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-[[Image:Charles Baudelaire.jpg|thumb|right|200px|[[Charles Baudelaire]] (portrait by [[Etienne Carjat]], ca. [[1863]])]]{{Template}}+[[Image:Salut monde by Guillaume Apollinaire.jpg|thumb|left|200px|"[[Salut monde]]" by [[Guillaume Apollinaire]]]]
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 +Canon: [[Georges Bataille]], [[Charles Baudelaire]], [[Maurice Blanchot]], [[Céline]], [[Denis Diderot]], [[Alain Robbe-Grillet]], [[Michel Houellebecq]], [[Georges Perec]], [[Rabelais]], [[Marquis de Sade]], [[Villon]]
 + 
 +French literary criticism: [[Sainte-Beuve]], [[Charles Baudelaire]]
 + 
 +Subgenres: [[The "frenetic" school of the 1820s/1830s]], [[French pulp fiction]], [[libertine novel]], [[naturalism]], [[nouveau roman]], [[Oulipo]]
 + 
 +Publishing houses: [[Obelisk Press|Obelisk]], [[Olympia Press|Olympia]], [[Eric Losfeld]], [[Série Noire]]
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 +Titles: [[Clelia]], [[Princess of Cleves]], [[Le Sopha, conte moral]], [[Thérèse Philosophe]], [[Bijoux Indiscrets]], [[The 120 Days of Sodom]], [[La Religieuse]], [[Les Liaisons Dangereuses]], [[L'Histoire de Juliette]], [[Les Fleurs du mal]], [[Madame Bovary]], [[À rebours]], [[Dom Bougre]], [[The Crimes Of Love]], [[The Hunchback of Notre Dame]], [[Le Rouge et le Noir]], [[Gamiani]], [[Artificial Paradises]], [[Salammbô]], [[Le Spleen de Paris]], [[The Temptation of Saint Anthony]], [[Les Diaboliques]], [[La Bête Humaine]], [[The She Devils]], [[Torture Garden]], [[Hell (Barbusse novel)|Hell]], [[In Search of Lost Time]]
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 +Authors: [[Abbé Prévost]] - [[Guillaume Apollinaire]] - [[Georges Bataille]] - [[Sylvia Beach]] - [[Jean de Berg]] - [[Honoré de Balzac]] - [[Charles Baudelaire]] - [[Maurice Blanchot]] - [[André Breton]] - [[Jean-Pierre Brisset]] - [[Restif de la Bretonne ]] - [[Albert Camus]] - [[Céline]] - [[Robert Desnos]] - [[Régine Deforges]] - [[Denis Diderot]] - [[Alexandre Dumas]] - [[Paul Eluard]] - [[Gustave Flaubert]] - [[Serge Gainsbourg]] - [[Théophile Gautier]] - [[Alain Robbe-Grillet]] - [[Michel Houellebecq]] - [[Victor Hugo]] - [[Joris Karl Huysmans]] - [[Alfred Jarry]] - [[Pierre Klossowski]] - [[Lautréamont]] - [[Gaston Leroux]] - [[Pierre Louÿs]] - [[André Pieyre de Mandiargues]] - [[Guy de Maupassant]] - [[Octave Mirbeau]] - [[Nerciat]] - [[Georges Perec]] - [[Pauvert]] - [[Marcel Proust]] - [[Raymond Queneau]] - [[Rachilde]] - [[Raymond Radiguet]] - [[Pauline Réage]] - [[Raymond Roussel]] - [[Marquis de Sade]] - [[Georges Simenon]] - [[Paul Valéry]] - [[Jules Verne]] - [[Théophile de Viau ]] - [[Voltaire]] - [[Emile Zola]]
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 +"In the early 20th century, [[Guillaume Apollinaire]] radicalized the [[Charles Baudelaire|Baudelairian]] poetic exploration of [[modern life]] in evoking planes, the [[Eiffel Tower]] and [[urban]] [[wasteland]]s, and he brought poetry into contact with [[cubism]] through his "[[Calligrammes]]", a form of [[visual poetry]]."--[[Sholem Stein]]
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 +[[Image:Carte du tendre.jpg|thumb|right|200px|The ''[[Map of Tendre]]'' featured in ''Clélie'']]
 +[[Image:Collection of 21 Simenon romans durs bought at Panoply books, Antwerp, May 2020.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Collection of 21 Dutch translations of [[The 'romans durs' by Simenon|'romans durs']] by [[Georges Simenon]], in the [[Zwarte Beertjes]] collection, cover designs by [[Dick Bruna]].
 +<br><small>Photo © [[JWG]]</small>]]
 +[[Image:Friar John and Panurge.jpg|thumb|right|200px|[[Friar John]] and [[Panurge]] give the ''[[Blason and contreblason du couillon]]'' by [[François Rabelais|Rabelais]]]]
 +[[Image:Charles Baudelaire.jpg|thumb|right|200px|[[Charles Baudelaire]] (portrait by [[Etienne Carjat]], ca. [[1863]])]]
 +[[Image:Jules Amédée Barbey d’Aurevilly.jpg|thumb|right|200px|[[Jules Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly]] (portrait by [[Émile Lévy]], ca. [[1882]])]]
 +{{Template}}
'''French literature''' is, generally speaking, [[literature]] written in the [[French language]], particularly by citizens of [[France]]. For literature written in French by citizens of other [[Francophone]] nations see [[Francophone literature]]. '''French literature''' is, generally speaking, [[literature]] written in the [[French language]], particularly by citizens of [[France]]. For literature written in French by citizens of other [[Francophone]] nations see [[Francophone literature]].
