| A | B |
|---|
| chansons de geste | first French literary works- epic poems |
| La Chanson de Roland | oldest chanson de geste-about Charlemagne |
| Villon | one of first French lyric poets |
| Renaissance | greco- latin antiquity, cultivated & elite audience |
| Rabelais | Gargantua & Panagruel (satire)-16th |
| Ronsard | poet-16th |
| Montaigne | Philosopher-16th |
| Corneille | playwright-tragedies-17th |
| Fontaine | fables-17th |
| Moliere | "French Shakespeare"-17th-comedies |
| Racine | playwright-tragedies |
| Descartes | philosopher, "Je pense donc je suis" |
| Montesquieu | political writings-18th |
| Voltaire | Candide-satires-18th |
| Rousseau | Emile-influenced education system-18th |
| Diderot | Encyclopedie-18th |
| Hugo | Leader of Romantic movement-19th-Les Miserables |
| Lamartine | Romantic poet-19th |
| Vigny | Romantic poet-19th |
| Musset | Romantic poet-19th |
| Balzac | La Comédie Humaine-19th-descriptions of society/humanity |
| Dumas pere | Les Trois Mousquetaires/Comte de MC- 19th-historical novels |
| Flaubert | Madame Bovary-19th-precise descriptions |
| Verne | 20,000 Lieues Sous la Mer-19th-Science Fiction |
| Zola | Leader of naturalists-19th-Rougon-Maquart |
| de Maupassant | Short stories- 19th-La Parure |
| Proust | Memory/Impressions-20th-A la Recherche du Temps Perdu |
| Saint Exupery | Le Petit Prince-inspired by life as pilot-20th |
| Rostand | Cyrano de Bergerac-20th |
| Ionesco | theater of absurd-20th-Rhinocéos |
| Sartre | Existentialism-refused Nobel prize-20th |
| Beauvoir | condition of women-20th |
| Camus | Philosophy of absurd- L'étranger & La Peste-20th |
| Prevert | 20th c. poet, many have become songs |
| 16th century- name of period | Renaissance |
| 17th century- name of period | Golden Age/ Classicism |
| Classicism- description | order, discipline, perfection of form, expression and style |
| 18th century- description of period | Enlightenment/Great Philosphers/French Revolution/New political ideas |
| 19th century/1st half- name of period | Romanticism |
| Romanticism- description | freedom of expression for writers, emotion, individualism, imagination, feeling, love of nature |
| 19th century/2nd half- name of period | Realism/Naturalism |
| Realism/Naturalism- description | talks about real life, truth, as they really are, impersonal, intellectual, scientific, much observation, detail |
| 20th century- description | "new" golden age-many movements |
| Verlaine | symbolist poet-19th |
| Rimbaud | symbolist poet-19th |
| Baudelaire | symbolist poet-19th |
| Existentialism- description | existence of man excludes the existence of God, man makes his own destiny-no such thing as fate |
| Philosophy of the Absurd- description | lack of any reason in life, mechanical character of man's existence, existence without a goal |
| Balzac-t | societal problems, values, leads into realism |
| Yourcenar | world travels, 1st woman in Académie Française-20th |
| Gide | Nobel Prize winner-20th |
