{"id":756,"date":"2010-05-27T22:49:50","date_gmt":"2010-05-27T22:49:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/?p=756"},"modified":"2017-10-19T10:20:39","modified_gmt":"2017-10-19T08:20:39","slug":"summer-reads-summary-fra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/summer-reads-summary-fra\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer Reads Summary (en fran\u00e7ais, svp!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>C&#8217;est l&#8217;\u00e9t\u00e9<\/em>,\u00a0<em>et les vacances sont enfin arriv\u00e9es<\/em> (It&#8217;s the Summer, and the holidays\u00a0have finally arrived.)<br \/>\n<em>Quel bonheur !<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Je remercie aussi Jennie de ses nombreux compliments <\/em>(I thank\u00a0her for her many\u00a0compliments)<em>, et je souhaite lui dire ceci: J&#8217;aime\u00a0sinc\u00e8rement beaucoup tes contributions, elles sont vari\u00e9es <\/em>(they are varied)<em>, tr\u00e8s souvent amusantes <\/em>(very often amusing)<em>, et particuli\u00e9rement\u00a0informatives <\/em>(particularly informative)<em>.\u00a0J&#8217;esp\u00e8re enfin\u00a0qu&#8217;aux yeux de nos lecteurs, nous formons tous les deux une tr\u00e8s bonne \u00e9quipe. Notre blog deviendra <em>bient\u00f4t <\/em>le meilleur sur la sc\u00e8ne internautique francophone !<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Maintenant<\/em>, for today&#8217;s post, I found recently several friends of mine telling me how they&#8217;re excited\u00a0to seize the opportunity of the sudden extra free time\u00a0at their disposal\u00a0in order to catch up with <em><strong>la lecture de loisir<\/strong><\/em> (leisure reading) -as opposed\u00a0 to the\u00a0force-fed textbook\u00a0assignments of the school year- and they especially\u00a0asked me about some good book titles\u00a0to read<em> en fran\u00e7ais<\/em>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>Naturellement<\/em>, not everyone is necessarily\u00a0into<strong> <em>les classiques<\/em><\/strong>,\u00a0but if you\u00a0are, and\u00a0are at a loss as to\u00a0where to begin, here is a\u00a0short-list that\u00a0is meant to\u00a0help you decide <em>par quel livre\u00a0entamer vos vacancs d&#8217;\u00e9t\u00e9<\/em> (which book to kick-start your Summer holidays), which is in no particular order.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Summer Reads Summary (<em>en fran\u00e7ais, svp!<\/em>)<\/strong>* &#8220;<em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Le Petit Prince<\/strong><\/span><\/em>&#8221; , by <strong>Antoine de Saint-Exup\u00e9ry<\/strong>.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Le Petit Prince chapitre 1\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dvRIccSAHEw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>* <em><strong>&#8220;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">L&#8217;\u00c9tranger<\/span>&#8220;<\/strong>, <\/em>by <strong>Albert Camus<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>* &#8220;<strong><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Phaedra<\/span><\/em><\/strong>&#8221; by <strong>Racine.<\/strong><em>* &#8220;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Tartuffe ou L&#8217;Imposteur<\/strong><\/span>&#8220;, <\/em>&#8220;<strong><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">L&#8217;\u00c9cole des femmes<\/span><\/em><\/strong>&#8220;, or <strong>&#8220;<em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Le Bourgeois gentilhomme<\/span><\/em>&#8220;<\/strong>, all great works by <strong>Moli\u00e8re.<\/strong><em>&#8220;<strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Candide<\/span><\/strong>&#8220;, <\/em>by<strong> Voltaire.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>* <strong>&#8220;<em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">M\u00e9moires d&#8217;Outre-Tombe<\/span><\/em>&#8220;<\/strong> (meaning literally &#8220;Memoirs from Beyond the Grave&#8221;) by <strong>Fran\u00e7ois-Ren\u00e9 de Chateaubriand.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>* &#8220;<em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Le Rouge et le Noir<\/strong><\/span><\/em>&#8221; (&#8220;The Red and the Black&#8221;), and &#8220;<em><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">La Chartreuse de Parme<\/span><\/strong><\/em>&#8221; (&#8220;The Charterhouse of Parma&#8221;), <strong>by Stendhal<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>* &#8220;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Madame Bovary<\/em><\/span>&#8220;<\/strong> by<strong>\u00a0Gustave Flaubert.