-During the 20th century, France has been more [[permissive]] than other countries in terms of censorship, and many important foreign language novels were originally published in France while being banned in America: [[Joyce]]'s ''[[Ulysses]]'' (published by Sylvia Beach in Paris, 1922), Vladimir Nabokov's ''[[Lolita]]'' and William S. Burroughs's ''[[Naked Lunch]]'' (both published by Olympia Press), and Henry Miller's ''[[Tropic of Cancer]]'' (published by Obelisk Press). Additionally, Paris has been the home-in-exile to two American literary movements: the [[lost generation]] and the [[beat generation]]. +During the 20th century, France was more [[permissive]] than other countries in terms of censorship, and many important foreign language novels were originally published in France while being banned in America: [[Joyce]]'s ''[[Ulysses (novel)|Ulysses]]'' (published by Sylvia Beach in Paris, 1922), Vladimir Nabokov's ''[[Lolita]]'' and William S. Burroughs's ''[[Naked Lunch]]'' (both published by Olympia Press), and Henry Miller's ''[[Tropic of Cancer]]'' (published by Obelisk Press). Additionally, Paris has been the home-in-exile to two American literary movements: the [[lost generation]] and the [[beat generation]].
== Selected list of French literary classics == == Selected list of French literary classics ==
===Fiction=== ===Fiction===
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** [[Voltaire]] - ''[[Candide]]'' ** [[Voltaire]] - ''[[Candide]]''
** [[Jean-Jacques Rousseau]] - ''[[Julie, ou la nouvelle Héloïse]]'' ** [[Jean-Jacques Rousseau]] - ''[[Julie, ou la nouvelle Héloïse]]''
-** [[Denis Diderot]] - ''Jacques le fataliste'' (''Jacques the Fatalist'')+** [[Denis Diderot]] - ''[[Jacques le fataliste]]'' (''Jacques the Fatalist'')
* [[French literature of the 19th century|19th century]] * [[French literature of the 19th century|19th century]]
** [[Stendhal]] - ''Le Rouge et le Noir'' (''[[The Red and the Black]]''), ''La Chartreuse de Parme'' (''[[The Charterhouse of Parma]]'') ** [[Stendhal]] - ''Le Rouge et le Noir'' (''[[The Red and the Black]]''), ''La Chartreuse de Parme'' (''[[The Charterhouse of Parma]]'')
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===Poetry=== ===Poetry===
-* [[François Villon]] - ''Les Testaments''+* [[François Villon]] - ''[[Les Testaments]]''
* [[Pierre de Ronsard]], [[Joachim du Bellay]] and other poets of "[[La Pléiade]]" - poems * [[Pierre de Ronsard]], [[Joachim du Bellay]] and other poets of "[[La Pléiade]]" - poems
* [[La Fontaine]] - ''The [[Fables]]'' * [[La Fontaine]] - ''The [[Fables]]''
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* [[Jean Genet]] - ''[[The Maids]]'', ''The Blacks'' * [[Jean Genet]] - ''[[The Maids]]'', ''The Blacks''
-===Non-fiction===+===Nonfiction===
-* [[Michel de Montaigne]] - ''[[Essays (Montaigne)|The Essays]]''+* [[Michel de Montaigne]] ''[[Essays (Montaigne)|The Essays]]''
-* [[Blaise Pascal]] - ''[[Pensées|Les Pensées]]''+* [[Blaise Pascal]] ''[[Pensées|Les Pensées]]''
-* [[François de La Rochefoucauld (writer)|François de La Rochefoucauld]] - ''The Maxims''+* [[René Descartes]] – ''[[Meditations on First Philosophy]]'', ''[[Discourse on Method]]''
-* [[Jean-Jacques Rousseau]] - ''[[Discourse on the Arts and Sciences]]'', ''[[Social Contract (Rousseau)|The Social Contract]]''+* [[François de La Rochefoucauld (writer)|François de La Rochefoucauld]] ''The Maxims''
-* [[François-René de Chateaubriand]] - ''[[Génie du christianisme|Genius of Christianity]]'', ''[[Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe|Memoirs from Beyond Grave]]''+*[[Jean de La Bruyère|Jean de la Bruyère]] - Les Caractères ou les Mœurs de ce siècle
-* [[Alexis de Tocqueville]] - ''[[Democracy in America]]''+*[[Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon]] - Mémoires
-* [[Jules Michelet]] - ''Histoire de France'', ''La Sorcière''+* [[Jean-Jacques Rousseau]] ''[[Discourse on the Arts and Sciences]]'', ''[[Social Contract (Rousseau)|The Social Contract]]'', ''Les Confessions'' ([[Confessions (Rousseau)|Confessions]])
