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
My Husband
Tata
Mona's Eyes
Small Boat
Trois
Como bestias
La Dernière Allumette
Changer : Méthode
The Man Who Read Books
Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme
Triste tigre
Le Mage du Kremlin
The Young Man
Numéro deux
The Stranger
The Little Prince
Madame Bovary
Les Misérables
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Plague
Candide
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
The Three Musketeers
The Red and the Black
Nausea
Père Goriot
Swann’s Way (In Search of Lost Time, #1)
The Fall (Vintage International)
The Phantom of the Opera

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Poetry is a machine that manufactures love. Its other virtues escape me.
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Jean Cocteau
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Jean Cocteau

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