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french authors
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17
Language - French
11th Grade
09/20/2006

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Marguertie Duras
Definition
1) dad died @ 4
2) suicide if book wasn't published
3) knew the real president during WWII
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Honore de Balzac
Definition
1) wrote about vanities in contemporary life
2) wrote 15 hrs/day
3) drank up to 60 cups of coffee a day
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Francois Rabelais
Definition
1) illegal by catholic church
2) disected stuff in public
3) was also a monk and a doctor
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George Sand
Definition
1) "Amandie Dupain"
2) illegal by french congress
3) lots of love affairs
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Albert Camus
Definition
1) absurdism
2) got the nobel prize in literature
3) played soccer in Algeria
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Rousseau
Definition
1) "eclaircissement" (enlightenment)
2) human nature - man is good
3) didn't like private property
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Moliereg
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1) wrote and directed
2) comedic ballet
3) died in a play when he was acting as a hypochondriac
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Marcel Pagnol
Definition
1) mom didn't want him reading
2) wrote his first play when he was 15
3) "elu a l'acadamie francais"
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Guy de Maupussant
Definition
1) fought in normandy
2) 300 short stories
3) got syphilis at 20
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Francois Chaseaubriand
Definition
1) founded romantisism in france
2) tried to find a NW passage to US
3) was exiled
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Victor Hugo
Definition
1) wrote Notre Dame et Les Miserables
2) "elu a l'acadamie francais"
3) heart attack
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