-* [[Albert Camus]] - ''[[The Myth of Sisyphus]]''+* [[François-René de Chateaubriand]] ''[[Génie du christianisme|Genius of Christianity]]'', ''[[Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe|Memoirs from Beyond Grave]]''
-* [[Jean-Paul Sartre]] - ''[[Existentialism is a Humanism]]'', ''[[Being and Nothingness]]''+* [[Alexis de Tocqueville]] ''[[Democracy in America]]''
 +* [[Frédéric Bastiat]] – ''[[The Law (1850 book)|The Law]]''
 +* [[Jules Michelet]] ''Histoire de France'', ''La Sorcière''
 +* [[Henri Bergson]] – ''[[Creative Evolution (book)|Creative Evolution]]''
 +* [[Albert Camus]] ''[[The Myth of Sisyphus]]''
 +* [[Jean-Paul Sartre]] ''[[Existentialism is a Humanism]]'', ''[[Being and Nothingness]]''
 +* [[Simone de Beauvoir]] – ''[[The Second Sex]]''
 +* [[Claude Lévi-Strauss]] – ''[[Tristes Tropiques]]''
 +* [[Emil Cioran]] – ''A Short History of Decay'', ''The Trouble with Being Born'' and other works in French
 +* [[Paul Ricœur]] – ''Freedom and Nature. The Voluntary and the Involuntary''
 +* [[Michel Foucault]] – ''[[Discipline and Punish]]''
 +* [[Pierre Bourdieu]] – ''[[La Distinction]]''
== Literary criticism == == Literary criticism ==
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*[[Symbolism (arts)]] *[[Symbolism (arts)]]
*[[Surrealism]] *[[Surrealism]]
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 +===French decadents===
 +:''[[décadentisme]]''
 +
 +* [[Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly]], ''[[Les Diaboliques (nouvelles)|Les Diaboliques]]'' (1874)
 +* [[Henri Beauclair]], [[Gabriel Vicaire]], ''[[Les Déliquescences d'Adoré Floupette, poète décadent]]'' (1885)
 +* [[Jean Bertheroy]], ''La Mime Bathylle'' (1894)
 +* [[Léon Bloy]], ''[[Histoires désobligeantes]]'', (1894)
 +* [[Élémir Bourges]], ''Le Crépuscule des dieux'' (1884)
 +* [[Louis Dumur]], ''Albert'' (1890)
 +* [[Georges Eekhoud]], ''Escal-Vigor'' (1899)
 +* [[Joris-Karl Huysmans]], ''[[À rebours]]'' (1884)
 +* [[Jules Laforgue]], ''[[Les Complaintes]]'' (1885)
 +* [[Jane de la Vaudère]], ''Les Sataniques'' (1897)
 +* [[Jean Lorrain]], ''[[Monsieur de Phocas]]'' (1901)
 +* [[Camille Mauclair]], ''[[Le Soleil des morts]]'' (1898)
 +* [[Octave Mirbeau]], ''[[Le Jardin des supplices]]'' (1899)
 +* [[Rachilde]], ''Les Hors Nature'' (1897)
 +* [[Maurice Rollinat]], ''Les Névroses'' (1883)
 +* [[Jean de Tinan]], ''[[Penses-tu réussir ?]]'' (1897)
 +* [[Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam]], ''[[Contes cruels (Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam) |Contes cruels]]'' (1883)
== See also == == See also ==
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* [[French science fiction]] * [[French science fiction]]
* [[Fantastique]] * [[Fantastique]]
 +* [[The Women of the French Salons ]]
 +* [[Cabinet de lecture: A History of French Reading Rooms]]
 +* ''[[Les Cent nouvelles nouvelles]]''
 +* [[French literature of the 20th century]]
 +* [[Roman populaire]]
-== See also == 
-*[[Charles Baudelaire]] 
-*''[[Les Cent nouvelles nouvelles]]'' 
-*[[fantastique|Le fantastique]], a substantial genre within [[French literature]] 
-== We like == 
-[[Abbé Prévost]] - [[Guillaume Apollinaire]] - [[Georges Bataille]] - [[Sylvia Beach]] - [[Jean de Berg]] - [[Honoré de Balzac]] - [[Charles Baudelaire]] - [[Maurice Blanchot]] - [[André Breton]] - [[Jean-Pierre Brisset]] - [[Restif de la Bretonne ]] - [[Albert Camus]] - [[Céline]] - [[Robert Desnos]] - [[Régine Deforges]] - [[Denis Diderot]] - [[Alexandre Dumas]] - [[Paul Eluard]] - [[Gustave Flaubert]] - [[Serge Gainsbourg]] - [[Théophile Gautier]] - [[Alain Robbe-Grillet]] - [[Michel Houellebecq]] - [[Victor Hugo]] - [[Joris Karl Huysmans]] - [[Alfred Jarry]] - [[Pierre Klossowski]] - [[Lautréamont]] - [[Gaston Leroux]] - [[Pierre Louÿs]] - [[André Pieyre de Mandiargues]] - [[Guy de Maupassant]] - [[Octave Mirbeau]] - [[Nerciat]] - [[Georges Perec]] - [[Pauvert]] - [[Marcel Proust]] - [[Raymond Queneau]] - [[Rachilde]] - [[Raymond Radiguet]] - [[Pauline Réage]] - [[Raymond Roussel]] - [[Marquis de Sade]] - [[Georges Simenon]] - [[Paul Valéry]] - [[Jules Verne]] - [[Théophile de Viau ]] - [[Voltaire]] - [[Emile Zola]] 
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Canon: Georges Bataille, Charles Baudelaire, Maurice Blanchot, Céline, Denis Diderot, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Michel Houellebecq, Georges Perec, Rabelais, Marquis de Sade, Villon

