A Brief History of World Literature
 

Dictionary of Writers

French literature

 

CONTENTS: The Middle Ages The 16th century The 17th century The 18th century to the Revolution of 1789 From 1789 to the mid-19th century 19th-century thought The 20th century. From 1900 to 1940 The mid-20th century. Approaching the 21st century

French literature

The Middle Ages "Song of Roland" Gottfried von Strassburg Wace Chretien De Troyes  FOUR ARTHURIAN ROMANCES: "EREC ET ENIDE", "CLIGES", "YVAIN", AND "LANCELOT" Jean Froissart Marie De France Bernard de Ventadour Jaufre Rudel Bertran de Born Arnaut Daniel "Reynard The Fox" Guillaume de Lorris Jean de Meun Christine de Pisan Guillaume de Machaut Eustache Deschamps Alain Chartier Francois Villon  "Ballades" Robert de Boron Antoine de la Sale Geoffroy of Villehardouin Jean, sire de Joinville Philippe de Commynes Jehan Bodel Adam de la Halle Peter Abelard "The Love Letters of Abelard and Heloise" Alexander of Hales Levi ben Gershom (Gersonides) John of Jandun John of Mirecourt Peter Lombard Nicholas of Autrecourt William of Auvergne         The 16th century Jean Lemaire de Belges Marc-Antoine de Muret Jacques Amyot John Calvin Petrus Ramus Joachim du Bellay Jean Dorat Jean-Antoine de Baif Rémy Belleau Pontus de Tyard Jean Bodin Clément Marot Maurice Scève Louise Labé Pierre de Ronsard  "Poems" Matisse’s Amours: Illustrations of Pierre de Ronsard’s Love Poems Jacques Peletier Etienne Jodelle Robert Garnier Théodore-Agrippa d’Aubigné Francois Rabelais  "Gargantua and Pantagruel"    BOOK I, BOOK II, BOOK III, BOOK IV, BOOK V Illustrations by Gustave Dore Michel de Montaigne  "The  Letters of Montaigne", "The Essays"  BOOK THE FIRST,   BOOK THE SECOND,   BOOK THE THIRD Blaise Pascal René Descartes  "DISCOURSE ON THE METHOD OF RIGHTLY CONDUCTING THE REASON, AND SEEKING TRUTH IN THE SCIENCES" "SELECTIONS FROM THE PRINCIPLES OF PHILOSOPHY"         The 17th century Antoine Furetière Claude Favre, sieur de Vaugelas Abbé d’Aubignac Honoré d’Urfé Francois de Malherbe Théophile de Viau Alexandre Hardy Pierre Corneille  "The Cid" Jean Chapelain Jean de Rotrou Madeleine de Scudéry Cyrano de Bergerac Paul Scarron François de La Rochefoucauld  "Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims" Charles de Saint-Denis, sieur de Saint-Évremond Molière  "Tartuffe Or, the Hypocrite", "The Misanthrope", "The Impostures of Scapin", "The Imaginary Invalid" Jean Racine  "Phèdre" Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux Jean de La Fontaine  "Fables" Illustrations by J. J. Grandville Marie-Madeleine, comtesse de La Fayette Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet Francois de La Mothe-Fénelon Jean de La Bruyère Jean-Francois Regnard Florent Carton Dancourt Alain-René Lesage  "Gil Blas"  BOOK I-III, BOOK IV-VII, BOOK VIII-XII Charles Perrault  "The Tales of Mother Goose"  PART I, PART II Illustrated by Gustave Dore Bernard Le Bovier, sieur de Fontenelle Pierre de Fermat Pierre Gassendi Nicholas de Malebranche         The 18th century to the Revolution of 1789 Pierre Bayle Montesquieu "Persian Letters" Voltaire "Candide"  Illustrations Jean-Michel Moreau le Jeune  "Age of Louis XIV" Denis Diderot "Rameau's Nephew" Abbé Dubos Pierre Marivaux Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais "The Marriage of Figaro" Pierre-Claude Nivelle de La Chaussée Michel-Jean Sedaine Abbé Prévost "Manon Lescaut" Jean-Jacques Rousseau "Confessions" BOOK I-VI, BOOK VII-XII Claude-Adrien Helvétius Paul-Henri d’Holbach Julien de La Mettrie Pierre Choderlos de Laclos Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre "Paul and Virginia" Nicolas-Edme Restif de la Bretonne Louis-Sébastien Mercier Donatien-Alphonse-François, comte de Sade 1."Justine"   Illustrations by Mahlon Blaine 2.Illustration of a Dutch printing of the books by the Marquis de Sade 3."The 120 Days of Sodom" 4.Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom Etienne Bonnot de Condillac Jean Le Rond d’Alembert Jean-Baptiste Lamarck Georges-Louis Leclerc, count de Buffon         From 1789 to the mid-19th century André de Chénier Mirabeau Jean-Paul Marat Maximilien Robespierre Louis de Saint-Just Jacques-René Hébert Gracchus Babeuf Chateaubriand Mme de Stael "Corinne, Or Italy" Charles-Augustin de Sainte-Beuve Marceline Desbordes-Valmore Petrus Borel Henri de Saint-Simon Pierre-Jean de Béranger Alphonse de Lamartine Victor Hugo "The Hunchback of Notre Dame"  VOLUME I, VOLUME II Alfred-Victor, comte de Vigny Alfred de Musset Gérard de Nerval Benjamin Constant Alexandre Dumas "The Three Musketeers" Stendhal George Sand Charles Nodier Prosper Mérimée Honoré de Balzac "Father Goriot" Eugène Sue         19th-century thought Louis-Gabriel-Ambroise, vicomte de Bonald Jules Michelet Alexis de Tocqueville Joseph de Maistre Auguste Comte Ernest Renan "The Life of Jesus" Hippolyte Taine Théophile Gautier Théodore de Banville Charles-Marie-René Leconte de Lisle Charles Baudelaire "The Flowers of Evil" Edmond and Jules Goncourt Gustave Flaubert "Madame Bovary" PART I, PART II, PART III Eugène Scribe Dumas Alexandre, fils "The Lady of the Camellias" Eugène-Marin Labiche Henry-François Becque Alfred Jarry Émile Zola "J'accuse" (I accuse) Guy de Maupassant "Bel-Ami" Joris-Karl Huysmans Jules Barbey Octave Mirbeau Paul Verlaine "Poems" Jules Laforgue Stéphane Mallarmé Arthur Rimbaud "Poems" Jean Moréas Anatole France Jules Verne "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea." Illustrations by Alphonse de Neuville and Édouard Riou "The Children of Captain Grant" Illustrations by Édouard Riou "The Mysterious Island" Illustrations by Jules Ferat Edmond Rostand "Cyrano De Bergerac" Alphonse Daudet "Tartarin de Tarascon"         The 20th century. From 1900 to 1940 Romain Rolland Charles Péguy Francois Mauriac Alain-Fournier Saint-John Perse André Gide Marcel Proust Paul Claudel Paul Valéry Henri Barbusse Guillaume Apollinaire André Breton "Manifesto of Surrealism", "What is Surrealism?", "Second  Manifesto  of Surrealism" Louis Aragon Paul Éluard Édouard Dujardin Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette Louis-Ferdinand Céline Pierre-Eugène Drieu La Rochelle André Malraux Georges Bernanos Jean Anouilh         The mid-20th century. Approaching the 21st century Jean Coctea Vercors Jean-Paul Sartre Albert Camus Simone de Beauvoir Francoise Sagan Alain Robbe-Grillet Nathalie Sarraute Eugène Ionesco Jacques Prévert Claude Lévi-Strauss Jacques Lacan Michel Foucault Jacques Derrida Gilles Deleuze Félix Guattari Marguerite Duras Georges Perec Claude Simon Georges Simenon Frédéric Mistral Robert Merle Jean-Francois Lyotard Jean Baudrillard Antoine de Saint-Exupéry "The Little Prince" Illustrated by Antoine de Saint Exupery Henri Bergson "Creative Evolution" Gabriel Marcel Emmanuel Levinas Maurice Merleau-Ponty