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Famous French Folks
Famous French Folks
64
Language - French
6th Grade
01/30/2008

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Camille Claudel
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Sculptor
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Paul Eluard
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Poet
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Louis Pasteur
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Scientist
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Gustave Eiffel
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Architect/Engineer
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Emile Zola
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Novelist and Critic
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Jacques Prévert
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Poet
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Pierre Auguste Renoir
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Artist
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Marie Curie
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Scientist
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Antoine de Saint – Exupery
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Writer
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Albert Camus
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Writer
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Georges Braque
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Artist
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Georges Seurat
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Artist
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Guy de Maupassant
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Writer
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Maurice Ravel
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Musician
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Worked in Rodin’s studio
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Camille Claudel
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Worked in Rodin’s workshop
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Camille Claudel
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Mentally deranged and paranoid – she accused Rodin of stealing her ideas and plotting to kill her
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Camille Claudel
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She destroyed most of her statues, but 90 survive
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Camille Claudel
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Studied art in Paris in 1902
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Georges Braque
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Invented cubism with Picasso
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Georges Braque
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Fascinated by light and perspective
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Georges Braque
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From Algeria – his books take place there
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Albert Camus
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Journalist with Algerian newspaper
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Albert Camus
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Nobel peace prize
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Albert Camus
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L’Etrangère
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Albert Camus
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Le Petit Prince – read around the world
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Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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1935 he survived a plane crash
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Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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1944 – he died in a plane crash
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Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Discovered radium and polonium
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Marie Curie
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1st woman to win a Nobel Prize and she won two; one for chemistry and one for physics
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Marie Curie
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Died of radioactive poisoning
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Marie Curie
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Considered the greatest French composer of modern age
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Maurice Ravel
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Bolero – most famous composition
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Maurice Ravel
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“Music I feel must be emotional first and intellectual second”
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Maurice Ravel
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Greatest French short story writer
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Guy de Maupassant
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Hated the Eiffel tower and ate at the restaurant below it so he couldn’t see it
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Guy de Maupassant
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Committed suicide
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Guy de Maupassant
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La Maison Tellier
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Guy de Maupassant
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Pointillism
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Georges Seurat
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Impressionist
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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Le déjeuner des canotiers (Lunch of the Boating Party)
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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Screenwriter and poet
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Jacques Prévert
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Poetry about love, stupidity, hypocrisy and war
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Jacques Prévert
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Most widely read poet since Victor Hugo
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Jacques Prévert
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Discovered his poems on scribblings on back of napkins and envelopes
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Jacques Prévert
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J’accuse
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Emile Zola
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Dreyfus Affair
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army person who was accused of treason but he was tried unfairly and convicted because he was Jewish
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Wrote a letter to the president of France that was published in the paper
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Emile Zola
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Put Zola on trial for writing it
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J’accuse
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“The truth is on the march and nothing can stop it”
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Emile Zola
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Designed 1889 for Paris World’s Fair
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Eiffel Tower
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100th anniversary of the French Revolution
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World’s Fair in Paris 1889
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Used wind tunnel to test his different designs of architecture
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Gustave Eiffel
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Did the structural inside of the Statue of Liberty
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Gustave Eiffel
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Invented vaccine for anthrax and rabies
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Louis Pasteur
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Discovered process of pasteurization
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Louis Pasteur
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Pasteurization
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Kills bacteria and makes milk safe for humans to drink
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Surrealism
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abstract art
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Commander in the French resistance
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Paul Eluard
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Le déjeuner des canotiers (Lunch of the Boating Party)

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La tour Eiffel
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Georges Braque
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Emile Zola
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Georges Seurat
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