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	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: French Literature
		Hence the fondness of the literature of the seventeenth century for general ideas and for sentiments that are common to mankind, and its success in those kinds of literature which are based on the general study of the human heart.
		French literature in the seventeenth century, we must consider it in three periods: (1) from the year 1600 to 1659, the period of preparation; (2) 1659-1688, the Golden Age of classicism; (3) 1688-1715, the period of transition between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
		French prose its raciness, is vigour, and its ease of movement.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/06190a.htm (14610 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search View - French Literature
		French literature is considered one of the richest and most varied national literatures, noted especially for its examination of human society and the individual’s place within society.
		This period was marked by conflict between the French king and the pope; the prohibition of the Jansenist sect at Port Royal; the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, resulting in renewed persecution of Protestants; and the increased suffering of the lower classes.
		French writers living in a new world of nuclear energy, computerization, and increased media influence sought to redefine their role in society and their concepts of literature.
	encarta.msn.com /text_761552714__1/French_Literature.html (10095 words)

	French Literature
		Throughout the period, literature was shaped by specific historical traditions and a firmly circumscribed code of priorities, ecclesiastical and secular.
		The dominance of the Church ensured that literary expression was informed by a strong didactic spirit, while feudalism provided a common, if loose, framework of values until it was challenged in the thirteenth century by the growth of towns and a less courtly and more bourgeois public.
		Though the existence of a tripartite social hierarchy (clergy, aristocracy and the rest) might suggest separate literary constituencies, the notion of a ‘public’ for literature is difficult to define.
	www.frenchlanguageguide.com /french/culture/frenchliterature.asp (287 words)

	Canadian literature, French on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Except for the narratives of French explorers (such as Samuel de Champlain and Pierre Esprit Radisson) and missionaries, no notable writing was produced before the British conquest of New France in 1759.
		Since that time the inspiration for much French Canadian literature has been a concern with preserving an autonomous identity in a country dominated by the English language and the Protestant religion.
		French Canadian writers found their models mainly in writers from France and their themes in nationalism, the simple lives and folkways of the habitants, and the devotion to the Roman Catholic Church.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/C/Canad-litF1r.asp (974 words)

	Why Study French
		French as a foreign language is the second most frequently taught language in the world after English.
		French thought played a dominant role among the founders of the United States in the 18th century, and it continues to shape America today through the influence of such intellectual currents as post-structuralism and post-modernism.
		The French economy is one of the strongest in the world and is increasingly a leader in technological innovation.
	www.fll.vt.edu /French/whyfrench.html (1305 words)

	WSU Stewart Library - French Language, Literature, History and Culture
		Books on French literature are generally located within the call number PQ, and books on French history are found under the call number DC in the General Collection on level two.
		Literature Resource Center - (Includes Contemporary Authors, Dictionary of Literary Biography and other materials) - Literature Resource Center provides access to biographies, bibliographies and critical analysis of over 90,000 authors from every age and literary discipline.
		Voice of the Shuttle: French Literature - Voice of the Shuttle is a huge site from UC Santa Barbara for all types of Humanities research.
	library.weber.edu /cm/a&h/french.cfm?bhcp=1 (1469 words)

	Digital Librarian: French Literature
		ARTFL Project - Much of this University of Chicago French Studies project is restricted to subscribers but public resources include a French-English Dictionary, Dictionnaires d'autrefois, French dictionaries of the 16th, 17th, 18th and 19th centuries and the Louis Segond Bible.
		Pamphlets and Periodicals of the French Revolution of 1848 consists of over 100 pamphlets and periodicals from 1848 to 1851, browsable and searchable by title.
		Studies in Canadian Literature (Études en littérature canadien) - "Biannual, bilingual journal devoted to the study of Canadian literature in English and French, and published at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton." The journal is searchable and provides full-text access to most issues beginning with Volume 1 (1976).
	www.digital-librarian.com /frenchlit.html (3314 words)

	AP Central - French Literature Course Perspective (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		As noted in my comments on AP French Language, AP French Literature is quite a different course, although both of them offer students many rewards.
		Unlike the AP French Language Exam, the AP French Literature Exam is based on works the students have read and analyzed.
		At the French One level, students should be exposed to short readings and short poems, employing the same methods used to prepare them for the French Language Exam.
	apcentral.collegeboard.com /article/0,1281,151-162-0-7128,00.html (734 words)

