Packet 4: Bonus 4
A 2017 book by Lauren Elkin borrows a term coined by this author in describing women like Agnès (“ah-NYESS”) Varda and Virginia Woolf as flâneuses. For 10 points each:
[10e] What proto-symbolist poet wrote “The Painter of Modern Life” and Paris Spleen?
ANSWER: Charles Baudelaire
[10h] The traditional feminine counterpart to the flâneur is this archetype. The speaker makes fleeting eye contact with one of these women in a poem from Les Fleurs du Mal that concludes, “O you that I had loved, O you who knew it!”
ANSWER: passante [accept “À une passante”; prompt on passerby]
[10m] The narrator of In Search of Lost Time compares Charles Swann to a man seeing a passante whose “new beauty… gives his own sensibility a greater value” when he first hears this fictional composer’s violin sonata.
ANSWER: Monsieur Vinteuil (“vahn-TOY”)
<FW, European Literature> | NAFTA-Packet-4
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 38 | 15.79 | 87% | 66% | 5% |
Conversion
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 NAFTA at Stanford | 01/17/2026 | ✓ | 4 | 22.50 | 100% | 100% | 25% |
| 2026 NAFTA at UBC | 01/17/2026 | ✓ | 2 | 5.00 | 50% | 0% | 0% |
| 2026 NAFTA at Vanderbilt | 02/14/2026 | ✓ | 3 | 13.33 | 67% | 67% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Toronto | 09/13/2025 | ✓ | 4 | 12.50 | 75% | 50% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Maryland | 09/27/2025 | ✓ | 5 | 14.00 | 80% | 60% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Harvard | 10/04/2025 | ✓ | 3 | 10.00 | 67% | 33% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Oxford | 10/11/2025 | ✓ | 4 | 20.00 | 100% | 75% | 25% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Chicago | 11/08/2025 | ✓ | 6 | 18.33 | 100% | 83% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Columbia | 11/08/2025 | ✓ | 5 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Richmond | 12/20/2025 | ✓ | 2 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |