HISTOIRE DE LA CIVILISATION FRANCAISE
Revised

Reid
Spring 2010
STV 216
T/R 11:00-12:15
Office:  WIH 357
Office Hours:  T/R  3:30-5:00 or by apt.
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Grammatical Correction Abbreviations 
Le passé composé vs.l'imparfait
Les articles:  du de la, des vs. le, la, les
Content correction signs for Guides de Lecture Critique (GLC)
Common French Grammatical Errors

• Présentations

• Finding Books and Articles
  

Online English/French or French/English dictionaries:  http://www.wordreference.com/.  Look for the correct translation in a list of possible translations.

Online French/French Dictionary:  http://www.lexilogos.com.  When reading, look for the meaning or meanings that best fit the word in its context.   
 

ASSIGNMENTS (Reading and written assignments to be done before the class for which they are assigned)

Jan 12  Introduction au cours.  L'Europe et la Gaule avant Charlemagne;Résumé 1-7; Map France; Carte Croissant Fertile; Menhirs Carte de la Gaule mérovingienne et carolingienne; Carte La Gaule; Carte Gaule romaine; Maison Carrée; Pont du Gard; Théâtre d'Orange. 

Jan 14  Chp. 8. L'Empire de Carlemagne (8e-9e siècle)[Read before class]. GLC ch. 8 [Type answers and bring to class]; Chronologie 8; Europe 800; Islam 750; Mongolian Empire 1206; Royaume franc; Carte du Partage de l'Empire par les fils de Charlemagne Traité de Verdun; Le Serment de Strasbourg; Aix-la-Chapelle extérieur ; Aix-la-Chapelle intérieur;  Carte des rivières de la France moderne;  Les origines du système féodal, Résumé Chps. 1-7


ART:  MIDDLE AGES (10TH THROUGH 14TH CENTURIES)
CHATEAUX AND CATHEDRALS IN MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE FRANCE
Jan 19 Chp. 9.  Naissance de la France (10e-12e siècle). GLC ch. 9; Chronologie 9; Carte 870; Carte Europe 13e s.  Résumé Chp. 8

Jan 21  Chp. 10. La société féodale, GLC ch. 10; Chronologie 10; Map France 1200, donjon Vincennes, Plan:  château fort; armures, Eglise Cluny, Crusades Time-line, Maps 880- 1965, Résumé Chp. 9

 
Jan 26  Chp. 11. Le grand royaume capétien (1180-1328), GLC chp. 11; Chronologie 11, Résumé Chp. 10; Plan Paris; Map Europe 1300

Jan 28  Chp. 12. La guerre de Cent Ans et le temps des épreuves (1328-1483), GLC chp. 12, Chronologie 12; Carte France 1360, Carte France 1400, Carte France 1429, Carte France 1477, Black Plague paintings, Résumé Chp. 11

ART: 15TH AND 16 CENTURY
Feb 2  Chp. 13.  La vie dans les campagnes et dans les villes du 15e au 18e 10e-12e siècle; GLC chp. 13; Chronologie 13; Plan chp. 13, Résumé Chp. 12

Feb 4 Chp. 14. Le 16e siècle, de Charles VIII à Henri II (1483-1559); GLC chp. 14; Chronologie 14, Maps Europe 1550 to present; Map France 1477; Map europe 1500; Holy Roman Empire 1500; Europe 1600; Carte France 1477; Map Additions to France 1552-1798; Peintres, renaissance italienne; Gothique Flamboyant;  Louvre; Goujon; Plan chp. 14, Résumé 13

Feb 9 Chp. 15. La crise des guerres de Religion (1559-1610); GLC chp. 15; Chronologie 15   Gothique Flamboyant;  Louvre ;Carte de la France dialectale; Renaissance Music, Maps of France 900 to present; Europe 1600; Religious Map 1585-98; Plan Chp. 15, Résumé Chp. 14

ART: 17TH CENTURY
VERSAILLES
Feb 11  Chp. 16. La France de Richelieu et de Mazarin (1610-1661), GLC chp.16; Chronologie 16, L'Opéra, Ballet de Cour; Rubens; Maps Europe 1550 to present; Euroatlas; Map France 1648; Map France 1660; Europe 1700; Plan Chp. 16; Résumé Chp. 15

Feb 16  Chp. 17. Le règne personnel de Louis XIV (1661-1715), GLC chp. 17; Chronologie 17; Plan chp. 17, Résumé Chp. 16, Jardin le Nôtre
PROSPECTUS GUIDELINES; MAKE APPOINTMENT WITH ME TO DISCUSS TERM PAPER

ART:  18TH CENTURY
Feb 18 Chp. 18.  Le siècle des Lumières, GLC chp. 18, Chronologie 18; Plan chapitre 18, Résumé Chp. 17
 

Feb 23 Chp. 19. La France de Louis XV et de Louis XVI (1715-1789) GLC chp. 19, Chronologie 19, Cartes:  La Louisiane 1687; 1723; 1763; Cartes de la Prusse, Résumé Chp. 18

