Editing French literature (section)

==Key texts==

===Fiction===
*[[Medieval French literature|Middle Ages]]
** anonymous – ''La Chanson de Roland'' (''[[The Song of Roland]]'')
** [[Chrétien de Troyes]] – ''Yvain ou le Chevalier au Lion'' (''[[Yvain, the Knight of the Lion]]''), ''Lancelot, ou le Chevalier à la charrette'' (''[[Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart]]'')
** [[Marie de France]] – [[Lais of Marie de France|''Lais'']]
** various – ''Tristan et Iseult'' (''[[Tristan and Iseult]]'')
** anonymous – ''Lancelot-Graal'' ''([[Lancelot-Grail]])'', also known as the ''prose Lancelot'' or the ''Vulgate Cycle''
** anonymous – [[Reynard the Fox#Roman de Renart|''Roman de Renart'']]
** [[Guillaume de Lorris]] and [[Jean de Meung]] – ''[[Roman de la Rose]]'' ("Romance of the Rose")
** [[Christine de Pizan]] – "[[The Book of the City of Ladies]]"
* [[French Renaissance literature|16th century]]
** [[François Rabelais]] – ''La vie de Gargantua et de Pantagruel'' ("[[Gargantua and Pantagruel]]")
** [[Hélisenne de Crenne]] – ''[[The Torments of Love]]''
** [[Marguerite de Navarre]] – ''[[Heptaméron]]''
* [[French literature of the 17th century|17th century]]
** [[Honoré d'Urfé]] – ''[[L'Astrée]]''
** [[Madame de Lafayette]] – ''[[La Princesse de Clèves]]''
** [[François Fénelon]] – ''[[The Adventures of Telemachus]]''
** [[Madame d'Aulnoy]] – ''Les Contes des Fées'' ("Fairy Tales", a fairy tale collection including [[The Blue Bird (fairy tale)|''The Blue Bird'']] and ''[[The Story of Pretty Goldilocks]]''), ''Contes Nouveaux ou Les Fées à la Mode'' ("New Tales, or Fairies in Fashion", a fairy tale collection including [[The White Cat (fairy tale)|''The White Cat'']])
** [[Charles Perrault]] – ''[[Histoires ou contes du temps passé]]'' ("Stories or Tales from Past Times, with Morals", a fairy tale collection which includes ''[[Sleeping Beauty]]'' and ''[[Little Red Riding Hood]]'')
* [[French literature of the 18th century|18th century]]
** [[Antoine Galland]] – [[Les mille et une nuits|''Les Mille et une nuits'']] ("The Thousand and One Nights", a fairy tale collection, which includes ''[[Aladdin]]'' and ''[[Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves]]'')
** [[Abbé Prévost]] – ''[[Manon Lescaut]]''
** [[Voltaire]] – ''[[Candide]]'', ''[[Zadig|Zadig ou la Destinée]]''
** [[Jean-Jacques Rousseau]] – ''[[Julie, ou la nouvelle Héloïse]] (Julie or the New Heloise)''
** [[Denis Diderot]] – ''Jacques le fataliste'' (''[[Jacques the Fatalist]]'')
** [[Montesquieu]] – ''[[Persian Letters]]''
** [[Pierre Choderlos de Laclos]] – ''[[Les Liaisons dangereuses]] (Dangerous Liaisons)''
** [[Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre]] – ''[[Paul et Virginie]]'' (''Paul and Virginia'')
* [[French literature of the 19th century|19th century]]
