Learning
Objects for French 250
In our French language courses, we have an online tutorial system
called "French Leaning Objects". For this course, our "Learning
Objects" are simply a use of online resources as notes to the book Sixty Million Frenchmen
Can't Be Wrong (search
parts of the book online for a
limited time). These explain terms whose meaning may not be immediately
apparent, and they allow curious readers to go further than their
reading. They are not meant to be the answer to test questions. I
will add to the learning objects here as we read. They are listed
by the page number on which the key term appears. Photos for
anything mentioned in the book are quickly locatable through Google Images.
Introduction
sophie tucker 50
Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong
112 Gripes about the French (1945)
Institute of Current World Affairs
Latin
Quarter in photos and maps
Interactive
TOC: Time
(Why France is Different, April 22, 2002)
Better understand France and the French...
What
are the French Like?
SuperFrenchie
Miquelon.org
L'auberge espagnole: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
Ch. 1: Meet the Aborgines
p. 1
La Roche-Guyon
p. 2
La Rochelle
p. 4
Angoulême
(city hall first photo)
Papal Palace in
Avignon
Papal
Palace in Avignon (thousands of images)
p. 5
Smart
card images
Sarlat
p. 6
André
Malraux
Monorpix
(images)
Les Eyzies
Vézère
(images)
Cro-Magnon
p. 7
Alexis de
Tocqueville
Vercingetorix
p. 8
Clovis I
Charlemagne
Louis VI of
France
List of French
monarchs
Napoleon I
of France
Cardinal
Richelieu
Charles de
Gaulle
Académie
française
p. 9
Cardinal Mazarin
Marie Antoinette
Alexandre
Dumas, père
p. 10
Napoleonic code
[High-Speed Trains] TGV
Concorde
Roquefort
p. 11
Avenue
Daumesnil (images)
Place de l'Étoile (images)
Place
de l'Étoile
p. 12
Notre Dame de Paris
Prefect (France)
p. 13
Honfleur
Halloween
in France
Chapter 2: The Land on Their Mind
p. 15
Larzac
Millau
and the Larzac Plateau
Tarn River
Bush
War on Roquefort Raises a Stink in France
p. 16
José
Bové
p. 17
Roquefort-sur-Soulzon
(images)
p. 18
Tomme de Savoie
Appellation
d'origine contrôlée
p. 19
Anjou
Dijon
Departments
of France
p. 20
Rozay-en-Brie
(images)
Coulommiers
Chaumes-en-Brie
Couperin Familly
Châteauneuf du Pape
p. 21
France
is l'Hexagone
Alsatians
Alsatian
language
Flemish
Breton people
Breton
language
Basque people
Basque language
Occitania
Burgundy
(region)
Occitan language
Lyonnais
"Lyonnais"
language
Provençal
Corsican (corsu)
Savoy
p. 22
Orléans
Lorraine
(region)
Terroir
Génépi
p. 23
Foie gras
Salon d'Agriculture
Jacques Chirac
Édouard
Balladur
tartiflette (images)
p. 25
Andouillette
Pigeonneau
p. 26
Le Grand-Bornand
Reblochon
CPNT (le mouvement de la
ruralité - Hunting, Fishing, Nature & Traditions)
p. 27
New France
ch. 3: Private Space
p. 31
Montignac
Périgord
Confit
Cassoulet
Lascaux
Newly Found Cave Paintings in France Are the Oldest, Scientists Estimate
p. 32
Apéritif
(apéro)
p. 34
French
or Foe
p. 35
La Bise en France
(kiss as a salutation, youtube)
Cheek
kissing map (how many kisses by region)
p. 37
Taille (tax)
Alain Peyrefitte
p. 38
François
Mitterrand
Paris Match
p. 39
Quartier Pigalle
The
Marquis de Sade
p. 42
Au Printemps
p. 43
Raymonde
Carroll, Cultural Misunderstandings
ch. 4: Grandeur Is Better
France’s
“Grandeur”
p. 47
Hôtel
de Ville, Paris
p. 48
Louvre
Les Invalides
Élysée
Palace
p. 49
Alexis de Tocqueville
Jean-Paul Sartre
Bernard-Henri
Lévy
