MUS 3242 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Maximilien Robespierre, Impressionism, Color Photography
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French literature and pedagogy lecture 1 (timeline of french history from revolution) 1789: pressure that was building popped bastille raided. 1793-94: reign of terror bloodiest year in french history. 1804: napoleon becomes king/emperor; wants to conquer england and even: america; 1815: napoleon defeated at waterloo (came back and when lost was deported) 1830: july uprising (students les mis) (cid:883)85(cid:884): napoleon"s nephew crowned king of france (the iii) (cid:883)855: world"s fair (cid:523))mpressionists emerge(cid:524: flober"s madame bovery, boudelaire"s les fleure de mai. 1870-71: franco-prussian war (napoleon iii exiled when germans capture. 1871: third republic no more monarchy. 1873: napoleon iii dies in exile in england. 1886: dryfus case elile zola response. 1895: first video camera (silent) built by lumiere brothers. 1907: still color photography built by lumiere brothers. 1914-18: wwi begins ne france (trench warfar) 1919: treaty of versailles (germans get shafted) 1940-1954: puppet government set up by germans (vichy) 1944-45: charles de gaulle becomes head of provisional government.
