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Je serai tout au long de ma vie
de deux rives,
de deux continents,
de deux mondes,
comme les lèvres d'une plaie ouverte.
Mais c'est ici que je vivrai,
ici que je travaillerai,
ici que grandira mon fils,
ici que ma fille aura des enfants.
Vous m'avez accueilli un jour
et j'ai saisi la chance à bout de bras.
J'ai peiné.
J'ai sué.
J'ai pleuré.
Je veux rire et vivre maintenant.
J'ai reçu.
Je donnerai.
Nommez votre combat
et j'en serai....
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A special grammar feature that the French language has is that different genders are assigned to adjectives, verbs, and nouns. This means that a single noun, verb, or adjective can have more than one form based on its gender. The different forms of adjectives, verbs, and nouns can also be determined by the genders of certain other parts of a sentence. This can include pronouns, articles, and sentence agreements. For those learning French, this would...
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Extrait : "LES ÉCREVISSES - Trente-neuf ans, fortune ronde, Célibataire et bon garçon, Depuis qu'on m'avait mis au monde, J'habitais à Pont-à-Mousson. Jamais de mes destins propices, Poursuivant le cours régulier, Je n'avais mangé d'écrevisses, En cabinet particulier."
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This major reference work is the fourth volume in the series "Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages". Its intention is to update the French and Occitan chapters in R.S. Loomis' "Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages: A Collaborative History" (Oxford, 1959) and to provide a volume which will serve the needs of students and scholars of Arthurian literature. The principal focus is the production, dissemination and evolution of Arthurian material...
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Extrait: "Le Coucher De Monsieur - Il entre le bougeoir à la main. Minuit! l'heure du crime et l'heure du coucher, Pour le bourgeois qui n'a rien à se reprocher. J'entre dans mon chez moi, je pose ma bougie, J'examine au miroir ma face un peu rougie; Je remonte ma montre (elle est à remontoir), J'te mon paletot, j'te mon habit noir..."
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Titres des saynètes: Le capitaliste, Infanterie et cavalerie, Le clown, Le marquis Ernest, Mon ami Naz, Le neveu de la marquise, Le hareng saur, Les lilas blancs, Premier amour, Valentin, Indécision, Un coup de rasoir, Les tentations d'Antoine, La dame de Niort, Dames de comptoir, Le maître d'armes, Monsieur Cambrefort, L'alliance, Le chapeau chinois, Le commencement de la fin.
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Titres des saynètes: Madame Boulard, La goutte d'eau, Canuche, L'écran bleu, Une méprise, La visite du docteur, Les statues, C'était écrit ! , La demoiselle qui a des absences, Un cousin de passage, La demande en mariage, Symphonie d'avril, J'aime les femmes! , Beruria, Ce monsieur! , Un drame à Cernay, Lui!!! , À louer, pour le terme
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Titres des saynettes : Le rhumatisme, Le codicille, Autrefois, La conversion de la veuve, Une affaire d'honneur, De fil en aiguille, Par la poste, Le manuscrit, Le jeune homme blême, Le chapeau bleu, L'homme raisonnable, L'accordeur, L'innocente, Les consciences, Ce que veut ma femme, Trop pressé, Le coin, Le bracelet, La chaste Suzanne
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Titres des saynètes: L'obsession, Trois jeunes filles, Un samedi soir, Les billets doux, La situations, Un monsieur qui ne veut plus fumer, Une nuit au Faulhorn, Un ivrogne, Les conventions, Les péchés de Mamette, La course au baiser, L'homme qui a voyagé, Le verrou, Le marchand de marrons, Les erreurs de la guerre, L'homme à l'échelle, Ainsi soit-il! , Forte nageuse! , Les adieux de la petite diva, Après la noce
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Titres des saynètes : Ancien Pierrot, La veille du mariage, Tizianello, Une mauvaise étoile, Un double aveu, Le voyage à trois-étoiles, Le roman d'une pupille, Le bilboquet, Billet de faire part, La lettre du fusilier Bridet, Hippolyte ou les quatre fiancées, La perle, La bonne, Sous bois, Ouf !, Tue-toi le premier !
