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	MSN Encarta - French Literature
		The greatest lyric poet of the 18th century was André Chénier, whose fate dramatized the difficult position of writers during the French Revolution.
		Similarly, the literary history of the 19th century is of a series of efforts to replace the classicism of the 17th and 18th centuries and its emphasis on order, reason, and clarity.
		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.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761552714_3/French_Literature.html (3522 words)

	FRE French Courses
		Representative masterpieces and significant movements of French literature of the Middle Ages through the 18th century.
		FRE 535 French Literature of the 16th Century.
		FRE 451 French Poetry of the 19th Century.
	www.public.asu.edu /aad/catalogs/spring_2002/fre.html (824 words)

	French literature of the 17th century - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A great deal of 17th and 18th century poetry was "occasional", meaning that it was written to celebrate a particular event (a marriage, birth, military victory) or to solemnize a tragic occurrence (a death, militray defeat), and this kind of poetry was frequent with gentlemen in the service of a noble or the king.
		The seventeenth century is the century of biographical "mémoires".
		The seventeenth century was dominated by a profound moral and religious fervor unleashed by the Counter-Reformation.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/French_literature_of_the_17th_century (6390 words)

	Dickinson College - Academics - French and Italian Faculty
		Her scholarship has focused on 18th century French literature, particularly Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the advent of autobiography in modern culture.
		She specializes in French literature of the 20th century, focusing on the evolution of the modern novel, narrative and feminist theory; and in cinema studies.
		His scholarship has focused on 19th and 20th century French literature, particularly the mythopoesis of culture in crisis, 20th century theatre with emphasis on the theatre of the absurd, the theory of humor, and currently, realms of memory in contemporary French issues.
	www.dickinson.edu /cgi-bin/facshow.cgi?French+and+Italian (596 words)

	French Theatre, Opera & Ballet - The Arts in France
		France's political position as the most powerful nation in Europe during the reign of Louis XIV was reflected in the preeminence French literature attained in the 17th century.
		French theater in the 19th century was at first dominated by the romantic dramas of Victor Hugo, whose Hernani (1830; Eng.
		Toward the end of the 18th century, Beaumarchais held the stage with his popular comedies The Barber of Seville (1775; Eng.
	www.discoverfrance.net /France/Theatre/DF_theatre.shtml (1699 words)

	Language Courses
		A survey of 20th century French literature and culture that reflects the social and intellectual trends in modern France.
		A study of the literary movements in 19th century French literature based on a historical approach to representative authors and works.
		A survey of the major works of the French enlightenment as it manifests itself in the scientific, philosophic, political, and ethical thinking of the 18th century.
	www.seattleu.edu /artsci/forlang/LangCourses.htm (826 words)

	USC College of Letters, Arts and Sciences - French and Italian
		550 French Literature of the 18th Century (4) Literature of the Enlightenment and its intellectual and cultural background; emphasis on Montesquieu, Voltaire, Rousseau, prose fiction, and theatre.
		474 Readings in 20th Century French Literature (4) Representative novels, plays and essays exemplifying such movements as Modernism, Surrealism, Existentialism, the Theatre of the Absurd, and Post-modernism.
		Required of candidates for the M.A. and Ph.D. 525 French Literature of the Middle Ages (4) Literary study of Old French texts of various genres; examination of origins and factors that contributed to their development.
	www.usc.edu /dept/publications/cat99/las/LAS_fren/coi.html (1541 words)

	French Program Faculty - Charles R. McCreary
		My teaching interests include teaching language at all levels, French literature of the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries and using technology in teaching.
		I received my Ph.D. in 17th century French literature from Northwestern University in 1986.
		Please let me know what you think of our website.
	www.chss.iup.edu /frgm/mccreary.htm (47 words)

	University of Dallas - French Faculty
		French Literature: Medieval& Renaissance, 17th-century, 18th-century, 20th-century, Modern French Poetry
		B.A., French & English, University of Dallas, 1971
		Ph.D., Comparative Studies in Literature, University of Chicago, 1979
	www.udallas.edu /modlang/french/faculty.cfm?ID=43 (95 words)

	Eighteenth-Century Resources -- Literature
		Brief discussions of literature from the 17th century to the present with attention to banking and finance.
		French fairground theatre of the 17th and 18th centuries.
		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.
	andromeda.rutgers.edu /~jlynch/18th/lit.html (4816 words)

