final exam

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final exam

• review session
• April 29, 2003

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Format of exam

• Time period. You will write a paragraph  (1/2 to
  3/4 page) briefly describing French culture,
  history and society during a specific period (see
  below).
• Identification. This section will be longer than
  the mid-term. You will be asked to write 2-3
  sentences about a selection of the key terms
  listed below at the beginning of  each class
  powerpoint presentation (available under "course
  documents" on Blackboard).
• Short answer. Simple questions about your
  classmates presentations. If you were there and
  listened, you should be able to answer these
  easily. Worth 5-10 points.
• Mini-essays. You will be asked to write 2 short
  (1/2 to 3/4 page each) essays about key French
  cultural symbols that we have read about and
  discussed. See below for symbols and key terms.

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Time periods

• 1789 -1870
• 1870-1914
• World War I through World War II
• 1945 - present

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After the Revolution

• Napoleon Bonaparte
• Restoration
• July Monarchy
• Revolutions of 1830, 1848
• Romanticism

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Second Empire to the Belle Epoque

• Second Empire
• Third Republic
• Belle Epoque
• Napoleon III
• Commune
• Anti-clericalism
• Dreyfus affair

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World War I

• Trench warfare
• Verdun
• Pétain
• Archduke Franz Ferdinand
• Shell shock

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1918 through World War II

• Surrealism
• Maginot Line
• Blitzkrieg
• Charles de Gaulle
• Vichy
• Occupation
• Resistance

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Post-war France

• Marshall Plan
• Jean-Paul Sartre
• Simone de Beauvoir
• Pied-noir
• Decolonization
• Indo-China
• May 1968

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Mitterand years

• Mitterand
• Annales school
• Minitel (link to Wired mag article)
• Jean-Marie Le Pen
• European Community

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symbols concepts

• Louvre
• Eiffel Tower
• Paris
• Verdun
• Wine
• The Colonies 
• Prison/panopticon (Foucault)
• Sport

• mythologies
• identity
• power
• memory
• symbol
• tradition
• ritual
• republic
• politics
• modernization
• popular culture

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• Sample essay questions
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• 1. Discuss the importance of colonies to French
  culture and civilization. Use as many of the
  following key concepts as apply mythologies,
  identity, power, memory, symbol, tradition,
  ritual, republic, politics, modernization, class,
  or popular culture.
• 2. Discuss the importance of Verdun to French
  culture and civilization. Use as many of the
  following key concepts as apply mythologies,
  identity, power, memory, symbol, tradition,
  ritual, republic, politics, modernization, class,
  or popular culture.
• 3. Discuss Foucault's idea of the Panopticon, and
  how it relates to key institutions of the modern
  world.

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• 1. Discuss the importance of colonies to French
  culture and civilization. Use as many of the
  following key concepts as apply mythologies,
  identity, power, memory, symbol, tradition,
  ritual, republic, politics, modernization, class,
  or popular culture.

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• 2. Discuss the importance of Verdun to French
  culture and civilization. Use as many of the
  following key concepts as apply mythologies,
  identity, power, memory, symbol, tradition,
  ritual, republic, politics, modernization, class,
  or popular culture.

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• 3. Discuss Foucault's idea of the Panopticon, and
  how it relates to key institutions of the modern
  world.