French literary criticism: Sainte-Beuve, Charles Baudelaire

Subgenres: The "frenetic" school of the 1820s/1830s, French pulp fiction, libertine novel, naturalism, nouveau roman, Oulipo

Publishing houses: Obelisk, Olympia, Eric Losfeld, Série Noire

Titles: Clelia, Princess of Cleves, Le Sopha, conte moral, Thérèse Philosophe, Bijoux Indiscrets, The 120 Days of Sodom, La Religieuse, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, L'Histoire de Juliette, Les Fleurs du mal, Madame Bovary, À rebours, Dom Bougre, The Crimes Of Love, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Le Rouge et le Noir, Gamiani, Artificial Paradises, Salammbô, Le Spleen de Paris, The Temptation of Saint Anthony, Les Diaboliques, La Bête Humaine, The She Devils, Torture Garden, Hell, In Search of Lost Time

Authors: Abbé Prévost - Guillaume Apollinaire - Georges Bataille - Sylvia Beach - Jean de Berg - Honoré de Balzac - Charles Baudelaire - Maurice Blanchot - André Breton - Jean-Pierre Brisset - Restif de la Bretonne - Albert Camus - Céline - Robert Desnos - Régine Deforges - Denis Diderot - Alexandre Dumas - Paul Eluard - Gustave Flaubert - Serge Gainsbourg - Théophile Gautier - Alain Robbe-Grillet - Michel Houellebecq - Victor Hugo - Joris Karl Huysmans - Alfred Jarry - Pierre Klossowski - Lautréamont - Gaston Leroux - Pierre Louÿs - André Pieyre de Mandiargues - Guy de Maupassant - Octave Mirbeau - Nerciat - Georges Perec - Pauvert - Marcel Proust - Raymond Queneau - Rachilde - Raymond Radiguet - Pauline Réage - Raymond Roussel - Marquis de Sade - Georges Simenon - Paul Valéry - Jules Verne - Théophile de Viau - Voltaire - Emile Zola


"In the early 20th century, Guillaume Apollinaire radicalized the Baudelairian poetic exploration of modern life in evoking planes, the Eiffel Tower and urban wastelands, and he brought poetry into contact with cubism through his "Calligrammes", a form of visual poetry."--Sholem Stein

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The Map of Tendre featured in Clélie
Collection of 21 Dutch translations of 'romans durs' by Georges Simenon, in the Zwarte Beertjes collection, cover designs by Dick Bruna. Photo © JWG
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French literature is, generally speaking, literature written in the French language, particularly by citizens of France. For literature written in French by citizens of other Francophone nations see Francophone literature.

During the 20th century, France was more permissive than other countries in terms of censorship, and many important foreign language novels were originally published in France while being banned in America: Joyce's Ulysses (published by Sylvia Beach in Paris, 1922), Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita and William S. Burroughs's Naked Lunch (both published by Olympia Press), and Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer (published by Obelisk Press). Additionally, Paris has been the home-in-exile to two American literary movements: the lost generation and the beat generation.

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Selected list of French literary classics

Fiction

Poetry

Theater

Nonfiction

Literary criticism

Poetry

Main article: French poetry

French decadents

décadentisme

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