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French A-level · Chapter 40 · Set works and research project

Set texts

The ten AQA set texts (AS and A-level): period, story, themes and the words to discuss each one.

On the AS course and the full A-level

10 phrase lessons.

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  1. Phrase session On the AS course and the full A-level

    Le Tartuffe (Molière, 1664)

    Comedy, hypocrisy and faith at the court of Louis XIV.

  2. Phrase session On the AS course and the full A-level

    Candide (Voltaire, 1759)

    A philosophical tale against easy optimism.

  3. Phrase session On the AS course and the full A-level

    Boule de Suif (Maupassant, 1880)

    Prejudice and cowardice in the war of 1870.

  4. Phrase session On the AS course and the full A-level

    L'étranger (Camus, 1942)

    The absurd, a killing and a trial in French Algeria.

  5. Phrase session On the AS course and the full A-level

    Bonjour tristesse (Sagan, 1954)

    One summer by the Mediterranean, and a plan that goes too far.

  6. Phrase session On the AS course and the full A-level

    Élise ou la vraie vie (Etcherelli, 1967)

    Factory work, racism and love during the Algerian War.

  7. Phrase session On the AS course and the full A-level

    Un sac de billes (Joffo, 1973)

    Two Jewish brothers on the run in occupied France.

  8. Phrase session On the AS course and the full A-level

    Kiffe kiffe demain (Guène, 2004)

    Growing up on an estate outside Paris, told with humour.

  9. Phrase session On the AS course and the full A-level

    Un secret (Grimbert, 2004)

    A family's buried past and the Holocaust.

  10. Phrase session On the AS course and the full A-level

    No et moi (de Vigan, 2007)

    A gifted teenager and a homeless girl in Paris.

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