Language and print culture

Question 1

Three languages in France

Answer 1

First Celtic
Then Latin
Finally French

Question 2

First formal text in French

Answer 2

Les Serments de Strasbourg, 842

Question 3

Author of Arthurian cycle

Answer 3

Chrétien de Troyes

Question 4

THE FRENCH QUARTET

Answer 4

RABELAIS, MONTAIGNE, DESCARTES, PASCAL

The bon vivant, the sceptic, the rationalist and the Christian

Question 5

What does The sceptic counters

Answer 5

dogmatism

Question 6

What does The rationalist counters

Answer 6

the sceptic

Question 7

What does Christian counters

Answer 7

the rationalist

Question 8

People from The bon vivant

Answer 8

: Rabelais, Gargantua (16th)

Question 9

Characteristics of the bon vivant

Answer 9

Love of life
the 3 Ws – words, wine and (wo)men
Both rabelaisian and gargantuan are adjectives!

Question 10

Characteristics from the sceptic

Answer 10

Montaigne, Essays (16th)
Faced with dogmatism and violence, argues for scepticism (moderation)
Arguably the greatest essayist in Western history, inspired Ralph Waldo Emerson who is the greatest American essayist

Question 11

Characteristics from The rationalist

Answer 11

Descartes, Discourse on Method and Principles on Philosophy
Invented modern philosophy: the search for certainty based on reason
Led to the adjective cartesian:

Question 12

Characteristics from The Christian

Answer 12

Pascal , Pensées
Started out as a great scientist (geometry, calculating machine,….)
Ended as an extraordinary defender of Christianity against rationalist philosophy
«God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob, not of the philosophers and the scholars. I will not forget thy word. Amen.»

Question 13

Year in which The French Academy was created

Answer 13

1634

Question 14

Who created the french academy

Answer 14

Richelieu

Question 15

Entrusted with maintaining a dictionary of the French language

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The french academy

Question 16

Century of Invention of the psychological novel

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17th

Question 17

Author of The Princess of Cleves

Answer 17

Madame de Lafayette

Question 18

France’s greatest comic playwright

Answer 18

Molière

Question 19

Century of The French Enlightenment, leading into the French Revolution

Answer 19

18th

Question 20

Edited by Diderot, the father of Wikipedia, to make knowledge as public, as available as possible

Answer 20

Encyclopedia

Question 21

so subversive that Louis XVI forbade it for many years

Answer 21

Theater: Beaumarchais, The Marriage of Figaro

Question 22

18th century novella writer

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Voltaire’s satirical tales, Candide – satire as a vehicle for social criticism

Question 23

Novel18th century’s bestseller -

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Rousseau, The New Heloise – a hybrid (traditionalist and anti-traditionalist) ménage à trois

Question 24

Big 4 novel authors from the 19th century

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Balzac (an encyclopedia of human mores; La Comédie Humaine)
Stendhal
Flaubert (Madame Bovary)
Zola (social realism)

Question 25

Romanticism poetry author

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Hugo

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Modernism poetry authors

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Modernism Baudelaire Rimbaud (Jim Morrison, The Doors) Mallarmé

Question 27

Writer of Modernist prose in the 20th century

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Marcel Proust, In Remembrance of Things Past

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Existentialist prose and theater in the 20th century

Answer 28

Sartre, Nausea Camus, The Stranger Beckett, Waiting for Godot

Question 29

Essayist (The Second Sex) and novelist (The Mandarins)

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Simone de Beauvoir

Question 30

Poet (Ethiopiques) and essayist (Négritude et humanisme) from Africa

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Senghor (president of Sénégal) 

Question 31

essayist (Discours sur le colonialisme) and poet (Cahier d’un retour au pays natal) from Antilles

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Aimé Césaire (Martinique, mayor of Fort-de-France

Question 32

essayist (Traité du Tout-monde) and poet (Le Sel noir) from Antilles

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Edouard Glissant (Martinique) 

Question 33

novelist (Texaco) and essayist (Discours sur la créolité) from Antilles

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Patrick Chamoiseau (Martinique)

Question 34

Number in dominance of book production

Answer 34

4

Question 35

Left newspaper

Answer 35

National

Question 36

Libération, center newspaper

Answer 36

Le monde

Question 37

Right newspaper

Answer 37

Le Figaro

Question 38

Two magnificent oddities Magazines

Answer 38

Charlie-Hebdo (radical left-wing weekly with great cartoonists) Le Canard Enchaîné (investigative weekly, uncovers scandals)