Intrigue: Langue, Culture et Mystère dans le Monde Francophone

by Elizabeth Blood

Intrigue offers a new approach to French by combining the format of an instructional grammar with a mystery-story context. The story unfolds through chapter dialogues, listening selections, and reader activities, providing a rich environment to engage those who wish to read, write, listen to and speak French, as well as to learn about the culture of the French-speaking world. Each chapter presents interesting and provocative material in an organized and structured manner. Its mystery story-based theme keeps readers interested and excited, while its explanation of the cultures and histories of the French-speaking world entertain as well as inform. For those employees in companies where a working knowledge of the French language and culture is necessary.

Genres: 21st Century

436 pages, Paperback

First published September 28, 2003

Reviews

[Peter · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is my Text-Book for my 4th semester French class.
Not extremely exciting, but it does have a storyline that follows a "perspicacious" and naive graduate student from Montreal and a creepy Parisian man as they search for a lost text from the hand of Choderlos de Laclos, the author of Les Liaisons dangereuses.

The explanatory grammar sections are often not very extensive or lack sufficient examples. The exercises are just repeats from chapter to chapter incorporating new grammar or vocabulary.

[Kristi Krumnow · Rating 4 out of 5]

un bon texte pour les deuxièmes années à cause du fil narratif de deux personnages qui sont à la recherche d'un manuscrit perdu, vendu, retrouvé, examiné, et perdu de nouveau. Ce genre d'histoire mouvementée permet aux étudiants de visiter les pays francophones ainsi que les points grammaticaux en même temps.