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Moliere Guy de Maupassant Emile Zola Victor Hugo Rousseau

Moliere Guy de Maupassant Emile Zola Victor Hugo Rousseau

2 – Who wrote “ les Misérables’’ (Miserable) ?

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 1862  One of the most emblematic writer  Historical, social and philosophical novel  Naturalism movement

VICTOR HUGO

Gavroche Cosette

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3 – What the name of the Moliere’s theater ?

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 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

ILLUSTRE THEATRE

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4 - What are the two most famous French novels in the world ?

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THE LITTLE PRINCE

 Antoine de Saint Exupery 1943 The work the most selling in the world and most translated, just after the Bible  Philosophic tale

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 Albert Camus  1942  One of the most famous sentence in the French literature “Today, mum is dead “  The literature of the absurd

THE STRANGER

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5 - Who wrote les Rougon-Macquart ?

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EMILEZOLA

 1871 - 1893  20 novels "Les Rougon-Macquart personify the time, the Second Empire’’  Naturalism Movement

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6 – Who was Georges Sand ?

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SCANDALOUS WOMAN

 Novelist, playwright, literary critic , journalist Only woman writer of his century who was considered  First woman who took a male pseudonym

7 – What is la Pléiade ?

Les Funérailles de l'Amour, Henri Lerambert 1580

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Pierre de Ronsard Joachim du Bellay - Guillaume des Autels Pontus de Tyard - Remy Belleau - Jean Dorat Jean de la Peruse  Group of seven French poets  16th century  To enrich French culture  To defend imitation of Greco-Latin authors  To break with medieval poetry

LA PLEIADE

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8 - In the 18th century, what were les Lumieres (the Enlightenment) ?  a political movement  a religious movement  a philosophical movement

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PILOSOPHIC MOVEMENT

 18th 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

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9 – Who created l’Academie Francaise (French Academy)?

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RICHELIEU

 Founded in 1635  To establish rules for the French language  Dictionary of the French language  728 immortals

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10 – Who wrote l’Encyclopedie (Encyclopedia)?

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DIDEROT and D’ALEMBERT

 1751 - 1772 To propose the knowledge for everybody  To advance humanity through knowledge and education

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