Introduce your Language high schoolers to the culture and 19th century German custom of serving coffee and cake at small parties. They read old cookbooks, sort recipes, prepare foods, compare old German recipes to recipes from home and...

After learning the main ideas of the Decadent movement, high schoolers work in small groups to read and translate poems by the French poet Charles Baudelaire using basic etymology skills. They then read the accurate English translations...

Learners write program notes of composers. They discuss music, composers, themes and style and movements in music. They select a composer from a target language culture and write two paragraphs int eh form of concert program notes. ...

This resource provides a medium length article detailing the 19th century from the angle of its relation to Spain.

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

A collection of political cartoons from the 19th century by Thomas Nast. They provide insight into prevailing attitudes on Reconstruction, Chinese immigrants, Native Americans, slavery, and during the Gilded Era.

This resource gives a chronology of the 19th century. The information that is provided is somewhat brief, but factual, and worth checking out on the subject.

The entire collection of Balzac's novels and short stories, translated to English, is available here in plain text format.

A comprehensive link site, with literally everything one could want about Zola.

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.

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.

The text of an address given on March 11, 1882 at the Sorbonne.

A fairly thorough biography in English with an attached bibliography.

This French essay on Camille Claudel Claudel taken from "Rodin "Rodin Le musee musee ses ses (1996)

The official site of the Musee Rodin in Paris. Includes lots of photos of Rodin's work and of the museum's beautiful gardens, biographical information, information for tourists, and an online gift shop.

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."

An anthology of historical, philosophical, artistic analysis from Taine's works, all in French.

This portal is a tribute to all those scholars of Spanish literature of the 19th century. It includes the Bulletin of the Spanish Literature Society of the nineteenth century, a directory of the most important figures in this field of...

The situation in Europe at the beginning of the 19th Century with its political and economic trends toward unification.

This is the text of the short story "Boule de Suif" by Guy de Maupassant. The story is set in the Franco-Prussian War and follows a group of French residents of Rouen, recently occupied by the Prussian army. The 10 travelers sharing the...