<br \/>\n<\/strong>Here is a famous movie adaptation by <strong>Claude Chabrol<\/strong>, with\u00a0the celebrated\u00a0actress\u00a0<strong>Isabelle Huppert<\/strong>.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"TRAILER DO FILME Madame Bovary (FRAN\u00c7\u00caS)\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kZcrUWCy8T0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>* &#8220;<strong><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">La B\u00eate humaine<\/span><\/em>&#8220;, <\/strong><em>&#8220;<strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Germinal<\/span><\/strong>&#8220;<\/em>, or<em> &#8220;<strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Aux Bonheur des Dames<\/span><\/strong><\/em>&#8221; (translated as &#8220;<em>The Ladies&#8217; Delight&#8221;,<\/em> or &#8220;<em>The Ladies&#8217; Paradise&#8221;<\/em>) by <strong>\u00c9mile Zola<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>* <strong><em>&#8220;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Pierre et Jean<\/span>&#8220;<\/em><\/strong>, or <strong><em>&#8220;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Bel Ami<\/span>&#8220;<\/em><\/strong>, by <strong>Guy de Maupassant<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>* &#8220;<strong><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Notre-Dame de Paris<\/span><\/em>&#8220;,\u00a0<\/strong>or, of course,\u00a0&#8220;<strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Les Mis\u00e9rables<\/em><\/span><\/strong>&#8220;, by <strong>Victor Hugo<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>* &#8220;<em><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Pantagruel<\/span><\/strong><\/em>&#8221; or &#8220;<strong><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">La vie tr\u00e8s horrifique du grand Gargantua<\/span>&#8221; <\/em><\/strong>(often known\u00a0simply as\u00a0&#8220;Gargantua&#8221;), by<strong> Fran\u00e7ois Rabelais.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\n* &#8220;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Eug\u00e9nie Grandet<\/em><\/span>&#8220;, or &#8220;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Le P\u00e8re Goriot<\/em><\/span>&#8220;, both from Honor\u00e9 de Balzac&#8217;s\u00a0&#8220;<em>La Com\u00e9die\u00a0Divine.<\/em>&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/strong><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Creative Quotations from Honore de Balzac for May 20\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/H-8CjlzuGA8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; 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Je remercie aussi Jennie de ses nombreux compliments (I thank\u00a0her for her many\u00a0compliments), et je souhaite lui dire ceci: J&#8217;aime\u00a0sinc\u00e8rement beaucoup tes contributions, elles sont vari\u00e9es (they are varied), tr\u00e8s souvent amusantes (very often amusing), et particuli\u00e9rement\u00a0informatives&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/summer-reads-summary-fra\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[3,13],"tags":[9112,8329,9115,9118,9121,270,9127,9122,9137,9114,9113,9110,9111,9124,9136,9129,9117,9126,9128,9139,9116,9119,9138,604],"class_list":["post-756","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-culture","category-vocabulary","tag-antoine-de-saint-exupery","tag-balzac","tag-camus","tag-chateaubriand","tag-emile-zola","tag-flaubert","tag-gargantua","tag-germinal","tag-guy-de-maupassant","tag-letranger","tag-le-petit-prince","tag-lecture-de-loisir","tag-les-classiques","tag-les-miserables","tag-madame-bovary","tag-marcel-proust","tag-moliere","tag-pentagruel","tag-pere-goriot","tag-rabelais","tag-racine","tag-stendhal","tag-victor-hugo","tag-voltaire"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 5.0.0.1 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"C&#039;est l&#039;\u00e9t\u00e9, et les vacances sont enfin arriv\u00e9es (It&#039;s the Summer, and the holidays have finally arrived.) 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