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Elsa Triolet : Les Amants d’Avignon My A* Revision Notes
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A LEVEL FRENCHElsa Triolet : Les Amants d’Avignon
" et voilà juliette noël, dactyl (typist), à nouveau dans un train.
Un train bondé, comme tous les trains. elle est assise sur sa petite valise
(suitcase), dans le couloir encombré de valises et de gens (people), et
pourtant quatre compartiments de ce wagon sont vides et fermés à ciel. a
chaque arrêt, les nouveaux venus secouent ces portes, sur lesquelles on
peut lire : nur für die wehrmacht. "
Juliette Noël is a beautiful typist/ secretary who works for a newspaper in
wartime Lyons after moving from Paris. She lives with her aunt Aline and her
aunt’s adopted son José. Juliette is a resistance worker, a courier. We follow her
during the very cold Christmas period as she finds possible safe houses in the
countryside, catches a bus and then a train to Lyons. She is carrying secret
documents and money. Her contact, Dr Arnold, sends her to Avignon to meet
Célestin to warn of six forthcoming arrests. She and Célestin spend Christmas day
wandering through the beautiful city and pretend to be lovers, reading lovers’
graffiti on walls. Celestin is called away and Juliette is to return via Valence where
she is to meet someone and on home to Lyons which she dislikes but now knows
very well. After a short time with her family she goes to a house but is warned off
as the Germans are searching it and takes refuge in Dominique’s house. The
doctor is to expect Celestin from Avignon and Juliette is to meet him at the
station. She takes Célestin to a hotel room where he reads a message Juliette
gives him which he then burns. As she leaves the hotel, she realises she is being
followed. Two men stop her and want to know when she will meet her “lover”
Celestin again. No such meeting has been arranged but she pretends it’s near the
, Opéra. She finally manages to escape by diving into a “traboule”, but is now
compromised. She warns the doctor that Celestin is in danger and goes to the
doctor’s. Arrangements are made for Célestin to leave the country, for Juliette to
stay in the countryside and Aunt Aline and José to be kept safe. Celestin and
Juliette say good bye but clearly have feelings for each other. This novella, written
and secretly published during the war, gives us an insight into Juliette’s hopes and
dreams, the courage of resistance workers, the privations and difficulties for the
civilian population during the Nazi occupation, both at home and when travelling.
We also have a very contrasting view of “dingy” Lyons and “free” Avignon.
Elsa Triolet : Les Amants d’Avignon
1. Analysez l’impact de la Résistance sur la vie quotidienne.
(la vie quotidiene – everyday life)
2. Analysez l’importance de la ville de Lyon dans le roman.
(le roman – the novel)
3. Les actions de Juliette Noël sont-elles héroïques ? Donnez et
justifiez votre opinion.
4. Analysez la réalité de la vie en France sous l’Occupation dans le
roman.
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