Used book – La Princesse de Clèves: followed by the course "Individual, morality and society", Mme de Lafayette

The famous novel by Mme de Lafayette, followed by a literary study "Individual, morality and society". In an edition compliant with the new French high school curriculum, including artistic and cultural extensions and a New Baccalaureate section.

The Work At the court of King Henry II, Mme de Clèves falls under the spell of M. de Nemours and suffers the ravages of a forbidden passion.

In this pioneering psychological novel, Mme de Lafayette meticulously depicts the torments of her heroine, torn between desire and duty.

The "Individual, morality and society" study 10 excerpts from 17th and 18th century novels to examine how characters, by asserting their desires, come into conflict with the social and moral codes of the era. The reflection is organized according to this plan:

1. The individual facing social conventions 2. The individual facing the weight of morality and religion 3. Passion, morality and society The Dossier All the resources useful for high school students to study the work within the framework of the new curriculum:

• a pre-text to place the work in its context • throughout the text, the section "Keys to guide you" • after the text:

– benchmarks on the work – typical subjects for the written and oral sections of the new French baccalaureate Artistic and cultural extensions On the theme of the representation of life in society, a selection of 6 works, and tools for analyzing them.

And a pedagogical guide On www.classiques-et-cie.com. Free access reserved for teachers, it includes all the answer keys: questionnaires throughout the text, baccalaureate subjects, image analyses.