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
Swann’s Way (In Search of Lost Time, #1)
Père Goriot
The Fall (Vintage International)
The Phantom of the Opera
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
51 books — 9 voters
Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëNorth and South by Elizabeth GaskellWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëPersuasion by Jane Austen
Favorite 19th Century Heroines
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L'Assommoir by Émile ZolaThe Ladies' Paradise by Émile ZolaGerminal by Émile ZolaNana by Émile ZolaLa Bête humaine by Émile Zola
Les Rougon-Macquart
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The Red and the Black by StendhalWar and Peace by Leo TolstoyMadame Bovary by Gustave FlaubertA Midsummer Night’s Dream by William ShakespeareThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
In Search of Lost Tomes
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Sylvie  Lainé
Sur le siège˚, il a oublié˚ son petit manteau˚ noir. Louis prend le manteau et appelle : « Monsieur ! Vous avez oublié votre menton˚ ! le siège: seat oublier: to forget le manteau: coat le menton: chin
Sylvie Lainé, Voyage en France, a Short Novel in Easy French: With Glossaries throughout the Text

Voltaire
Candide listened attentively and believed innocently; for he thought Miss Cunegonde extremely beautiful, though he never had the courage to tell her so.
Voltaire, Candide

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