French 139: France and the French-Speaking World

Lesson 1.1:  History of France (1)

Lesson 1.2:  History of France (2)

Lesson 1.3:  France and its National Identity

Lesson 1.4:  Regions/Regionalism

Lesson 1.5:  Paris

Lesson 1.6:  Corsica

Lesson 1.7:  Brittany

Lesson 1.8:  Alsace

Lesson 1.9:  D.O.M. – T.O.M., Example of the Island of Guadeloupe

Lesson 2.1:  Francophone World:  Introduction

Lesson 2.2:  History of Colonization/Decolonization

Lesson 2.3:  Sub-Saharan Africa:  Introduction

Lesson 2.4:  Senegal

Lesson 2.5:  Maghreb:  Introduction

Lesson 2.6:  Tunisia

Lesson 2.7:  Quebec

Lesson 2.8:  Belgium

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The basic principles that the French Republic must respect are found in the 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen.

 

“Language may have created man, rather than man language.”

Jacques Monod, French biochemist, Nobel Prize winner, 1965

 


Mont Saint Michel, a popular tourist site in France.

 

“Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always.”

Guy Debord, Famous French Philosopher

 


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