University of Tennessee Martin

FRENCH 350 (French Literature in Translation)

Dr. Lúcia Flórido

In this page you find many interesting links that will foster your understanding of each period studied in class. Some will be directly related to France while others will provide a broader view of habits and characteristics of a moment in time.

COURSEPACK: 16^th century: Renaissance

COURSEPACK: 17^th century

COURSEPACK: 18^th century

WEBSITE: 19^th century

The Middle Ages:

Map of France (1360)

Map of France (1429)

France in the Middle Ages (brief history)

The Holy Inquisition (brief history)

Feudalism, an explanation

The development of French culture (site with text and lots of image from the Bibliothèque Nationale)

Understanding Chivalry: Higgins Armory Museum

Rules of Chivalry and Courtly Love: what is a knight?

Medieval life: health, clothing, homes, etc

The Plague and Medical Science

Food and drink and Inns and taverns

Facts and The Wheel of Fortune

Marriage customs

People of the Middle Ages and Calendar

The Cathedral of Amiens

The Cathedral of Notre Dame

The Mount Saint Michel

Medieval castles

Gothic painting

Illuminated manuscripts: Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry (explanation and images)

Painting in medieval France: various cultural aspects

The Cluny Museum (Musée National du Moyen Age)

Some Literary Works online:

The Song of Roland

The Roman de la Rose by Guillaume de Lorris et Jean de Meun (passages)

Lancelot or, The Knight of the Cart by Chrétien DeTroyes

Erec et Enide, by Chrétien DeTroyes

The Renaissance:

Timeline

Loire Valley castles, France

King Francis I

Catherine de Medicis

Leonardo da Vinci and his museum

Michelangelo

Why was St. Francis of Assisi an inspiration to Renaissance man?

Architecture

Art: Classicism and Early Renaissance painting

Humanism

Music

Children and Families / Women

Social classes / Taverns

Food / Drink / Dining

Traveling

Martin Luther

Marguerite de Navarre

Marguerite de Valois (Queen Margot)

Michel de Montaigne

Wars of Religion in France

Edict of Nantes and Revocation of the Edict of Nantes

Some Literary Works online:

Gargantua and Pantagruel, François Rabelais

Poems of Ronsard

Essays of Michel de Montaigne

XVIIth Century:

Louis XIV, the Sun King

Palace of Versailles and Official Versailles website

Molière

Commedia dell’Arte

Racine

Corneille

Pascal

La Fontaine

Madame de Lafayette

Cardinal Richelieu

Cardinal Mazarin

Descartes

The Classical Period and Classicism

Marie de Gournay and Women writers

Baroque Art

Galileo and the Inquisition

Some Literary Works online:

The Princess of Clèves

Phèdre, by Racine

The Fables of La Fontaine

Reflections, by La Rochefoucauld

XVIIIth Century:

The Age of Enlightenment

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Voltaire

Diderot

Marie Antoinette and The Diamond Necklace Affair

The American and the French Revolutions

The French Revolution

The guillotine

Description of a typical town

Social order: the very rich and the very poor

Fashion

Painting and the Age of Enlightenment

Some Literary Works online:

L’Encyclopédie

Discourse on the Origin of Inequality among Men, Rousseau

XIXth Century:

Napoleon I

Victor Hugo and Romanticism

Honoré de Balzac, Realism and The Human Comedy

Gustave Flaubert

Emile Zola and Naturalism

Dreyfus Affair

Madame de Staël and some quotes

Romantic Art

Impressionism

Post-Impressionism

Some Literary Works online:

Notre Dame de Paris, by Victor Hugo

Madame Bovary, by Flaubert

The Magic Skin, Balzac