French literature
Gallic written works
French literature is the body of written works produced in the French language, particularly those originating in France.
It encompasses poetry, drama, fiction, and essays from medieval epics through contemporary novels.
The tradition includes globally influential movements—classicism, romanticism, existentialism—and figures like Molière, Voltaire, Proust, and Camus.
She specialized in nineteenth-century French literature.
- Victor HugoFrench nineteenth-century novelist
- MedievalOf the 5th-15th centuries
- novelistWriter of prose narratives
- realismAccepting things as they are
- fictionImagined narrative work
Symbolism · fin de siècle · Simone de Beauvoir · Gustave Flaubert · mot juste · Colette · Albert Camus · Enlightenment · Molière · Racine · Voltaire · Jean-Paul Sartre · Existentialism · troubadour · Marcel Proust · salon · café · Left Bank
- French Culturebaguette, baguettes, beret, berets, brie
- world literatureRussian novels, Japanese fiction, translated works, British novels, English translations
- Medieval FranceValois, Philip II, Charles VII, Saint Louis, Joan of Arc
- Romance LiteratureLes Miserables, The Divine Comedy, Madame Bovary, Don Quixote, Candide
- Franco-Russian LettersPushkin, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Turgenev, Chekhov
- French ThoughtDescartes, Sartre, Foucault, Derrida, Camus
French literatureEnglish literature
Written works from England
British literature · German literature · Russian literature · Japanese literature · American literature
French literatureoral tradition
Culture passed by speech
folk literature · popular fiction · genre fiction · pulp fiction