The Story of French (60 page)

Arseaneault, Bona.
Histoire des Acadiens: Nouvelle édition neuve et augmentée.
Montreal: Éditions Fides, 2004.

Bernard, Shane K.
The Cajuns: Americanization of a People.
Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2003.

Blumberg, Rhoda.
What’s the Deal? Jefferson, Napoleon and the Louisiana Purchase.
Washington, DC: National Geographic Society, 1998.

Bouchard, Chantal.
La langue et le nombril: Une histoire sociolinguistique du Québec.
Montreal: Éditions Fides, 2002.

Conlogue, Ray.
Impossible Nation: The Longing for Homeland in Canada and Quebec.
Toronto: Mercury Press, 2002.

Conrad, Glenn. R., ed.
The Cajuns: Essays on Their History and Culture.
Lafayette: Center for Louisiana Studies, 1983.

Cormier, Michel.
Louis J. Robichaud: Une révolution si peu tranquille.
Moncton, NB: Éditions de la Francophonie, 2004.

Daigle, Jean, ed.
L’Acadie des Maritimes: Études thématiques des débuts à nos jours.
Moncton, NB: Université de Moncton, 1993.

Duby, Georges, ed.
Histoire de la France: Des origines à nos jours.
Paris: Larousse Bordas, 1997.

Germain, Georges-Hébert.
Les coureurs des bois: la saga des Indiens blancs.
Montreal: Libre-Expression, 2003.

Gervais, Gaétan.
Des gens de résolution: Le passage du «Canada Français» à l’«Ontario français».
Sudbury, ON: Institut franco-ontarien / Prise de Parole, 2003.

Grescoe, Taras.
Sacré blues: Un portrait iconoclaste du Québec.
Montreal: VLB Éditeur, 2002.

Havard, Gilles, and Cécile Vidal.
Histoire de l’Amérique française.
Paris: Flammarion, 2003.

Hétu, Richard.
La route de l’ouest.
Montreal: VLB Éditeur, 2002.

Johnson, Paul.
A History of the American People.
New York: Harper Perennial, 1999.

Leckie, Robert.
A Few Acres of Snow: The Saga of the French and Indian Wars.
New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1999.

“L’esclavage: Un tabou français enfin levé.” Special issue,
L’Histoire,
November–December, 2002.

“La liberté et la terreur: La révolution française.” Special issue,
L’Histoire,
October–December, 2004.

Nye, Joseph S., Jr.
Soft Power: The Means to Success in World Politics.
Cambridge: Perseus Books, 2004.

Plourde, Michel, Hélène Duval and Pierre Georgeault.
Le français au Québec: 400 ans d’histoire et de vie.
Montreal: Fides, 2003.

Rioux, Marcel.
Les québécois.
Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 1974.

Serfaty, Simon.
La France vue par les États-Unis: Réflexions sur la francophobie à Washington.
Paris: Institut français de relations internationales, 2002.

De Tocqueville, Alexis.
Regards sur le Bas-Canada.
Montreal: Éditions Typo, 2003.

Vaugeois, Denis, and Jacques Lacoursière.
Canada-Québec: Synthèse historique.
Montreal: Éditions du renouveau pédagogique, 1978.

French in Africa, Asia and the Middle East

Ainval, Christiane d’.
Les belles heures de l’Indochine française.
Paris: Perrin, 2001.

Barthélémy, Pascale.
Un africain sur sept va à l’école. L’Histoire,
October 2005.

Brocheux, Pierre, and Daniel Hémery.
Indochine: La colonisation ambiguë 1858–1954.
Paris: Éditions La Découverte, 1994.

Calvet, Louis-Jean.
Linguistique et colonialisme.
Paris: Petite Bibliothèque Payot, 2002.

Edgerton, Robert B.
The Troubled Heart of Africa: A History of the Congo.
New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2002.

