After lunch, the two of them came to the front yard of the manor.

There is a small pavilion here to shade the sun, and then a small breeze blows, not to mention how comfortable.

Blowing a small breeze, the two chatted casually.

Starting with the luxury goods that Arnault was most familiar with, we talked about French literature as we chatted.

The origins of the modern French are very complex, consisting mainly of Celtic, Germanic and Roman, with the Romans being the largest majority. French itself can also be seen as a modern form of Latin to some extent. The Latin geniuses of ancient Rome, although long gone, seem to have always influenced the trajectory and direction of the development of French-speaking civilization. The ancient Romans' love of order and reason, and their avoidance of extremes, were inherited by the later French. However, these characteristics are not evident in Francophone literature. Although France is often the birthplace of a new literary movement, this does not change the fact that the French are conservative in their thinking.

The French have always taken aesthetic issues very seriously, and a history of French literature is the best teaching material for learning the context of literary development. Because of its long and rich history and profound influence on the literature of other languages in the course of its development, it is generally considered to occupy a central place in the development of Western literature.

Sometimes the French consider themselves descendants of the Gauls, inheriting the so-called "Gallic spirit", pursuing light-hearted pleasures, taunting others, and never seriously thinking about life and life-related issues. In fact, the shadow of this "Gallic spirit" can be seen in all French-language literature. However, there is one very basic feature of Francophone literature that is often overlooked, and that is that the "Gallic spirit" is not evident in the works of most of the greatest French-speaking writers.

It is obviously impossible to explain the characteristics of complex French-language literature in such a simple generalization. For most foreigners, especially English speakers, French prose, characterized by clarity, precise ideography, and elegant style, seems to be formally superior to French poetry. The French, however, will try to refute this. In their eyes, French poetry has a unique sense of rhythm that the onlooker can never fully appreciate, and its charm is no less than that of the famous French prose. For the French, the uniqueness of French poetry is rooted in the traditions of French civilization and is also in line with the taste of the French people.

French literature usually uses the first Romance language document that marked the establishment of the Kingdom of France, the Strasbourg Oath of 842, as a sign of origin. That is, its original form belonged to medieval literature.

Medieval French literature, the literature of this period was basically rhyme, and it was an oral literature that was easy for troubadours to recite. According to the genre, there are religious literature, heroic epics (martial arts songs), court literature, chivalric literature, scholastic literature, civic literature, etc., and according to genres, there are poems, dramas, chronicles, and rhyme stories. The passionate and romantic nature of the French nation, coupled with social reasons such as the most developed chivalry system in France and the geographical conditions located on the Mediterranean coast of southern Europe, made French medieval literature achieve achievements in almost all aspects.

Renaissance French literature The accession of François I to the throne in 1515 marked the beginning of the French Renaissance. The bourgeois humanism that developed during this period had an extremely important influence on the thought and literature of later generations. Rabelais's "The Legend of the Giants" epitomizes the Renaissance spirit of the new bourgeoisie against feudal consciousness and the theocracy of the church, and at the same time sets a precedent for French novels.

In the 17th century, the classicism of French literature in the service of the absolute monarchy was conceived and developed to its full glory. In the 30s, Sharpland, the organizer of the Académie Française, accepted the results of Italian scholars' research on ancient Greek and Roman literary and artistic theories, and basically proposed a classical literary and artistic theory system including the Trinity Law, but because the absolute royal power had not yet been established, aristocratic salon literature prevailed, and the representative work was Honoré Duffy's pastoral style "Astlet". The controversy between the ancient and the modern at the end of the 17th century marked the decline of classicism and the beginning of Enlightenment literature. The encyclopaedists of the 18th-century French Enlightenment were closely related to literature, and Diderot, Voltaire, Rousseau, and others all wrote entries for encyclopedias.

Romantic literature in the 19th century, realist literature in the 20th century, although Arnault is a luxury emperor, his literary literacy is very high, he speaks in an orderly manner, and talks eloquently, Zhou Fangyuan can hardly interject, can only smile and nod next to him.

After talking about literature, let's talk about music.

