French Literature

French literature is, generally speaking, literature written in the French language, particularly by citizens of France; it may also refer to literature written by people living in France who speak traditional languages of France other than French. Literature written by citizens of other nations such as Belgium, Switzerland, Canada, Senegal, Algeria, Morocco, etc. is referred to as Francophone literature. As of 2006, French writers have been awarded more Nobel Prizes in Literature than novelists, poets and essayists of any other country. France itself ranks first in the list of Nobel Prizes in ...more

La muy catastrófica visita al zoo
Mona's Eyes
My Husband
Ce que je sais de toi
Como bestias
Small Boat
Trois
Tata
The Young Man
Le Mage du Kremlin
Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme
Triste tigre
Veiller sur elle
L'Effondrement
Changer : méthode
The Stranger
The Little Prince
Madame Bovary
Les Misérables
The Count of Monte Cristo
Candide
The Plague
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
The Three Musketeers
The Red and the Black
Nausea
Swann’s Way (In Search of Lost Time, #1)
Père Goriot
The Fall (Vintage International)
The Phantom of the Opera
Wenken voor jonge letterkundigen by Charles BaudelaireBodembestemming by Jean EchenozHet vervloekte ras by Marcel ProustOok u, meneer Voltaire - zes brieven by Marie Anne de Vichy-ChamrondEen jachtpartij by Alain Fleischer
Perlouses
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Madame Bovary by Gustave FlaubertLe Petit Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryEugénie Grandet by Honoré de BalzacThe Fall by Albert CamusL'Étranger by Albert Camus
French Literature
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Littérature Polar
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Charles Baudelaire
Folly, error, sin, avarice Occupy our minds and labor our bodies, And we feed our pleasant remorse As beggars nourish their vermin.
Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal

Albert Camus
Let's not worry. It's too late now. It will always be too late, fortunately! ...more
Albert Camus, The Fall

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