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Daphne Albar-Sumampong Lit 2 Masterpieces of World Literature

M. Lemonnier cares for a child for many years before discovering the child is not actually his biological son. Upon learning this truth, M. Lemonnier hangs himself from a rope overcome with grief and betrayal. The story examines the emotional fallout when a man's paternal identity is shattered by a revelation that the child he has loved and raised is not his own flesh and blood.

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Daphne Albar-Sumampong Lit 2 Masterpieces of World Literature

M. Lemonnier cares for a child for many years before discovering the child is not actually his biological son. Upon learning this truth, M. Lemonnier hangs himself from a rope overcome with grief and betrayal. The story examines the emotional fallout when a man's paternal identity is shattered by a revelation that the child he has loved and raised is not his own flesh and blood.

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Lit 2 Masterpieces of World Literature Daphne Albar-Sumampong

Lesson 5 FRENCH LITERATURE WORKSHEET 1

Name MARK RUBY R. DURO Course/Year BSED - IV

Task 1 Create a timeline of the history of French literature.


Year Event
C. 1102 The chansons de geste, performed by professional
minstrels in castles and manors, celebrate the exploits of
Charlemagne and his paladins

C. 1120 The troubadours of Provence develop a new form of love


poetry in French, introducing courtly love

C. 1130 A popular French poem, the Chanson de Roland, turns a


minor disaster in one of Charlemagne's campaigns into a
tale of epic heroism

C. 1160 Chrétien de Troyes and other French authors turn the


stories of Arthur and his knights into a romance of courtly
love

1461 Francois Villon, recently released from prison, writes his 


Ballad of the Ladies of Times Past

1550 Pierre de Ronsard publishes the first four books of his 


Odes

1637 Pierre Corneille's play Le Cid, popular with Paris


audiences, hinges on the conflict between duty and love

1644 In his Principles of Philosophy Descartes gives priority to


reason, summed up in his famous phrase cogito ergo sum

1667 French dramatist Jean Racine's first great success, 


Andromaque, finds tragic drama in a quadrangle of love

1673 Molière falls fatally ill when acting in his own play Le
Malade Imaginaire

1759 Voltaire publishes Candide, a satire on optimism


prompted by the Lisbon earthquake of 1755

1762 Two books in this year, émile and Du Contrat Social,


prompt orders for the arrest of Jean-Jacques Rousseau

1775 Figaro makes his first appearance on stage in


Beaumarchais' The Barber of Seville

1790 Anglo-Irish politician Edmund Burke publishes 


Reflections on the Revolution in France, a blistering
attack on recent events across the Channel

1791 Thomas Paine publishes the first part of The Rights of


Man, his reply to Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in
France

1792 Thomas Paine moves hurriedly to France, to escape a


charge of treason in England for opinions expressed in
his Rights of Man
1830 Victor Hugo's romantic drama Hernani provokes a riot in
the Paris audience on the first night

French author Stendhal publishes his novel Le Rouge et


Le Noir ('The Red and the Black')

1831 Victor Hugo publishes his novel The Hunchback of Notre


Dame, in which the hunchback, Quasimodo, is obsessed
with Esmeralda

1835 French author Honoré de Balzac publishes Le Père


Goriot, one of the key novels that he later includes in La
Comédie Humaine

Alexis de Tocqueville publishes in French the first two


volumes of his extremely influential study Democracy in
America

1842 Honoré de Balzac begins publication of a collected edition


of his fiction under the title La Comédie Humaine

1848 Honoré de Balzac completes publication of La Comédie


Humaine, a 17-volume collected edition of his numerous
novels and stories

1856 Gustave Flaubert publishes Madame Bovary, a novel of


frustrated romanticism in a provincial French context

1857 Charles Baudelaire publishes his first and extremely


influential collection of poems, Les Fleurs du Mal

1859 French author Stendhal publishes his novel La


Chartreuse de Parme ('The Charterhouse of Parma')

1862 Victor Hugo publishes his novel Les Misérables, an


immensely complex story about the adventures of ex-
convict Jean Valjean

1867 French author Paul Verlaine wins a reputation with his


first published collection, Poémes saturniens ('Saturnine
Poems')

