For years, we’ve been following programs from The Great Courses. They hire the top professors to lecture in their area of passion and they produce them in DVD or CD formats. They have all sorts of options to appeal to Francophiles. I love the CDs for turning commuting into productive time. The programs also make great gifts for the upcoming holidays. While the list prices are fairly steep, they always have dozens of titles on sale.
Today’s expression, formation continue (for-ma-see-on kon-tin-u), means “continuing or adult education.” With The Great Courses, your education never needs to end, and you can major in whatever you feel like. Best of all, there are no exams and no essays to write.
Here are some of their current Francophile-friendly offerings:
- Voltaire and the Triumph of the Enlightenment
- Birth of the Modern Mind: The Intellectual History of the 17th and 18th Centuries (includes numerous members of the French Enlightenment)
- Rights of Man: Great Thinkers and Great Movements (includes the Enlightenment and the French Revolution)
- Great Ideas of Philosophy
- Tocqueville and the American Experiment (Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America)
- A Day’s Read (includes Prévot, Flaubert, Duras, Proust, Sijie and Balzac; I own this one as well)
- 1066 (the Norman invasion of England)
- The Early Middle Ages (includes the birth of France)
- High Middle Ages
- Medieval Heroines in History and Legend (includes Jeanne d’Arc, Héloïse, and Eléonore d’Aquitaine)
- Medieval World
- Development of European Civilization
- Renaissance, Reformation and the Rise of Nations
- History of Christianity in the Reformation Era (includes the French Wars of Religion)
- Europe and Western Civilization in the Modern Age (includes the French Revolution)
- Long 19th-Century: European History from 1789 to 1917 (includes Napoleon and the Dreyfus affair)
- World War I: The Great War
- World War II: A Military and Social History
- Art Across the Ages (includes all the big French names)
- Museum Masterpieces: The Louvre (I own this one; I learned so much.)
- Museum Masterpieces: The National Gallery, London (Of course, their collection of French art is impressive)
- A History of European Art
- Art Across the Ages
- The Cathedral (I own this one, too; it’s another goodie.)
- How to Listen to and Understand Opera (includes Bizet’s Carmen)
- The Symphony (includes Cesar Franck and Camille Saint-Saens
- The Everyday Guide to Wines of France
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