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SELF ORIENTATION PROGRAMME JANUARY 2013 Introduction to the Arts in France FRENCH CULTURE AND CIVILISATION A very rich cultural heritage OArchitecture DLiterature DMusic OPainting/Sculpture OCinema Architecture OFrom vestiges of Roman Roman amphitheatres still in use today Lyon (Fourviére) Orange buildings e. g. any 2000 years old Roman amphithéätres still in use today OTO ultra modern designs such as the Centre Pompidou in Metz Cathedrals Notre Dame de Paris 12th-13th centuries ANNE FAVIER-TOWNSEND Saint Jean, Lyon 12-14th centuries Chateaux Chäteau du Sou ( 4th century Chenonceau (Loire Valley) 16th century INTRODUCTION THO THE ARTS IN FRANCE 19th century buildings Eiffel Tower Arc de Triomphe 20th century buildings The Louvre Pyramid The Grande Arche de la Défense Literature Marie de France (12th century) Opéra de Paris Université Lyon 3 21st century Buildings Viaduct de Millau (2004) Centre Pompidou - Metz (2010) Francois Rabelais Gargantua et Pantagruel Ronsard Written in Anglo-Norman (old French language) 2 17th century Cyrano de Bergerac 17th Century Moliére 18th century Voltaire (Candide) Jean-Jacques Rousseau The Social contract) Madame de Lafayette 18th Century Olympe de GouJe 1st feminist! Payed a heavy price for fghting women''s cause 19th century Victor Hugo (Hunchback of Notre Dame) Alexandre Dumas (Count of Monte Cristo) Honoré de Balzac (La comédie Humaine) Emile Zola (L''assomoir, Germinal) 3 Paul Verlaine/Arthur Rimbaut (Symbolist poets) Gustave Flaubert (Romantic realist) 20th century Marcel Proust (In search of lost time) Jean-Paul Sartre/Simone de Beauvoir (existentialist philosophers) 19th Century George Sand Louise Michel Albert Camus (1913-1960 - ''The outsider'')

Antoine de Saint Exupéry (1900-1944 - The Aviator, Southern Mail , Night Flight, the Little Prince) Marguerite Duras Marguerite Yourcenar With Alain Robbe- 1st woman "académicienne" Grillet et Nathalie Sarraute, created a new genre: L''Académie Franpise": "nouveau roman", founded in 1635 to protect "The lover" French language "Moderato cantabile" 4 17 Nobel Prizes for French literature since 1901 0 1901 - Sully Prudhomme (The first Nobel Prize in literature) 1904 - Frédéric Mistral (wrote in Occitan) 1911 - Maurice Maeterlinck (Belgian) - Romain Rolland 1915 Anatole France 1921 1927 - Henri Bergson - Roger Martin du 1937 Gard - André Gide 1947 1952 - Franpis Mauriac - Albert Camus 1957 1960 - Saint-John Perse 1964 - Jean-Paul Sartre (declined the prize) 0 1969- Samuel Beckett (Irish, wrote in English and French) 0 1985 - Claude Simon 2000 - Gao Xingjian Contemporary writers Bernard Henri Levy Michel Houellebecq Bandes dessinées: a very popular art form Tatiana de Rosnay Text International Comic Strip Festival Angouléme - Poitou Charente to 03/02/13 Composers Hector Berlioz (1803-69 - Symphonie Fantastique) Anne Favier-Townsend Georges Bizet (1838-75 - carmen) 29 5 Jacques Offenbach Leo Delibes (1836-1891 - coppelta, Lakmé) (1819-1880 - Tales of Hoffman) Contemporary music Jean-Michel Jarre Gipsy Kings Painters- 17th century Nicolas pousstn (1594-1665) George de la Tour (1593-1662) Debussy (1862-1908 - Clatr de Lune) Ravel (1878-1937 - Bolero) Saint Saens (1835-1921 -Carnival of the animals) Famous abroad - unknown to French young people?

Edith Piaf Charles Aznavour Painters: 18th century Eugene Delacroix (1798-1863) Francots Boucher (1703-1770) 6 Painters: 19th century Edouard Manet 1832-1883) Berthe Morisot Edgar Degas (1834-1917) Claude Monet Henri Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901) George Seurat (1859-1891) Camille Pissaro (1830-1903) Paul Cézanne (1839-1906) Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) Painters: 20th century Marie Laurencin Pierre Bonnard 1867-1947 1883-1956 7 Painters Georges Braque (1882-1963) Marc Chagall (1887-1985) Henri Matisse (1869-1954) Sculpture Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) Camille Claudel (1864-1943) French Cinema 0 France : Birth country of cinema. Moving pictures invented 0 All about artistic integrity Usually low budget, few special effects, all about stories, narratives and character development 0 Most French people support the idea that it is legitimate to protect cultural activities from pure market laws and it is the role of the State to protect them and if necessary subsidise them with public money. This is why there is a Minister for culture. 0 Contrary to the USA where a movie is seen as an entertainment and its success is measured in $, in France a movie is considered a message sent by a director for our reflection. Its success is measured by the number of viewers.