The CCFS is located in central Montparnasse, a stone’s throw from the famous Latin Quarter and Luxembourg Gardens. The education centre at 214 Boulevard Raspail has particularly good public transport links (metro line 4, stop Vavin, line 6, stop Raspail, bus routes 58, 82 and 91).
The Song of Roland: the epic that founded French literature
French literature begins with a defeat. Around 1100, a poet of whom we may know only the name, Turoldus, set into verse the disaster of Roncevaux: a rearguard crushed in a Pyrenean pass, a hero who refuses to call for help, an emperor who arrives too late. The Song of Roland, some 4,000 lines declaimed by minstrels from castle to
