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[seb89]

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I love Maupassant ! I like his books and my fave is Bel Ami, before it was raped by the Anglosaxons and the Czechs 1 !
I also love "Le petit fût". It was so cruel, but so true .

JE KIFFEEEEEEE LES NATURALISTES ! I'll be a good student in your class i

 

[toinou03]

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I love Maupassant ! I like his books and my fave is Bel Ami, before it was raped by the Anglosaxons and the Czechs 1 !
I also love "Le petit fût". It was so cruel, but so true .

JE KIFFEEEEEEE LES NATURALISTES ! I'll be a good student in your class i

Yes Maupassant is very cruel ! My favorite one remains "La Parure". It's heart breaking !

Oh yes come in my class ! You will be my "chouchou" ! 3

 

[seb89]

Yes Maupassant is very cruel ! My favorite one remains "La Parure". It's heart breaking !

Oh yes come in my class ! You will be my "chouchou" ! 3

Maupassant! Maupassant is one of the few authors that can make me cry. I still have some stories to read. I said once to a friend, she wanted to buy me a French book, "I like Maupassant a lot, like really a lot". She gave me Voltaire .

J'obéis mon cher prof . Est-ce que je peux effacer le tableau Monsieur? Est-ce que je peux vous offrir un chocolat?

 

[Celia]

(Translated in English as The Drowning)

 

[toinou03]

Maupassant! Maupassant is one of the few authors that can make me cry. I still have some stories to read. I said once to a friend, she wanted to buy me a French book, "I like Maupassant a lot, like really a lot". She gave me Voltaire .

J'obéis mon cher prof . Est-ce que je peux effacer le tableau Monsieur? Est-ce que je peux vous offrir un chocolat?

Mais oui tu peux effacer le tableau mon lapin ! Chocolat... Oh la la... Le chocolat est toujours le bienvenu...

Voltaire ? :? What from Voltaire ? Voltaire is so painful ! Rousseau is sensitive and charismatic. Diderot is funny and clever. Montesquieu is epic and noble. Voltaire is just ironic and unfriendly... I'm a Rousseauist !

Well, actually I work on folk litterature from the begining of the XXth century. I read some novels of that period, but thers's one that I really loved. It's called "Jours de famine et de détresse", written in French and in Belgium by a Dutch woman called Neel Doff. I believe she's forgotten in Belgium as well... It's really a sad sad story... Well, at the end of the novel, she comes to Flanders and hates people there, but well... 3

In the same period as Maupassant, I really love Prosper Mérimée also. I had to study him a lot while in "prep" and I really liked. Matteo Falcone is such a shocking story !

 

[seb89]

Mais oui tu peux effacer le tableau mon lapin ! Chocolat... Oh la la... Le chocolat est toujours le bienvenu...

Voltaire ? :? What from Voltaire ? Voltaire is so painful ! Rousseau is sensitive and charismatic. Diderot is funny and clever. Montesquieu is epic and noble. Voltaire is just ironic and unfriendly... I'm a Rousseauist !

Well, actually I work on folk litterature from the begining of the XXth century. I read some novels of that period, but thers's one that I really loved. It's called "Jours de famine et de détresse", written in French and in Belgium by a Dutch woman called Neel Doff. I believe she's forgotten in Belgium as well... It's really a sad sad story... Well, at the end of the novel, she comes to Flanders and hates people there, but well... 3

In the same period as Maupassant, I really love Prosper Mérimée also. I had to study him a lot while in "prep" and I really liked. Matteo Falcone is such a shocking story !

Merci lapinou ! !

Oui... Voltaire . "L'affaire du Chevalier de la Barre", a €2 pocket . I started, but I was "euh non". I haven't read so much French literature as you . I learned about them all, but never read one book of those authors, except some little quotations or paragraphs! I like Camus to read, not to teach ! It's horrible to teach it. But that man was so great . I'm an OrelSanist !

We supposed to have Dutch litterature as well, but the teacher in my last year of secondary school, didn't like it so we didn't do it . I'm not fond of having literature classes, that's why I chose translation, but I still had to read a lot, but we didn't have classes where we would analyze that literature, we had to do it on our own with those books you can buy. I liked it a lot, cause I could read the books I wanted to read . I think I've read Prosper too, cause Matteo Falcone does ring a bell !

