History through literature. France

Description

This still-image program examines French literature from the 16th through the 20th centuries. It offers passages from works by De Cambrai, Henry IV, Descartes, Pascal, Moliere, Racine, Louis XIV, Voltaire, Rousseau, Hugo, Balzac, Baudelaire, Flaubert, Proust, Sartre, Camus, and De Beauvoir.

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60 minutes

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Alexander Street

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