French Civilization
True
Edith Piaf
True
True
True
Louis XIV
a Berlioz
Debussy
Ravel
Satie
True
Josephine Baker
Django Reinhart & Stephane Grappelli
Johnny Hallyday
MC Solaar
Francoise Hardy
Serge Gainsbourg
Pulsar
Khaled
Louis XIV
Racine -- Phedre, Corneille -- Le Cid, Moliere -- Tartuffe
False
True
Moulin Rouge, Folies Bergeres
Beckett, Ionesco
Avignon
Lully
Carmen -- Bizet
Orphee en enfers -- Offenbach
Pierre Beauchamp recorded the first five classic feet positions of ballet
Coluche
Debbouze
Joly
We watch this to see what a corporate American remake of a French story might look like. We don't learn much from watching this film, at least nothing that would not be learned by reading the original work by Dumas. An open-ended question like "what kind of questions are raised…" is absurd. Any one human being could ask a million different types of questions about this film. The prompt really needs to be more specific here. I could ask some questions -- is that what is required? A question might be about the cultural and social situation surrounding d'Artagnan that would compel him to want to leave...
Another question might be why Dumas felt this a good setting and background for his story.
Question 2. What territory is this? France? France grows and shrinks with the power of its rulers. During that time, France was a collection of different regions with their own dialects and cultures, but these areas were unified under a crown. Thus, the size of the areas under the crown were roughly equivalent to the strength of the crown.
Question 3. The list is written in French because the subject is France. That is the relevant language for such a list. Some things might have been written in Latin, but it would depend on the audience. If there are no queens, that is because the rules of French royal succession did not allow for queens. This was according to Salic law, which had a rule of agnatic succession.
Question 4. Salic law was the civil code of the Frankish kingdom in the Middle Ages. This law governed succession of the French crown since the days of Clovis and continued to govern succession of his crown and other rules of succession in France. A key element was agnatic succession, which excluded females. Further, other rules were a part of Salic law. The Hundred Years' War was about the succession to the French throne. Philip VI was crowned as the French king, because Salic law dismissed all males who had come through a female line. The female line in question was that of Isabella, with her son Edward claiming to be the closest heir to the throne. The war was the…
