French literature, French Literature
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French literature, writings in medieval French dialects and standard modern French. Writings in ProvenCal and Breton are considered separately, as are works in French produced abroad (as at Canadian literature, French ).
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Jean le Rond d' Alembert
Jean Anouilh
Guillaume Apollinaire
Louis Aragon
Arthurian legend
ThEodore Agrippa d' AubignE
Emile Augier
HonorE de Balzac
Maurice BarrEs
Charles Baudelaire
Pierre Bayle
Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais
Simone de Beauvoir
Samuel Beckett
Belgian literature
Georges Bernanos
Jehan Bodel
Nicolas Boileau-DesprEaux
Jacques BEnigne Bossuet
Paul Bourget
AndrE Breton
Ferdinand BrunetiEre
Michel Butor
Albert Camus
Canadian literature, French
Francis Carco
chansons de geste
RenE Char
Alain Chartier
Chateaubriand, FranCois RenE, vicomte de
ChrEtien de Troyes
Paul Claudel
Jean Cocteau
Colette
Philippe de Comines
Pierre Corneille
Alphonse Daudet
decadents
Robert Desnos
Denis Diderot
Alexandre Dumas (Dumas fils), 182495, French dramatist and novelist
Alexandre Dumas (Dumas pEre), 180270, French novelist and dramatist
Marguerite Duras
Paul Eluard
Enlightenment
existentialism
FranCois de Salignac de la Mothe FEnelon
Gustave Flaubert
Esprit FlEchier
Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
France
Anatole France
Jean Froissart
Robert Garnier
Romain Gary
ThEophile Gautier
Jean Genet
Michel de Ghelderode
AndrE Gide
Jean Giraudoux
Edmond Louis Antoine Huot de Goncourt
Juan Goytisolo
FranCois Guizot
Hugo, Victor Marie, Vicomte
EugEne Ionesco
Alfred Jarry
Estienne Jodelle
Joinville, Jean, sire de
EugEne Marin Labiche
Jean de La BruyEre
La Fayette, Marie Madeleine Pioche de La Vergne, comtesse de
Jean de La Fontaine
Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine
La Rochefoucauld, FranCois, duc de
Charles Marie Leconte de Lisle
Henri RenE Lenormand
Alain RenE Le Sage
Pierre Loti
Maurice Maeterlinck
FranCois de Malherbe
StEphane MallarmE
AndrE Malraux
Marie de France
Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux
Jean FranCois Marmontel
ClEment Marot
Roger Martin du Gard
Guy de Maupassant
FranCois Mauriac
Prosper MErimEe
Jules Michelet
miracle play
Jean Baptiste Poquelin MoliEre
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem, seigneur de
Montesquieu, Charles Louis de Secondat, baron de la BrEde et de
Henri de Montherlant
Alfred de Musset
naturalism, in literature
GErard de Nerval
OrlEans, Charles, duc d'
Parnassians
Blaise Pascal
Charles PEguy
Christine de Pisan
Pleiad
Francis Ponge
Jacques PrEvert
Marcel Proust
Raymond Queneau
Pasquier Quesnel
FranCois Rabelais
Jean Racine
Jules Renard
Arthur Rimbaud
Alain Robbe-Grillet
Roland
Jules Romains
Roman de la Rose, Le
romanticism
Pierre de Ronsard
Edmond Rostand
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Raymond Roussel
Rutebeuf
Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
George Sand
Nathalie Sarraute
SEvignE, Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de
Georges Simenon
Claude EugEne Henri Simon
Philippe Soupault
Jean de Sponde
Germaine de StaEl
Stendhal
Antoine de Saint-ExupEry
Saint-Simon, Claude Henri de Rouvroy, comte de
Jules Supervielle
surrealism
symbolists
Hippolyte Adolphe Taine
Augustin Thierry
Elsa Triolet
troubadours
trouvEres
Tristan Tzara
Paul ValEry
Vercors
Paul Verlaine
Boris Vian
Vigny, Alfred Victor, comte de
Geoffroi de Villehardouin
FranCois Villon
FranCois Marie Arouet de Voltaire
Kateb Yacine
Marguerite Yourcenar
Emile Zola