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A practical guide to Paris for the tourist interested in exploring the dark and macabre side of the City of Light. This book highlights places connected with the more gruesome aspects of French history from the 16th century to just after the French Revolution. Visits to prison sites, museums, cemeteries and places of torture and execution are interspersed with stories of notorious criminals and notable historic figures. Discover where to see a guillotine blade, the black bathtub in which Marat was assassinated, the heart of the boy-king Louis XVII, the grave of Heloise and Abelard, Marie-Antoinette's prison cell, and remnants of the Bastille. The last chapter proposes a series of walks arranged to lead the Paris visitor in a methodical way to all the previously mentioned sites.
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Rencontres avec la poésie: un guide pratique pour la lecture et l'analyse du poème is intended as an introduction to the world of French poetry — too often considered mysterious and inaccessible. This is a guide that helps students to practice reading and analyzing poetry, and strives to meet the needs of both the student and the literature professor. This manual explains, in a clear and concise manner, the essential elements of versification: meter, rhymes, rhythms, tropes and figure rhetoric, and sonorous games. This is a guide that encourages new understanding of poetry while offering practical exercises that accompany every chapter. The examples in the book are pulled from France, Quebec, and other French-speaking nations. Methods, practice, and models follow the poems and facilitate the first step to understanding French poetry for students. NIVEAU D'INSTRUCTION: Préliminaire
A broad-based, innovative survey of rewriting in several modalities: translation, adaptation, recycling, appropriation, and re-mediation, along with the effect of each on form and meaning, kind and canon, historical and discursive continuity, as well as the conceptualizing of gender. Essays on Du Bellay, Montaigne, La Ceppède, Tbéophile de Viau, Corneille, d'Aubignac, La Fontaine, Diderot, and recent Anglo-American translations of La Princesse de Cleves.