AP French Materials / College Board & Online Resources

This AATF-CT site is intended for preparing students for the AP literature exam in French.

Although the College Board no longer provides bibliographies, we include those given for previous AP courses. Just click on an author to the right.

For authors new to the 2007-2009 course -- Corneille, Césaire, Duras -- please check back for recommedations. In the meantime, consult the online library Questia for quick searches. Searches are free, but access to some 1.5 million, articles, newspapers, and other media is by subscription. Click for a list of French literature topics, or consult the links below for specific author searches.

In addition to bibliographies, AATF-CT also offers electronic resources, such as links to on-line texts, audiofiles and websites gleaned from Google, Kartoo, Nomade , and Voilà. The sometimes sparse website recommendations reflect the current respresentation of French literature sites. Only those pages designated as "best" are truly exceptional; online encyclopedia entries and substandard sites are not provided.

College Board Bib.	Adéma, Marcel. Guillaume Apollinaire (Paris: La Table Ronde, 1968).
	Bates, Scott. Guillaume Apollinaire, Rev. ed. (Boston: Twayne. 1989).
	Billy, André. Poètes d’aujourd'hui: Apollinaire (Paris: Seghers, 1956).
	Hilgar, Marie-France, & Anne Srabian de Fabry. Etudes autour d’Alcools ( Birmingham, AL: Summa, 1985).
	Lecherbonnier, Bernard. Apollinaire: Alcools (Paris: Nathan, 1983).
	Parninaud, André. Apollinaire (Paris: Lattés, 1994).
	Shattuck, Roger. The Banquet Years (New York: Harcourt, 1955).
Best Website	Guillaume Apollinaire: Site officiel is an incredible resource supported by the Association des Amis de Guilaumme Apollinaire, written by Profs. Catherine Moore and Laurence Campa and webmaster Mark Moore. Contains a heavily-illustrated biography , an excellent critical bibliography and a masterful " promenade interactive " of Apollinaire's Paris. By far, the best Apollinaire site.

College Board Bib.	Blin, G. Baudelaire ( Paris: Gallimard, 1939).
	Brombert, Victor. The Hidden Reader (Cambridge: Harvard, 1988).
	Chesters, Graham. Baudelaire and the Poetics of Craft ( n.p.: Cambridge University Press, 1988).
	Fairlie, Alison. Baudelaire: les Fleurs du Mal. Studies in French Literature, no. 6 ( London: Edward Arnold, 1960).
	Peyre, Henri. Connaissance de Baudelaire (Paris: Corti, 1951).
	Prévost, Jean. Baudelaire. Essai sur l’inspiration et la créationpoétique ( Paris: Mercure de France, 1953).
	Ruff, M.A. Baudelaire (Paris: Hatier, collection Connaissance des lettres).
	Starkie, Enid. Baudelaire ( New York: New Directions, 1958).
Best Websites	Two superb sites, each with a different focus. Charles Baudelaire - lavishly illustrated, comprehensive site by Jacques Lemaire for Poetes.com, with a search engine + links to Baudelaire's oeuvre. Emphasis on poetry and situating Baudelaire with respect to literary influences (Baroque, Parnasse, Romanticism, Symbolism). Students should also appreciate the thematic index and "Jeu Questionnaire". Please note: the following, excellent site now needs a password. Check back for instructions (3.19.08): Recently updated, Charles Baudelaire treats Baudelaire's poetry and prose as well as his critical essays--all downloadable. Includes illustrated interactive chronology, current bibliography, complete correspondance, discussion forums, thematic treatment of several poems for the Bac, critical articles--plus an invitation to contribute scholarly articles. By Azziz El Khiati with assistance from David Smadja and Julia Briend of Litteratura.com

