French classics
Parisian literary canon
French classics are foundational works of French literature, philosophy, or culture that have endured as touchstones of Western civilization—Molière's plays, Voltaire's essays, Proust's novels.
The term also applies to iconic French dishes: coq au vin, bouillabaisse, crème brûlée.
In fashion, French classics might mean a Chanel jacket or a Breton stripe.
- MolièreTartuffe's comic creator
- Victor HugoFrench nineteenth-century novelist
- VoltaireFrench Enlightenment satirist
- Jean-Paul Sartre"Nausea" penned him
- Blaise PascalSeventeenth-century French mathematician-theologian
René Descartes · Montesquieu · Marcel Proust · Charles Baudelaire · Louvre Museum · Émile Zola · La Fontaine · anti-clericalism · ancien régime · deism · Albert Camus · Alexandre Dumas · The Three Musketeers · Gustave Flaubert · Claude Monet · Zola · Proust · café society
- French LiteratureVictor Hugo, Hugo, Alexandre Dumas, Dumas, Jules Verne
- Foreign Literatureworld literature, literary translations, Russian novels, Japanese fiction, translated poetry
- French fiction
- French MusicEdith Piaf, chanson, Debussy, Ravel, Berlioz
- French theaterRacine, Tartuffe, classical tragedy, Andromache, Horace
- VoltaireVoltaire, Candide, El Dorado, satirical novels, novella
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