INTERMEDIATE FRENCH II

at Camden County College
Prof. Howard

     HISTORY AND WRITERS OF FRANCE

*    Literature
*    History and culture
*    Medieval history
*    The Hundred Years War
*    The 10 Dynasties
*    Kings of the Middle Ages
*    Medieval château life
*    Romanesque architecture
*    Gothic architecture
*   Domestic life
*    Invention of the printing press
*    Bayeux Tapestry
*   Music
*   Art
*   Women writers
*    Biography of Clovis
*    Biography of Charlemagne
*    Joan of Arc
*    Fiction: B.d. Astérix

*    Literature
*    History
*    Who's who of 16th Century France
*    The Massacre of st. Bartholomew's Day
*    The Kings and Queens
*    France during the Renaissance
*    Castels of the Loire
*    Renaissance architecture 

*    Art and Culture in France
*    Rabelais
*    Ronsard
 

*    Literature
*    History
*    1600-1700 History France
*    Louis XIV
*    Accounts of Louis XIV
*    More on Louis XIV and absolutism
*    Versailles
*    Another site on Versailles
*    The official site of the Château de Versailles
*    All about Versailles and the people in it
*    Richelieu: le palais royal
*    L'encyclopedia:     Cardinal Richelieu
*    Absulute Monarchies:France, the Holy Roman
                     Empire, great-Britain

*   De La Fontaine
*   Plaise Pascal
*   René Descartes: matematician
                    philosopher
                    Discourse on method
*    Molière
*    Theatre History
*    A brief account of scandal and theater in the
     court of the Sun King Louis VIV

*    Literature
*    History
*    Women in the French revolution

*    Literature
*    Napoleon I
*    History
*   More on history and literature
*   Info on great web sites history and literature

20th Century

*    History

* More web  sites on French History
*  Monarchs and Monastries: 8th - 15th century
*  The Path to Royal Absolutism:
                  Renaissance & early 17th  century
*  The Rise & Fall of the Absolute Monarchie: 17th & 18th century
*  From Empire to Democracy

                                WORKS USED IN CLASS

                     **Find French works by author in ABU
 

* Marie de France     Les lais

* Rabelais:           Gargantua

* Ronsard:             collection of poems

* Jean de la Fontaine: Toutes les Fables
 

* Molière:            Tartuffe

* Victor Hugo:        Demain dès l'aube

* Edmond Rostand:     Cyrano de Bergerac

                                                    * Cyrano website which includes an English
                      translation as well as the work in French
 
 

• FRENCH LITERARY ANALYSIS
• FRENCH DICTIONARIES OF ALL TERMS