	Welcome to the French Department at Berkeley
		The dedicated and creative teachers and scholars in our department share a commitment to excellence of instruction, whether it be in a first year French class, a specialized course for majors (all of which are taught in French), a course on French literature in translation, or an advanced graduate seminar.
		For its undergraduate majors and minors and its graduate students the Berkeley French Department provides thorough coverage in the traditional, historically based divisions of French literature and culture, as well as in Francophone literatures.
		It blends this coverage with a wide array of related fields and topics - from literary history and theory to philosophy, to social and cultural theory, to psychoanalysis, the study of gender and sexuality, historiography, visual arts and film, music, popular culture, and politics.
	french.berkeley.edu (508 words)

	AP: French Literature
		The AP French Literature course is designed to introduce students who have advanced language skills to the formal study of a representative body of literary texts in French.
		The program is not to be construed as a formal survey of literary history but rather as an introduction to representative works of prose, poetry, and drama from different periods.
		By learning to identify and interpret the various elements that enter into the composition of a literary text and to perceive their relationships, students acquire a fuller understanding and appreciation of the art and significance of literature.
	www.collegeboard.com /student/testing/ap/sub_frenchlit.html?frenchlit (207 words)

	French Literature - 19th Century
		Poetry completely recovered its elan, while the novel, as the most suitable genre for registering the social upheavals brought first by the French Revolution and Napoleonic wars and then by the expansion of capitalism and the industrial revolution, ultimately became the dominant mode of expression.
		Simultaneously, the philosopher and historian Hippolyte Taine, seeking a scientific explanation for historical and cultural phenomena, professed to discover in the interplay of physical and psychological factors the cause of national and individual variations.
		Zola's naturalistic oeuvre was the application of this hypothesis to literature.
	www.discoverfrance.net /France/Literature/DF_literature5.shtml (1388 words)

	American University Library - Languages and Linguistics: French Language and Literature
		There are also links to critical literature, a who's who in African literature and a list of "must read" works.
		Gallica Classique is a full-text collection of French Literary Studies from the Middles Ages to the 19th century.
		Literature and Culture of Francophone Africa and the Diaspora
	www.library.american.edu /subject/language/french.html (743 words)

	Graduate School Directories - French (Language, Literature, Studies)
		French tends to be a particularly useful language as it is the only language other than English spoken on five continents.
		French can claim status as an official language in 28 countries, and is a working language for many organizations including the United Nations, UNESCO, NATO, the International Red Cross, and many more.
		French studies may also encompass a range of other issues related to French culture including: history, politics, philosophy, art, and religion.
	www.gradschools.com /listings/menus/french_menu.html (338 words)

	French Literature Bibliography
		It is strong in religion, the history of art, and literature, with particular emphasis on current trends in European and world literature.
		ARTFL (American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language).
		Produced by the Dept. of Romance Languages and Literatures, Univ. of Chicago, ARTFL is a database containing the full texts of major literary works in French.
	www.library.cornell.edu /okuref/lit/frlitbib.html (753 words)

	French Literature
		Because the French are a literate people, passionately interested in questions of language and in the exploration of ideas, the influence of French intellectuals on the course of French history during the last three centuries has been great, and remains so today.
		The continuing prestige of literature in France is evidenced today by the innumerable private societies devoted to individual authors and by the large number of literary prizes awarded each year.
		The 11th century witnessed the emergence of a literature in the French language in the form of numerous epic poems, called CHANSONS DE GESTE.
	www.discoverfrance.net /France/Literature/DF_literature.shtml (1031 words)

	Pathfinder - High School AP French Literature
		Turner, St. Ignatius HS Gallica Classique From the Bibliotheque Nationale, the texts of French masterpieces (100,000 texts and 300,000 images).
		French Studies Web: Literature, Linguistics and Culture Annotated links to scholarly web resources.
		Catholic Encyclopedia: French Literature A basic history through the 19th Century.
	www.lkwdpl.org /lhs/frenchlit (183 words)

	FRE 507 - Teaching French Through French Literature
		I strongly believe that literature, when carefully selected and properly approached, can serve as a valuable resource for teaching language and culture in any language.
		I further believe that literature should not be reserved for the higher levels of language learning, but should be made accessible to students who are in the early phases of language acquisition.
		A detailed explanation of the format for French 507 is contained in the printed material that will be mailed to all students who have enrolled in this course.
	www.uncg.edu /rom/courses/dafein/507/syllabus.htm (380 words)

	French literature: Classicism: The Seventeenth Century — FactMonster.com
		The elegant, controlled aesthetic of French classicism was the hallmark of the age: in the brilliant dramas of Pierre
		Their works display qualities that have become permanently identified with the best French writing: wit, sophistication, imagination, and delight in debate.
		From the mid-1680s French prose writers honed their critical facility as poetical and theatrical works waned in number and distinction.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/ent/A0858277.html (196 words)

