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Quiz about Placenames In French Literature

Placenames In French Literature Quiz

Some authors choose a specific town or area as a recurrent theme in their works.In other cases 'where they are from' has a clear link with 'what they write about'.See if you can find those links in this quiz.

A multiple-choice quiz by flem-ish. Estimated time: 5 mins.

Author
flem-ish

Time
5 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
56,754

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

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Question 1 of 10

1. Which Norman seaside-resort was described as BALBEC in Marcel Proust's 'Remembrance of Past Time'? Hint

Honfleur

Cabourg

Cherbourg

Bayeux

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Question 2 of 10

2. Which of these authors was not only linked by birth to the town of Bordeaux but even became its burgomaster (or mayor)? Hint

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

Charles-Louis de Secondat, called Montesquieu

Francois Mauriac

Edmond Rostand

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Question 3 of 10

3. Near Macon in Burgundy there is a little village called Milly that became famous because of the poet who lived there. What is the present name of the village? Hint

Milly-Lamartine

Milly-Hugo

Milly-Verlaine

Milly-Rimbaud

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Question 4 of 10

4. Francois Auguste Rene de Chateaubriand had his residence in the Castle of Combourg. Where in France is that castle? Hint

Brittany

Burgundy

Normandy

Alsatia

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Question 5 of 10

5. Which North French town was home to Jules Verne, the author of 'Around the World in 80 Days' and 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea'? Hint

Arras

Soissons

Compiegne

Amiens

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Question 6 of 10

6. Which French author earned herself a reputation with the letters she wrote to her daughter in the Castle of Grignan in Southern France ? Hint

Colette

Marquise Madame de Sevigne

George Sand

Francoise Sagan

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Question 7 of 10

7. Why is the French author Marcel Jouhandeau rather unpopular in his hometown Gueret in the Creuse department ? Hint

he rejected the Literary Prize of this town

he bought a large plot of land there and built a horribly ugly residence on it

he became very unpopular when he was the mayor of this town

he ridiculed the inhabitants in his literary work

8. Who is the French playwright that called his hometown Bellac (in the Haute Vienne, a department of the Limousin) 'the prettiest town in France', and made it the scene of some of his plays? Hint

Alphonse Daudet

Paul Bourget

Jean Giraudoux

Anatole France

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Question 9 of 10

9. Who was the famous occupant of the Castle of Nohant who counted among her close friends: Franz Liszt, Eugene Delacroix, Turgenev, Honore de Balzac, Theophile Gautier and especially Frederic Chopin? Hint

Colette

George Sand

Francoise Sagan

Madame de Sevigne

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Question 10 of 10

10. He had a large house at Croisset near the Seine (in Normandy, at a short distance from Rouen.) Guy de Maupassant was one of his closest friends. Of one of his most popular heroines he said that 'she was him'. Who was HE? Hint

Arsene Lupin

Charles Baudelaire

Alexandre Dumas

Gustave Flaubert

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. Which Norman seaside-resort was described as BALBEC in Marcel Proust's 'Remembrance of Past Time'?

Answer: Cabourg

Bayeux is not exactly a seaside resort but the little town where the famous Tapestry describing the Battle of Hastings can be seen. Proust was born at Auteuil (1871) and died in Paris (1922).

2. Which of these authors was not only linked by birth to the town of Bordeaux but even became its burgomaster (or mayor)?

Answer: Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

Mauriac (1885-1970),born at Bordeaux, is the author of such works as 'The Frontenac Mystery'(1933), 'Vipers' Tangle'(1932), 'Therese' (1927 ), 'The Kiss to the Leper' (1922). In 1952 he won the Nobel Prize. Rostand(1868-1918) wrote 'Cyrano de Bergerac'.

He lived for a while at Cambo les Bains south of Bordeaux. Montesquieu wrote the 'Persian Letters' (1721) and the treatise 'The Spirit of Laws'. He was born at the Labrede Castle near Bordeaux (1689) and died in Paris (1755). He became Counsellor at the Parliament of Bordeaux and later its president. Montaigne was appointed mayor of Bordeaux by Henry III on 25th of November 1581.

By then he had already written the first series of his essays. In 1588 he wrote a second series. Three years after his death in 1592, a final series was published.

A quotation of his became the title of a popular French paperback series: 'Que Sais-Je?'(What do I actually know?)

3. Near Macon in Burgundy there is a little village called Milly that became famous because of the poet who lived there. What is the present name of the village?

Answer: Milly-Lamartine

Verlaine was born in Metz in 1844 and died in Paris 1896. Rimbaud was born in Charleville 1854 and died in Marseille 1891. Hugo was born in Besancon 1802 and died in Paris 1885. Lamartine was born at Macon 1790 and died in Paris in 1869. A large part of his life was spent at Milly.

4. Francois Auguste Rene de Chateaubriand had his residence in the Castle of Combourg. Where in France is that castle?

Answer: Brittany

More information on Combourg at www.combourg.com

5. Which North French town was home to Jules Verne, the author of 'Around the World in 80 Days' and 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea'?

Answer: Amiens

Verne was born at Nantes 1828 and died at Amiens 1905.

6. Which French author earned herself a reputation with the letters she wrote to her daughter in the Castle of Grignan in Southern France ?

Answer: Marquise Madame de Sevigne

Colette was born at Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye in 1873. She wrote mainly about the 'pleasures and pains of love'. She died in 1954 in Paris. Madame Marie de Rabutin-Chantal Marquise of Sevigne was born in Paris in 1626 and died at her daughter's chateau of Grignan in 1696. Francoise Sagan published her first and most successful novel at the age of nineteen years in 1954, 'Bonjour Tristesse'.

She also wrote some plays one of which is entitled 'A Castle in Sweden'(1960).

7. Why is the French author Marcel Jouhandeau rather unpopular in his hometown Gueret in the Creuse department ?

Answer: he ridiculed the inhabitants in his literary work

The name he gave to Gueret in his works is 'Chaminadour'. Another reason why he lost the sympathies of a lot of his fellow citizens was his anti-Semitic stance.

8. Who is the French playwright that called his hometown Bellac (in the Haute Vienne, a department of the Limousin) 'the prettiest town in France', and made it the scene of some of his plays?

Answer: Jean Giraudoux

Paul Bourget (not to be confused with the airport) was born in Amiens (1852) and, as is almost customary with French authors, died in Paris 1935. Alphonse Daudet Nimes 1840- Paris 1897. Jean Giraudoux Bellac 1882- Paris 1944. Anatole France was BORN in Paris and died in 'the province' at St Cyr sur Loire 1924. He won the Nobel Prize in 1921.

Answer: George Sand

Another favourite place of hers was the Villa Algira at Gargilesse.

Answer: Gustave Flaubert

Baudelaire was not a novelist. Maupassant mainly wrote short stories. There are two Dumases: father and (illegitimate) son. Junior wrote 'The Lady with the Camelias' (in Verdi's opera version: 'La Traviata') and the father, 'Dumas pere' wrote such stories as the 'Count of Monte Cristo' and of course 'The Three Musketeers'. Arsene Lupin is not an author but a character in the works of Maurice Leblanc. Gentleman-thief turning detective.

Source: Author flem-ish

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