** [[Germaine de Staël]] – ''[[Corinne, or Italy]]''
** [[François-René de Chateaubriand]] – ''Atala'', ''[[René (novella)|René]]''
** [[Benjamin Constant]] – ''[[Adolphe]]''
** [[Stendhal]] – ''Le Rouge et le Noir'' (''[[The Red and the Black]]''), ''La Chartreuse de Parme'' (''[[The Charterhouse of Parma]]'')
** [[Honoré de Balzac]] – ''[[La Comédie humaine]]'' ("The Human Comedy", a novel cycle which includes ''[[Père Goriot]]'', ''[[Illusions perdues|Lost Illusions]]'', and ''[[Eugénie Grandet]]'')
** [[Alexandre Dumas]] – ''[[The Count of Monte Cristo]]'', ''[[The Three Musketeers]]''
** [[Victor Hugo]] – ''Notre-Dame de Paris'' (''[[The Hunchback of Notre-Dame]]''), ''[[Les Misérables]]''
** [[Théophile Gautier]] – ''[[Théophile Gautier#Novels|Mademoiselle de Maupin]]''
** [[Paul Féval, père]] – [[Le Bossu (novel)|''Le Bossu'']] (''The Hunchback'')
** [[Gustave Flaubert]] – ''[[Madame Bovary]]'', ''[[Salammbô (novel)|Salammbô]]'', ''L'Éducation sentimentale'' (''[[Sentimental Education]]'')
** [[Jules Verne]] – ''Vingt mille lieues sous les mers'' (''[[Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas]]''), ''Voyage au centre de la Terre'' (''[[A Journey to the Center of the Earth]]''), ''Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours'' (''[[Around the World in Eighty Days]]'')
** [[Edmond de Goncourt|Edmond]] and [[Jules de Goncourt]] – ''Germinie Lacerteux''
** [[George Sand]] – ''[[La Petite Fadette]]''
**[[Joris-Karl Huysmans]] – "[[À rebours]]"
** [[Guy de Maupassant]] – ''[[Bel Ami]]'', ''La Parure'' (''[[The Necklace]]''), other short stories
** [[Émile Zola]] – ''[[Thérèse Raquin]]'', ''[[Les Rougon-Macquart]]'' (a novel cycle which includes ''[[L'Assommoir]]'', ''[[Nana (novel)|Nana]]'' and ''[[Germinal (novel)|Germinal]]'')
* [[French literature of the 20th century|20th century]]
** [[André Gide]] – ''Les Faux-monnayeurs'' (''[[The Counterfeiters (novel)|The Counterfeiters]]''), ''L'Immoraliste'' (''[[The Immoralist]]'')
** [[Marcel Proust]] – ''À la recherche du temps perdu'' (''[[In Search of Lost Time]]'')
** [[Albert Cohen (novelist)|Albert Cohen]]
** [[François Mauriac]]
** [[Louis Aragon]]
** [[Blaise Cendrars]]
** [[Samuel Beckett]] – ''[[Molloy (novel)|Molloy]]'', ''[[Malone Dies]]'', ''[[The Unnamable (novel)|The Unnamable]]'', ''[[How It Is]]''
** [[André Breton]] – ''[[Nadja (novel)|Nadja]]''
** [[Gaston Leroux]] – ''Le Fantôme de l'Opéra'' (''[[The Phantom of the Opera (novel)|The Phantom of the Opera]]'')
** [[Roger Martin du Gard]] – ''Les Thibault'' (''[[The Thibaults]]'')
** [[Louis-Ferdinand Céline]] – ''Voyage au bout de la nuit'' (''[[Journey to the End of the Night]]'')
** [[Colette]] – ''[[Gigi (novella)|Gigi]]''
** [[Jean Genet]] – ''[[Our Lady of the Flowers|Notre-Dame-des-Fleurs]]''
** [[Julien Gracq]] – ''Le Rivage des Syrtes'' (''[[The Opposing Shore]]'')
** [[André Malraux]] – ''La Condition Humaine'' (''[[Man's Fate]]''), ''L'Espoir'' (''[[Man's Hope]]'')
** [[Albert Camus]] – ''L'Étranger'' (''[[The Stranger (Camus novel)|The Stranger]]'' or ''The Outsider'')
** [[Michel Butor]] – ''[[La Modification]]''
** [[Marguerite Yourcenar]] – ''[[Mémoires d'Hadrien]]''
** [[Alain Robbe-Grillet]] – ''Dans le labyrinthe''
** [[Georges Perec]] – ''[[Life: A User's Manual|La vie mode d'emploi]]''
** [[Claude Simon]] – ''Les Géorgiques'' (''The Georgics'')
** [[Robert Pinget]] – ''[[Passacaille]]''
** [[Jean-Paul Sartre]] – ''La Nausée'' (''[[Nausea (novel)|Nausea]]''), ''L´Âge de Raison'' ''([[The Age of Reason (Sartre)|The Age of Reason]])''
** [[Françoise Sagan]] – ''[[Bonjour Tristesse]]'' (''Hello Sadness'')
** [[Antoine de Saint-Exupéry]] – ''[[Le Petit Prince]]'' (''The Little Prince'')
* [[Contemporary French literature|21st century]]
