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Classic Literature Sexyperson Tournament; Round 1
propaganda:
Nemours:
I hate that damn book. It's rather short but it's terrible to read if you can't stand ingenues. Sadly, my teachers liked imagination and I had to study it three times in four years at school. It doesn't get more interesting in time, and you don't understand the titles and relationships better. The heroine is so pure of heart you're considering murdering her by page 10.
Anyway, that was my vent against the book, which at least has the merit of being one of the first (the first ?) known French modern (the 17th century) novel -and was written by a woman, well known in her era's intellectual circles.
Um. What was I saying ? Oh yes, the book's not all bad. It has exactly one highlight : the dashing and highly immoral womanizer known as Nemours. Our boring, sickeningly perfect and freshly married -to a man who loves her, isn't especially good looking but is good with her and not old- young heroine who has seen nothing of the world falls in love with the seductor. It shakes her deeply but she's well bred - it's not like she's going to do anything about it : she's a married woman. Nemours is quite amused and makes advances about every 5 pages but eventually falls for her -I mean, who wouldn't fall for that much goodness ? *eyeroll* Eventually, the Princess' husband dies because she doesn't love him -poor darling- and begs her not to marry Nemours on his deathbed. I'm not spoiling the rest because I get more and more annoyed as I vent about the rest of the book.
Anyway, Nemours a good counterpart to the protag's naive ways and rakes are always interesting in books
Dorian and Basil:
(for Dorian) It’s Dorian Gray
(also for Dorian) Kinda makes a pact with the devil to stay pretty forever
(again, for Dorian) He deserves it bc it’d be the funniest thing ever given everything he’s done
(for Basil) basil is beautiful, eternally youthful, artistic, and dramatic. he’s the definition of a disaster gay (he literally murders his love interest because he’s deranged and morally complex and that’s so real of him) and he basks in the glory of all the finer things in life. he’s captivating to read about and his corruption arc is soooo sexy.
#tournament poll#classic lit sexyperson bracket#r1c#round 1#la princesse de clèves#the picture of dorian gray
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La Belle Personne - Christophe Honoré
"Je n'ai pas honte de te parler sans prudence. Je me dis que c'est ça aussi qui t'a plu chez moi, ma manière d'être transparente. Imaginer que tu puisses ne plus m'aimer est pour moi bien plus abominable que ce que tu appelles les règles que je me suis fixée. Je sais que nous sommes deux personnes, normales, quoi, et qu'après tout, nous pourrions être ensemble. Mais pour combien de temps ? Si nous sommes deux personnes comme les autres, quelle sera la durée de notre amour ? Il n'y a pas d'amour éternel, même dans les livres, il n'y en a pas. Donc s'aimer, c'est s'aimer pour un certain temps. Il n'y aura pas de miracle pour nous. Nous ne sommes pas plus forts que les autres." - Junie
#la belle personne#christophe honoré#louis garrel#léa seydoux#cinéma#cinéphile#film#french cinema#french film#la princesse de clèves#the beautiful person#dirtymartini
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When in the library I found a novel with مدام لافييت "Madame de La Fayette" on it, and it got me excited even that it is more than probable that the author has nothing to do with the Lafayette I thought of, turns out there was a relation! I researched about a little while studying and apparently a woman in an older generation of La Fayette family (Marie-Madeleine Pioche de La Vergne, Comtesse de La Fayette) wrote it, her novel (La Princesse de Clèves (1678)) is considered the first french historical novel???? (basically historical fiction retelling with an OC).. she's not his grandmother or blood related in any way but I think it's a cool fact
Dear Anon,
that is indeed quite interesting, is it not?
Madame de La Fayette was the Marquis de La Fayette’s great-aunt (or there about, the family tree is a bit confusing around that time) by marriage, although her husband was not really a great catch. She published her books, most noticeable among them La Princesse de Clèves, anonymously but they were soon attributed to her. Her works in general and La Princesse de Clèves in particular, are a firm part of the French canon of classic literature.
Her main protagonists were all made up, but the setting and the supporting characters were all taken from history and the novel was lauded for its accuracy.
As far as I know, Madame de La Fayette’s works belonged to the first of its kind not only in France but in Western literature in general.
