
French site that has, among other things, a listing of many smaller French villages and the nearest large town or city in relation to it. Also see the list of French military abbreviations:
http://cecile_meunier.club.fr/divers.htm
A site featuring a clickable map of the Champagne front in 1915: http://perso.orange.fr/champagne1418/icone/gcarte.htm
A site featuring operational maps of the Western Front from 1914-1918: http://www.dean.usma.edu/history/
Pages 14-18 -- An excellent French forum on all things Great War, with particular attention paid to the French army:
http://pages14-18.mesdiscussions.net
Histoirémilitaria14-18 -- Another excellent French forum on all things Great War, with particular attention paid to the French army:
http://lagrandeguerre.cultureforum.net
Places
French site solely on the Battle of Verdun:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~verdun/
An English site solely on the Battle of Verdun:
http://www.war1418.com/battleverdun/
French site on the butte of Vauquois, in the Argonne:
http://www.webmatters.net/france/ww1_vauquois.htm
"The Friends of Vauquois" organization which maintains the site:
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/vauquois.guerre.14.18
French site dedicated to the town of Bétheny, France in the Great War:
http://betheny1418.free.fr
French site about the caverns and mines excavated by the armies during the war:
http://souterrains.vestiges.free.fr
Image Galleries
A fantastic gallery of original Great War artwork of the French army:
http://dessins1418.free.fr/les_dessins_defaut.htm
Another gallery of original Great War artwork of the French army:
http://www.greatwardifferent.com/Great_War/index.htm
Site dedicated to the life and artwork of Joseph Lesage, the editor of the trench paper "Le Mouchoir" during the Great War:
http://home.hetnet.nl/~popo/engels.html
An excellent gallery of Great War photographs of the French army:
http://bac.d.free.fr/guerre_14_18/
A huge gallery of color photographs from the Great War:
http://www.tournassoud.org/photo/militaire.php
Another gallery of color photographs from the Great War:
http://www.crdp-strasbourg.fr/alsaGuerre/HR_1917/index.php
A great gallery of French sepia photographs from the Great War:
http://perso.orange.fr/kah/encadres.htm
Multiple galleries of photographs of the French army (scroll through):
http://www.ecpad.fr/categorie/photos/photos_histoire
An exhibition of war photographs taken by Captain F. Hurley (AIF):
http://acms.sl.nsw.gov.au
Literature
(In English)
A huge listing of links to war-time literature (letters, diaries, manuals) of all nationalities (in various languages):
http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi
University of Pennsylvania online books listing of French first-hand narratives (both in French and English):
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu
Online Library of French soldier testimonies of the Great War (Témoignages de 1914-1918):
http://www.crid1418.org
A listing of French army trench newspapers an units they correspond to:
http://www.bdic.fr/journaux_tranchees_titres.html
A translation of Henri Barbusse's, Under Fire: The Story of a Squad:
http://www.ibiblio.org/eldritch/wwone/underfire.html#toc
A translation of Diary of a French Army Chaplain (1915), the diary of Félix Klein:
http://www.archive.org/download/diaryoffrencharm00klei/diaryoffrencharm00klei.pdf
Journal of Herbert Ward, an Enlishman who served in the British Ambulance Committee in the French army:
http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/memoir/MrPoilu/Ward1.htm
Narrative of Henry Sheahan, an American who served in the American Ambulance Corps in the French army:
http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/memoir/Sheahan/Sheahan1.htm
The letters of the American poet, Alan Seeger, who fought in the French army with Foreign Legion:
http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/memoir/Seeger/Alan1.htm
(In French)
Journal and narrative of Joseph Sourdaine, a soldier in the 94th RI which was in the same division (42nd) as the 151st RI and has repeated references to it:
http://sourdaine.org/03JS_ap.htm
Journal of Sgt. Bernier Clovis of the 94th RI, which was in the same division (42nd) as the 151st RI and has repeated references to it:
http://www.chtimiste.com/carnets/bernier.htm
French site on the 99th RI, which includes multiple journals and letters of the soldiers:
http://perso.orange.fr/neuf-neuf
Online copy of Mon Régiment : dans la Fournaise de Verdun et dans la Bataille de la Somme by Paul Dubrulle:
http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.$b743642
"Froc et Epée": Narrative of the French Chaplain R.P. Joseph Raymond:
http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/memoir/Raymond/froc1.htm
Narrative of the artillerist, Georges Grousilleau in PDF:
http://ludovicfournier.free.fr/download/14-18.pdf
Narrative of Pierre Hammes who was a telephonist in the artillery:
http://genhames.free.fr/carnet.htm
A glossary of poilu slang:
http://dtriaudmuchart.free.fr/vocabulaire_poilu.htm
Miscellaneous
Listing of Great War period songs, including lyrics and MP3s:
http://www.chanson.udenap.org
Site in English where you can search for maps of towns, cities, departments, and regions of France:
http://www.map-france.com
A good on-line language dictionary:
http://www.wordreference.com
Another good on-line language dictionary, which provides the phonetical pronunciation of words:
http://www.ultralingua.com/onlinedictionary
Site to perform French verb conjugation:
http://machaut.uchicago.edu/conjugator
