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- ISBN: 0071770291
- ISBN: 9780071770293
- Physical Description xi, 260 pages.
- Edition 2nd ed.
- Publisher New York ; McGraw-Hill, [2012]
- Copyright ©2012
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| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 248-250) and Internet addresses (pages 239-243, 247--248). |
| Target Audience Note: | "Intermediate-advanced"--P. [4] of cover. |
| Immediate Source of Acquisition Note: | LSC 15.95 |
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Better Reading French, 2nd Edition
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Table of Contents
Better Reading French, 2nd Edition
| Section | Section Description | Page Number |
|---|---|---|
| Preface | p. ix | |
| How to use this book | p. xi | |
| Embrasse-moi | ||
| Les petits mots d'amour A game of love, Valentine's Day cards, and proverbs about love | p. 3 | |
| L'horoscope Horoscopes-Western and Chinese | p. 5 | |
| Les petites annonces classées Looking for love in the classifieds | p. 9 | |
| L'amour éternel A letter from Juliette Drouet to Victor Hugo | p. 11 | |
| La vie romantique A letter from George Sand to Alfred de Musset | p. 13 | |
| L'amour au théâtre Molière's pursuit of the perfect expression of love | p. 16 | |
| L'amour et les chats Chateaubriand's love of cats | p. 18 | |
| L'amour et le chocolat For the love of chocolate | p. 20 | |
| L'adieu A farewell poem by Apollinaire | p. 23 | |
| Ãcris-moi | ||
| Les notes Sticky notes, to-do lists, e-mail, a love letter, a "Dear John" letter, postcards, and a wedding invitation | p. 27 | |
| Ãchanges entre voisins Correspondence-neighborly and not so neighborly | p. 36 | |
| Correspondance administrative A letter to city hall | p. 39 | |
| Lettre de cachet An official request | p. 40 | |
| Lettres historiques Letters from the battlefield | p. 41 | |
| Runes The magic of writing | p. 44 | |
| Haïkus Poetry in three lines | p. 46 | |
| Nourris-moi | ||
| La panoplie du chef A chef's stock-in-trade | p. 49 | |
| Recettes Three recipes, beginning with dessert | p. 51 | |
| Les critiques culinaires A guide to Parisian restaurants | p. 57 | |
| Cuisine et littérature Déjeuner with Proust | p. 59 | |
| Les manières de table Eating do's and don'ts in the 1800s | p. 60 | |
| Le lunch au Local Let's have lunch with the Québécois! | p. 62 | |
| Des livres beaux à croquer Flaubert au chocolat, Balzac à la Chantilly | p. 65 | |
| Enivrez-vous An invitation from Baudelaire | p. 67 | |
| Chante, chante | ||
| Ã la claire fontaine A seventeenth-century soldier's lament | p. 71 | |
| Le temps des cerises Politics and love in a nineteenth-century song | p. 73 | |
| Les roses blanches Lyrical white roses for maman | p. 75 | |
| Carmen Romance in Bizet's opera | p. 78 | |
| Le chant grégorien Centuries-old plainsong | p. 81 | |
| L'Olympia Resurrecting a musical theater in Paris | p. 83 | |
| Le Musée de la Musique A museum of musical instruments | p. 85 | |
| Nous n'irons plus au bois A song based on a nineteenth-century poem | p. 88 | |
| Promène-moi | ||
| La France des musées Museums-old and new | p. 91 | |
| Le musée du quai Branly African, Asian, Oceanic, and American art by the Seine | p. 95 | |
| Les musées ruraux Bread, bees, and ostriches in the countryside | p. 102 | |
| Les musées urbains Fabric and fashion in the city | p. 106 | |
| Les maisons d'artistes The artist's spirit lives on | p. 111 | |
| Le Paris des jardins The green space of Paris | p. 116 | |
| Emmène-moi au bout du monde | ||
| Un voyage d'affaires Doing business in Venice | p. 121 | |
| L'Orient-Express A history of the train of myth and mystique | p. 122 | |
| Un tour en montgolfière Up, up, and away | p. 127 | |
| Paris bohème A stroll through 1920s Montparnasse | p. 131 | |
| Théodore Monod A scientist and humanitarian whose passion was the desert | p. 134 | |
| Alexandra David-Néel Pages from an explorer's journal | p. 137 | |
| Femmes au-delà des mers Women, heritage, and networking | p. 140 | |
| Fais-moi explorer | ||
| Lecture numérique Young, avid digital readers | p. 147 | |
| Les inventions Hot-air balloons, garbage cans, and Braille | p. 151 | |
| L'euro Technology in your pocket | p. 156 | |
| Les vitraux Craftsmanship in the restoration of stained glass | p. 159 | |
| Marie Curie, une pionnière du prix Nobel au Panthéon The first woman to join the nation's "great men" | p. 162 | |
| Médecins Sans Frontières Relieving the world's suffering | p. 166 | |
| Adolphe Sax The highs and lows of an inventor's life | p. 169 | |
| Explique-moi tous les symboles | ||
| Les symboles français Maxims, the rooster, Marianne, and "La Marseillaise" | p. 175 | |
| Les drapeaux The flags of France and the European Union | p. 180 | |
| L'Académie française Protecting the mother tongue | p. 181 | |
| Les discours Speech, speech! Victor Hugo delivers | p. 187 | |
| Fais-moi découvrir la littérature contemporaine | ||
| Hommage au monde francophone A tribute to the mother tongue | p. 195 | |
| La théorie des nuages Cloud obsession, love, and survival | p. 202 | |
| Pondichéry, à l'aurore From Stockholm to Pondichéry | p. 206 | |
| Aimé Césaire par sa fille Césaire, fundamental man | p. 211 | |
| Haïti Kenbe La! Dreams of my Haitian grandmother | p. 215 | |
| Dany Laferrière We are human beings, all over the world | p. 221 | |
| Boulevard des Mots-dits A carnival of words | p. 230 | |
| La tourmente de la langue française Taming the French language | p. 233 | |
| Chant à l'Indien A poem by Khireddine Mourad | p. 237 | |
| Continuing to read | p. 239 | |
| Answer key | p. 251 |
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