1870 16-year-old Arthur Rimbaud sends some of his poems to


Paul Verlaine, already an established poet

1871 French author émile Zola publishes The Fortune of the


Rougons, the first in a 20-novel series that he calls Les
Rougon-Macquart

1880 Gustave Flaubert dies, with his novel Bouvard et


Pécuchet incomplete

1884 Verlaine publishes Les Poètes maudits, short studies of


various 'cursed poets' – including Rimbaud

1903 Gertrude Stein leaves the USA to share with her brother
an apartment in Paris that soon becomes a literary and
artistic salon

1908 Anatole France casts a satirical eye on human society in


his novel L'île des pingouins ("Penguin Island")

1909 André Gide publishes La Porte étroite ('Strait is the Gate')

1913 Alain-Fournier completes his semi-autobiographical


novel Le Grand Meaulnes

Marcel Proust publishes at his own expense Swann's


Way, the first volume of Remembrance of Things Past

1916 The author H.H. Munro ('Saki') is killed by a sniper's


bullet on a battlefield in France

1917 Wounded at the front on the Somme, the poet Wilfred


Owen is invalided home to Britain

Paul Valéry wins praise for his long symbolic poem La


Jeune Parque

1920 After several less successful novels, the French writer


Colette makes her reputation with Chéri

1922 James Joyce's novel Ulysses is published in Paris, by


Sylvia Beach, because of censorship problems elsewhere

Valéry's collection Charmes includes probably his best-


known poem, 'Le Cimetière marin'

1926 French author André Gide publishes his only novel, The


Counterfeiters

1927 French author François Mauriac publishes a novel of


marital claustrophobia, Thérèse Desqueyroux

1929 French author Jean Cocteau publishes Les Enfants


Terribles, a novel about a brother and sister in a
suffocatingly claustrophobic relationship

1932 French playwright Jean Anouilh has his first play, 


L'Hermine, produced and published

1933 Gertrude Stein publishes a best-selling account of her


own life under the title The Autobiography of Alice B.
Toklas

1934 US author Henry Miller publishes in Paris a largely sexual


autobiography, Tropic of Cancer, about his life as an
expatriate

1938 French writer Jean-Paul Sartre succeeds with his first


novel, La Nausée ('Nausea')

1939 US author Henry Miller publishes in Paris Tropic of


Capricorn, about his adolescence in New York

1942 French author Albert Camus creates an early anti-hero in


his novel The Outsider (L'étranger)

French author Marguerite Duras makes her name with


her partly autobiographical novel The Sea Wall

1943 French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre expounds his theory


of existentialism in Being and Nothingness ('L'Être et le
néant')

Jean-Paul Sartre begins a new career as a dramatist with


his first play, The Flies ('Les Mouches')

1950 French dramatist Eugène Ionesco's play The Bald Prima


Donna launches the Theatre of the Absurd

1953 Samuel Beckett's play Waiting for Godot ('En attendant


Godot') is first performed in French in Paris

1954 19-year-old Françoise Sagan has a major international


success with her first novel, Bonjour Tristesse

1958 Vladimir Nabokov's novel Lolita is published in Paris

1994 Art, a play by French-born Iranian playwright Yasmina


Reza, has its premiere in Berlin

Task 2 Formulate questions using the three levels, namely, literal, interpretive and applied. Make two (2)
questions for each level and answer it.

Level 1 (literal – reading what is right there)

1. What is the s]title of the story?

a) The story is entitled “The Child”.

2. What is the name of the child in the story?

a) The child’s name is Jean.

Level 2 (interpretive – reading between the lines)

1.  Why did M. Lemonnier hang himself on a rope?

a) M. Lemonnier hang himself on a rope because he’s hurt of the truth that the child he loves
and cared for years was not really his own but a living image of his friend M. Duretour.

2. Why did the child grow willful, stubborn and qiuck-tempered?

a) The child grew willful, stubborn and quick-tempered because he had been spoiled. His
father always gave in to him and let him have his own way and M. Duretour, a friend of his
father, would always buy him all the toy he wished and he fed him on cakes and candies.
Level 3 (applied – reading beyond the lines)

1. If you would be M. Lemonnier, how would you handle the reality that the child is not your own?

a) Everything in this world should be accepted. Accepting the fact genuinely makes a person contented and
happy for his/her eternity.

2. If you would be Celeste, would you also tell M. Lemonnier the truth that he was not the father of the child?

a) Yes indeed I would tell him for I believe that it is wrong that we live on lies, it is for us set aside what is
good and what is bad because for I do believe that the truth will set everyone free.

Task 3 Make a plot of the story. Label each part of the plot.

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