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Extrait: "Le maître de ce logis m'a confié une tâche importante et glorieuse. Il m'a permis, sur mes sollicitations pressantes, de venir au début de cette soirée de famille consacrée tout entière au culte de Thalie et de Melpomène les muses divines du théâtre, vous inculquer, en quelques mots et dans le court espace de temps que m'a sévèrement mesuré un régisseur aimable mais inflexible, les préceptes les plus élémentaires et les...
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Christopher Prendergast is professor emeritus of French literature at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of King's College and the British Academy. He is the general editor of the Penguin Proust, and his many books include Mirages and Mad Beliefs: Proust the Skeptic (Princeton).
An accessible and authoritative new history of French literature, written by a highly distinguished transatlantic group of scholars
This book provides an engaging,...
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Margaret Cohen is Professor of Comparative Literature at New York University. She is the author of The Sentimental Education of the Novel (Princeton) and Profane Illumination and the coeditor of Spectacles of Realism. Carolyn Dever is Associate Professor of English at Vanderbilt University. She is the author of Feminism, In Theory and Death and the Mother from Dickens to Freud.
The Literary Channel defines a crucial transnational literary "zone"...
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How writers respond to a cosmology in evolution in the sixteenth century and how literature and space implicate each other are the guiding issues of this volume in which sixteen authors explore the topic of space in its multiform incarnations and representations. The volume's first section features the early modern exploration and codification of urban and rural spaces as well as maritime and industrial expanses: "Space and Territory: Geographies...
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Women's Writing in Twenty-First Century France is a collection of critical essays on recent women-authored literature in France. It takes stock of the themes, issues and trends in women's writing of the first decade of the twenty-first century, and it engages critically with the work of individual authors through close textual readings. Authors covered include major prizewinners, best-selling authors, established and new writers whose work attracts...
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Oui, l'écrivain-voyageur français existe! Et il a des choses à dire sur l'état du monde. Une idée simple est toujours une bonne idée. Par-delà le temps et l'espace, douze écrivains-voyageurs d'aujourd'hui, et de grand talent, ont envoyé une lettre à un personnage du passé à la fois pour lui rendre hommage et pour lui faire part de leurs sentiments. Sont ainsi conviés à ce banquet: Joachim du Bellay, le petit dieu des carrefours, Nicolas...
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A photographic guide to the key words and phrases in French. This attractive ebook is a perfect travel companion and provides a practical guide to France and French language and culture.
Everyday words are arranged in themes with carefully selected up-to-date images to illustrate key words and phrases, and an English and French index help you to find words quickly as you learn.
3,000 essential words and phrases for modern life in France are at your...
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Charles Pierre Baudelaire (1821-1867) was a French poet, art critic, and essayist who was among the first people to translate the work of Edgar Allen Poe. Baudelaire's wonderful poems are known for their masterful use of rhyme and rhythm, which together with their Romantic exoticism, inspired a whole generation of poets including Arthur Rimbaud, Paul Verlaine and Stéphane Mallarmé. This fantastic volume contains a carefully selected collection of...
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Unlock the more straightforward side of The Little Prince with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!
This engaging summary presents an analysis of The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, a treasured tale among children and adults alike. It tells the story of a pilot who crashes his plane in the Sahara desert and meets a mysterious child who claims to have travelled from a faraway planet. Saint-Exupéry first achieved fame as...
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Unlock the more straightforward side of The Miser with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!
This engaging summary presents an analysis of The Miser by Molière, which tells the story of Harpagon, a wealthy bourgeois whose main priority in life is money, and how he gets in the way of his children's search for love. The work is one of the Molière's most famous plays and presents a comedic criticism of one the vices of mankind. The author's...
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