I hope you have/had a lovely day! :-)
#ask me anything#anon#marquis de lafayette#la fayette#french history#literature#madame de la fayette#la princesse de clèves
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La Princesse de Clèves (1678) - Madame de La Fayette
Je n'ai que des sentiments violents et incertains dont je ne suis pas le maître.
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My thoughts are violent and uncertain, and I am not able to control them.
#Madame de La Fayette#La Princesse de Clèves#The Princess of Cleves#french literature#novel#book#reading#roman d'analyse#Marie-Madeleine de La Fayette#women authors#Entsagungsroman#read in st louis and montreal#read in october 2023
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La Princesse de Clèves est un roman de la femme de lettres française Madame de La Fayette.
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Some books I’ve enjoyed this year:
Fiction:
L’art de perdre, Alice Zeniter
Revolutionary Road, Richard Yates
Les enfants sont rois, Delphine de Vigan
Social Creature, Tara Isabella Burton
La vie devant soi, Romain Gary
Evolution, Stephen Baxter
La Princesse de Clèves, Mme de Lafayette
Nonfiction:
Espejos, Eduardo Galeano
The Worst Hard Time, Timothy Egan
She Said, Jodi Kantor
After Sappho, Selby Wynn Schwartz
La Panthère des neiges, Sylvain Tesson
Becoming Beauvoir, Kate Kirkpatrick
Voices from Chernobyl, Svetlana Alexievich
I’d love to know what were your best reads of ‘22 !
#book recs#(links go to the english goodreads page unless there's no english translation)#social creature was just okay really but i love books about toxic female friendships and i've read so many disappointing ones#it makes this one stand out in comparison#also the delphine de vigan book is topical re: my last post. about youtuber children#it's been translated in quite a few languages but not english yet#my top 3 of the year is all nonfiction. the jodi kantor book + svetlana alexievich + sylvain tesson#and la princesse de clèves but it's mostly because i love 17th century french so much!
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Ressources autour de La Princesse de Clèves, de Madame de Lafayette - épreuve de français Bac 2022
Voici ce qu'il faut savoir sur le roman La Princesse de Clèves de Madame de Lafayette pour vous préparer au #Bac2022.
Au programme du bac de de français, l’oeuvre emblématique d’une époque et considérée comme le premier roman psychologique passionne la plupart des élèves de Terminale qui l’étudient. Il est vrai que les thèmes principaux qui y sont abordés, ceux de l’amour et du devoir, sont universels et intemporels.
Le film La Princesse de Clèves de Jean Delannoy (1961)
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#Bac de français 2022#Madame de Lafayette#Roman psychologique Princesse de Clèves#Sujets de dissertation la Princesse de Clèves
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I thought I was going to hate this book. I was wrong
#its la princesse de clèves by madame de la fayette#the main character doesn’t have a name but it's still good
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Lucas Cranach l'Ancien "Portrait de la princesse Sybille de Clèves" 1526
"Ne rien afficher permet de demeurer libre, ne l'oubliez pas, libre d'agir, de penser et de combattre l'injustice."
Mireille Calmel " Le bal des louves"
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Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-1989) - Armpit, 1981
Tirage argentique (35,2 x 35,2 cm)
❝Je vous adore, je vous hais, je vous offense, je vous demande pardon ; je vous admire, j'ai honte de vous admirer. Enfin il n'y a plus en moi ni de calme, ni de raison.❞
— Madame de La Fayette, La Princesse de Clèves
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nan mais le misanthrope / les femmes savantes / tartuffe c’est la trilogie sainte de moliere
et annie j’aime juste pas les années, la place c’est incrrrr
après prépare toi à potentiellement avoir la princesse de cleves ils adorent le mettre iu de la poésie / lyrisme dans ton prog de l’année pro
pour molière on est d’accord, même si j’ai une tendresse toute particulière pour le malade imaginaire/le bourgeois gentilhomme/monsieur de pourceaugnac, la première parce que c’est la première pièce que j’ai lue (et jouée) de molière, le bourgeois à cause de génovèse et pourceaugnac à cause de la fameuse lecture de corbery et hervieu-léger
j’ai pas lu les années so je vais fermer ma gueule
j’ai la princesse de clèves dans ma bibliothèque et j’adore la poésie donc c’est un win
