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SELF ORIENTATION PROGRAMME
JANUARY 2013

Introduction to the Arts in France

FRENCH CULTURE AND CIVILISATION

A very rich cultural heritage
Architecture
Literature
Music

Painting/Sculpture
Cinema

Architecture
From vestiges of Roman

Roman amphitheatres still in use today

Lyon (Fourvière)

Orange

buildings e.g. many 2000 years old Roman amphithéâtres still in use today
To ultra modern designs such as the Centre Pompidou in Metz

Cathedrals

Notre Dame de Paris
12th-13th centuries

ANNE FAVIER-TOWNSEND

Saint Jean, Lyon
12-14th centuries

Chateaux
Château du Sou (Rhône)
14th century

Chenonceau (Loire Valley)
16th century

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19th century buildings
Eiffel Tower

Arc de Triomphe

20th century buildings
The Louvre Pyramid

The Grande Arche de la Défense

Literature
Marie de France (12th century)

FRENCH CULTURE AND CIVILISATION

19th century buildings
Opéra de Paris

Université Lyon 3

21st century Buildings
Viaduct de Millau (2004)

Centre Pompidou - Metz (2010)

Literature
16th century

Francois Rabelais
Gargantua et Pantagruel

Ronsard

Written in
Anglo-Norman
(old French language) ANNE FAVIER-TOWNSEND

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FRENCH CULTURE AND CIVILISATION

Literature
17th century
Cyrano de Bergerac

Literature
17th Century
Molière

Literature
18th century
Voltaire (Candide)

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
(The Social contract)

Madame de Lafayette

Literature
18th Century
Olympe de Gouje
1st feminist!
Payed a heavy price for fighting women’s cause

Literature
19th century
Victor Hugo
(Hunchback of Notre Dame)

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Alexandre Dumas
(Count of Monte Cristo)

Literature
19th century

Honoré de Balzac
(La comédie Humaine)

Emile Zola
(L’assomoir, Germinal)

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