	Info and facts on 'French literature'
		French classicism (A movement in literature and art during the 17th and 18th centuries in Europe that favored rationality and restraint and strict forms) taught the dependence of modern literature upon the ancients.
		Literature in the regional language (additional info and facts about regional language) s continued through to the 18th century, although increasing eclipsed by the rise of the French language and influenced by the prevailing French literary model.
		Voltaire (French writer who was the embodiment of 18th century Enlightenment (1694-1778)) (1694-1778) attacked bigotry and superstition, and championed the victims of religious persecution and of political injustice.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/f/fr/french_literature.htm (4006 words)

	Introduction
		The class, conducted in French, is devoted to a survey of French literature of the 17th and 18th century.
		We examine in some detail how French literature changed during this period and how these changes were influenced by the creativity of individual authors.
		The course is organized to offer the student points of view on French literature and culture.
	scholar.oit.unc.edu /roml/french/fren61.nsf (4006 words)

	Eighteenth-Century Resources -- Literature
		French fairground theatre of the 17th and 18th centuries.
		literature from the early 18th century to the present.
		Brief discussions of literature from the 17th century to the present with attention to banking and finance.
	andromeda.rutgers.edu /~jlynch/18th/lit.html (4006 words)

	Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 99018157
		Library of Congress subject headings for this publication: English literature 18th century History and criticism, Virtue in literature, English literature Early modern, 1500-1700 History and criticism, Didactic literature, English History and criticism, Great Britain Civilization 18th century, Ethics, Modern 18th century, Romanticism Great Britain
		But with the coming of the French revolution and Romanticism, virtue began to lose its powerful resonances--it now seemed naive and simplistic, all too ready to deny both the complexities of human nature and the possibility of determination by external cultural forces.
		When the longed-for political savior failed to materialize it was increasingly felt that if virtue existed at all then it would have been sought for among the lower orders of society or else in provincial areas, where simpler and nobler values might still prevail.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/description/hol056/99018157.html (190 words)

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	www.alanaditescili.net /browse.php?title=1/16/169 (190 words)

	Why Study French
		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.
		French, along with English, is the official working language of
	www.fll.vt.edu /French/whyfrench.html (190 words)

	The Departement of French Studies - Brown University
		He is the author of numerous books on the literature of the 18th century including: Libertines, L'Ardeur et la galanterie, Le Traité des mouches secrètes, Le Traité du transport amoureux.
		The latest issue of EQUINOXES, a graduate journal of French and Francophone Studies is available.
		The Departement of French Studies - Brown University
	www.brown.edu /Departments/French (190 words)

	Literary Essay Sample from WWWriters Writing & Research Service - We Do It WRITE For You!
		The eighteenth century, known as the “age of enlightenment” was a notable period for the reputation and social advance of the medical profession in both Europe and America (Cunningham & French, 1990, p.
		As the century progressed, a sentimentalist approach to medicine developed, just as the sentimentalist paradigm colored the dictums of other key areas of societal life, including the literature of the era.
		Rebecca Rush wrote her novel Kelroy, at the end of the eighteenth century in a voice that superbly expressed the sentimentalist approach to viewing life, families, relationships, and financial issues.
	www.visionsofadonai.com /bc/wwwriters/sentiment.html (190 words)

	THDR 212 : Theatre Traditions: Greeks through 18th Century : Seeley G. Mudd Library : Lawrence University
		Description from Stetson University: "Accessible in French or English, this is a very well-presented (award-winning) site which explores 'literature, art, religion and society' in 17th century Europe through various tales of Don Juan, drawn from narrative, dramatic, and other sources."
		Some text, such as picture captions, title pages, dialogue, and synopses of plays, but concentration is on images produced by an array of technologies available in the 19th and early 20th century.
		THDR 212 : Theatre Traditions: Greeks through 18th Century : Seeley G. Mudd Library : Lawrence University
	www.lawrence.edu /library/guides/thdr212.shtml (190 words)

	The 16th century (from French literature) -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		Traces the emergence of neoclassicism at the turn of the 18th century and includes a timeline.
		More results on "The 16th century (from French literature)" when you join.
		It was then that writers began to abandon Latin as the language of literature and write in one of the Italian dialects used in common speech.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-22594 (981 words)