** [[Michel Houellebecq]] – ''La carte et le territoire'' (''[[The Map and the Territory]]'')
** [[Pierre Lemaitre]] – [[The Great Swindle (novel)|''The Great Swindle'']]
** [[Léonora Miano]] – ''La Saison de l'ombre''
** [[Kamel Daoud]] – ''Meursault, contre-enquête'' (''[[The Meursault Investigation]]'')

===Poetry===
* Middle Ages
** [[William IX, Duke of Aquitaine|William IX]] (1071–1127)
** [[Jaufre Rudel]] (1113–70)
** [[Bernart de Ventadorn]] (1130–90)
** [[Bertran de Born]] (1140–1215)
** [[Marie de France]] (fl. 1160–1210)
** [[Rutebeuf]] (1245–85)
** [[Jean Froissart]] (1337–1405)
** [[François Villon]] (1431–63) – ''[[Le Testament]]''
* [[La Pléiade]]
** [[Clément Marot]] (1496–1544)
** [[Maurice Scève]] (1505–1569)
** [[Joachim du Bellay]] (1522–60)
** [[Pontus de Tyard]] (1521–1605)
** [[Louise Labé]] (1524–1566)
** [[Pierre de Ronsard]] (1524–85)
* [[Baroque]]
** [[Agrippa d'Aubigné]] (1552–1630) – ''Les Tragiques''
** [[Théophile de Viau]] (1590–1626)
* [[Classicism]]
** [[François de Malherbe]] (1555–1628)
** [[Jean de La Fontaine]] (1621–95) – ''The [[La Fontaine's Fables|Fables]]''
** [[Nicolas Boileau]] (1636–1711)
* [[Romantic poetry|Romanticism]]
** [[André Chénier]] (1762–1794)
** [[Alphonse de Lamartine]] (1790–1869) – ''Méditations poétiques''
** [[Alfred de Vigny]] (1797–1863)
** [[Victor Hugo]] (1802–85) – ''[[Les Contemplations]]''
** [[Gérard de Nerval]] (1808–55) – ''[[The Chimeras]]''
** [[Alfred de Musset]] (1810–57)
** [[Charles Baudelaire]] (1821–67) – ''[[Les Fleurs du mal]]''
* [[Parnassianism]]
** [[Théophile Gautier]] (1811–72)
** [[Leconte de Lisle]] (1818–94)
** [[Théodore de Banville]] (1823–91)
* [[Symbolism (arts)|Symbolism]] and [[Decadent movement|Decadence]]
** [[Villiers de L'Isle-Adam]] (1838–89)
** [[Stéphane Mallarmé]] (1842–98)
** [[Paul Verlaine]] (1844–96)
** [[Comte de Lautréamont]] (1846–70)
** [[Arthur Rimbaud]] (1854–91) – ''[[Une Saison en Enfer]]''
** [[Paul Valéry]] (1871–1945)
** [[Paul Fort]] (1872–1960)
* [[Modernist poetry|Modernism]]
**[[Charles Péguy]] (1873–1914)
** [[Guillaume Apollinaire]] (1880–1918) – ''Alcools''
** [[Blaise Cendrars]] (1887–1961)
** [[Saint-John Perse]] (1887–1975) – ''Vents''
* [[Dada]] and [[Surrealism]]
** [[Paul Éluard]] (1895–1952)
** [[Tristan Tzara]] (1896–1963)
** [[André Breton]] (1896–1966)
** [[Louis Aragon]] (1897–1982)
** [[Henri Michaux]] (1899–1984)
** [[Robert Desnos]] (1900–45)
** [[René Char]] (1907–88)
* [[Postmodern literature|Postmodernism]]
** [[Jules Supervielle]] (1884–1960)
** [[Jean Cocteau]] (1889–1963)
** [[Francis Ponge]] (1899–1988) – ''Le Parti Pris des Choses''
** [[Jacques Prévert]] (1900–77)
** [[Raymond Queneau]] (1903–76)
* [[Négritude]]
