FREN 45.02 The Art and Influence of Conversation
We will resurrect the conversations among men and women in seventeenth and eighteenth-century France. Questions include: What is the relationship between the individual and society? What roles do literature and philosophy play? What are women's and men's "natural" functions in society? What effect does contact with different cultures have on a society or the individual? Authors may include: Descartes, Corneille, Sévigné, Lafayette, Voltaire, Rousseau, Diderot, de Gouges, Montesquieu, and Graffigny, among others.
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