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LES MUSES

Movies, Music, TV & Reading to Inspire Your Trip!

Animated:

• ANIMATED: Ratatouille (2007, $2.99 Prime Video Rental)
• ANIMATED: Le Voyage dans la lune (Directed by G. Méliès, 1902, FREE YouTube)
• Les Misérables (2012, $3.99 Prime Video Rental/1998, FREE with Prime)

FILM • Midnight in Paris (2011, $2.99 Prime Video Rental)
• Amélie (2011)
Top 10 • An American in Paris (1951, $2.99 Prime Video Rental)

• Charade (1963, $3.99 Prime Video Rental)
• Moulin Rouge (2001, $3.99 Prime Video Rental)
• Frantic (1988, $2.99 Prime Video Rental)
• Intouchables (2012, $2.99 Prime Video Rental)

• Versailles (2015, Netflix; Before our period of study, but fun semi-historical precursor)
TV • Criminal-France (2019, Netflix)
• The Bonfire of Destiny (2019, Netflix)
Top 5 • La Mante (2017, Netflix)

• Anthony Bourdain’s “No Reservations” (Season 1, Episode 1 AND Season 6, Episode 24)
• All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr (2014, Scribner) - WWII setting
• The Invisible Bridge by Julie Orringer (2010, Penguin Random House) - Pre-WWII setting
• Paris: The Novel by Edward Rutherford (2014, Ballantine Books) - Expansive
• The Paris Wife by Paula McLain (2012, Ballantine Books) - 1920s
• The Piano Shop on the Left Bank by Thad Carhart (2002, Random House) - 20thc.
BOOKS
• Les Misérables by Victor Hugo (FREE: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/135 ) - Fr. Rev.
Top 10 • Le Père Goriot by Honoré de Balzac (FREE: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1237—Bourb. Rest.
• Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust (FREE: www.gutenberg.org/files/7178/7178-h/7178-h.htm-
19thc.
• Bel Ami by Guy de Maupassant (FREE: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3733-turn of 20thc.
• The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux (FREE: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/175

Anything by:
• Edith Piaf
MUSIC • Sacha Distel
(Non-class.) • Françoise Hardy
• Daft Punk
Top 5 • Emma Shaplin