	Eighteenth-Century Resources -- Literature
		Brief discussions of literature from the 17th century to the present with attention to banking and finance.
		The Project for American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language, a cooperative project of the Institut National de la Langue Franaise (INaLF) of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and the Divisions of the Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Chicago.
		French fairground theatre of the 17th and 18th centuries.
	andromeda.rutgers.edu /~jlynch/18th/lit.html (4816 words)

	French literature, French Writers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		French Encyclopaedia.Une recherche dans les champs(genre de texte, secteur, auteur, etc.) selon lesquels sont répartis les documents associés aux dossiers.
		French poetry website, with also English, Spanish and German poetry in the original versions.
		French poetry website from The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, France.
	www.zeroland.co.nz /literature3.html (218 words)

	Literature from many countries
		Voice of the Shuttle: English Literature Page is a great and extensive introduction to English Literature.
		If you are interested in French surrealist authors you should see Todd Sanders' The universe (which others call the Library).
		Present day Norwegian literature is very well represented in Litteraturnettet.
	www.xs4all.nl /~pwessel/country.html (788 words)

	WWW Resources for French as a Second Language Learning
		Coming from England, a set of interactive activities for French teachers and learners, featuring more than 400 exercises organised for each year of study and includes reading, writing and listening exercises.
		French activities and resources for young learners and teachers including tips for parents, links, online activities, printouts, games and songs.
		This site is published by the Fondation Napoléon, is accessible in French and English, and is dedicated to the study of the civil, military, social and artistic works of the First and Second French Empires.
	aix1.uottawa.ca /~weinberg/french.html (2228 words)

	European Literature - Electronic Texts
		De Nederlandse Letteren has an index to Dutch authors in the various Web collections as well as links to general information on Dutch literature and to new journals and writers publishing on the Internet.
		Dutch literature from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century.
		Literatur im Netz and Literaturwelt have descriptive entries for contemporary literature published on the Web and for literary journals on the Web.
	www.lib.virginia.edu /wess/etexts.html (1093 words)

	French Literature - Renaissance
		In Gargantua (1534) his giant hero reports to his son Pantagruel on the amazing intellectual progress that has occurred in the course of just one generation thanks to the revival of the literature and thought of antiquity.
		But French poets were also interested in making of their native language a more supple instrument.
		With the lyric sonnets, light odes, and political verse of his later career, he helped to free French poetry from the pedantry of the past.
	www.discoverfrance.net /France/Literature/DF_literature2.shtml (787 words)

	French Language Course Pages
		The following French course is intended to allow you to understand written French (newspapers, articles, magazines, signs on the road during your next trip in France, etc.) and to write a letter to a French friend or correspondent.
		I would have liked to teach you spoken French but unfortunately, the Web is not the good medium for that.
		In the first five lessons, I will especially focus on the grammatical aspects of the French language in order to be able to go into conversations rapidly.
	www.jump-gate.com /languages/french (312 words)

	The ARTFL Project
		Resources for ARTFL subscribers, including the Main ARTFL Database, French Women Writers, Provençal poetry, Journal de Trévoux, full-text dictionary searching and the Opera del Vocabolario Italiano (OVI) Database.
		French Dictionaries from the 17th - 20th centuries, including several Dictionnaires de l'Académie française along with the Estienne, Nicot, Bayle, Moréri, Féraud, and Littré.
		French and English dictionaries and other tools, including the new computerized Trésor de la Langue Française dictionary
	humanities.uchicago.edu /ARTFL/ARTFL.html (117 words)

	English Literature and French Literature and Art. Italian Poetry in Translation. By Ellen Moody.
		Women's Novels: for Jane Austen and in conjunction with an essay Ellen wrote (published by Philological Quarterly) "A Calendar for Sense and Sensibility", Ellen studied all Austen's novels minutely and drew extensive detailed calendars from them that are in these books and provide the undergirding of of all Austen's serious realistic fiction.
		She has spent much time working on a several projects centered on women's literature, translation and the later 18th century novel and memoir.
		Here she includes bibliographies which her students have found useful for research, e.g., on children's literature, on the medical subculture of our society, on on archaeology, human genetic heritage and migration and language history, and on Richard Feynman).
	www.jimandellen.org /ellen/emhome.htm (1229 words)

	AP French Literature Links
		AP University Credit- chart comparing credit awarded by 12 universities for the AP French Language, AP French Literature, AP English Composition and Literature, AP European History, and AP Mathematics Calculus BC exams.
		National AP Scores for the French, Spanish, and German Language and Literature exams 1995-2000.
		Why Study French- Saint Ignatius students explain why they chose to study French and discuss the benefits of their choice.
	www2.ignatius.edu /faculty/turner/apfrlit.htm (875 words)

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