Suggested Bibliography	Aimé Césaire. Toussaint-Louverture, la Révolution française et le problème colonial (Paris : Présence africaine, 2004 rpt.)
	Confiant, Raphaël. Aimé Césaire, une traversée paradoxale du siècle, (Paris : Stock, 1993).
	Lacarrière, Jacques. Ce que je dois à Aimé Césaire (Paris : Bibliophane-Daniel Radford, 2004).
	Lapoussinnière, Charles Lapoussinnière (ed.). Aimé Césaire, une pensée pour le XXIe siècle, actes du colloque organisé à l'occasion du 90ème anniversaire d'Aimé Césaire, Fort-de-France, 24-26 juin 2003 (Paris : Présence africaine, 2004).
	Louis, Patrice. A, B, C... ésaire : Aimé Césaire de A à Z (Matoury (Guyana): Ibis rouge, 2003).
	Toumson, Roger and Simonne Henry-Valmorre. Aimé Césaire, le nègre inconsolé (La Roque-d'Anthéron : Vents d'ailleurs, 2002).
Best Websites	At this writing (9-9-07), websites worth mentioning are Aimé Césaire, poète de l'universelle fraternité, with links to a dynamic site of the Unesco exposition for Césaire, plus videos and interviews; Aimé Césaire, a "Toute la poésie" site, discusses his poetry and biography and includes an interview, sound files, and dossiers on negritude and francophonie.

Suggested Bibliography	*(check back for link updates)*
	May, Georges. Tragédie cornélienne, tragédie racinienne
Best Websites	Jouer avec Le Cid de Pierre Corneille, an excellent site by Angeline Caussé of the Académie d'Amiens, with language exercises (on rhyme scheme, vocabulary, word puzzles) for the first act.

College Board Bib.	Boyer, Frédéric. Joachim Du Bellay (Paris: Seghers, 1973).
	Gadoffre, Gilbert. Du Bellay et le sacré (Paris: Gallimard, 1995).
	Gray, Floyd. La Poétique de Du Bellay (Paris: Nizet, 1978).
	Rieu, Josiane. L'esthétique de Du Bellay (Paris: Sedes, 1995).
	Tucker, George Hugo. Les Regrets et autres oeuvres poétiques de Joachim Du Bellay (Paris: Gallimard, 2000).
Best website	There are no exceptional sites at this writing (9.05) -- just a smattering of biographical sites (click here or here ) and a student project from the Collège Joachim Du Bellay à Collet with links to the Musée Du Bellay

College Board Bib.	Baker, Deborah Lesko. The Subject of Desire: Petrarchan Poetics andthe Female Voice in Louise Labé (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 1996).
	Charpentier, Françoise. Louise Labé, oeuvres poétiques (Paris: Gallimard, 1983).
	Giudici, Enzo. Louise Labé, essai (Paris: Nizet, 1981. ———. Louise Labé, oeuvres complètes (Genève: Droz, 1981.o44)
	Larnac, Jean. Louise Labé, la belle cordière de Lyon (Paris: Firmin-Didot, 1934).
	O’Connor, Dorothy. Louise Labé, sa vie, son oeuvre (Genève: Slatkine Reprints, 1972).
Best Websites	Prentice Hall Louise Labé site with biography and commentary on the AP poems by André O. Hurtgen. The Centre Louise Labé (Université de Lyon 2) also offers an excellent bibliography, as well as links to online articles.

College Board Bib.	Biard, Jean Dominique. Le Style des fables de La Fontaine (Paris: Nizet, 1970).
	Clarac, Pierre. La Fontaine (Paris: Hatier, collection Connaissance des lettres)
	Gutwirth. Marcel. Un Merveilleux sans éclat: La Fontaine ou la poésie exilée (Geneva: Droz, 1987).
	Mourgues, Odette de. O Muse, fuyante proie. (Paris: Corti, 1962). ———. La Fontaine: Fables (London: Edward Arnold, 1972).
	Sweetser, Marie-Odile. La Fontaine (Boston: Twayne, 1987).
Best Websites	Two exceptional sites: A la découverte de Jean de la Fontaine (an award-winning site by Jean-Marc Bassetti with biography, bibliographies, illustrations, etc.) and Musée Jean de la Fontaine à Château-Thierrey (another comprehensive site).

