Survey of French Literature: Classical Period to 1900

Three credits · Undergraduate

A study in historical context and sequence of the most important works written in French from 1600-1900. Extracts taken from the literary works of Corneille, Racine and Molière, and including eighteenth and nineteenth century writers such as Marivaux, Voltaire, Diderot, Hugo, Baudelaire, Verlaine, Balzac, Flaubert, Daudet, Zola and Maupassant. Recommended for all French major, advanced major, and honours students. Credit will be granted for only one of FREN 272 or FREN 216. Prerequisite: FREN 212. Three credits.