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FRENCH CULTURE AND CIVILISATIO

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INTRODUCTION THO THE ARTS IN FRANC

Introduction to the Arts in France A very rich cultural heritage

Architecture

Literature

Music

Painting/Sculpture

Cinema

Architecture

From vestiges of Roman

buildings e.g. many 2000 years

old Roman amphithtres still in

use today

To ultra modern designs such asthe Centre Pompidou in Metz

Roman amphitheatres

still in use today

Orange Lyon (Fourvire)

CathedralsNotre Dame de Paris

12th-13th centuries Saint Jean, Lyon12-14th centuries

ChateauxChteau du Sou (Rhne)

14th century

Chenonceau (Loire Valley)

16th century


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19th century buildingsEiffel Tower Arc de Triomphe

19th century buildingsOpra de Paris Universit Lyon 3

20th century buildingsThe Louvre Pyramid The Grande Arche de la Dfense

21st century BuildingsViaduct de Millau (2004) Centre Pompidou - Metz (2010)

Literature

Marie de France (12th century)

Written in

Anglo-Norman

(old French

language)

Literature

16th centuryFrancois Rabelais

Gargantua et Pantagruel Ronsard


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Literature

17th centuryCyrano de Bergerac Molire

Literature

17th CenturyMadame de Lafayette

Literature

18th centuryVoltaire (Candide)

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

(The Social contract)

Literature

18th Century

Olympe de Gouje

1st feminist!

Payed a heavy

price for

fighting

womens cause

Literature

19th centuryVictor Hugo

(Hunchback of Notre Dame)Alexandre Dumas

(Count of Monte Cristo)

Literature

19th centuryHonor de Balzac

(La comdie Humaine)

Emile Zola

(Lassomoir, Germinal)


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Literature

19th centuryPaul Verlaine/Arthur Rimbaut

(Symbolist poets)

Gustave Flaubert

(Romantic realist)

Literature

19th CenturyGeorge Sand Louise Michel

Literature

20th centuryMarcel Proust

(In search of lost time)

Jean-Paul Sartre/Simone de Beauvoir

(existentialist philosophers)

Literature

20th centuryAlbert Camus

(1913-1960 - The Outsider)

Antoine de Saint Exupry(1900-1944 The Aviator, Southern Mail , Night Flight,

the Little Prince)

Literature

20th century

Marguerite Duras

With Alain Robbe-

Grillet et Nathalie

Sarraute, created a

new genre:

nouveau roman,

The lover

Moderato

cantabile

Literature

20th century

Marguerite Yourcenar1st woman acadmicienne

LAcadmie Franaise:

founded in 1635 to protect

French language


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17 Nobel Prizes for French literature since 1901 1901 - Sully Prudhomme

(The first Nobel Prize in

literature) 1904 - Frdric Mistral

(wrote in Occitan)

1911 - Maurice Maeterlinck(Belgian)

1915 - Romain Rolland

1921 - Anatole France

1927 - Henri Bergson

1937 - Roger Martin duGard

1947 - Andr Gide

1952 - Franois Mauriac

1957 - Albert Camus

1960 - Saint-John Perse 1964 - Jean-Paul Sartre

(declined the prize)

1969 - Samuel Beckett(Irish, wrote in English andFrench)

1985 - Claude Simon

2000 - Gao Xingjian

Contemporary writersBernard Henri Levy Michel Houellebecq

Contemporary writersTatiana de Rosnay

Text

Bandes dessines: a very popular art form

International Comic Strip Festival

Angoulme - Poitou Charente

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Composers

Hector Berlioz(1803-69 - Symphonie Fantastique) Georges Bizet(1838-75 - Carmen)
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ComposersLeo Delibes

(1836 -1891 - Coppelia, Lakm)

Jacques Offenbach(1819-1880 Tales of Hoffman)

ComposersDebussy

(1862-1908 Clair de Lune)

Ravel (1878-1937 Bolero)

Saint Saens(1835-1921 -Carnival of the animals)

Contemporary musicJean-Michel Jarre Gipsy Kings

Famous abroad

unknown to French young people?

