French Literature Teacher Resources

Explore a short piece of French literature with intermediate French scholars. Either assign readers to each character, or divide the class into groups to give the story some life. There's a student task sheet included as well, although...

Reading snail mail is a great way to go back into history and to understand others' points of view. The resource, the second in a five-part unit, covers the Dreyfus Affair. Scholars, working in two different groups, read one letter and...

Students practice sight-singing skills in this Choral lesson for the High School mixed-choir. Emphasis is placed on State and National Standards in the Arts and the song "Dirait-on", a piece by Morten Lauridson, based on the French...

D'Alphonse Allais a Charles Baudelaire, de Victor Hugo a Pierre Corneille, de Marie Stuart a Gerard de Nerval, tous les plus grands poetes representes par leurs meilleures oeuvres. A search engine for French poetry.

Resource presents an exhaustive bibliography and resources for research on African and Caribbean literature in French.

An HTML version of the first volume of Hugo's famous novel is available here from the University of Virginia.

The last volume of Hugo's novel is found at this etext from the University of Virginia.

At this collection from the University of Virginia Library, Hugo's novel continues in Volume 2 with the story of Cosette. Read the whole volume.

This site from Bibliomania provides the full and complete text of Gaston Leroux's classic, "Phantom of the Opera". Includes a table of contents by which each act can be accessed by link, along with a link to Gaston Leroux himself.

This lesson plan is designed to accompany Baudelaire's "The Poet of Sickness and Evil," which provides suggestions for studying the 19th century French poet's work.

The University of Virginia offers volume 4 of Hugo's famous novel in HTML at this site, which is worth checking out on the subject.

This site from Bibliomania.com provies the reader with several examples from the original French poetry of Eustache deschamps. Site is worth checking out on the subject, and contains notes to the translation.

This collection includes a biography, a complete bibliography, pictures of Jules Verne stamps, scholarly articles, a chronology and a Jules Verne virtual library.

Critical background information, as well as a biographical sketch and discussion questions are offered here by the publisher.

This personal site from the Zvi Har El's Jules Verne Collection provides the complete text of Jules Verne's "Journey to the Center of the Earth."

This site from the Zvi Har El's Jules Verne Collection provides the complete text of Jules Verne's novel "From the Earth to the Moon". This edition contains original illustrations from the 1865 edition.

Read the full text of this biography of the 19th century author of The Human Comedy.

This short but informative hypertextual French biography was prepared by Dominique Nourry for the Club des Poetes. It includes a bibliography and links to Alfred de Musset's poems.

This site offers full French editions of the following of France's works: "Crainquebille, Putois, Riquet et plusieurs autres recits profitables" "L'Etui de nacre" "Les sept femmes de la Barbe-Bleue et autres contes merveilleux"

This site offers a full French edition of Mallarme's "Poesies"

This site offer a full French edition of Daudet's "Souvenirs d'un Homme de Lettres"

This site offers full French editions of the following of Maupassant's works: Contes de la becasse (1883) Bel Ami (1885) Boule de suif (1880) Le Horla (1887) Les Contes du jour et de la nuit (1885) - Le vieux La maison Tellier - Une...

This site contains a full French edition of Constant's "Adolphe."