Omg ! Never heard of her, and I can't blame the lady for hating us !!!

 

[Sultana]

Finished 2 parts of

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[toinou03]

Merci lapinou ! !

Oui... Voltaire . "L'affaire du Chevalier de la Barre", a €2 pocket . I started, but I was "euh non". I haven't read so much French literature as you . I learned about them all, but never read one book of those authors, except some little quotations or paragraphs! I like Camus to read, not to teach ! It's horrible to teach it. But that man was so great . I'm an OrelSanist !

We supposed to have Dutch litterature as well, but the teacher in my last year of secondary school, didn't like it so we didn't do it . I'm not fond of having literature classes, that's why I chose translation, but I still had to read a lot, but we didn't have classes where we would analyze that literature, we had to do it on our own with those books you can buy. I liked it a lot, cause I could read the books I wanted to read . I think I've read Prosper too, cause Matteo Falcone does ring a bell !

Omg ! Never heard of her, and I can't blame the lady for hating us !!!

What a horrible gift you've been made ! 3 Didn't know this chevalier and... meeeeh... I don't feel like getting in touch with him ! I already had enough of them. Don't worry it has disappeared of the programs, so no Voltaire in class next year !
Don't worry boy, I'm very impressed by your culture in litterature. Not many people knows so much in France. I'm a very bad example. I just spent too much time studying... But teaching Camus ! We don't do it before lycée, but he's a very interesting author. I had an oral exam on the begining of La Peste during my 1st year of studying ! But well, I'll help you to pass your exam next year ! You can ask me ! 3

As for Neel Doff, it's very easy to read, as she wasn't a novellist, just a woman who told her life. But yes, when she moved from Amsterdam to Antwerp, people were even more mean with her ! But then she spent the rest of her life around Brussels and Flanders... She also had a villa in Genk and became muse of all the flemish artists of the time.

 

[seb89]

What a horrible gift you've been made ! 3 Didn't know this chevalier and... meeeeh... I don't feel like getting in touch with him ! I already had enough of them. Don't worry it has disappeared of the programs, so no Voltaire in class next year !
Don't worry boy, I'm very impressed by your culture in litterature. Not many people knows so much in France. I'm a very bad example. I just spent too much time studying... But teaching Camus ! We don't do it before lycée, but he's a very interesting author. I had an oral exam on the begining of La Peste during my 1st year of studying ! But well, I'll help you to pass your exam next year ! You can ask me ! 3

As for Neel Doff, it's very easy to read, as she wasn't a novellist, just a woman who told her life. But yes, when she moved from Amsterdam to Antwerp, people were even more mean with her ! But then she spent the rest of her life around Brussels and Flanders... She also had a villa in Genk and became muse of all the flemish artists of the time.

I know . It was thankfully only €2, so I could dump it without feeling bad . I really don't like him . YEEEEES HURRRAAAY NO VOLTAIRE . He was the central author on my exam once. When I took the card and saw Voltaire is was like #FML! But I was thankful, I could choose the books I read: Maupassant, Tournier and a biography of Diderot and some others, but I liked these the most.

Really , I loooove French culture. I try to read several classics a year, so that I have some knowledge about it . Camus is very interesting, he also had an interesting life. I had La Chute in my third year . He's a pain in the ass, but I do love him . Hmm, I'm curious what I'm gonna teach next year and in which grade . I like the 16 year olds, they read Maigret and "Le Petit Nicolas". Then I can show them videos and let them play a murder game in French or let them write a childhood experience . It's harder to make classes interesting with Balzac, but I like to give those classes too .

OMG I need to read Neel Doff ! Antwerp people can be mean, I suffered the first year too . She had a villa in Genk ? I was born there and grew up in that area ! I'm gonna look for it ! Thanks for tip .

 

[Gera11]

Re-reading

 

[toinou03]

I know . It was thankfully only €2, so I could dump it without feeling bad . I really don't like him . YEEEEES HURRRAAAY NO VOLTAIRE . He was the central author on my exam once. When I took the card and saw Voltaire is was like #FML! But I was thankful, I could choose the books I read: Maupassant, Tournier and a biography of Diderot and some others, but I liked these the most.

