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The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 80 times as french-language)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,598,436 ratings — published 1943
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as french-language)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,517,507 ratings — published 1942
Madame Bovary (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as french-language)
avg rating 3.71 — 388,970 ratings — published 1856
Candide (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as french-language)
avg rating 3.76 — 309,832 ratings — published 1759
Les Misérables (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as french-language)
avg rating 4.22 — 864,285 ratings — published 1862
The Plague (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as french-language)
avg rating 4.02 — 331,687 ratings — published 1947
Le Petit Nicolas (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as french-language)
avg rating 4.14 — 41,508 ratings — published 1959
Les Fleurs du Mal (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as french-language)
avg rating 4.19 — 83,503 ratings — published 1857
Swann’s Way (In Search of Lost Time, #1)
by (shelved 22 times as french-language)
avg rating 4.16 — 71,373 ratings — published 1913
The Count of Monte Cristo (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as french-language)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,079,276 ratings — published 1846
Bonjour tristesse (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as french-language)
avg rating 3.74 — 81,812 ratings — published 1954
The Red and the Black (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as french-language)
avg rating 3.86 — 87,099 ratings — published 1830
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as french-language)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,783,744 ratings — published 1997
The Three Musketeers (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as french-language)
avg rating 4.10 — 354,804 ratings — published 1844
The Lover (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as french-language)
avg rating 3.69 — 80,052 ratings — published 1984
Père Goriot (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as french-language)
avg rating 3.85 — 69,579 ratings — published 1835
Memoirs of Hadrian (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as french-language)
avg rating 4.21 — 38,297 ratings — published 1951
Waiting for Godot (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as french-language)
avg rating 3.84 — 228,433 ratings — published 1951
Germinal (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as french-language)
avg rating 4.21 — 44,997 ratings — published 1885
Bel-Ami (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as french-language)
avg rating 3.87 — 51,493 ratings — published 1885
Le Grand Meaulnes (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as french-language)
avg rating 3.72 — 16,634 ratings — published 1913
Les Liaisons dangereuses (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as french-language)
avg rating 4.05 — 60,855 ratings — published 1782
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as french-language)
avg rating 4.02 — 224,750 ratings — published 1831
Tartuffe (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as french-language)
avg rating 3.66 — 44,403 ratings — published 1664
The Elegance of the Hedgehog (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as french-language)
avg rating 3.81 — 205,784 ratings — published 2006
Huis clos: suivi de Les Mouches (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as french-language)
avg rating 4.04 — 15,585 ratings — published 1946
The Princesse de Clèves (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as french-language)
avg rating 3.35 — 19,611 ratings — published 1678
Soumission (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as french-language)
avg rating 3.65 — 54,125 ratings — published 2015
L'écume des jours (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as french-language)
avg rating 3.91 — 44,601 ratings — published 1947
Rhinocéros (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as french-language)
avg rating 3.83 — 21,086 ratings — published 1959
Stupeur et tremblements (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as french-language)
avg rating 3.75 — 49,514 ratings — published 1999
The Immoralist (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as french-language)
avg rating 3.54 — 14,137 ratings — published 1902
Journey to the End of the Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as french-language)
avg rating 4.18 — 49,888 ratings — published 1932
No Exit (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as french-language)
avg rating 4.11 — 48,782 ratings — published 1944
Suite Française (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as french-language)
avg rating 3.86 — 79,393 ratings — published 2004
Nausea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as french-language)
avg rating 3.93 — 146,640 ratings — published 1938
A Winter's Promise (The Mirror Visitor, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as french-language)
avg rating 4.01 — 129,846 ratings — published 2013
The Myth of Sisyphus (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as french-language)
avg rating 4.16 — 107,866 ratings — published 1942
Sentimental Education (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as french-language)
avg rating 3.81 — 25,702 ratings — published 1869
Lost Illusions (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as french-language)
avg rating 4.16 — 13,024 ratings — published 1843
Around the World in Eighty Days (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as french-language)
avg rating 3.95 — 291,821 ratings — published 1872
Thérèse Raquin (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as french-language)
avg rating 3.73 — 40,819 ratings — published 1867
L'École des Femmes (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as french-language)
avg rating 3.61 — 10,658 ratings — published 1662
Lettres de mon moulin (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as french-language)
avg rating 3.69 — 6,685 ratings — published 1869
The Misanthrope (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as french-language)
avg rating 3.76 — 26,229 ratings — published 1666
Phèdre (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as french-language)
avg rating 3.69 — 25,755 ratings — published 1677
Against Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as french-language)
avg rating 3.79 — 15,867 ratings — published 1884
Cyrano de Bergerac (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as french-language)
avg rating 4.06 — 92,884 ratings — published 1897
Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as french-language)
avg rating 3.71 — 13,667 ratings — published 1670
The Horla and Others: Guy de Maupassant's Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories: Tales of Mystery, Murder, Fantasy & Horror (Oldstyle Tales' Horror Authors)
by (shelved 8 times as french-language)
avg rating 3.87 — 24,547 ratings — published 1886
“She is sending assassins after you because she thinks we are engaged, and thus her mad faerie logic tells her that I will devote my life to seeking revenge against her if she murders you."
"That's generally how these things go. You know the stories."
Of course I did. Deirde and the River Lord; The Princess of Shell Halls.*
*Deirde was an Irish queen who sent her army into Faerie to avenge the death of her faerie husband at the hands of his brothers. The Princess of Shell Halls is likely of French origin, a variant of La princesse et le trône de sel. "Sel," meaning salt, was likely mistranslated as "shell," but the framework of the story is the same: a faerie princess of an undersea kingdom dedicates her life to avenging the death of her betrothed, the prince of an island realm. This despite the fact that leaving the sea condemns her to a slow death, to which she eventually succumbs only after murdering the last of the conspirators in her fiancé's murder.”
― Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands
"That's generally how these things go. You know the stories."
Of course I did. Deirde and the River Lord; The Princess of Shell Halls.*
*Deirde was an Irish queen who sent her army into Faerie to avenge the death of her faerie husband at the hands of his brothers. The Princess of Shell Halls is likely of French origin, a variant of La princesse et le trône de sel. "Sel," meaning salt, was likely mistranslated as "shell," but the framework of the story is the same: a faerie princess of an undersea kingdom dedicates her life to avenging the death of her betrothed, the prince of an island realm. This despite the fact that leaving the sea condemns her to a slow death, to which she eventually succumbs only after murdering the last of the conspirators in her fiancé's murder.”
― Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands
“An orange cat scurried out from under the bed and proceeded to snake around my ankles, purring loudly. One eye rested shut, as if it were krazy-glued to a close, and her fur was mottled. Marianne scooped her up. "Sac à puces," (Fleabag), she said. "This stray is a devious one, always sneaking into the apartments. I don't know how she gets in. I'll have to warn Claude to stop feeding her tuna."
I scratched under the cat's chin, staring into her good eye---a kaleidoscope of greens and yellows. "She's sweet," I said.
"She's filthy," said Marianne, tucking the cat under her arm.”
― Sophie Valroux's Paris Stars
I scratched under the cat's chin, staring into her good eye---a kaleidoscope of greens and yellows. "She's sweet," I said.
"She's filthy," said Marianne, tucking the cat under her arm.”
― Sophie Valroux's Paris Stars
