This list is not complete (I guess there will never be one). It only gives some starting points on the web, for a (french*) layman.
It 's up to you to complete it! *: many sites are in french, or related to the french society.
Phone books
, Web
, Computer sciences
, Movies
, Book stores
, Books
, Music
, Newspapers
Phone books
French phone book French ZIP codes
Miscanaelleous
Currency converter ,French weather ,EuroTV ,SNCF ,Mappy ,Via Michelin
Web
Search engines :
Google
, All the web
, Ask
, Internet archive
, Link popularity checker
Directories :
Dmoz
, Yahoo! France
, Ze WoC
, ClicNet
E-mails :
Hotmail
, GMail
Movies
Internet Movie Database , Telerama , Premiere , Allo Cine , Rotten tomatoes
Books
Littérature francophone virtuelle , ABU la bibliothèque universelle , Bibliothèque nationale de France , Biblio On Line : Les Bibliothèques sur Internet , List of Dictionaries , YourDictionary.com , Wikipedia
Book stores
Amazon.com , Barnes& Noble , Decitre
Music
Newspapers
Le Figaro , Le Monde , Courrier International , New York Times
Informatique
W3C
, PHP
, Python
, Perl
, XEmacs
, Glish/CSS
, Zope
, phpBB
, Typo 3
OpenOffice
Dictionnaries
Comment ca marche , Techweb encyclopedia , What is , Dictionnaire d'informatique