Raymond Aron
Abbé
Pierre
Jacques-Yves
Cousteau
Haroun
Tazieff
p. 50
Académie
française
Collège
de France
Panthéon
(Paris)
Légion
d'honneur
p. 51
Ecole
Nationale d'Administration
Ecole
Polythechnique
HEC
Paris
Ecole
Normale Supérieur
p. 52
Nobility
of the First French Empire
Nobility
and Titles in France
p. 53
Guadeloupe
p. 56
cumul
des mandats (accumuluation of power)
ch. 5: Th Art of Eloquence
p. 62
Dialectic
p. 63
Institut
d'Etudes Politiques de Paris
Where
Talking Is a World-Class Sport
p. 65
châtiée
(<-châtier)
p. 69
Plural Left
Third
Way or Réalisme de Gauche? The new social democracy in France
p. 70
Alphonse
de Lamartine
Victor Hugo
Alexis de Tocqueville
André
Malraux
Emile Zola
Jean-Paul Sartre
Libération
p. 71
Books
by Alexandre Jardin
p. 72
International Herald Tribune
Winds topple Marie Antoinette's tree at Versailles
ch. 6: Until-The-Bitter-End-Ism
p. 75
Cohabitation
(government)
p. 77
Hundred
Years' War
French
Wars of Religion
p. 78
Exploring the French
Revolution
Paris Commune
(1871)
Alfred
Dreyfus and “The Affair”
Democracy
in America
Tocqueville
in Tennessee (journal entries)
p. 79
Louis-Philippe
d'Orléans, King of the French
Fordism
p. 80
Popular
Front (France)
ch. 7: World War II: The
Uniforgotten War
Battlefield I: "The Battle of France" 1,
2,
3,
4,
5,
6,
7,
8,
9,
10,
11,
12
p. 85
Guy Môquet
+ video
in French La Lettre de Guy
Môquet
Philippe
Pétain (1856 - 1951) Maréchal
Pétain - Discours du 17 juin 1940 - Armistice avec l'Allemagne
nazie
French
Resistance
p. 86
Friday,
May 10, 1940
p. 87
Armistice
with France (Second Compiègne)
p. 88
Pierre Laval
Vichy France
Anthem of Vichy
France (Marechal Nous Voila)
The Dark Years:
Vichy France (lecture @ Yale)
p. 89
Free
French Forces DeGaulle's
famous appeal on June 22, 1940
Le Monde
Bilingue (founded by Jean-Marie Bressand)
photos
of Jean-Marie Bressand
p. 90
Charles
de Gaulle: Wartime Leader of France
War Time Memories
Part I: The Persecution of Jews by Jean Benoît Nadeau
War Time Memories
Part II: Collaboration and Resistance by Jean Benoît Nadeau
p. 93
Marcel
Aymé Le
Passe-Muraille by Jean Marais at Place Marcel Aymé (statue)
p. 94
Last
victim of war's injustice (about Fraenkel)
p. 95
The
Holocaust, the French and the Jews; Denying the Holocaust: The Growing
Assault on Truth and Memory
p. 97
Robert Badinter
Louis-Ferdinand
Céline
p. 99
Allied
Military Government for Occupied Territories
ch. 8: Algeria: The
Unacknowledged War
Beauty of Algeria
p. 101
FLN fighting French Forces in the Algerian War
Algerian War
p. 102
France admits
Algerian campaign was 'war'
p. 103
Maurice Papon
Paul Aussaresses
p. 104
Pied-Noir
New France
p. 106
FLN
p. 108
First
Indochina War
p. 109
Charles de
Gaulle
p. 110
Organisation
de l'armée secrète
p. 112
Jean-Marie Le
Pen
National Front (France)
ch. 9: The Penchant for absolutism
French
Absolutism
p. 115
De
Gaulle and Gaullism
p. 116
Provisional Government of the French Republic
p. 117
May 1958 crisis
p. 118
French
Fifth Republic
p. 119
Constitution
of France
p. 122
French
presidential election, 2002
ch. 10: The State: One for ll and
all for one
p. 127
Francis I of
France
Louis XIV - the Sun King
Napoleon I
of France
p. 128
Ile-de-France
Louis VI of
France
p. 130
Philip II of
France
Jacobins
Republicanism
p. 132
Public
Service France
French Civil Service
p. 136
France's
model healthcare system
p. 137
France and
Assimilation
Assimilation
(French colonial)
138
Electing to Forget History?