Ferro, Marc.
Le livre noir du colonialisme, XVIe–XXIe siècle: De l’extermination à la repentance.
Paris: Éditions Robert Laffont, 2003.

Glaser, Antoine, and Stephen Smith.
Comment la France a perdu l’Afrique?
Paris: Calmann-Lévy, 2005.

Hochschild, Adam.
King Leopold’s Ghost: The Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa.
New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1999.

Messmer, Pierre.
Les blancs s’en vont: Récits de décolonisation.
Paris: Albin Michel, 1998.

Sorel, Jacqueline.
Léopold Sédar Senghor: L’émotion et la raison.
Saint-Maur-des Fossés: Éditions Sépia, 1995.

Stamm, Anne.
L’Afrique de la colonisation à l’indépendance.
Paris: Presses universitaires françaises, 1998.

Stora, Benjamin.
Histoire de l’Algérie coloniale (1830–1954).
Paris: Éditions La Découverte, 2001.

Wesseling, Henri.
Le partage de l’Afrique 1880–1914.
Paris: Éditions Denoël, 1996.

Dictionaries and General Reference

The Canadian Encyclopedia.
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2000.

Dictionnaire historique de la langue française.
Paris: Dictionnaires Le Robert, 1992.

Le Petit Robert des noms propres.
Paris: Dictionnaires Le Robert, 2004.

Quid 2005.
Paris: Éditions Robert Laffont, 2005.

Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles,
5th ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.

Index

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Académie de la carpette anglaise

the Académie Française

activities of

during the Revolution

foreign imitations of

founding of

nature & purpose of

puriste
and

its role in the spread of French

spelling reforms of

Acadians

expulsion of the

history of the

importance of French to the

invited to Louisiana

their political activism

Accademia della crusca (Florence) the

ACCT.
See
Agence de coopération culturelle et technique (ACCT)

Ader, Clément

Agence de coopération culturelle et technique (ACCT)

Agence France-Presse

Agence universitaire francophonie (AUF)

its accomplishments

globalized networking and

AIU.
See
Alliance israélite universelle (AIU)

alcohol, trade with natives using

alexandrine poetic meter

Algeria

its ambivalence over joining the Francophonie

civil war in

colonization of

declines initial independence offer

emigration from

after independence

Alliance françaises

in America

continued popularity of

history and works of the

post-war resurgence of

trends in the usage of

Alliance israélite universelle (AIU)

Ancelet, Barry

Angélil, René

Anglo-Norman (language)

anglophones, defined

Ansay, Pierre

Antoine, Gérald

Antoinette, Marie.
See
Marie-Antoinette

appellation
(of products), the concept of,

Arabic (language)

contributions to French from

its popularity in Israel

its popularity in Lebanon

promoted in Algeria & middle east

as a religious language

Arcand, Nelly

Arnauld, Antoine

Arnold, Benedict

Arouet, François-Marie.
See
Voltaire

Arthur, (king)

articles (grammatical)

definite & indefinite

assimilation (linguistic)

forces against

forces encouraging

portents of

Association française d’action artistique

Association francophone d’amité et de liaison

AUF.
See
Agence universitaire francophonie (AUF)

Augustus, Philippe.
See
Philippe Augustus, (king)

the authors.
See
Barlow, Julie; Nadeau, Jean-Benoît

baïfin poetic meter

ballooning (hot-air)

Balzac, Honoré de

Bantu (language)

Barlow, Julie

background of

in Lesotho

praised for her French accent

Barthélémy, Professor Pascale

Bartholdi, Frédéric

Basque language, age of

Bastille, storming of

Bastrache, Justice Michel

Bayle, Pierre

Beauchemin, Yves

Beauvoir, Simone de.
See
de Beauvoir, Simone

Becket, St. Thomas

Beethoven, Ludwig van

Belgium

as a colonial power

cultural diplomacy and

French language development in

as an independent francophone nation

industrial competence in

the origins of

Bellay, Joachim du.
See
du Bellay, Joachim

Ben Jelloun, Tahar.
See
Jelloun, Tahar Ben

Bernard, Shane K.

