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1) The Cote d' Azur (The French Revolution) SUMMER ACTIVITIES |
*St. Tropez: celebrities favorite playground *Cannes: the film festival *La Croisette: the principle ave *Nice: La Promenade de Anglais - principle ave *Monaco: Monte Carl- the capital & the only city -no taxes, the 1st casino, and car race |
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2) Normandy 3) Cores (Corsica) |
2) *Deuville ( the first Coco Chanel shop) * Trouville 3) area of France located in the Meditteranean Sea. Napolean was born in Corsica in 1769. Today his house is a museum. |
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WINTER |
*Charmonix: Mount Blanc *Birarritz: the Pyrenees *Grenoble * The Loire Valley (castles) -Chambord, Chennonceau, Amboise, Blois *The Holy Mount Michel: inheritance unesco |
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Provence |
*fields of lavender *the way the impressionist painters (Monet, Van Gogh, Gaugain) *Grasse- perfumes *Avignon- the Ducal Palace (the song: "On the Bridge of Avignon) *Aix-en- Provence |
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Language & Literature |
-the french academy: 1635 by Richelieu founded to preserve and improve the French language. (40 members calles "les immortel" ) |
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Writers/ poets |
*Moliere (comedies) considered the French Shakespeare (17th cent) *Jean de la Fontaine- fabulist (the 17th cent) - the ant and the grasshopper -the fox and the crow -the fox and the grapes *Voltaire & Rousseau (18th cent). Philosophers and founders of the French Revolution |
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Writers/ poets: part II |
*Victor Hugo: (19th cent) wrote Les Miserables & The Hunchback of Notre Dame *Alexandre Dumas (the 19th cent) wrote the 5 Musqueteers & The count of Monte Cristo *Balzac, Emile Zola (19th cent) *Rimbaud, Verlaine & Boudelaine (poet of 19th century) *Proust, Albert Camus, Jean Paul Sartre (20th century) *Gonncours: prize in literature for kids |
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Artists |
*Degas (ballerinas) *Toulouse Lautrec (cabaret dancer) *Gaugain (Tahiti and Lanscape) *Matisse, Chagall (contemporary painters) *Manet, Monet, Renoir, Van Gogh= impressionist (no specific details) *picasso *Bartholdi (The statue of liberty & eiffel internall structure) *Auguste Rodin: The Thinker *Gustave Eiffel |
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Composers & Scientists |
Composers: * Claude Rouget de Lisle- La Marseillaise *Bizet: Carmen *Ravel: Bolero Scientist: *Descartes- the analitical geometry (I think therefore I exist) |
