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Changes in the Required Reading List for 2008
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The AP French Literature reading list will change for the May 2008 exam. The following works will be deleted from the present list:
Camara Laye, L'enfant noir
Jean Giraudoux, La Guerre de Troie n'aura pas lieu
The poems of Anne Hébert
Two poems of Du Bellay: "France, mère des arts des armes et des lois" and
"Ces cheveux d'or sont des liens, Madame"
Two poems of Louise Labé: "Oh si j'estois en ce beau sein ravie" and "Las! que
me sert, que si parfaitement"
See the 2006, 2007 AP French Course Description for the reading list for the May 2007 exam.
 AP French Language and Literature Course Description
Required Reading List for May 2008 and May 2009
The works added to the list are indicated by an asterisk.
Novels
Voltaire, Candide
Maupassant, Pierre et Jean
* Duras, Moderato cantabile
Plays
* Corneille, Le Cid
Molière, L'École des femmes
* Césaire, Une Tempête
Poetry
Du Bellay : "Heureux qui comme Ulysse a fait un beau voyage," "Si notre vie est moins qu'une
journée"
Labé: "On voit mourir toute chose animée," "Je vis, je meurs: je me brule et me noye"
La Fontaine: "Les Animaux malades de la peste," "Le Chêne et le Roseau," "La Mort et le
Bûcheron," "Le Loup et l'Agneau"
Baudelaire: "Correspondances," "Hymne à la Beauté," "L'Invitation au voyage," "Chant
automne," "Spleen" ("Quand le ciel..."), "Recueillement" (From Les Fleurs du mal)
Apollinaire: "Le Pont Mirabeau," "Les Colchiques," "Mai," "Automne"
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