The Politics of Immigration in the French Presidential Campaign
Ch. 11 - Dogs, towns and local
governments
p. 143
Paris
put skids under 'Moto-crottes' and turns attention to dog owners
p. 144
Louvre
moat of the medieval Louvre
p. 145
Paris,
Etienne Marcel and the Jacqueries: 1358
The Paris
Commune of 1871
Fronde (1648)
p. 146
French
term or phrase: administrés
Three levels of French local administration
Communes of
France, Departments
of France, Regions of France
p. 148
Prefect (France)
p. 149
National Police
(France)
p. 151
Public viewing of
police training in Meaux
intendant
p. 152
Guadeloupe
Overseas
departments and territories of France
p. 153
Regions of
France
p. 156
FRENCH SLAVERY
Ch. 12 - Strong Language
p. 161
Basque language
p. 162
French language
Francien
Charlemagne
Oaths
of Strasbourg
LES SERMENTS
DE STRASBOURG
p. 163
Ordinance
of Villers-Cotterêts
François
de Malherbe
Boileau, Art
Poétique
p. 164
Dictionnaire
de l'Académie Française (1694)
Molière
Molière
film trailer
Henri
Grégoire
p. 165
Vaugelas,
Claude Favre de (1585-1650)
p. 166
Argot
Louchébem
Verlan
p. 167
Quebec French
Joual
p. 169
Dominique
Bouhours
Antoine de
Rivarol
p. 171
Wiki:
Language policy in France
p. 172
Collège
de France
ch. 13 - élite education
Documents
upon Napoleon and Education
Education in
France
International Baccalaureate
Baccalauréat
Brevet
des collèges
Erasmus
(European Commission)
Erasmus
Mundus (2009-2013)
p. 181
French Ministry of Education
(in French)
The
French Education System - 1
p. 185
May 1968 in France
MAY 1968 GRAFFITI
p. 186
French
National Centre for Scientific Research
Thierry Leterre
p 188
HEC
Paris
Ecole
nationale supérieure des mines de Paris
Henri Becquerel
Marie Curie
Ecole
nationale des ponts et chaussées
Carlos Ghosn
p. 189
Jean-Marie
Messier
Ecole
Polytechnique
André
Citroën
Classe
Préparatoire aux Grandes Ecoles
Nicolas
Léonard Sadi Carnot
Albert Lebrun
Valéry
Giscard d'Estaing
Ecole
Normale Supérieure
Gustave Eiffel
André
Michelin
ch. 14: The Enarchy
France's
enarchy
Enarchy
(Forbes)
The
Pedestal Is Cracking Under an Elite in France
Education
in France: The Universities, the Grandes Ecoles
Ena
blamed for France's ills
France
to inject diversity into elite ENA school
Sarkozy takes on France’s ‘School of Power’
ENA -
Conférences en ligne
ch. 15 - 15 In the name of
the law
Legal
System - Laws and courts in France
Law of France
French
Government Ministries tamper with Wikipedia entries (May 12, 2009)
French Law
Researching
French Law
Sarkozy
Plans Anglo-Saxon Reform for Courts
p. 206
Napoleonic code
The
Civil Code Index
p. 208
Parc
Monceau
p. 210
France:
Penal Code of 1810
More
on the Penal Code of 1810
Inquisitorial
system
p. 211
La
Vérité La Vérité
(IMB)
p. 212
French administrative law and the common-law world
p. 213
Conseil d'Etat
Council
of State (France)
p. 215
Charles
Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord
p. 216
Constitutional Council of the French Republic
Constitutional
Council of France
Mediator of the French Republic
p. 217
Charles
de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu
The
Spirit of the Laws
ch. 16 - Civil Society: Invisible
Helping Hands
France's
contempt for markets
Minister
of the Economy, Industry and Employment (France)
p. 223
CAC 40
Contre-lettre
p. 224
Pub Restaurant Du
Coeur Jacque Villeret
Restaurants
du Cœur
French
Charity Guide
p. 225
Association
law of 1901
Creating
a non-profit Association (Loi 1901) in France
p. 229
