French literature

Introduction

French literature, writings in medieval French dialects and standard modern French. Writings in Provençal and Breton are considered separately, as are works in French produced abroad (as at Canadian literature, French).

Sections in this article:

Introduction
Poetry
Theater
The Novel
Romanticism, Realism, and Other Movements: The Nineteenth Century
Rationalism: The Eighteenth Century
Classicism: The Seventeenth Century
Renaissance Literature
Medieval Literature
Bibliography

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