Portal:French literature

Portal French Literature

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 ~ Romain Rolland

Middle Ages

• La Farce de Maistre Pathelin

17th century

• Tartuffe ~ The Misanthrope ~ Dom Juan ~ The Middle-Class Gentleman ~ The Pretentious Young Ladies ~ The Learned Women ~ The Imaginary Invalid

• The Cid

• Phaedra
• Andromaque

19th century

20th century

• Cyrano de Bergerac

• Ubu-Roi

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 ~ Racan ~ Régnier ~ Théophile de Viau ~ 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

André Chénier

19th century

The Drunken Boat ~ The Flowers of Evil ~ The Lay of Maldoror ~ La Légende des Siècles ~ Dieu ~ Méditations poétiques ~ Poèmes saturniens ~

20th century

16th century

• The Essays

17th century

• Les Pensées

• The Maxims

18th century

• Discourse on the Arts and Sciences
• Discourse on the Origin of Inequality Among Men
• The Social Contract

• Reflections on the Formation and the Distribution of Riches

19th century

• Genius of Christianity

• Democracy in America

• History of the French Revolution,
• History of the Consulate and Empire

• Histoire de France,

20th century

• The Manifesto of Surrealism

Middle Ages

The Song of Roland ~ Chrétien de Troyes: Yvain, the Knight of the Lion, Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart ~ The Romance of Tristan and Iseult ~ 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

Honoré de Balzac: The Human Comedy, a novel cycle which includes Père Goriot) ~ Alexandre Dumas: The Three Musketeers, The Count of Monte Cristo ~ Gustave Flaubert: Madame Bovary, Sentimental Education ~ Victor Hugo: The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Les Misérables ~ Guy de Maupassant: Bel Ami, The Necklace, other short stories ~ Stendhal: The Red and the Black, The Charterhouse of Parma ~ Jules Verne: Around the World in Eighty Days, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea ~ Émile Zola: Les Rougon-Macquart (a novel cycle which includes Germinal, Nana and La Bête humaine)

20th century

Alcools ~ Arsène Lupin ~ Jean-Christophe ~ The Soul Enchanted ~ The Phantom of the Opera ~ Remembrance of Things Past ~

• 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)

• "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)