The origins of French music can be traced back to the folk music of the first tribes of Celt and Gaul who inhabited the French mainland. In 58~51 BC, the Romans conquered the Gauls and formed the Gaul-Roman culture. In the first few hundred years after the era, the Franks conquered Gaul, the Goths invaded southwestern France, and the Burgundians invaded the southeast, all bringing with them their own cultures. The music of these tribes became the basis for the development of French musical culture.

The earliest written account of French folk music can be found in documents from the 9th century. It describes the ancient use of narrative music, number game songs, and musical instruments such as flutes, windbags, rattles, and horns, when music played an important role in people's lives and religious ceremonies.

Most French folk songs are monophonic, mostly solo, but also duet. A duet in Brittany is popular in which two singers take turns answering each other, with a duet at the end of each stanza. Multi-part songs are mainly popular in the southern Basque and Corsican regions. French folk songs are characterized by the chanting of lyrics, and some old tunes are preliminarily processed into recitatives.

The typical beat is the beat, sometimes combined with the beat and the beat, and some songs are connected with the beat and the beat. Most of the old folk songs begin with a melody from the main note to the fifth. Dance music from some regions has become popular everywhere, such as the Gavotte in Brittany, the Frando in Provence, etc. The key of French folk music is mainly in the major key and the natural minor key, and the paleo natural key and the alternating key are also common.

When it comes to French music, we have to talk about French cinema.

France was one of the first countries to invent cinema. In 1894, the Lyon photographic equipment manufacturer A. Lumière and the two brothers Lumière, L. Lumière, based on the development of their predecessors, made a movable cinema machine that could be used for projection, filming and processing of negatives, and Lumière used this hand-cranked cinema machine to shoot short films that recorded scenes of everyday life, "The Gate of the Factory", "Lunches of the Babies", "The Arrival of the Train", "The Watering Gardener" It was first screened on December 28, 1895 at the Grand Café in Paris, and was a success, and this day is recognized as the day of the birth of cinema.

After the end of World War II, due to the competition of Hollywood films, the loss of foreign markets, and the policy of comprehensive clean-up of EMI, the closure of the production and distribution agencies he operated, and the sale of EMI Trading Company and Vincennes Film Factory, which controlled the main cinema network in France, brought French cinema to the brink of extinction, and the production of films fell sharply, and the output of films was almost equal to zero.

Inspired by Impressionist paintings, they attempted to use pictures to express direct perceptual impressions. They don't focus on the storyline of the film, they focus on creating atmosphere. Although the films they produce are different, they generally have the following characteristics: poetic images, strong expressiveness, the use of landscapes or backgrounds as important characters in the films, naturalistic and subjective expressions, or symbolic metaphors. Important works of Impressionist cinema include Dulac's The Spanish Program, The Death of the Sun, The Smiling Madame de Boudie, Lepière's The Man at Sea, The Merciless Woman, The Money, Epstein's Pasteur, The Faithful Heart, The Beautiful Nivernas, The Wheels of Gance, Napoleon, etc.

Due to the pursuit of aesthetic beauty, novel visual images and novel shooting angles, impressionist films developed to completely deny people and society and detach themselves from reality. After Druck's death in 1924, Impressionism declined. Although Impressionism was short-lived, it contributed to cinematic aesthetics and cinematic techniques, including the deep focal length shots of De Luc in "Mania", the acceleration montage of Gons in "Wheels", the overprinted characters and subjective shots on the composite screen and multiple angles in "Napoleon", and the various scenes that Lepier saw from the eyes of the characters in "El Dorado".

Therefore, French cinema is completely different from Hollywood cinema and has another encouragement.

Hollywood movies generally pay attention to a fast pace, pay attention to a straightforward plot, and show the connotation of the movie in front of the audience in the simplest way. This is not the case with French films, and even the films of Europe as a whole, they pay attention to deeper connotations, plausible feelings, and mysterious and mysterious plots. In short, to summarize, American movies, in general, are popcorn movies, even if they are some more in-depth movies, it is not difficult to understand. French, or European cinema, is not, it is very jerky and difficult to understand, it just makes you rack your brains, it is to play all kinds of artistic moods.

