The document provides a summary of the author's creative works focused on French language and culture. It includes sections on why the author is studying French, details about the French language, thoughts on the French national anthem, a reflection on French poetry including an analysis of a poem by Guillaume Apollinaire, a summary of the fairy tale "Bluebeard", and impressions of the French film "The Kid with a Bike".

1. CREATIVE
WORKS FRENCH
By: Naseem Habibi

2. Index
• Why am studying the
language
• About the language
• About the people
• National anthem response
• Traditional story
• French film

3. Why I Am Studying This Language
• I am studying this language because it is very
important in both Canada and in the world
Canada's official second language is French
and it plays a huge part in Canadian culture it
is mandatory if you are going into politics or
many national business dealings people in
Canada who are bilingual in French and in
English are often very successful and I love the
feeling of success.

4. About the language
• Internationally the French language is known
as the language of love because of its Latin
origin and its sense of flow which English
tends to lack undisputedly
• the first written document said to be in French
is the "Serments de Strasbourg". The Oaths of
Strasbourg date from 842.
• Over 110 million native speakers and 190
million second languages
• It is the second most studied language

5. My thoughts about the language
• In my opinion the French language is really
enjoyable to listen to because of the flow of
the words and the intricate pronunciation of
each word
• In my opinion French is one of the post
important languages to know because there
is so much culture that is built around it and
millions of people all around the world speak
it

6. About The national anthem!
• The French anthem or La Marseillaise was
formed originally as a war song for the army
of Rhine
• It was written and composed by Claude
Joseph Rouget de Lisle in 1795
• It was created in the French revolution and is
very motivating

7. My opinion of the anthem
• In my opinion this is a very powerful motivating anthem
for a very motivating time in history because this was the
La Marseillaise was created during the French revolution
when French pride was really taking over and it really
depicts how people were feeling around this time with
such quotes a “Marchez Marchez ! Qu'un sang
impur, abreuve nos sillons ’’ or lets march lets march so
that the impure blood waters our field which is a very
aggressive and it repeats this verse about 5 or 6 times
threw out the whole song
• The song is very catchy I ended up finding my self singing
the first verse all day

8. French poetry
French poetry is a very important part of French
culture because poetry his how some people release
emotion and frustration with event that were happing
so there are a lot of poems from the French revolution
some about war, love and the red terror this was a
time when culture was very low and now French
culture is considerable high and some over the ways
its culture began to life was with famous composers
churches painters and poets

9. Guillaume Apollinaire
• Guillaume Apollinaire is a famous French poet
who created many famous pieces of poetry
• He was born on August 26th 1880

10. Je pense à toi
Je pense à toi mon Lou ton cœur est ma caserne Nos 75 sont gracieux comme ton corps
Mes sens sont tes chevaux ton souvenir est ma Et tes cheveux sont fauves comme le feu
luzerne d'un obus
qui éclate au nord
Le ciel est plein ce soir de sabres d'éperons
Je t'aime tes mains et mes souvenirs
Les canonniers s'en vont dans l'ombre lourds et
Font sonner à toute heure une heureuse
prompts
fanfare
Mais près de toi je vois sans cesse ton image Des soleils tour à tour se prennent à hennir
Ta bouche est la blessure ardente du courage Nous sommes les bat-flanc sur qui ruent
les étoiles
Nos fanfares éclatent dans la nuit comme ta voix
Quand je suis à cheval tu trottes près de moi

11. Translation
I think of you my Lou your heart is my Our 75 are as graceful as your body And
barracks your hair is tawny as fire a shell
My senses are your horses your memory is exploding in the north
my alfalfa
I love you your hands and my memories
The sky is full tonight with sabers and Are ringing at any hour a happy band
spurs
The gunners are going in the shade heavy Suns to take turns to neigh
and prone
We are the bunks on which the stars rush
But with you I see your picture ever
Your mouth is the ardent courage injury
Our bands burst into the night as your
voice
When I'm riding you trot beside me

12. Reflection
I choose this poem because it is very strong and
communicates deeply it also demonstrates a
lot of what the French are sought out to stand
for very romantic and loving people.
When I read this I imagined world war to and a
husband writing back to his wife who is in
Paris telling her how much he misses her .

13. Bluebeard
• The story of blue beard was written by Charles
Perrault in 1697 The tale tells the story of a
violent nobleman in the habit of murdering
his wives and the attempts of one wife to
avoid the fate of her predecessors

14. The sum of the story
Blue beard is a very wealthy aristocrat and many women in the village are
very scared of him because he is known to have had several wife's but they
keep on disappearing. One day blue beard goes to one of his neighbours
and ask to marry one of his two daughters both girls are horrified and
keep trying to pass him on to the other. Ultimately he sweet talks the
younger daughter to visit him he then arranges a large banquet and the
daughter agrees to marry blue beard not long after this blue beard
announces that he will be leaving from France he gives his keys to his wife
which lead to all of his treasures he also makes her vow not to go into one
room in the house the her curiosity go the best of her she ended up
finding her husbands pervious wives hanging from hooks on the walls in
shock she drops the keys on the blood soaked floor. Unfortunately the
blood stained the keys and wouldn’t come off when blue beard returned
the next day he noticed the blood on the keys and wanted to behead her
immediately but she persuaded him to give her 15 minutes to pray in that
time she locked her self inside the highest tower and as blue beard was
about to grant the sword onto her neck her brothers busted into the
castle and killed blue beard as he was trying to escape

15. REFLECTION TO BLUE BEARD
The story of blue beard reflects on a lot of the life
back in the middle ages there were many brutal
murders and a large line between rich and poor in
my opinion the story was very exiting and fun to read
so it most have been a very exiting story for children
at this time I think that the moral of the story is that
eventually when your bad you will be stopped by
someone or something which is very true in real life.

16. Le Gamin au vélo
The movie I watched was called La Gamin
au Velo renting this movie I didn’t know
what exactly to expect but I must say I
came out presently surprised about how u
could understand this movie really
communicated positively to me and it
really showed what life is like in France
and how life is similar over there to over
here