French Literature
This is the homepage for French Literature, a subcategory of European Literature.
Authors:
- Honore de Balzac
- Henri Bergson
- Albert Camus
- Pierre Corneille
- Alexandr Dumas
- Alexandr Dumas the Younger
- Gustave Flaubert
- Anatole France
- Roger Martin du Gard
- Andre Gide
- Victor Hugo
- Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
- Guy de Maupassant
- Francois Mauriac
- Moliere
- Michael de Montagine
- Charles de Montesquieu
- Blaise Pascal
- St.-John Perse
- Marcel Proust
- Sully Prudhomme
- Francois Rabelais
- Jean Baptiste Racine
- Romain Rolland
- Jean Jacques Rousseau
- Edmund Rostand
- Marquis de Sade
- Jean Paul Sartre
- Claude Simon
- Stendhal
- Jules Verne
- Voltaire
- Emile Zola
Unknown authorship
Chanson de Roland
written 1000, part of the Cycle de France. Charlemagne follows Ganelon’s advice to negotiate with Saracen leader Marsile about Saragossa. 400000 Saracens ambush 20000 rear guard under Charlemagne’s nephew Roland [Hruotland of Brittany] at pass of Roncesvalles. despite Olivier’s pleas Roland does not sound ivory horn to summon rest of army until only 60 remain. blessed by Archbishop Turpin. Roland’s fiance Aude dies. Ganelon quartered
Romance of the Rose
Lover tries to pick a rosebud