In France, in the penultimate year of high school, you have to take the baccalauréat français, which is the French (literature) portion of the bac. My year, we had to read Les confessions by Rousseau, Les châtiments by Hugo, and Electre by Jean Giraudoux. As far as I know, no one has ever read beyond [...]
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“Et s’il n’en reste qu’un, je serai celui-là”
Posted in DO, Memorization on September 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Balard, Lourmel, Boucicaut, Félix Faure …
Posted in DO, Memorization on September 14, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Why learn things by heart? Growing up in France, we had to learn poetry by heart, maybe one poem a week. I enjoyed it, but then I love memorizing. (I also memorized seven of the then-13 French subway lines. I can still recite them. The title is the beginning of Line 8, ok?) Even if [...]
