Test your French with an extract from a classic, autumnal poem by Jacques Prévert
Like Wordsworth, Verlaine can say things that make the reader blush, but at his best he Is concise, simple and immediate in his impact. He could make the simple inexpressibly sad.
Du Bellay and his contemporaries, the Pléiade, frequently made use of diminutives (violettes, fleurettes, vermeillettes, oeillettes) to add charm to their poems.
In 2012, Albert Camus, Nobel prize winner and author of some of the greats of French literature, went under scrutiny for a photo in which he was smoking a cigarette.
Actions speak louder than words so good luck with this French idioms quiz, look out for the next one coming soon…and break a leg!
Ramon Faura at the Collections de Saint-Cyprien
French Poem for a Rainy Day
At the end of WW2I, the BBC used the opening lines of this poem to signal the start of D-Day operations.
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The painting, now hanging in the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, famously shocked the bourgeois society of his time.