Rabindranath Tagore Learned French at Chandernagore
like his brother Jyotirindranath, a matured Rabindranath was attracted to French culture and heritage at Chandernagore.
Gustave Flaubert: The Master of Style
Flaubert was born in Rouen in the Seine Maritime department of Upper Normandy, in northern France. It is believed that he began writing at a very early age – as early as eight – according to sources.
From Gustave Flaubert to George Sand
The correspondence of George Sand and Gustave Flaubert, if approached merely as a chapter in the biographies of these heroes of nineteenth century letters, is sufficiently rewarding. In a relationship extending over twelve years, including the trying period of the Franco-Prussian War and the Commune, these extraordinary personalities disclose the aspects of their diverse natures which are best worth the remembrance of posterity.
Why French poet Charles Baudelaire was the godfather of Goths
His first collections of poems, Les Fleurs du Mal (The Flowers of Evil, 1857), was prosecuted for offending public morals, challenging its audiences with its startling treatments of sex, Satanism, vampirism and decay.