From Middlebury College, this site helps you practice vocabulary dealing with school and education, cooking, vacation and travel, media and information, work and money, politics and society. Each lesson is typically between 2 and 2.5 megabytes. Radio France International also brings you daily news transcripts in French. It is designed for students of foreign languages to help with the verb inflections.
Translations further help in learning the verbs.
Text links include works by Baudelaire, Constant, Balzac, Corbiere, Hugo etc. A catalogue containing 262 electronic texts by 82 authors. Links to Japanese and English proverbs too. In Spanish and English too. The Electronic Text Center's collection of online French-language texts plus links to other sources for electronic texts in French.