Edith Piaf Charles Aznavour

Painters- 17th centuryNicolas Poussin (1594-1665) George de la Tour (1593-1662)

Painters: 18th centuryEugene Delacroix (1798-1863) Francois Boucher (1703-1770)


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Painters: 19th century

Edouard Manet

(1832-1883)

Berthe Morisot

(1841-1895)


Camille Pissaro

(1830-1903)

Paul Czanne

(1839-1906)

Painters: 19th centuryEdgar Degas

(1834-1917)Claude Monet

(1840-1926)


Pierre-Auguste Renoir(1841-1919)

Paul Gauguin

(1848-1903)


Henri Toulouse-Lautrec(1864-1901)

George Seurat(1859-1891)

Painters: 20th centuryPierre Bonnard

1867-1947

Marie Laurencin

1883-1956


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PaintersGeorges Braque

(1882-1963)

Henri Matisse

(1869-1954)

PaintersMarc Chagall

(1887-1985)

Bernard Buffet

(1928-1999)

SculptureAuguste Rodin (1840-1917)

Camille Claudel (1864-1943)

French Cinema France : Birth country of cinema. Moving pictures invented

by the Lumire brothers in Lyon - dubbed the fathers ofcinema

Created the worlds first cinema inside a caf in Paris in 1895

Early 20th century: Charles Path produced so many movingpictures that he became known as the Napoleon of film.

20s and 30s: Because of war and recession not muchhappening apart from a few film makers: Marcel Carn, RenClair, Jacques Tati and Jean Renoir.

Late 1950s-1970s: New Wave (Nouvelle Vague) with JeanGoddard, Louis Malle, Francois Truffaud and Chabrolamongst others.

French Cinema All about artistic integrity Usually low budget, few special effects, all about stories,

narratives and character development

Most French people support the idea that it is legitimate toprotect cultural activities from pure market laws and it is therole of the State to protect them and if necessary subsidisethem with public money. This is why there is a Minister forculture.

Contrary to the USA where a movie is seen as anentertainment and its success is measured in $, in France amovie is considered a message sent by a director for ourreflection. Its success is measured by the number of viewers.

French Cinema

The French movie industry is third in the world after USA andIndia and France is the only Western country where foreignfilms represent less than 50% of the market : in Germany,Italy and UK, they represent more than 80%.

The number of Art Houses in France is much higher thananywhere else in the world and there is not only Cannes, butthere are several very interesting festivals which illustratethe interest of the French for cinema (Deauville and itsFestival of American Cinema, Nantes and its Festival ofAfrican, Asian and Latin-American Cinema, etc...).

With 5,366 cinemas, France enjoys the highest number ofscreens/million inhabitants : 89 (vs. 60 in Germany, 56 in UKand 24 in Japan).
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French Cinema Huge competition from American block busters but

French films are still very popular and about 100 or soare made each year.

300 different films shown every week in Paris.

Even if audiences are declining, French people still tend

to go to the cinema a lot compared with other nations.

The French equivalent of the Oscars Awards is called

"les Csars" and the ceremony takes place in February

too.

The Cannes film festival is a very important global event.

Typical genresRomantic Drama: Heartbreaker, Ive loved you

so longComedy: Amelie, Le diner de cons

Society: La Haine, The Class

Biography: Coco before Chanel, La vie en rose

Thriller: Tell no one, Mesrine Public enemy No

1

A few French films popular abroadAMELIE TELL NO ONE

A few French films popular abroadI VE LOVED YOU SO LONG COCO BEFORE CHANEL

A few French films popular abroad

LA VIE EN ROSE THE CLASS

A few French films popular abroad

The artist (2011) Black & white

Silent film

Won 5 Oscars in 2012:

Best director

Best Actor

Best film

Best costume

Best original score


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A few French films popular abroadRust and Bone (2012) Amour (2012)

A few famous French actors

Alain Delon Gerard Depardieu

A few famous French actorsRomain Duris

Daniel Auteil

A few famous French actors

Vincent Cassel Jean Reno

A few famous French actressesCatherine Deneuve Brigitte Bardot

A few famous French actressesAudrey Tautou Juliette Binoche


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A few famous French actressesMarion Cotillard Emmanuelle Beart

Two famous Anglo- French actresses

Charlotte Rampling Kristin Scott Thomas

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