Pasteur
Institute
The
Fondation de France
Spéléo-club
de Paris
Fédération
française de spéléologie
p. 231
Religion in
France
Public
authorities and muslim religious authorities in France
ch. 17 - The Choreography of
Protest
1995 strikes in France
Paris
Area Hit By SNCF Strike
November
2007 strikes in France
p. 233
Le
Parisien
Guy
Môquet (métro de Paris)
p. 235
Paris
massacre of 1961
p. 239
General
strike in Guadeloupe against high cost of living
p. 240
1998 Report by Jose
Bove, Confédération Paysanne
Fédération
Nationale des Syndicats d'Exploitants d'Agricoles
p. 241
La Défense
ch. 18 - Redistributing Wealth
Wealth
Distribution
p. 247
HLM
p. 248
URSSAF
UNEDIC
ASSEDIC
Social
Security in France
p. 249
Otto von Bismarck (Social Security Online)
p. 250
Les Invalides
p. 252
Revenu
minimum d'insertion
p. 253
Alain
Juppé
Retirement
issue in France under Sarkozy
p. 257
Social
Security Contributions in France
Being Sick in
France, French Social Security, Retirement in France
ch. 19 - Economic
Interventionism: The State Will Do
p. 261
Minitel
Minitel comme
Terminal Linux
Minitel
on Google Images
Minitel.com
p. 263
Gérard
Théry
La Poste (in English)
Prestel
p. 264
Dirigisme
p. 266
Jean
Baptiste Colbert, 1619-1683
Mercantilism
p. 267
Vincent de
Gournay
Laissez Faire
Physiocrats
p. 269
Jean Monnet
/ 1888-1979
p. 271
Trente Glorieuses
Is There a
French Alternative? (about Jospin, etc.)
p. 276
35-hour workweek
ch. 20 - The World according to France
p. 283
Corsica
French Polynesia
French Guiana
Martinique
New Caledonia
Saint
Pierre and Miquelon
Wallis and
Futuna
Kerguelen
Islands
Arianespace
p. 284
Agence Frnce Press
United
Nations Security Council Resolution 1441
p. 285
Vive le Québec libre
p. 286
Francophonie
Organisation Internationalde de
la Francophonie
p. 287
Blum-Byrnes
agreement
p. 288
League of
Nations
p. 290
Renault-Nissan
alliance
Carrefour
p. 292
Association pour la
taxation des transactions pour l'aide aux citoyens (ATTAC)
ch. 21 - The French Melting Pot
Melting
pot cracks as Muslims reject Christian names in France
French
nationality law
p. 295
Great Mosque of
Paris
p. 296
FINALE COUPE DU
MONDE 1998
Zinedine Zidane
Beur
Yves Montand
Albert Camus
Pablo Picasso
Alexandre Dumas,
père
Josephine Baker
Josiephine
Baker, Haiti
Coluche
Cheb
Mami (RFI Music biography)
p. 297
La vérité
si je mens
Zebda - Tomber la
chemise
p. 298
Epinay-sur-Seine
Saint-Cloud
p. 299
la
pierre collinet : meaux
p. 307
Jean-Pierre
Chevènement
p. 310
French
immigration policy since May 1981
p. 311
Women's
rights -- France
France
and Women's History
ch. 22 - New checks and balances
Government of France - Internal limits of the executive branch; checks
and balances
p. 315
Constitutional
Council of France
p. 316
Moves
Toward Decentralization
Prefect (France)
p. 318
Corsica
p. 320
Jean-Pierre Raffarin
p. 321
Eric Halphen
ch. 23 - The Meaning of Europe
Europa - Gateway to the
European Union
European Union
Charlemagne
History
of the Holy Roman Empire
p. 327
Maximilien
Béthune, Duke of Sully - Biography
Jean Monnet:
1888-1979
European
Coal and Steel Community
The
Treaties of Rome (1957)
European
Economic Community
p. 328
European Commission
The European Free Trade Association
p. 329
Jacques Delors
p. 330
Single
European Act (acte unique)
Treaty
of Maastricht on European Union
Euro
p. 331
Airbus Beluga
Nice
Summit: Repartition, not unification, of Europe
p. 333
Treaty of Lisbon
p. 337
European
Charter for Regional or Minority Languages