Research Guides: FREN 101: "Le Héros en question" (HC) Fall 2014: Background

Background on France

This series of online encyclopedias provide summaries of political and social history for France and other European countries.

Europe 1450 to 1789
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Europe 1789 to 1914
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Europe since 1914
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Dictionnaire des litteratures de langue française
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Lagarde et Michard series. Moyen Âge - XXème Siècle
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Anthologies of French literature with excerpts from major authors and genres. Each reading includes helpful introductory notes on the historical and biographical background. Six titles in four volumes. On order for Haverford.

Literature Resource Center
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Provides biographies, bibliographies and scholarly articles on novelists, poets, essayists, and other writers, with in-depth coverage of highly-studied authors.

Heros, d'Achille à Zidane
Exhibition at the Bibliothèque nationale in 2008. "Du héros aristocratique de l’Antiquité au "superhéros" virtuel, en passant par les figures du héros national et populaire, ce catalogue propose une vivante approche de la fonction héroïque. Puisant aux meilleures sources de l’histoire et de la fiction, l’ouvrage montre comment des supports variés produisent des personnages héroïques, riches d’enseignements sur les sociétés qui leur vouent un culte." Catalog description.
L’Histoire par l’image
This database indexes paintings, prints and other artwork by subject. A search under the word "heros" gives results including revolutionary figures like Bara and World War I soldiers burying the dead.