In terms of movies, Zhou Fangyuan has something to say.

After all, he is now developing his media career in both China and the United States, and movies are a very important part of the media field, and he also has a certain understanding of movies, so he finally doesn't have to be an ear anymore, and he can finally say a few words.

Generally speaking, Hollywood movies are more like industrial products, everything serves the market, even if it is an art film with connotation and depth, its core is also a commodity film. As for French films, they are art films, they don't care if the audience can understand them, directors make movies for the sake of art, and the box office is of course important, but it is not as important as artistry. Fortunately, the audience in France has grown up with movies since childhood, so compared with audiences in other countries, French audiences are more receptive to this kind of film supplemented by art-based commerce.

Domestic films are now in a dilemma.

You say it's a commercial movie, but you can't play Hollywood, after all, Hollywood is old, experienced, and the film industry is more developed and perfect. Play art, you can't play the French, the French are already a little paranoid and desperate for art, few people in China dare to play like this, the box office failed, especially the director, who lost the opportunity to make a film in the future, no one dared to take this risk. So comparing these two countries, domestic movies are still in the process of exploration, and it is not easy to find a path that suits you. It is not possible to completely imitate the Hollywood model or the French European model, although there are predecessors who pave the way, but after all, it is still very difficult to cross the river by feeling the stones.

After talking about the movie, somehow, they talked about football again.

France has always been a football power, and Ligue 1 was originally average, but with the entry of the 21st century, some clubs represented by Lyon have begun to rise in recent years, and the competitiveness of Ligue 1 has been significantly improved, and it has attracted a large number of excellent players. Ligue 1 is also a springboard for third world players, represented by Africa, to enter the top league.

2. The French national football team was one of the strongest teams in the world as early as the 50s of the 20th century. In the 1958 World Cup, he finished third under Fontaine, Piantoni and Raymond Copa, with goalscorer Fontaine scoring 13 goals in the tournament. In the 80s, the French team led by the famous Platini and others led the team to the semi-finals of the 1982 World Cup and the 1986 World Cup, and won the European Football Championship in 1984, which was also the first time that the French national team won the championship of a major international competition. At that time, the golden midfield of Platini, Tigana, Giresse and Fernandez was a powerful midfield, including a 1-1 draw in 120 minutes including extra time against Brazil in the quarterfinals of the 1986 World Cup, and France advanced to the semi-finals on penalties.

However, after the 1986 World Cup, with the retirement of Platini and other famous players, the French team fell into a low ebb in the late 80s and early 90s, and was eliminated from the World Cup qualifiers in 1990 and 1994 in a row, and missed the final stage. However, at the end of the 90s, the French team led by Zinedine Zidane regained its prestige, first defeating Brazil in the 1998 World Cup final to win the first World Cup in the history of French football, and then won the European Football Championship two years later, becoming the first national team to win the World Cup and the European Football Championship in succession.

In the 21st century, the French team has been quite repetitive, first in the 2002 World Cup, three group games without a win and no goals at the end of the group, to the 2004 European Football Championship in the quarterfinals of the Greek side, but France was able to win the Confederations Cup in 2001 and 2003. In the 2006 World Cup, France was even more underestimated, first eliminated Spain in the quarterfinals, then defeated the defending champion Brazil 1-0 in the quarterfinals, and then defeated Portugal in the semi-finals to reach the final, and finally defeated Italy in the final on penalties and finished as runners-up.

In 2006, the World Cup relied on the final outbreak of Zidane, Vieira and other veterans to reach the final, but when the veterans left, France suffered a heavy defeat in the European Championship, and in the first round of the 2008 European Football Championship, they were defeated by the Netherlands and Italy, and were eliminated at the end of the group with one and two losses.

Zhou Fangyuan's understanding of football is obviously more than that of movies, and when it comes to football, he has a lot to say. Arnault is obviously also a football fan, and the two chatted very happily, and before they knew it, they both chatted until dusk.