FREN4406 · Romance Languages and Literatures

Versailles: A Cinematic Look at French Culture of the Grand Siecle

Morrissey College of Arts & Sciences

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Stephen Bold

Associate Professor, Romance Languages & Literatures Department

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Instructor: 4.0
Course: 3.6

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Stephen Bold

Associate Professor, Romance Languages & Literatures Department

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Course: 3.6

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Satisfies Foreign Language Proficiency Core Requirement<br>Conducted in French. This course will focus on the cultural moment when modern France was born: the age of Louis XIV and his palace at Versailles. We will study the grandeur and the conflict that define this summit of French history through a variety of documents, including a number of recent films that reconstruct the period, and contemporary masterpieces of painting, architecture and music. We will also read a variety of literary, historical, and eyewitness texts that portray the age as it was or wanted to be.

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Term	Evaluations	Course rating	Instructor rating
Spring 2024	1	3.6	4.0
Spring 2021	1	3.7	4.0