French 311 / Professor Nicole Vaget / Fall 97
"La recherche du bonheur au XVIIIème siècle"
A Multi-Media Course in Eighteenth Century French Studies
Programme et Présentation des étudiantes
Schedule
Topics and authors
Literature
Art
Films
1st week 1789 :The French Révolution and its new order "Les années lumières" by Robert Enrico 2rd week The end of the Old Regime "Que la fête commence!" by Bertrand Tavernier 3rd week The Age of Enlightenment "Farinelli" by Gérard Corbiau 4th week The social criticism of Beaumarchais and "l'ancien régime" "Le mariage de Figaro" Fragonard "Amadeus" by Milos Forman 5th week The utopian world of Marivaux "l'île des esclaves" Watteau "Ridicule" by Patrice Leconte 6th week The political reforms of Montesquieu "Les Lettres Persanes" "Valmont" by Milos Forman 7th week The sensibility of Prévost "Histoire du chevalier Des Grieux et de Manon Lescot" Boucher 8th week Voltaire and the search for happiness "Candide" "Dangerous Liaisons" by Stephen Frears 9th week Laclos, Sade and the excess of passion "Les 120 journées de Sodome" Greuze "Salo" by Pasollini 10th week Diderot and the sciences "L'Encyclopédie" "La religieuse" 11th week Jean-Jacques Rousseau and nature "Les rèveries du promeneur solitaire" Chardin
"L'enfant sauvage" by François Truffaut
12th week 1792: Terror and dictatorship of a revolutionary regime "Les années terribles" by Richard Effron 13th week Presentation and discussion of students'work