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Language and print culture Flashcards

1
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Three languages in France

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First Celtic
Then Latin
Finally French

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2
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First formal text in French

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Les Serments de Strasbourg, 842

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3
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Author of Arthurian cycle

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Chrétien de Troyes

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4
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THE FRENCH QUARTET

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RABELAIS, MONTAIGNE, DESCARTES, PASCAL

The bon vivant, the sceptic, the rationalist and the Christian

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5
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What does The sceptic counters

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dogmatism

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6
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What does The rationalist counters

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the sceptic

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7
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What does Christian counters

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the rationalist

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8
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People from The bon vivant

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: Rabelais, Gargantua (16th)

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Characteristics of the bon vivant

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Love of life
the 3 Ws – words, wine and (wo)men
Both rabelaisian and gargantuan are adjectives!

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Characteristics from the sceptic

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Montaigne, Essays (16th)
Faced with dogmatism and violence, argues for scepticism (moderation)
Arguably the greatest essayist in Western history, inspired Ralph Waldo Emerson who is the greatest American essayist

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Characteristics from The rationalist

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Descartes, Discourse on Method and Principles on Philosophy
Invented modern philosophy: the search for certainty based on reason
Led to the adjective cartesian:

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Characteristics from The Christian

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Pascal , Pensées
Started out as a great scientist (geometry, calculating machine,….)
Ended as an extraordinary defender of Christianity against rationalist philosophy
«God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob, not of the philosophers and the scholars. I will not forget thy word. Amen.»

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13
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Year in which The French Academy was created

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1634

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Who created the french academy

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Richelieu

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15
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Entrusted with maintaining a dictionary of the French language

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The french academy

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16
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Century of Invention of the psychological novel

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17th

17
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Author of The Princess of Cleves

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Madame de Lafayette

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France’s greatest comic playwright

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Molière

19
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Century of The French Enlightenment, leading into the French Revolution

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18th

20
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Edited by Diderot, the father of Wikipedia, to make knowledge as public, as available as possible

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Encyclopedia

21
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so subversive that Louis XVI forbade it for many years

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Theater: Beaumarchais, The Marriage of Figaro

22
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18th century novella writer

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Voltaire’s satirical tales, Candide – satire as a vehicle for social criticism

23
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Novel18th century’s bestseller -

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Rousseau, The New Heloise – a hybrid (traditionalist and anti-traditionalist) ménage à trois

24
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Big 4 novel authors from the 19th century

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Balzac (an encyclopedia of human mores; La Comédie Humaine)
Stendhal
Flaubert (Madame Bovary)
Zola (social realism)

25
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Romanticism poetry author

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Hugo

26
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Modernism poetry authors

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Modernism
Baudelaire
Rimbaud (Jim Morrison, The Doors)
Mallarmé

27
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Writer of Modernist prose in the 20th century

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Marcel Proust, In Remembrance of Things Past

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Existentialist prose and theater in the 20th century

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Sartre, Nausea
Camus, The Stranger
Beckett, Waiting for Godot

29
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Essayist (The Second Sex) and novelist (The Mandarins)

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Simone de Beauvoir

30
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Poet (Ethiopiques) and essayist (Négritude et humanisme) from Africa

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Senghor (president of Sénégal)

31
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essayist (Discours sur le colonialisme) and poet (Cahier d’un retour au pays natal) from Antilles

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Aimé Césaire (Martinique, mayor of Fort-de-France

32
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essayist (Traité du Tout-monde) and poet (Le Sel noir) from Antilles

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Edouard Glissant (Martinique)

33
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novelist (Texaco) and essayist (Discours sur la créolité) from Antilles

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Patrick Chamoiseau (Martinique)

34
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Number in dominance of book production

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4

35
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Left newspaper

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National

36
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Libération, center newspaper

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Le monde

37
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Right newspaper

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Le Figaro

38
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Two magnificent odditiesMagazines

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Charlie-Hebdo (radical left-wing weekly with great cartoonists)
Le Canard Enchaîné (investigative weekly, uncovers scandals)

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