French Literature Teacher Resources
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Lesson Planet Curated
Crash Course Theater and Drama
Forsooth! Here’s a collection that has everything you ever wanted to know about the theater and drama—everyone from Aristotle to Chikamatsu, from Moliere to Shakespeare to Williams. From Banraku to Zaju, every type from comedy to...
Lesson Planet Curated
Learn About the Dreyfus Affair
Innocent man or traitor to France? That is the question addressed in a five-lesson unit that looks at multiple interpretations of the Dreyfus Affair. As young historians examine primary sources, they also consider the bias that history...
Curated OER
Types of Literature
Explore a short piece of French literature with intermediate French scholars. Either assign readers to each character, or divide the class into groups to give the story some life. There's a student task sheet included as well, although...
University of Pennsylvania
Mock Trial of Alfred Dreyfus
What if scholars based mock trials on history? The fourth installment of a five-part series on the Dreyfus Affair asks learners to read various pieces of evidence before conducting a mock trial for a French officer. Teams answer...
University of Pennsylvania
Decoding Propaganda: J’Accuse…! vs. J’Accuse…!
Reading snail mail is a great way to go back into history and to understand others' points of view. The resource, the second in a five-part unit, covers the Dreyfus Affair. Scholars, working in two different groups, read one letter and...
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Melodia Sight-Singing
Students practice sight-singing skills in this Choral lesson for the High School mixed-choir. Emphasis is placed on State and National Standards in the Arts and the song "Dirait-on", a piece by Morten Lauridson, based on the French...
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Poesie.webnet: Les Grands Classiques
D'Alphonse Allais a Charles Baudelaire, de Victor Hugo a Pierre Corneille, de Marie Stuart a Gerard de Nerval, tous les plus grands poetes representes par leurs meilleures oeuvres. A search engine for French poetry.
Howard University
Howard University: African & Caribbean Literature in French
Resource presents an exhaustive bibliography and resources for research on African and Caribbean literature in French.
University of Virginia
University of Virginia: Les Miserables, Volume 1 Fantine
An HTML version of the first volume of Hugo's famous novel is available here from the University of Virginia.
University of Virginia
The University of Virginia: Les Miserables, Volume 5: Jean Valjean
The last volume of Hugo's novel is found at this etext from the University of Virginia.
University of Virginia
University of Virginia Library: Les Miserables Volume 2
At this collection from the University of Virginia Library, Hugo's novel continues in Volume 2 with the story of Cosette. Read the whole volume.
Bibliomania
Bibliomania: Phantom of the Opera
This site from Bibliomania provides the full and complete text of Gaston Leroux's classic, "Phantom of the Opera". Includes a table of contents by which each act can be accessed by link, along with a link to Gaston Leroux himself.
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: Charles Baudelaire: Poet of Sickness & Evil
This lesson plan is designed to accompany Baudelaire's "The Poet of Sickness and Evil," which provides suggestions for studying the 19th century French poet's work.
University of Virginia
The University of Virginia Library: Les Miserables Volume 4
The University of Virginia offers volume 4 of Hugo's famous novel in HTML at this site, which is worth checking out on the subject.
Bibliomania
Bibliomania: Eustache Deschamps
This site from Bibliomania.com provies the reader with several examples from the original French poetry of Eustache deschamps. Site is worth checking out on the subject, and contains notes to the translation.
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Zvi Har El: Jules Vern Collection
This collection includes a biography, a complete bibliography, pictures of Jules Verne stamps, scholarly articles, a chronology and a Jules Verne virtual library.
Penguin Publishing
Penguin Random House: Cousin Bette: Reading Guide
Critical background information, as well as a biographical sketch and discussion questions are offered here by the publisher.
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Zvi Har El: Journey to the Center of the Earth
This personal site from the Zvi Har El's Jules Verne Collection provides the complete text of Jules Verne's "Journey to the Center of the Earth."
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Zvi Har El's Jules Verne: From the Earth to the Moon
This site from the Zvi Har El's Jules Verne Collection provides the complete text of Jules Verne's novel "From the Earth to the Moon". This edition contains original illustrations from the 1865 edition.
University of Pennsylvania
Project Gutenberg: Etext of Balzac by Frederick Lawton
Read the full text of this biography of the 19th century author of The Human Comedy.
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Club De Poesie: Quelques Mots Sur Alfred De Musset
This short but informative hypertextual French biography was prepared by Dominique Nourry for the Club des Poetes. It includes a bibliography and links to Alfred de Musset's poems.
ABU: The Universal Library
Abu: Anatole France (1844 1924)
This site offers full French editions of the following of France's works: "Crainquebille, Putois, Riquet et plusieurs autres recits profitables" "L'Etui de nacre" "Les sept femmes de la Barbe-Bleue et autres contes merveilleux"
ABU: The Universal Library
Abu: Stephane Mallarme (1842 1898)
This site offers a full French edition of Mallarme's "Poesies"
ABU: The Universal Library
Abu: Alphonse Daudet (1840 1897)
This site offer a full French edition of Daudet's "Souvenirs d'un Homme de Lettres"
