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Guy de Maupassant Moliere Emile Zola Victor Hugo Rousseau

Guy de Maupassant Moliere Emile Zola Victor Hugo Rousseau

2 – Who wrote “ les Misérables’’ (Miserable) ? F REN H L ITE ENCH TERATUR ATURE

Gavroche V ICTOR H UGO  1862  One of the most emblematic writer  Historical, social and philosophical novel  Naturalism movement Cosette F REN H L ITE ENCH TERATUR ATURE

3 – What the name of the Moliere’s theater ? F REN H L ITE ENCH TERATUR ATURE

I LLUSTRE T HEATRE  1643  Exits just during 2 years because of debts  The Moliere’s language  Describe the mores of his time Moliere et les sarcastiques de sa troupe , Edmond Geoffroy, 1857 F REN H L ITE ENCH TERATUR ATURE

4 - What are the two most famous French novels in the world ? ? ? F REN H L ITE ENCH TERATUR ATURE

THE L ITTLE P RINCE  Antoine de Saint Exupery  1943  The work the most selling in the world and most translated, just after the Bible  Philosophic tale F REN H L ITE ENCH TERATUR ATURE

THE S TRANGER  Albert Camus  1942  One of the most famous sentence in the French literature “Today, mum is dead “  The literature of the absurd F REN H L ITE ENCH TERATUR ATURE

5 - Who wrote les Rougon-Macquart ? F REN H L ITE ENCH TERATUR ATURE

E MILE Z OLA  1871 - 1893  20 novels  "Les Rougon-Macquart personify the time, the Second Empire’’  Naturalism Movement F REN H L ITE ENCH TERATUR ATURE

6 – Who was Georges Sand ? • 6 sand F REN H L ITE ENCH TERATUR ATURE

S CANDALOUS W OMAN  Novelist, playwright, literary critic , journalist  Only woman writer of his century who was considered  First woman who took a male pseudonym F REN H L ITE ENCH TERATUR ATURE

7 – What is la Pléiade ? Les Funérailles de l'Amour, Henri Lerambert 1580 F REN H L ITE ENCH TERATUR ATURE

L A P LEIADE  Group of seven French poets  16 th century  To enrich French culture  To defend imitation of Greco-Latin authors  To break with medieval poetry Pierre de Ronsard Joachim du Bellay - Guillaume des Autels Pontus de Tyard - R emy Belleau - Jean Dorat Jean de la Peruse F REN H L ITE ENCH TERATUR ATURE

8 - In the 18 th century, what were les Lumieres (the Enlightenment) ?  a political movement  a religious movement  a philosophical movement F REN H L ITE ENCH TERATUR ATURE

P ILOSOPHIC M OVEMENT  18 th century  European Movement  To fight the obscurantism  To promote the knowledge Lecture de la tragédie de Voltaire, l’Orphelin de la Chine , dans le salon de Mme Geoffrin en 1755 F REN H L ITE ENCH TERATUR ATURE

9 – Who created l’Academie Francaise (French Academy)? F REN H L ITE ENCH TERATUR ATURE

R ICHELIEU  Founded in 1635  To establish rules for the French language  Dictionary of the French language  728 immortals F REN H L ITE ENCH TERATUR ATURE

10 – Who wrote l’Encyclopedie (Encyclopedia)? F REN H L ITE ENCH TERATUR ATURE

D IDEROT and D’ A LEMBERT  1751 - 1772  To propose the knowledge for everybody  To advance humanity through knowledge and education F REN H L ITE ENCH TERATUR ATURE

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