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Plus intéressant qu’apprendre aux enfants qu’un jour ils pourront lire la Princesse de Clèves mieux que Sarkozy, et qu’ils approcheront dès lors du réel de la différence sexuelle dont ils sont issus, voici donc la priorité du ministre de l’éducation dès le plus jeune âge…
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100 livres à avoir lu dans sa vie (entre autres):
1984, George Orwell ✅
A la croisée des mondes, Philip Pullman
Agnès Grey, Agnès Bronte ✅
Alice au Pays des merveilles, Lewis Carroll ✅
Angélique marquise des anges, Anne Golon
Anna Karenine, Léon Tolstoï
A Rebours, Joris-Karl Huysmans
Au bonheur des dames, Émile Zola
Avec vue sur l'Arno, E.M Forster
Autant en emporte le vent, Margaret Mitchell
Barry Lyndon, William Makepeace Thackeray
Belle du Seigneur, Albert Cohen
Blonde, Joyce Carol Oates
Bonjour tristesse, Françoise Sagan ✅
Cent ans de solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Charlie et la chocolaterie, Roald Dahl ✅
Chéri, Colette
Crime et Châtiment, Féodor Dostoïevski
De grandes espérances, Charles Dickens
Des fleurs pour Algernon, Daniel Keyes
Des souris et des hommes, John Steinbeck ✅
Dix petits nègres, Agatha Christie ✅
Docteur Jekyll et Mister Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson ✅
Don Quichotte, Miguel Cervantés
Dracula, Bram Stocker ✅
Du côté de chez Swann, Marcel Proust
Dune, Frank Herbert ✅
Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury ✅
Fondation, Isaac Asimov
Frankenstein, Mary Shelley ✅
Gatsby le magnifique, Francis Scott Fitzgerald ✅
Harry Potter à l'école des sorciers, J.K Rowling
Home, Toni Morrison
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
Kafka sur le rivage, Haruki Murakami
L'adieu aux armes, Ernest Hemingway ✅
L'affaire Jane Eyre, Jasper Fforde
L'appel de la forêt, Jack London ✅
L'attrape-cœur, J. D. Salinger ✅
L'écume des jours, Boris Vian
L'étranger, Albert Camus ✅
L'insoutenable légèreté de l'être, Milan Kundera
La condition humaine, André Malraux
La dame aux camélias, Alexandre Dumas Fils
La dame en blanc, Wilkie Collins
La gloire de mon père, Marcel Pagnol
La ligne verte, Stephen King ✅
La nuit des temps, René Barjavel
La Princesse de Clèves, Mme de La Fayette ✅
La Route, Cormac McCarthy ✅
Le chien des Baskerville, Arthur Conan Doyle
Le cœur cousu, Carole Martinez
Le comte de Monte-Cristo, Alexandre Dumas : tome 1 et 2
Le dernier jour d'un condamné, Victor Hugo ✅
Le fantôme de l'opéra, Gaston Leroux
Le lièvre de Vaatanen, Arto Paasilinna
Le maître et Marguerite, Mikhaïl Boulgakov
Le meilleur des mondes, Aldous Huxley
Le nom de la rose, Umberto Eco
Le parfum, Patrick Süskind
Le portrait de Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde ✅
Le Petit Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupery ✅
Le père Goriot, Honoré de Balzac ✅
Le prophète, Khalil Gibran ✅
Le rapport de Brodeck, Philippe Claudel
Le rouge et le noir, Stendhal ✅
Le Seigneur des anneaux, J.R Tolkien ✅
Le temps de l'innocence, Edith Wharton
Le vieux qui lisait des romans d'amour, Luis Sepulveda ✅
Les Chroniques de Narnia, CS Lewis
Les Hauts de Hurle-Vent, Emily Brontë
Les liaisons dangereuses, Choderlos de Laclos ✅
Les Malaussène, Daniel Pennac ✅
Les mémoires d'une jeune fille rangée, Simone de
Beauvoir
Les mystères d'Udolfo, Ann Radcliff
Les piliers de la Terre, Ken Follett : tome 1
Les quatre filles du Docteur March, Louisa May
Alcott
Les racines du ciel, Romain Gary
Lettre d'une inconnue, Stefan Zweig ✅
Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert ✅
Millenium, Larson Stieg ✅
Miss Charity, Marie-Aude Murail
Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
Ne tirez pas sur l'oiseau moqueur, Harper Lee ✅
Nord et Sud, Elisabeth Gaskell
Orgueil et Préjugés, Jane Austen
Pastorale américaine, Philip Roth
Peter Pan, James Matthew Barrie
Pilgrim, Timothy Findley
Rebecca, Daphne Du Maurier
Robinson Crusoé, Daniel Defoe ✅
Rouge Brésil, Jean Christophe Ruffin
Sa majesté des mouches, William Goldwin ✅
Tess d'Uberville, Thomas Hardy
Tous les matins du monde, Pascal Quignard
Un roi sans divertissement, Jean Giono
Une prière pour Owen, John Irving
Une Vie, Guy de Maupassant
Vent d'est, vent d'ouest, Pearl Buck
Voyage au bout de la nuit, Louis-Ferdinand Céline ✅
Total : 37/100
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Marina Vlady dans "La Princesse de Clèves" de Jean Delannoy (1961) - adapté du roman éponyme de Madame de La Fayette qui se situe à la cour des Valois dans les dernières années du règne du Roi Henri II (1678) - décembre 2023.
