French & Italian Studies | University of Washington

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Discover the political and social evolutions of France from the Renaissance through the early 19th-century, global French cinema, classic works of Italian theater, the world of Proust, or the cultural and artistic history of Rome.
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FRENCH 212 A: French Masterworks: Modern In English

Winter 2020

Best-selling novel of all time, the world’s most famous novel. Les Miz has been translated into twenty-two languages, and there have been sixty films adaptations, comic books... Learn more

French Major Anna Sulc awarded the Míċeál Vaughan Award

Anna Sulc, a senior completing a double degree in French (BA, honors) and Oceanography (BS) received the Míċeál Vaughan Award for 2019-2020. This prestigious award was created by Professor Emeritus Míċeál F.