Senior Seminar: L'Identité française

This course examines different ways of defining French identity across centuries by alternately or simultaneously stressing Catholicism, le génie de la langue française , Cartesianism, French Revolution, individualism and les droits de l'homme , France in the European Union, l'exception française , and Francophonie or, in a minor key, l'esprit gaulois , French cuisine, French chanson, cafés philosophiques and French films.