College Board Bib.	Dumesnil, René. Guy de Maupassant (Paris: Armand Colin, 1933).
	Grant, E. M. "On the Meaning of Maupassant’s ‘Pierre et Jean.’"in The French Review 36 (1963): 469-73.
	Lerner, Michael G. Maupassant ( New York: Braziller, 1975).
	Lethbridge, Robert. Maupassant: Pierre et Jean. Critical Guides to French Texts (London: Grant and Cutler, 1984).
	Sachs, Murray. "The Meaning of Maupassant’s Pierre et Jean " in The French Review 34 (1961): 244-50.
	Simon, Ernest. "Descriptive and Analytical Techniques in Maupassant’s Pierre et Jean " Romanic Review 51 (1960): 45-52.
	Sullivan, Edward G. Maupassant the Novelist (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1954).
	Troyat, Henri. Guy de Maupassant (Paris: Flammarion, 1989).
	Vitti, Robert M. "The Elemental Maupassant: The Universe of Pierre et Jean "in The French Review 62 (1989): 445-55.
Website of Interest	Maupaussant par les textes: Site consacré à Guy de Maupassant et son oeuvre offers links to electronic versions of 306 short stories, 6 novels, and his travel memoirs. There are also useful links and a bibiography ; by Thierry Selva.

College Board Bib.	Gignoux, H. L’Ecole des femmes (Paris: Hachette, 1967).
	Hubert, Judd D. Molière and the Comedy of the Intellect (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1962).
	Jasinsky, R. Molière (Paris: Hatier, 1970).
	Johnson, Barbara. "Teaching Ignorance: ‘L’Ecole des femmes.’ " Yale French Studies 63 (1982): 165-82.
	Laubreaux, R. Molière (Paris: Seghers, 1973).
	Magné, Bernard. "L’Ecole des femmes ou la conquête de la parole." Revue des Sciences Humaines 37, no. 145 (1972): 125-40.
	Picard, Raymond. "Molière comique ou tragique? Le cas d’Arnolphe." Revue d’Histoire Littéraire de la France 72 (1972): 769-85.
Best Websites	www.Site-Molière.com by Philippe Parker is a scholarly and attractive bilingual site that keeps getting better and better! Useful search engine with biography, concordance, ressources, texts, and even a Molière shop! Another excellent site, by Prof. Gabriel Conesa, includes complete downloadable texts, interactive chronology, filmography, and exceptional illustrations (from people to frontispices) at http://www.toutmoliere.net

College Board Bib.	Barber, William H. Voltaire: Candide (London: Arnold, 1960).
	Bonneville, Douglas. Voltaire and the Form of the Novel in Studies on Voltaire and the 18th Century 158.
	Bottiglia, William. Voltaire’s Candide. Analysis of a Classic in Studies of Voltaire and the 18th Century 7 (1959).
	Chartrier, Pierre. Pierre Chartrier commente Candide de Voltaire (Paris: Gallimard, 1994).
	Sareil, Jean. Essai sur Candide (Geneva: Droz, 1967).
	Wade, Ira. Voltaire and Candide: A Study in the Fusion of History, Art and Philosophy (Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ. Press, 1959).
	Waldinger, Renée. Approaches to Teaching Voltaire’s Candide (New York: MLA, 1987.o46).
Websites of Interest	For critical treatments of Candide for the Bac, see Candide ou l'Optimisme de Voltaire; for musical theatre -- with a wonderfully comprehensive site by Michael H. Hutchins -- see A Guide to Leonard Bernstein's Candide. Please check back for an update on the new web address for the Voltaire Society of America. (9.9.07). Also of interest: online quizzes for Candide from CyberProf: Chapters 1-10; Chapters 11-20; Chapters 21-30