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How to Write a Literary Commentary for the French Baccalauréat 2026: Method and Examples
The literary commentary (commentaire de texte) on the French Baccalauréat — the national secondary-school leaving exam in France — is an exercise many students find daunting. Faced with an unfamiliar literary extract, French high-school students and learners of French as a foreign language alike experience the same vertigo: where do I start?