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Reopening of the Richelieu site of the Bibliothèque nationale de France
The historic Richelieu site of the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF) located in the centre of Paris has just reopened to the public after 12 years of work. Among other things, the BnF has another important site inaugurated in 1995 in the south of Paris by the President of the Republic François Mitterrand and which now bears his name.
The BnF collects, archives and restores all works published or edited in France. It also preserves national heritage collections, and items from bequests or donations.
Its origin goes back to the king's library installed in the Louvre in 1368 by Charles V. A decision made by King François 1st in 1537 required the creation of the collection, making it a legal requirement to deposit all publications in the national library. This decision now makes the BnF the largest library in France and one of the largest in the world. The BnF's collections include nearly 16 million books and collections, as many prints and photographs, 2 million scores, 950,000 maps, plans and globes and some 370,000 manuscripts. It has been open to the public since 1692.
Among these collections are the first editions of Emile, or the education by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and La Princesse de Clèves by Madame de La Fayette. Many books published before 1500, called incunabula, such as Le Kal endrier des bergers published in 1493, and very old illuminations, including the Great Chronicles of France dating from the late fifteenth century, are also kept there.
After many locations, the library moved in 1721 to the site of the current library in the former palace of Mazarin, rue Vivienne. New rooms were built during the Second Empire, one for researchers, the other for the general public. The Mazarine Gallery designed by François Mansart became a museum in 1878. Finally, the impressive "Salle Ovale" 18 meters high was opened in 1936.
Since 2010, major redevelopment work has been undertaken, which has just ended (2022). The site now includes 5 reading rooms, 4 of which are reserved for researchers, and the Oval room, equipped with 20,000 books and open to all, with free access. There is also a museum, a gallery of temporary exhibitions, a bookshop and a café. The entirety occupies about 58,000 m².
Although the refurbishments have restored the prestige to this somewhat forgotten but architecturally renowned site, an old controversy has reappeared. The main staircase, a monumental work built before the war of 1914-1918 and inspired by the Louis XIV period, has been replaced by a rotating staircase made of steel and aluminum whose integration into the place is sometimes disputed.
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art | Jean Cocteau retrospective at Cinemateque Bercy (November 15 - 26)
To mark the 60th anniversary of his death, there is a launch of tribute to Jean Cocteau at Parisian Cinemateque . Poet, then poet-filmmaker, preferred to call himself a cabinetmaker, who shot films like others turn tables. The first magic trick, The Blood of a Poet, will be followed by seven other films, including Beauty and the Beast and Orpheus, all to be seen again on the big screen. A retrospective completed by his work as a screenwriter (The Phantom Baron) and dialogue writer (Les Dames du bois de Boulogne), less often celebrated, no less astonishing.
With the support of CHANEL
Nov 23, 6:00 p.m.
The Princess of Cleves, session presented by Marina Vlady
Based on the novel La Princesse de Clèves by Madame de La Fayette.
With Marina Vlady, Jean Marais, Jean-François Poron.
Against a backdrop of intrigues at the court of the Valois, the amorous torments of a princess (Marina Vlady), who unleashes her husband's jealousy: some 20 years after L'Eternal Return, the Cocteau/Marais/Delannoy trio reforms around the romantic drama by Madame de La Fayette.
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