I was telling Jacq that I needed to very quickly become an expert in the history of nineteenth-century France ’cause of the social and political being such characters in Stendhal and Flaubert, and she wrote back:
french history? aiyah 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th etc estates then can lah. also, throw in revolution, some louis the 14th furniture, victor hugo, galleries lafayette, are we not done?
french history? aiyah 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th etc estates then can lah. also, throw in revolution, some louis the 14th furniture, victor hugo, galleries lafayette, are we not done?
posted by stellou at 3:32 PM
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Hey there,
Since you're 1) in a hurry 2) in the literary field, I would warmly recommend this book:
http://www.amazon.fr/exec/obidos/ASIN/2091788619/qid=1101898709/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_8_1/402-7044959-1302569
I used it for my minor of French literature at university in France and it's good. It focuses more on literature than history, properly speaking. But still, you can find very useful tables of who wrote what when (used to know them all by heart back in the days, but know I wouldn't be able to give you five titles by Chateaubriand...). THey also talk about the historical events and the history of ideas and main philosophica trends.
It's a text book for students. So it's not some dense stuff that would require weeks to read. Every chapter (with pictures, tables, samples passages or biography) is about one author, and between authors you have historical stuff.
I don't know if they have it somewhere at NY Public Library or the library of NYU (I don't have my copies here, unfortunately). And there must be better, more in-depth analysis of French history you could find. But since you're in a kinda emergency and you need a book well organized and where you can find what you need quickly, that's the best I can think of.
Good luck for your exams.
C.
PS: FYI they have the same books in the same collection for all the centuries between the 16th to the 20th.
Yaaaannnn. Ah, merci, c'est gentil. Le truc c'est que j'ai une tendance à laisser au dernier moment tous ce que j'ai à faire, ce qui veut dire, c'est déjà trop tard ! Je crois que c'est cool quand même ; il est vaste l'Internet. :-)
Yeah... it's a student thing. Doing your essay the night before and stuff like that. Attendre le dernier moment. And then you gotta do everything RIGHT NOW! :)
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