** [[Léopold Sédar Senghor]] (1906–2001)
** [[Birago Diop]] (1906–89)
** [[Aimé Césaire]] (1913–2008)

===Theatre===
* [[Adam de la Halle]] – ''[[Le Jeu de Robin et de Marion]]''
* Anonymous - ''[[La Farce de maître Pathelin]]'' (ca. 1456–1460)
* [[Pierre Corneille]] (1606–84)- ''[[Le Cid]]'' (1636), ''[[Horace (play)|Horace]]''
* [[Molière]] – ''[[Tartuffe]]'', ''[[Le Misanthrope]]'', ''[[Dom Juan]]'', ''L'Avare'' (''[[The Miser]]''), ''[[Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme]]'', ''L'École des femmes'' (''[[The School for Wives]]''), ''Le Malade imaginaire'' (''[[The Imaginary Invalid]]'')
* [[Jean Racine]] – ''[[Phèdre]]'', ''[[Andromaque]]'', ''[[Bérénice]]'', ''[[Athalie]]''
* [[Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux|Marivaux]] – ''Jeu de l'amour et du hasard''
* [[Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais|Beaumarchais]] – ''Le Barbier de Séville'' (''[[The Barber of Seville (play)|The Barber of Seville]]''), ''La Folle journée, ou Le Mariage de Figaro'' (''[[The Marriage of Figaro (play)|The Marriage of Figaro]]'')
* [[Alfred Jarry]] – ''[[King Ubu]]''
* [[Edmond Rostand]] – ''[[Cyrano de Bergerac (play)|Cyrano de Bergerac]]''
* [[Jean Giraudoux]] – ''[[The Trojan War Will Not Take Place]]''
* [[Jean Anouilh]] – ''[[Becket]]'', ''[[Antigone (Anouilh play)|Antigone]]''
* [[Jean-Paul Sartre]] – ''[[No Exit]]''
* [[Eugène Ionesco]] – ''La Cantatrice chauve''' (''[[The Bald Soprano]]''), ''Les Chaises'' (''[[The Chairs]]''), ''La Leçon'' (''[[The Lesson]]''), ''[[Rhinoceros (play)|Rhinoceros]]''
* [[Jean Genet]] – ''[[The Maids]]'', ''[[The Balcony]]''
* [[Samuel Beckett]] – ''[[En attendant Godot]]'' (''[[Waiting for Godot]]''), ''Fin de Partie'' (''[[Endgame (play)|Endgame]]'') and other works in French

===Nonfiction===
* [[Jean Froissart]] – [[Froissart's Chronicles|''Chronicles'']]
* [[Philippe de Commines]] – ''Memoirs''
* [[Étienne de La Boétie]] - ''[[Discourse on Voluntary Servitude]]''
* [[Michel de Montaigne]] – ''[[Essays (Montaigne)|The Essays]]''
* [[Blaise Pascal]] – ''[[Pensées|Les Pensées]]''
* [[René Descartes]] – ''[[Meditations on First Philosophy]]'', ''[[Discourse on Method]]''
* [[François de La Rochefoucauld (writer)|François de La Rochefoucauld]] – ''The Maxims''
*[[Jean de La Bruyère|Jean de la Bruyère]] – ''Les Caractères ou les Mœurs de ce siècle''
*[[Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon]] – ''Memoirs''
* [[Jean-Jacques Rousseau]] – ''[[Discourse on the Arts and Sciences]]'', ''[[Social Contract (Rousseau)|The Social Contract]]'', ''Les Confessions'' ([[Confessions (Rousseau)|Confessions]])
* [[François-René de Chateaubriand]] – ''[[Génie du christianisme|Genius of Christianity]]'', ''[[Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe|Memoirs from Beyond Grave]]''
* [[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]]'', ''[[The History of Sexuality]]''
* [[Pierre Bourdieu]] – ''[[La Distinction]]''
* [[Gilles Deleuze]] - ''[[Difference and Repetition]]''