Bernier, Ivan

the Bernoulli family

Berthollet, Claude

Bescherelle brothers, grammars by

birth control, early European

Bismark, Otto von

Bitton, Colette

the Black Plague

Blake, William

Blériot, Louis

Bofill, Ricardo

Bolívar, Simón

Bonaparte, Napoleon.
See
Napoleon Bonaparte

bon usage.
See
fautes; puriste

Bouabid, Ridha

Bouchard, Chantal

Boudreau, Alexandre

Boutros-Ghali, Boutros

Braille, Louis

Britain.
See
the United Kingdom

British Councils

British Navigation Act (1652)

British North America, francophones in

the
British North America Act,

Brûlé, Étienne

Brunot, Ferdinand

Bryson, Bill

Buffon, Georges de

Cajun culture

recent history of

calendar reform during the French Revolution

Calvet, Louis-Jean

Calvin, Jean

Cambon, Paul

Cameroon

Camus, Albert

Canada.
See also
Quebec

cultural diplomacy and

cultural protection in

its problems from bilingualism as policy

recent francophone relations within

Canadian Coalition for Cultural Diversity

Carrier, Jean-Baptiste

Cartier, Jacques

Carton, Fernand

Catalonia, language protection in

Catherine II, (queen)

the Catholic Church

birthrate trends and the

clerical attitudes toward civil questions

deprecation of urban life by the

Enlightenment France and the

French relations with during the Revolution

hospitals and the

early powers of

schooling in French for francophones

withdrawn from public school teaching

Caxton, William

Céline, Louis-Ferdinand

Celtic languages

Celtic people, their different histories

Centre de lecture et d’animation communautaire (Centre for Reading and Community Activity).
See
CLACs

centres culturels
(cultural centres)

Cerquiglini, Bernard

Cervantes, Miguel de

Césaire, Aimé

Cézanne, Paul

Chagall, Marc

Champlain, Samuel de

Chandernagore, India

Chanute, Octave

Chappe, Claude

Chapsal, Charles Pierre

Charlebois, Robert

Charlemagne

Charles X, (king)

Chateaubriand, Alexis de

Chatelet, Madame de

Chaucer, Geoffrey

Chaudenson, Robert

Cheng, François

Cheramie, David

Chervel, André

Chinese (language)

Chinese culture, its resistance to colonizing efforts

Chirac, Jacques

Choiseul, Étienne François, Duc de

Chrétien, Jean

Churchill, Winston

cinema

American

French

the Civil Code (Napoleonic)

CLACs (Senegal’s community centres)

Clark, William

Clemenceau, Georges

Clovis, (king)

Cocteau, Jean

Code Civil.
See
the Civil Code (Napoleonic)

Colbert, Jean-Baptiste

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

the Collège de France

colonialism (French), early years of

colonialism (French & Belgium)

heritage of

methods of achieving

colonialism (worldwide), post-war decline of

commerce, globalized networking in using French

Commission of Protection (Quebec)

the Commonwealth of Nations (British)

Congress of Vienna (1814–15).
See also
Treaty of Vienna

Conrad, Joseph

Conrart, Valentin

conscription, riots in Canada over

Conseil supérieur de la langue française (High Council of the French Language)

Constitution Act
(Canada, 1982)

Contentin Peninsula (Normandy)

Convention on Cultural Diversity (UNESCO)

conventions nationals,

Copps, Sheila

Corneille, Pierre

the Cotton Initiative

Coubertin, Pierre de

Coulibayi, Abdou Latif

Courschesne, Dave

Crémieux, Adolphe

Creole (languages)

Crockett, Davy

Croquetagne, Monsieur de

the Crusades, dispersion of French during

cuisine, historical French fame for

cultural diplomacy.
See also
French (language), cultural diplomacy used to spread the

postwar difficulties in pursuing