Feb 25  MIDTERM EXAM

Mar 2  Chp.  20. La Révolution et l'Empire: I. crise révolutionnaire, GLC chp. 20, Plan chp. 20, Chronologie 20, Carte Grande Peur, Déclaration des droits de l'homme et du citoyen, Droits texte, Déclaration des droits de la femme et de la citoyenne, La Déclaration d'Indépendence américaine; Constitution de 1793; La Marseillaise paroles; La Marseillaise l'histoire; The French Revolution and the Organization of Justice; Résumé Chp. 19

Mar 4  Missed class
 

Mar 9/11  SPRING BREAK

ART:  19TH CENTURY
Mar 16  Chp. 21. La Révolution et l'Empire: II. L'Empire, épopée et consolidation bourgeoise, GLC chp. 21, Chronologie 21 Carte empire napoléonienne, La Louisiane, Résumé Chp. 20

March 17 PROSPECTUS DUE.  PROSPECTUS GUIDELINES. 

Mar 18  Chp. 22. La monarchie constitutionnelle aux temps des notables, GLC chp. 22, Chronologie 22, Résumé Chp. 21

Mar 23 Chp. 23. La révolution de 1848 et le Second Empire:  de la République à la démocratie autoritaire, GLC 23, Chronologie 23, Résumé Chp. 22, Résumé Chp. 22

Mar 25  Chp. 24. République parlementaire et laïcité (1870-1914), GLC 24, Chronologie 24, Schéma constitutionnelle, Troisième République, La Constitution de 1875; Résumé Chp. 23

Mar 30  Chp. 25. Naissance d'une France nouvelle (fin 19e-début 20e siècle), GLC 25, Chronologie 25; Cartes historiques des chemins de fer; Résumé Chp. 24

Apr 1  Chp. 26.  L'expansion française dans le monde au 19e siècle, GLC 26, Chronologie 26, Map Colonisation in Africa,Carte Afrique, Carte Colonisation Indochine, Map Middle East, Map Pacific Islands, Carte du monde; Résumé Chp. 25

Apr 5  FIRST DRAFT TERM PAPER DUE (Send by e-mail)

ART:  20TH CENTURY
Apr 6 Chp. 27.  La guerre de 1914-1918, l'après-guerre, la crise des années 30, GLC 27, Chronologie 27, Carte France rivières, Carte d'Europe 1914, Cartes de la Grande Guerre en France, Impôt sur le revenu, Révision Chp. 26

Apr 8  Chp. 28.  La France dans la Seconde Guerre mondiale, GLC 28, Chronologie 28; Carte Zones occupées et non occupées; Carte Europe 1940, Carte Europe et le Maghreb, Carte Afrique du nord, Carte tous les fronts de la guerre, Résumé Chp. 27


Apr 13   Chp. 29. La Libération et la IVe République (1944-1958), GLC 29, Chronologie 29, Constitutions de la IVe République, Traité de Rome, Histoire des habitations à loyers modérés, Résumé Chp. 28

Apr 15 Chp. 30.  La Ve République sous de Gaulle (1958-1969), GLC 30; Chronologie 30, Résumé Chp. 29 

Apr 20 Chp. 31.  La Ve République s'enracine.  Après-gaullisme et alternance politique, GLC 31; Chronologie 31; les taux de chômage; l'économie française, Résumé Chp. 30

Apr 22 Chp. 32. Les mutations de la France dans la seconde moitié du 20e siècle; GLC32, Chronologie 32, Carte Union européenne, Map Euro Zone;  Les trois secteurs de l'économie, Résumé Chp. 31

Apr. 26 FINAL DRAFT TERM PAPER DUE (send by e-mail both the copy with my corrections and your revised copy)

Apr. 27  France since 1970, Résumé Chp. 32

Apr. 29  Catch-Up, Overview, Culture, Evolutions de la France 1789-2000

 
May 75 Wednesday 10:00 A. M.  Final Exam

REQUIRED TEXT:

Carpentier, Jean et François Lebrun. Histoire de France. Paris:  Editions du Seuil, 1987.
 

GUIDES DE LECTURE CRITIQUE

All GLC's (question sheets) should be completed and typed before the class in which they will be discussed.  You must read the entire chapter or chapters assigned for the course then type, before coming to class, the answers to the questions with an asterisk.  In class, I encourage you to revise these questions. You will also be responsible for taking good notes during the lecture on the other questions.  Some of the material in those questions will also be on the two exams.  If you are not in class you are responsible for completing all questions. 

I will accept late GLC's up to two weeks after the due date.  GLC's are 20% of your grade.  Each one missed will reduce your final grade by over a half point. 

The goal of the GLC's is not primarily to learn facts, but to learn how to interpret historical structures and changes.  For that reason do not summarize all of the events or details in a particular section that relates to the question. 

•  To get full credit, you must answer all asterisked questions with typed answers before class, take good handwritten notes in class on other questions or complete yourself (if you are not in class), and illustrate your answer with the most relevant events or details from the relevant sections.   You will receive 100% for correct typed answers, 75% for correct handwritten answers.

•  If I ask for a summary of events that illustrates a particular historical situation or trend, you must pick out the most relevant events or details and explain how they contribute to that trend.   

•  The answers to the questions require that you synthesize and interpret the events. 

