Revolution & Commune
What major event took place on July 14, 1789?
Storming of the Bastille
Who led the transformation of Paris?
Baron Haussmann
What literary movement is Zola associated with?
Naturalism
Who wrote the Surrealist Manifesto?
André Breton
Who is Jules Ferry?
Prime minister of the third Republic/ strong advocate of colonial expansion
What were the three estates in the Ancien Régime?
Clergy, Nobility, Third Estate
What role did railways play in modernization?
Connected regions, boosted industry, reshaped cities
Why is Florent constantly suspected and watched?
Because he disrupts social order and represents political danger
Who created Un Chien Andalou?
Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí
What do the Universal Exhibitions symbolically represent in the 19th century?
Displays of empire and power
Why did many Parisians feel betrayed after the Franco-Prussian War?
Government surrendered / armistice seen as humiliation
What was one social consequence of Haussmannization?
Working class pushed out / bourgeois dominance
Who designed the new Halles structures?
Victor Baltard
Who directed the short movie Emak-Bakia?
Man Ray
When was Algeria colonized by France?
it was in 1830
What was the Paris Commune?
Radical worker-led government (1871)
What was the main goal of Napoleon III’s economic reforms?
Facilitate transport and industrial growth
What beverage is strongly associated with Balzac’s writing habits?
Coffee
What is écriture automatique?
Writing without conscious control
Which present-day countries were part of Indochina?
Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia
Who wrote the Declaration of the Rights of Woman?
Olympe de Gouges
Why can we say this period was “modernity without democracy”?
Economic progress + authoritarian control
What is Balzac most famous for writing?
The Human Comedy (La Comédie humaine)
Who is the "lost generation"?
American expatriate writers in 1920s Paris/ generation that came of age during world war I disillusioned by the war and rejection of traditional Victorian values
What was the name for the Senegalese troops in World War I?
Les Tirailleurs sénégalais-Senegalese Riflemen