FRENCH LITERATURE NOTES

Mme de Lafayette La Princesse de Cleves-

Albert Camus :L'Etranger, La Chute

Anatole France - Les Dieux ont Soif

La Princesse de Cleves and Nemours

Albert Camus

Les Dieux ont Soif by Anatole France

Please click on the names of authors above to access notes on each author.

These are the notes that I put together during twenty-five years of teaching French "A" level. The collection represents many hundreds of hours' work. I am putting them on the Internet in the hope that they will help readers to enjoy these masterpieces of French literature.

My technique was to write a summary of each book, to provide a central reference for the studies that followed. The summaries and the essays give page references. Unfortunately, the texts that I used are probably now out of print. Formatting for the Internet has also made some page numbers inaccurate. I intend to do some editing at a future date, but until then, I hope that readers will find methods to make adjustments.

Other authors to follow include; Balzac - Moliere- Voltaire - Racine -