	Section 1: Roots of Western Culture/Shaping of the Modern World/Brooklyn College
		Modern = History since the French, American and Industrial revolutions in the late 18th century.
		In practice this means Greece in the fifth and fourth centuries BCE, and Rome in the first century BCE and the first century CE.
		Classical = those periods in ancient history which produced art and literature which later achieved great acclaim.
	academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu /history/virtual/core4-1.htm (981 words)

	Eighteenth-Century Resources -- Literature
		French fairground theatre of the 17th and 18th centuries.
		Brief discussions of literature from the 17th century to the present with attention to banking and finance.
		literature from the early 18th century to the present.
	andromeda.rutgers.edu /~jlynch/18th/lit.html (4958 words)

	1600s, 17th Century
		It was here in the 18th century that the new liberal philosophy was expounded; this was the cafe of Encyclopedistes, of Diderot, Voltaire, d'Alembert and Benjamin Franklin; the history of the Procope is closely linked with eighteenth century revolutionary ideas.
		Voltaire came here, and Rousseau; Beaumarchais, Balzac, Verlaine and Hugo; from La Fontaine to Anatole France the list of the habitues of the Procope is a list of the great names in French literature.
		These 17th century cabinets, actually room-sized collections, were filled with preserved animals, horns, tusks, skeletons, minerals, and so on.
	www.jahsonic.com /1600s.html (4958 words)

	Graduate Catalog 2002-2003
		Colonial Literature (3 credits) — A study of the development of literature in Spanish-America during the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries.
		16th Century French Literature (3 credits) — Selected works by the principal 16th century writers and poets of the Renaissance.
		The Generation of `98 (3 credits) — The origin, development, and influence of this early 20th century renaissance of Spanish letters, with attention given to the most representative poets, dramatists, and novelists of the period.
	www.etsu.edu /reg/cat-grad2002/flan.htm (1031 words)

	Graduate Student Directory
		Victorian literature and culture; 18th-century literature; the rise of the
		16th- and 17th-century literature; the representation of racial and religious difference in material and visual culture; hybridity; globalism
		Victorian literature and culture, especially representations of Jewishness and English national identity; narrative and the novel; Victorian poetry and aesthetics
	www.columbia.edu /cu/english/grad_studentdir.htm (1031 words)

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		Studies in 18th-Century French Literature presented to Robert Niklaus.
		Studies in eighteenth-Century French Literature presented to Robert Niklaus.
		Studies in Eighteenth-Century French Literature presented to Robert Niklaus.
	www.isbn.pl /A-fox-j-h (1106 words)

	UW-Madison Special Collections: European Collections
		About 150 volumes in the field of 18th-century French literature and culture, acquired in 1962 from the library of Professor Tucker.
		The collection documents popular literature and culture especially of 18th-century Spain.
		Manuscripts written in Gaelic in the 18th and early 19th centuries, including verse, battle sagas, and a sermon; donated by a former professor (1937-1946) of Gaelic and Irish history and literature.
	www.library.wisc.edu /libraries/SpecialCollections/sceur.html (1106 words)

	Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 2002072306
		It is the first dedicated study of the theory of the novel of adultery, and of the representation of adultery in earlier British and later 19th century French fiction.
		This book discusses how novels of adultery have been theorized, argues its own theoretical perspective, and analyzes two 'circumtexts' of the fiction of female adultery: its pre-history in 18th century Britain, and its decline during the Naturalist period in France.
		Library of Congress subject headings for this publication: English fiction History and criticism, Adultery in literature, Literature, Comparative English and French, Literature, Comparative French and English, French fiction History and criticism, Women in literature
	www.loc.gov /catdir/description/hol031/2002072306.html (163 words)

	Louis XIV (the sun king) (1638-1715) : Library of Congress Citations
		Title: The decline of the age of Louis XIV; or, French literature, 1687-1715.
		LC Call No.: DC125.W54 Dewey No.: 944/.033/0924 B 92 Notes: Traces the years from birth to early manhood of the seventeenth-century French monarch known as the "Sun King." Bibliography: p.
		French literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
	www.mala.bc.ca /~mcneil/cit/citlclouisxiv1.htm (1416 words)

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