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French literature

Portal French Literature

French authors Middle Ages Chrétien de Troyes ~ Guillaume de Lorris ~ Marie de France ~ Moniot d'Arras ~ Rutebeuf ~ François Villon 16th century Joachim du Bellay ~ Louise Labé ~ La Boétie ~ Marguerite de Navarre ~ Clément Marot ~ Michel de Montaigne ~ François Rabelais ~ Pierre de Ronsard ~ Jean de Sponde 17th century Nicolas Boileau ~ Bossuet ~ Corneille ~ Cyrano de Bergerac ~ Fénelon ~ La Bruyère ~ Madame de La Fayette ~ Jean de La Fontaine ~ La Rochefoucauld ~ Molière ~ Blaise Pascal ~ Charles Perrault ~ Jean Racine ~ Saint-Amant ~ Madame de Sévigné 18th century : Beaumarchais ~ Jacques Cazotte ~ Denis Diderot ~ Pierre Choderlos de Laclos ~ Alain-René Lesage ~ Marivaux ~ Montesquieu ~ Rétif de la Bretonne ~ Cardinal de Retz ~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau ~ Sade ~ Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot ~ Voltaire 19th century Balzac ~ Barbey d'Aurevilly ~ Charles Baudelaire ~ Chateaubriand ~ Benjamin Constant ~ Alphonse Daudet ~ Alexandre Dumas ~ Émile Erckmann ~ Gustave Flaubert ~ Pierre Jules Théophile Gautier ~ Goncourt brothers ~ José-Maria de Heredia ~ Victor Hugo ~ Joris-Karl Huysmans ~ Alphonse de Lamartine ~ Lautréamont ~ Stéphane Mallarmé ~ Guy de Maupassant ~ Prosper Mérimée ~ Alfred de Musset ~ Gérard de Nerval ~ Jules Renard ~ Arthur Rimbaud ~ George Sand ~ Madame de Staël ~ Stendhal ~ Jules Vallès ~ Paul Verlaine ~ Jules Verne ~ Alfred de Vigny ~ Villiers de l'Isle-Adam ~ Émile Zola 20th century Alain-Fournier ~ Guillaume Apollinaire ~ Antonin Artaud ~ Henri Barbusse ~ André Gide ~ Francis Jammes ~ Maurice Leblanc ~ Gaston Leroux ~ Albert Londres ~ Louis Pergaud ~ Marcel Proust ~ Raymond Radiguet Plays Middle Ages La Farce de Maistre Pathelin 17th century Molière Tartuffe ~ The Misanthrope ~ Dom Juan ~ The Middle-Class Gentleman ~ The Pretentious Young Ladies ~ The Learned Women ~ The Imaginary Invalid Corneille The Cid Racine Phaedra Andromaque 19th century Victor Hugo 20th century Edmond Rostand Cyrano de Bergerac Alfred Jarry Ubu-Roi

Poetry Old French / Middle Ages Aucassin and Nicolette ~ The Song of Roland ~ Le Roman de Renart ~ Romance of the Rose ~ Tristan and Iseult Renaissance - Marot: L'Adolescence clémentine - Various Blasons du corps féminin ~ Psaumes - Scève: Délie, objet de plus haulte vertu - Pernette du Guillet: Rimes - Du Bellay: L'Olive ~ Défense et illustration de la langue française - Ronsard: Odes ~ Les Amours - Louise Labé: Works - Du Bellay: Antiquités de Rome ~ Regrets - Philippe Desportes - Agrippa d'Aubigné - La Boétie: Twenty-nine Sonnets - Sponde: Poèmes chrétiens 17th century Malherbe: Odes - Sonnets - Chansons - Stances ~ Racan : Bergeries Régnier: Satires Théophile de Viau: Odes - Élégies - Satires - Pyrame et Thisbé ~ Honoré d'Urfé ~ Jean Ogier de Gombaud ~ Régnier, nephew of Desportes ~ Maynard ~ Théophile de Viau ~ Boisrobert ~ Saint-Amant ~ Chapelain ~ Voiture ~ Tristan L'Hermite ~ Corneille ~ Scarron ~ Benserade ~ Brébeuf ~ La Fontaine ~ Boileau ~ Racine ~ Guillaume Amfrye de Chaulieu ~ Regnard 18th century 19th century The Drunken Boat ~ The Flowers of Evil ~ The Lay of Maldoror ~ La Légende des Siècles ~ Dieu ~ Méditations poétiques ~ Poèmes saturniens ~ 20th century Non fiction 16th century Michel de Montaigne The Essays 17th century Blaise Pascal Les Pensées François La Rochefoucauld The Maxims 18th century Jean-Jacques Rousseau Discourse on the Arts and Sciences Discourse on the Origin of Inequality Among Men The Social Contract Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot Reflections on the Formation and the Distribution of Riches 19th century François-René de Chateaubriand Genius of Christianity Alexis de Tocqueville Democracy in America Adolphe Thiers History of the French Revolution, History of the Consulate and Empire Jules Michelet Histoire de France, 20th century André Breton The Manifesto of Surrealism

Fiction Middle Ages anonymous - The Song of Roland ~ Chrétien de Troyes - Yvain, the Knight of the Lion, Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart ~ various - The Romance of Tristan and Iseult ~ anonymous - Lancelot-Grail), also known as the prose Lancelot or the Vulgate Cycle ~ Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meung - Romance of the Rose Renaissance François Rabelais - Pantagruel, Gargantua 17th century : Madame de La Fayette - La Princesse de Clèves 18th century : Voltaire - Candide Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Julie, ou la nouvelle Héloïse Denis Diderot - Jacques the Fatalist 19th century Victor Hugo: The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Les Misérables ~ Alexandre Dumas: The Three Musketeers, The Count of Monte Cristo ~ Stendhal: The Red and the Black, The Charterhouse of Parma ~ Honoré de Balzac: The Human Comedy, a novel cycle which includes Père Goriot) ~ Jules Verne: Around the World in Eighty Days, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea ~ Gustave Flaubert: Madame Bovary, Sentimental Education ~ Guy de Maupassant: Bel Ami, The Necklace, other short stories ~ Émile Zola: Les Rougon-Macquart (a novel cycle which includes Germinal, Nana and La Bête humaine) 20th century Alcools ~ Arsène Lupin ~ The Phantom of the Opera ~ Remembrance of Things Past ~

Wikisource translations J'accuse...! Second Manifesto Travels in Southern France's départements (incomplete) Order of relief, Mrs M. B., Mr P. T., Mr F. D. vs. Wikimedia Foundation Inc. History of the Insurrection in Canada in refutation of the report of Lord Durham The Origins of Statics (incomplete) Reference works "Periods of European Literature" series Vol. 7: The First Half of the Seventeenth Century/French Verse and Prose Vol. 7: The First Half of the Seventeenth Century/French Drama "French Literature," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)

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