Really , I loooove French culture. I try to read several classics a year, so that I have some knowledge about it . Camus is very interesting, he also had an interesting life. I had La Chute in my third year . He's a pain in the ass, but I do love him . Hmm, I'm curious what I'm gonna teach next year and in which grade . I like the 16 year olds, they read Maigret and "Le Petit Nicolas". Then I can show them videos and let them play a murder game in French or let them write a childhood experience . It's harder to make classes interesting with Balzac, but I like to give those classes too .

OMG I need to read Neel Doff ! Antwerp people can be mean, I suffered the first year too . She had a villa in Genk ? I was born there and grew up in that area ! I'm gonna look for it ! Thanks for tip .

Oh ! A murder game in French ! That's great !!! I like when I make my pupils play theater at the end of the year, that's cool !
Balzac, is great, but it depends which book... In my first year of study, we had to read Splendeurs et Misères des Courtisanes, with 800 pages, hundreads of characters whith several identity... OK, at the end of the 100th page I couldn't remember who was who... 3 And I couldn't go further the 600th page. It was cruel to do that to us ! 1

Great teacher

 

[seb89]

Oh ! A murder game in French ! That's great !!! I like when I make my pupils play theater at the end of the year, that's cool !
Balzac, is great, but it depends which book... In my first year of study, we had to read Splendeurs et Misères des Courtisanes, with 800 pages, hundreads of characters whith several identity... OK, at the end of the 100th page I couldn't remember who was who... 3 And I couldn't go further the 600th page. It was cruel to do that to us ! 1

Great teacher

Oooh theater, I might do it someday too . I always liked that .
True, well they don't have to read those books, only a small part . They would dieeee . They even complain when they have to read "Le Petit Nicolas". I had the same problem mon petit Toinou . It was the first time I read an entire book for adults in French: 500 pages of Anne D'Autriche and more than 1000 pages about Mitterand. But I like it .

Toinou dieu tout puissant

 

[toinou03]

Oooh theater, I might do it someday too . I always liked that .
True, well they don't have to read those books, only a small part . They would dieeee . They even complain when they have to read "Le Petit Nicolas". I had the same problem mon petit Toinou . It was the first time I read an entire book for adults in French: 500 pages of Anne D'Autriche and more than 1000 pages about Mitterand. But I like it .

Toinou dieu tout puissant

Oh la la ! All that to me !
I like "mon p'tit Toinou"

Anne d'Autriche inspires me only childhood memories of when we would watch the cartoon "Albert le cinquième mousquetaire" 3 Stories of kings and queens are not what we study the most ! When I was in prep, history began in 1789 with the Revolution and then Napoleon... But oh ! 1000 pages on Mitterrand ! Bravo !

btw I stopped short-stories and began Bel-Ami. I prefer Maupassant in short-stories, but it's a great reading. Really looks like Illusions Perdues/Splendeurs et Misères des courtisanes, but in the novels by Balzac, the ambitious boy never manages to go anywhere...

 

[LonelyBrokenHero]

Milano Criminale- Paolo Roversi
I, Lucifer- Glen Duncan

 

[Leydan]

I'm reading a rather exciting, fun filled, book for the whole family...Its called Zombie Apocolypse.

 

[Yamarus]

I'm re-reading Louis Couperus's classic novel "De Stille Kracht" (The Hidden Force) from 1900. It's set in late 19th century Indonesia, back when it was a Dutch colony. It's splendidly well written and very entertaining. The title refers to the hidden force of the local population, ruled by the Dutch but undefeated.

 

[VictoriaLT]

'Wind, sand and stars' by Antoine de S a i n t -E x u p e r y.

 

[esc87fan]

Finishing up another reading of The Diary of a Young Girl, I bought it 15 years ago at Schiphol Airport so I'd have something to read on the plane home from Holland

 

[Celia]

Second time I read it, sooooo gorgeous

 

[Yamarus]

I'm reading two theatre classics: Shakespeare's King Lear and Molière's Dom Juan.