FRENCH

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FRENCH SYLLABUS

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Paper-I
Section-A
1. Main trends in French Literature
a) Classicism
b) Rommanticism
c) Realism
2. Art in France
a) Romanticism
b) Realism
c) Impressionism
3. The Vth Republic
(a) De Gaulle and the Vth Republique
(b) May 1968
(c) Pompidou
(d) Giscard d' Estaing
(e) Mitterrand
(f) Chirac
4. Translation : French to English (2 passages of socio-politico-economic nature of 200 words each).

Section-B
1. Main trends in French Literature
a) Symbolism
b) Surrealism
c) Theatre of the Absurd
2. Art in French
a) Surrealism
b) Cubism
c) Abstract Painting
3. The Vth Republic
a) Parts politiques en France
b) Place et rôle du Président de la Ve Republique
c) Le gouvernement
d) Le Parlement
e) Le Senat
4. Translation : English to French 2 passages of socio-politico-economic nature of 200 words each.

Paper-II
Section-A
1. XVIIth Century
a) Corneille : Le Cid
b) Racine : Andromaque
c) Moliere : L'Avare
2. XVIIIth Century
Beaumarchais : Le Mariage de Figaro
3. XIXth Century
a) Lamartine : Le lac Le Vallon
b) Victor Hugo : La Conscience. Elle Avait Pris Ce Pli.....
Demain, Dés L' Aube
c) Victor Hugo : Hernani
d) Musset : Souvenir. La Nuit de Decembre
e) Marimee : Colomba
f) Balzac : Eugenie Grandet
g) Flaubert : Madame Bovary
h) Baudelaire : L'Invitation au Voyage, Recueillement. L'Albatros.
i) Rimbaud : Le Dormeur du Val
j) Verlaine : Chanson d'Automne, Mon Reve Familier, II Pleure Dans mon Coeur...

Section-B
4. XXth Century
a) Appolinaire : Nuit Rhenane, Le Pont Mirabeau
b) Jacques Prevert : Pour Faire Le Portrait d'Un Oiseau, Barbara.
c) Paul Eluard : Liberte
d) Paul Valery : Les Pas, La Fileuse
e) Andre Gide : La Symphonie pastorale
f) Camus:L'Etranger
g) Sartre:Les Mains Sales
h) Lonesco:Rhinoceros
Francophonie:
a)Gerard Besette:Le Libraire
b)Ananda Devi:Le Voile de Draupadi
c)Cheikh Hamidou :L'Aventure
Kane Ambigiüe
d)Abdellatif Laabi:Poemes en prose
1.L'Arbre a poemes (L'Etreinte du Monde)
2.Les Reves viennent mourir sur la page (L'Etreinte du Monde)
5. Essay of general nature on a contemporary theme. 
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FRENCH ANSWER KEYS

1. ​French Answer Key view (UGC NET Paper II June 2012)
2. French Answer Key view (UGC NET Paper III June 2012)
3. French Answer Key view (UGC NET Paper II June 2013)
4. French Answer Key view (UGC NET Paper III June 2013)
5. French Answer Key view (UGC NET Paper II June 2014)
6. French Answer Key view (UGC NET Paper III June 2014)
7. French Answer Key view (UGC NET Paper II June 2015)
8. French Answer Key view (UGC NET Paper III June 2015)
9. French Answer Key view (UGC NET Paper II Dec 2013)
10. French Answer Key view (UGC NET Paper III Dec 2013)
11. French Answer Key view (UGC NET Paper II Dec 2014)
12. French Answer Key view (UGC NET Paper III Dec 2014)
13. French Answer Key view (UGC NET Paper II Dec 2012)
14. French Answer Key view (UGC NET Paper III Dec 2012)