French Literature

This index is for Literature originally written in French.

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Authors & Playwrights

• Guillaume Apollinaire
• Madame d'Aulnoy
• Honoré de Balzac
• Charles Baudelaire
• René Barjavel
• Samuel Beckett^note Though Irish, he lived in Paris for most of his adult life, and after WWII wrote primarily in French.
• Hilaire Belloc^note Belloc was born in France, but his parents fled to England after the Franco-Prussian war broke out.
• Antoine Blondin
• Leon Bloy
• Albert Camus
• Louis-Ferdinand Céline
• Henri Charrière
• Francois Rene De Chateaubriand
• Chrétien de Troyes
• Jean Cocteau
• Frédéric Dard
• Alexandre Dumas, père
• Alexandre Dumas, fils
• Paul Féval
• Georges Feydeau
• Gustave Flaubert
• Jean de La Fontaine
• Marie de France
• Théophile Gautier
• Jean Genet
• Jean Giono
• Sacha Guitry
• Victor Hugo
• Joris Karl Huysmans
• Eugène Ionesco
• Sébastien Japrisot
• Milan Kundera (Czech-French)
• Hector Malot
• Gabriel Marcel
• Guy de Maupassant
• Prosper Mérimée
• Robert Merle
• Molière
• Nostradamus
• Marcel Pagnol
• Blaise Pascal
• Charles Peguy
• Charles Perrault
• Marcel Proust
• Jean Racine
• Arthur Rimbaud
• Edmond Rostand
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau^note born in Geneva, grew up and wrote his most important works in France, also had the most influence in France
• Marquis de Sade
• Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
• Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt
• Countess Sophie De Ségur
• Stendhal
• Tomi Ungerer
• Paul Verlaine
• Jules Verne
• Voltaire
• Bernard Werber
• Marguerite Yourcenar
• Emile Zola

Works

• The 120 Days of Sodom
• 1940: Et si la France avait continué la guerre?
• A Rebours
• The Accursed Kings series
• "Aladdin"^note First found in the French edition of the Arabian Nights by Antoine Galland.
• "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves"^note First found in the French edition of the Arabian Nights by Antoine Galland.
• Around the World in Eighty Days
• Arsène Lupin
• Art
• Arthur and the Invisibles (Arthur et les minimoys)
• Atar Gull
• Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
• Banco
• Barbapapa
• "Beauty and the Beast"
• The Begum's Millions
• Bisclavret
• The Black Coats
• The Black Tulip
• La Brèche
• Candide
• Les Chants de Maldoror
• The Charterhouse of Parma
• Chéri
• Les Chimères de Mirinar
• Chrétien de Troyes's Arthurian romances
  • Erec and Enide
  • Yvain, the Knight of the Lion
  • Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart
  • Perceval, the Story of the Grail
• Colas Breugnon
• Madame D'Aulnoy's Contes des Fees:
  • "The Blue Bird"
  • "The Fair One with Golden Locks"
  • "Graciosa And Percinet"
  • "Princess Belle-Etoile"
  • "The Yellow Dwarf"
• Contes de la rue Broca
• Corinne
• The Corsican Brothers
• The Count of Monte Cristo
• Cousin Bette
• Cyrano de Bergerac
• La Dame de Monsoreau
• Dangerous Liaisons
• The Dead Leman
• Death Is My Trade
• The Devil Dances Trilogy
• "The Diary of a Madman"
• The Discreet Princess
• The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
• Doctor Omega
• Dolfi Et Marilyn
• The Elegance of the Hedgehog
• Empire of the Ants
• Les Enfants de Prométhée
• Eye of the Wolf
• The Fall (1956)
• Fantômas
• Five Weeks in a Balloon
• Fortune De France
• From the Earth to the Moon
• The Future Eve
• "Gemmalie"
• Gentlemen of the Night
• Gerfaut War
• Germinal
• The Girl Who Played Go
• The Golden Phoenix
• Le Grand Meaulnes
• The Great Balloon Race
• Gwendalavir Universe
• Heart of Ice (Andrew Lang)
• Histoire Du Prince Pipo
• Histoires de Robots
• A Hole in the Fence
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame
• The Ice People
• The Ingenue
• In Search of the Castaways
• John Devil
• Journey to the Center of the Earth
• Journey to the End of the Night
• The Joy
• Juliette
• Knightshade
• The Last Day of a Condemned Man
• La légende et les aventures héroiques joyeuses et glorieuses d'Ulenspiegel et de Lamme Goedzak au pays des Flandres et ailleurs
• The Little House
• The Little Prince
• Madame Bovary
• The Malaussène Saga
• Malevil
• Malheurs de Sophie
• The Man Who Laughs
• Master of the World
• Les Messagers du Temps
• Michael Strogoff
• Micromégas
• Les Misérables
• The Monster of Partridge Creek
• The Mysterious Island
• The Necklace
• Neogicia
• The Nettle Spinner
• Night
• Nobody's Girl (better known as En Famille)
• Noob
• No Pasaran Le Jeu
• Our Lady of the Nile
• Oksa Pollock
• Papillon
• Paris in the Twentieth Century
• Le Père Goriot
• La Petite Fadette
• Le Petit Nicolas
• The Phantom of the Opera (the original novel)
• PJ Masks
• The Plague
• Planet of the Apes
• The Prophecy of the Stones
• Querelle de Brest
• Quest for Fire
• The Red and the Black
• La Reine Margot
• Reynard the Fox
• Robur the Conqueror
• Ruy Blas
• La Saga du Prêtre Jean
• The Saga Of Billy
• Salammbô
• Sans Famille
• the secret lives of Princesses
• Sentimental Education
• "Le Silence de la mer"
• "Simon's Papa"
• The Song of Roland
• The Steam House
• "The Story of Sidi Nouman"
• The Stranger
• The Suicide Shop
• Suite Française
• Tales of Mother Goose a.k.a. the Charles Perrault fairy tales:
  • "Bluebeard"
  • "Donkeyskin"
  • "Cinderella"
  • "Hop-o'-My-Thumb"
  • "Little Red Riding Hood"
  • "The Ludicrous Wishes"
  • "Puss in Boots"
  • "Sleeping Beauty"
• Tara Duncan
• Thérèse Desqueyroux
• Thérèse Raquin
• The Three Musketeers
• Toby Alone
• The Travels of Marco Polo
• Tribulations of a Chinaman in China
• 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
• A Void
• Vampire City
• The Vampire Countess
• Les Voyageurs Sans Souci
• The Woman with the Velvet Necklace
• Xala
• Les Xipéhuz
• La Zone Du Dehors

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