Better Reading French (Paperback, 2)

Preface
How to use this book
Embrasse-moi
Les petits mots d’amour A game of love, Valentine’s Day cards, and proverbs about love
L’horoscope Horoscopes?Western and Chinese
Les petites annonces classees Looking for love in the classifieds
L’amour eternel A letter from Juliette Drouet to Victor Hugo
La vie romantique A letter from George Sand to Alfred de Musset
L’amour au theatre Moliere’s pursuit of the perfect expression of love
L’amour et les chats Chateaubriand’s love of cats
L’amour et le chocolat For the love of chocolate
L’adieu A farewell poem by Apollinaire
Ecris-moi
Les notes Sticky notes, to-do lists, e-mail, a love letter, a “Dear John” letter, postcards, and a wedding invitation
Echanges entre voisins Correspondence?neighborly and not so neighborly
Correspondance administrative A letter to city hall
Lettre de cachet An official request
Lettres historiques Letters from the battlefield
Runes The magic of writing
Haikus Poetry in three lines
Nourris-moi
La panoplie du chef A chef’s stock-in-trade
Recettes Three recipes, beginning with dessert
Les critiques culinaires A guide to Parisian restaurants
Cuisine et litterature Dejeuner with Proust
Les manieres de table Eating do’s and don’ts in the 1800s
Le lunch au Local Let’s have lunch with the Quebecois!
Des livres beaux a croquer Flaubert au chocolat, Balzac a la Chantilly
Enivrez-vous An invitation from Baudelaire
Chante, chante
A la claire fontaine A seventeenth-century soldier’s lament
Le temps des cerises Politics and love in a nineteenth-century song
Les roses blanches Lyrical white roses for maman
Carmen Romance in Bizet’s opera
Le chant gregorien Centuries-old plainsong
L’Olympia Resurrecting a musical theater in Paris
Le Musee de la Musique A museum of musical instruments
Nous n’irons plus au bois A song based on a nineteenth-century poem
Promene-moi
La France des musees Museums?old and new
Le musee du quai Branly African, Asian, Oceanic, and American art by the Seine
Les musees ruraux Bread, bees, and ostriches in the countryside
Les musees urbains Fabric and fashion in the city
Les maisons d’artistes The artist’s spirit lives on
Le Paris des jardins The green space of Paris
Emmene-moi au bout du monde
Un voyage d’affaires Doing business in Venice
L’Orient-Express A history of the train of myth and mystique
Un tour en montgolfiere Up, up, and away
Paris boheme A stroll through 1920s Montparnasse
Theodore Monod A scientist and humanitarian whose passion was the desert
Alexandra David-Neel Pages from an explorer’s journal
Femmes au-dela des mers Women, heritage, and networking
Fais-moi explorer
Lecture numerique Young, avid digital readers
Les inventions Hot-air balloons, garbage cans, and Braille
L’euro Technology in your pocket
Les vitraux Craftsmanship in the restoration of stained glass
Marie Curie, une pionniere du prix Nobel au Pantheon The first woman to join the nation’s “great men”
Medecins Sans Frontieres Relieving the world’s suffering
Adolphe Sax The highs and lows of an inventor’s life
Explique-moi tous les symboles
Les symboles francais Maxims, the rooster, Marianne, and “La Marseillaise”
Les drapeaux The flags of France and the European Union
L’Academie francaise Protecting the mother tongue
Les discours Speech, speech! Victor Hugo delivers
Fais-moi decouvrir la litterature contemporaine
Hommage au monde francophone A tribute to the mother tongue
La theorie des nuages Cloud obsession, love, and survival
Pondichery, a l’aurore From Stockholm to Pondichery
Aime Cesaire par sa fille Cesaire, fundamental man
Haiti Kenbe La! Dreams of my Haitian grandmother
Dany Laferriere We are human beings, all over the world
Boulevard des Mots-dits A carnival of words
La tourmente de la langue francaise Taming the French language
Chant a l’Indien A poem by Khireddine Mourad
Continuing to read
Answer key
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