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FREN BC3055 The Golden Age of Versailles. 4 points.

Prerequisites: Satisfaction of French language requirement or permission of the instructor.

Explores the cultural production emanating from the court of Louis XIV at Versailles combining the reading of literary texts with consideration of the arts, architecture, dance and music. Special focus on the court as spectacle, women writers of the court, and the classical period as preparation for the Enlightenment.