Better Reading French, 2nd Edition

Preface<br/>How to use this book<br/>Embrasse-moi<br/>Les petits mots d’amour A game of love, Valentine’s Day cards, and proverbs about love<br/>L’horoscope Horoscopes—Western and Chinese<br/>Les petites annonces classées Looking for love in the classifieds<br/>L’amour éternel A letter from Juliette Drouet to Victor Hugo<br/>La vie romantique A letter from George Sand to Alfred de Musset<br/>L’amour au théâtre Molière’s pursuit of the perfect expression of love<br/>L’amour et les chats Chateaubriand’s love of cats<br/>L’amour et le chocolat For the love of chocolate<br/>L’adieu A farewell poem by Apollinaire<br/>Écris-moi<br/>Les notes Sticky notes, to-do lists, e-mail, a love letter, a “Dear John” letter, postcards, and a wedding invitation<br/>Échanges entre voisins Correspondence—neighborly and not so neighborly<br/>Correspondance administrative A letter to city hall<br/>Lettre de cachet An official request<br/>Lettres historiques Letters from the battlefield<br/>Runes The magic of writing<br/>Haïkus Poetry in three lines<br/>Nourris-moi<br/>La panoplie du chef A chef’s stock-in-trade<br/>Recettes Three recipes, beginning with dessert<br/>Les critiques culinaires A guide to Parisian restaurants<br/>Cuisine et littérature Déjeuner with Proust<br/>Les manières de table Eating do’s and don’ts in the 1800s<br/>Le lunch au Local Let’s have lunch with the Québécois!<br/>Des livres beaux à croquer Flaubert au chocolat, Balzac à la Chantilly<br/>Enivrez-vous An invitation from Baudelaire<br/>Chante, chante<br/>À la claire fontaine A seventeenth-century soldier’s lament<br/>Le temps des cerises Politics and love in a nineteenth-century song<br/>Les roses blanches Lyrical white roses for maman<br/>Carmen Romance in Bizet’s opera<br/>Le chant grégorien Centuries-old plainsong<br/>L’Olympia Resurrecting a musical theater in Paris<br/>Le Musée de la Musique A museum of musical instruments<br/>Nous n’irons plus au bois A song based on a nineteenth-century poem<br/>Promène-moi<br/>La France des musées Museums—old and new<br/>Le musée du quai Branly African, Asian, Oceanic, and American art by the Seine<br/>Les musées ruraux Bread, bees, and ostriches in the countryside<br/>Les musées urbains Fabric and fashion in the city<br/>Les maisons d’artistes The artist’s spirit lives on<br/>Le Paris des jardins The green space of Paris<br/>Emmène-moi au bout du monde<br/>Un voyage d’affaires Doing business in Venice<br/>L’Orient-Express A history of the train of myth and mystique<br/>Un tour en montgolfière Up, up, and away<br/>Paris bohème A stroll through 1920s Montparnasse<br/>Théodore Monod A scientist and humanitarian whose passion was the desert<br/>Alexandra David-Néel Pages from an explorer’s journal<br/>Femmes au-delà des mers Women, heritage, and networking<br/>Fais-moi explorer<br/>Lecture numérique Young, avid digital readers<br/>Les inventions Hot-air balloons, garbage cans, and Braille<br/>L’euro Technology in your pocket<br/>Les vitraux Craftsmanship in the restoration of stained glass<br/>Marie Curie, une pionnière du prix Nobel au Panthéon The first woman to join the nation’s “great men”<br/>Médecins Sans Frontières Relieving the world’s suffering<br/>Adolphe Sax The highs and lows of an inventor’s life<br/>Explique-moi tous les symboles<br/>Les symboles français Maxims, the rooster, Marianne, and “La Marseillaise”<br/>Les drapeaux The flags of France and the European Union<br/>L’Académie française Protecting the mother tongue<br/>Les discours Speech, speech! Victor Hugo delivers<br/>Fais-moi découvrir la littérature contemporaine<br/>Hommage au monde francophone A tribute to the mother tongue<br/>La théorie des nuages Cloud obsession, love, and survival<br/>Pondichéry, à l’aurore From Stockholm to Pondichéry<br/>Aimé Césaire par sa fille Césaire, fundamental man<br/>Haïti Kenbe La! Dreams of my Haitian grandmother<br/>Dany Laferrière We are human beings, all over the world<br/>Boulevard des Mots-dits A carnival of words<br/>La tourmente de la langue française Taming the French language<br/>Chant à l’Indien A poem by Khireddine Mourad<br/>Continuing to read<br/>Answer key<br/>footnote<br/>ch10_fn01<br/>ch14_fn01<br/>ch39_fn01