French 137 Course Outline
Unit 1: What is a City? Urban Paris
Lesson 1.1: What is a City?
Lesson 1.2: In Old Paris, Paris in the Middle Ages
Lesson 1.3: Second Empire Paris
Unit 2: Power and Control of the City
Lesson 2.1: Roman France
Lesson 2.2: Versailles
Lesson 2.3: Napoleon
Unit 3: Revolution and Revolt
Lesson 3.1: The Revolution of 1789
Lesson 3.2: The Siege of Paris and the Commune, 1870-71
Lesson 3.3: The Algerian War and May '68
Unit 4: Society and Spectacle
Lesson 4.1: Society and Spectacle of Louis XIV's Paris
Lesson 4.2: Napoleon's Coronation
Lesson 4.3: Café Society of the Third Republic
Unit 5: Communities and Integration
Lesson 5.1: Expatriates and Négrophilie
Lesson 5.2: Resistance and Collaboration in WWII
Lesson 5.3: Jewish Experiences
Unit 6: Invention and Tradition
Lesson 6.1: Impressionism to Cubism: Artistic innovation, 1870-1914
Lesson 6.2: Eiffel's Tower, the World's Fairs, and the Technologies of Modern Life Lesson 6.3: Innovative
"If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast."
Ernest Hemingway
Notre Dame Cathedral
“Get down on your knees and pray! I know it, I see it. The Huns will not come”
Ste. Genevieve, in AD 451
The Eiffel Tower
“An entire city, built with pomp, seems to have arisen miraculously from an old ditch”
Corneille, Le Menteur, 1643
Louis XIV
“Let no one speak to me of anything small!”
Bernini to Louis XIV, 1665