Marcel Duchamp, The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (The Large Glass)

Marcel Duchamp, The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (The Large Glass), oil, varnish, lead foil, lead wire, and dust on two glass panels, 277.5 × 177.8 × 8.6 cm © Estate of Marcel Duchamp (Philadelphia Museum of Art). Created by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker.

May '68. Video.

 

May ‘68. Debate. 

 

1. Students make comparisons: poor suburbs. 

2. The university is unable to affect society. 

3. Looking for a radical change in society. 

4. Protesters are not touched (they are rich, white, 

and French: they are not Algerians). 

5. A European movement against capitalism. 

6. Bourgeois dictatorship: Vive le socialisme!

An anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist movement.

All the leftists united: Trotskyists, Maoists, Situationists, 

Anarchists.

7. The government does not employ full military force.

8. May 13, 1968: Workers respond massively. 

9. Oblique confrontation. 

10. Students reject expertise and hierarchy. 

11. Everything is put into question.

12. A new civilization. 

13. A movement of the intelligentsia. 

14. No Robespierre, no Trotsky. Just a happening.

15. An open-ended paralysis. 

16. Putting revolution into question.

Chapter 12

Chapter 12: “De Gaulle’s Golden Decade Ends in Tragicomedy.”

Read this chapter, paying special attention to the following themes:

 

1. De Gaulle as the dominant French state-man of the 20th century. 

2. De Gaulle: a traditionalist, a conservative, a republican. 

3. The movement towards presidentialism (203). 

4. Depoliticize the government. Appointing technocrats. 

5. The problem of Algeria. Referendum: the colonies chose to remain within the Community (except for Guinea).

6. Terrorist attacks (FLN). 

7. The OAS. Massacre of Algerian protesters in Paris (1961). 

8. EEC: 1958. 

9. The “Trente glorieuses”. Reforms (208-209). 

10. The three “international realities” perceived by De Gaulle. 

11. André Malraux as first minister of culture (212); and the cultural revolution of the 60s (213). 

12. Literature (214). Philosophy, between structuralism and Marxism (215-216). 

13. May ‘68. No coherent political project. 

Sartre - Video

 

Chapter 10

 Chapter 10: “The Second World War: Collaboration and Resistance.”

Read this chapter, paying special attention to the following themes:

1. Terms of the armistice between France and Germany (166-167). 
2. Political thinking of Pétain and Laval. 
3. Traditionalist ideas of Pétain (169). 
4. The main characteristics of Vichy’s government. The new motto. Racism and anti-communism. 
5. The role of De Gaulle in the organization of the resistance. 
6. Systematic deportation of Jews (176-179).
7. Vichy’s government as one of the French taboos (180-182). 
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Louis XVI

 A song (in Spanish) about Louis XVI. Maybe you can take a look at the lyrics with a dictionary. 

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