This 3 credit course, taught in French, will examine “Les maux et let mots: La médecine et la culture de Molière à Mesmer” / “Woes and Words: Medicine and Culture from Molière to Mesmer.” Using the tools of both cultural history and close literary analysis, this course will survey the interactions between literature and medicine in the eighteenth century, the period commonly known as the Enlightenment. FRENCH 464 is designed to provide a capstone-like experience for undergraduate French majors and certificate students, as well as to meet medical school requirements for a literature course, including the required writing component (a substantial final term paper that entails some research). Offered Fall 2018, TR 4:45 – 6:00 PM. Instructor: Anne Vila.