  • Do not copy sentences from the text, although you can copy appropriate words.  Synthesize facts and idea from the text in order to answer the question posed.  Reduced credit if passages from text that fully answer the question. Much lower credit if you copy isolated sentences that are simply related to the question.

  • You should pay close attention to those sentences where the author interprets the significance of historical events. You must sometimes interpret the data given, think out answers yourself. 

CLASS PRESENTATIONS

You will be responsible for three class presentations along with another student.  You will find the subject of your presentation in the GLC for the day of the presentation.  You may be asked to present part of the chapter for that day or related material from another text.  The presentation should be a minimum of 5 minutes and no longer than 10 minutes. 

Partners will divide up the material, not present the same material.

Your grade will depend upon the following

• Clarity of presentation.  Speak slowly and articulate the words carefully.  Look up at the class so that your voice carries and everyone can hear you.

• The quality of your organization of the material.  Your presentation should be divided clearly between significant parts of the passage you are presenting. 

• The extent to which your presentation synthesizes the material and focuses your listener on the important issues that it raises

You are responsible for meeting with your partner several days before the presentation and for coming on the day of the presentation.  If you cannot meet with your partner or come on the day of the presentation, you must tell me at least two classes before the date of the presentation.  Failure to do the preceding will lead to a zero for the presentation.

TERM PAPER

The term paper will be organized around a logical argument about historical change rather than around a story of what happened.  Recounting events will simply be one way in which you support parts of your argument. You should refer to specific passages or words in critical articles or books as a means of interpreting the historical events that you discuss.  Your interpretation will be based on research on the subject, including multiple points of view if the subject is controversial. 

You should use the Microsoft Word spelling and grammar check on your paper before you turn it in.  If you do not have the program on your computer, take your file on a disk to the Foreign Languages Computer Laboratory and do the check.  I will not accept papers with errors that Microsoft word would have pointed out to you.

The prospectus, first and second drafts of the term paper will all be graded.  They must be turned in on time.  Late submissions will receive a 20% reduction of the grade.

Term paper length:
undergraduates: 8-10 pages
graduates: 12-15 pages

EXAMS

There will be two historical evolution exams at mid-term and during the final exam period. 
The first will test the material from the first half of the semester. 
The second will test the material from the second half of the semester.

FILM SERIES REQUIREMENT

Students in 200-level and 300-level courses are required to attend two of the three films this semester in our department's French film series. The films will be shown on January 27, February 24, and March 17 beginning at 7:00 PM in Stevenson 101. Students unable to attend the screenings will need to see the films on their own, either in the Media Resource Center at Milner Library or at home. In order to comply with copyright laws, admittance to the films will be limited to students currently enrolled in a French course at Illinois State.

FINAL GRADE

Any student needing to arrange a reasonable accommodation for a documented disability should contract Disability Concerns at 350 Fell Hall, 438-5833 (voice) or 438-8620 (TTY).

Students acting in a disruptive or uncivil manner may be dismissed from the class for the remainder of the class period. If necessary, referrals may also be made to Community Rights & Responsibilities for violations of the Code of Student Conduct.

Bibliography:

Bloch, Marc. Feudal Society.  trans. L.A. Manyon.  Chicago:  University of Chicago Press, 1961.
Braudel, Fernand.  Civilisation and Capitalism:  15th - 18th Century. trans. Siân Reynolds. 3 vols. Berkeley:  University of California Press, 1981, 1992.
---.  The Identity of France.  trans. Siân Reynolds.  2 vols.  New York:  Harper, 1990, 1992.
Burguière, André et. al., Ed.  A History of the Family. . trans. Sarah Hanbury et. al .2 vols. Cambridge:  Harvard UP, 1996
Duby, Georges. The Chivalrous Society.  trans. Cynthia Postan. Berkely:  University of California Press, 1980.
Duby, Georges and Robert Mandrou.  Histoire de la civilisation française.  2 vols.  Paris:  Armand Colin,1968, 1984.
Duby, Georges and Michelle Perrot, Ed. A History of Women. trans. Arthur Goldhammer. 5 vols.  Cambridge:  Harvard UP, 1994
Freeman, Charles.  The Closing of the Western Mind: The Rise of Faith and the Fall of Reason.  New York:  Vintage, 2002.
Goodman, Dena.  The Republic of Letters: A Cultural History of the French Enlightenment. Ithaca:  Cornell UP, 1996
Hay, Denys.  Europe in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries.  London:  Longman, 1980. 
Holt, Mark P. Ed. Renaissance and Reformation France: 1500-1648 .  Oxford:  Oxford UP, 2002.
Huizinga, Johan.  The Waning of the Middle Ages.  New York:  Anchor Books, 1954.  Long Grove: Waveland Press, 1997.
Lewis, W.H.  The Splendid Century: Life in the France of Louis XIV.  
Tyerman, Christopher.  Fighting for Christendom:  Holy War and the Crusades.  Oxford:  Oxford UP, 2004.
Veyne, Paul, Ed.  A History of Private Life. trans.  Arthur Goldhammer. 5 vols. Cambridge:  Harvard UP, 1987-91.