Judith A. Muyskens

Claudine Chalmers

Alice Omaggio Hadley

The sixth edition of Rendez-vous offers a complete beginning college-level French program, as it leads students to explore the richness of the French language and Francophone cultures. Our aim has been to retain key features that were praised in our previous editions, while introducing a fully integrated and revised multimedia package. The overall goal of this new edition remains as always to provide students with the basic tools of vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation, along with abundant and varied opportunities for practicing French in communicative and interactive contexts. Emphasizing French within a cultural context and as it is spoken in authentic, everyday situations, Rendez-vous strives to develop proficiency in the four skills of listening, speaking, reading, and writing, while introducing students to the richness and diversity of the French-speaking world.

An Invitation to French

Rendez-vous

Nineteenth-century California was not a destination for the faint of heart, and Frenchmen are usually said to prefer their slippers to their traveling boots. Yet many visitors from France--starting in 1786 with legendary explorer Count de LapAA(c)rouse--made their way to the remote and beautiful territory, leaving enduring accounts and images of their experience. As France's troubled revolutionary era began in the 1840s, tens of thousands of Frenchmen journeyed to California's goldfields. Some found wealth, others freedom, and some death. Many remained in San Francisco, helping shape the city and make it French from the inside.

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