Tour de France

There are no more powerful demons in the world than pure infatuation, and no angels that are sweeter than love. In Marie De France’s lai Le Fresne I see elements of maternal and romantic love. In This Lai, I’d define love as strong affection that results in caring for another, even if it leads to no advancement in society. Le Fresne’s mother judged her neighbor who birth twins, claiming that she had to have slept with two men. However, when she gave birth, she too had twins. Le Fresne’s mother…

Marie De France’s portrayal of “Bisclavert” is a commentary on the expected social roles during the mediaeval time period and how deviations from upholding these expectations lead to undesirable consequences. Loyalty is when a person provides continues support to someone and remains faithful to that individual. Her allusions throughout the text towards the importance of maintaining loyalty and chivalry allows one to determine the significance that these values held in mediaeval-society. All…

is considered to be one of the favorite destinations within France among American tourists. This is due to the coastline and beaches of the Mediterranean, it’s lavender fields, and its love for diversity. Provence is located in the southeast of France on the Mediterranean Sea. It is bounded to the Maritime and Foot Alps to the North, the Mediterranean Sea to the South and Italy to the East. It is divided into six departments the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, Hautes-Alpes, Alpes-Maritimes,…

France Research Paper With all of France’s places, food, culture, and people, France is can truly be an amazing place. Over 80 million visitors come to visit this country every year, and for many reasons. There are many things to do here, from the traditional French cuisine dish Escargots, or cooked land snails, to the sly smirk of the Mona Lisa in one of the world's largest museums, the Louvre, and to the romantic view of the City of Lights over the top of the Eiffel Tower in the…

Anyone who owns a camera phone can take Instagram-worthy pictures of all the famous monuments. My favorite memories of France are the spontaneous, “we don’t know where we’re going, but we’re gonna go” ones. Like when, after stuffing ourselves with cheese and bread that somehow qualified as dinner, my friends and I unearthed a secret staircase to an elevated walkway leading…

both monetarily and militarily is France. This essay will focus on the culture of France and its relations with the United States. The describing of common French culture starts with the characteristics of this specific region. The modern French are descendants of Romans and Greeks that later mixed with larger groups at the end of the Roman Empire. One of the greatest regarded symbols of the French culture is the national language. The people generally…

is the tallest structure in Paris and has become a symbol of both Paris and of France since this nationalistic poem was published in 1918 describing the poet’s feelings about France’s war with Germany. Despite much heated debate about its construction and many objections from artists in France claiming that the tower would be ‘useless’ and that it would humiliate such wonderful monuments as the Louvre, and the Arc de Triomphe, it was constructed by 1889. The tower looms over the city and its…

The existing culture was inconsistent with ours. In a North American environment you can decide whom to keep after an acquisition at a cost you can determine in advance on the basis of case law. In France, the only certainty is that you cannot replace the employees. You are acquiring the entity as a going concern. Unless you do certain things, you simply inherit the employees, including their legal rights based on prior service. To be able to reduce…

When people follow their own rules, they will suffer consequences. To show that this is true, we will examine Paris Trout, the main character in a novel called “Paris Trout” by Pete Dexter who follow his own rules and suffer consequences. After this is completed, we will examine the four people in our society who follow their own rules and suffer consequences. Paris Trout is a well respected white citizen living in Cotton Point, Georgia with his beautiful wife, Hanna Trout a…

and Bisclavret Throughout Marie de France’s many lais, she focuses on the many facets of human nature, such as who can be trusted, who will act accordingly to their rank and status in the court, who will be honorable and treat others with respect, and most importantly, who is most deserving of the love of another. By the very definition of the lais, being a love ballad of sorts, this is nothing surprising. What is far more shocking about the works of Marie de France is that she holds nothing…