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Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) - Civil Services Examination 2007



French – Optional of Part B - Main Examination of Civil Services Exam

Paper-I: Answers must be written in French except in the careof question requiring translation from French to English.

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 Answers must be written in French

Section-A: This paper will require an in-depth reading of the following texts and the questions will be designed to test the candidate’s critical ability.

  • 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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