Country
France
43 works in this collection, sorted chronologically.
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Gargantua and Pantagruel
François Rabelais · 1534 AD
Essays
Michel de Montaigne · 1580 AD
Dom Juan
Molière (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin) · 1665 AD
The Misanthrope / Tartuffe
Molière (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin) · 1666 AD
Pensées
Blaise Pascal · 1670 AD
The Spirit of the Laws
Montesquieu · 1748 AD
Candide
Voltaire · 1759 AD
The Social Contract
Jean-Jacques Rousseau · 1762 AD
Red and Black
Stendhal · 1830 AD
Democracy in America
Alexis de Tocqueville · 1835 AD
Père Goriot / La Comédie humaine
Honoré de Balzac · 1835 AD
The Charterhouse of Parma
Stendhal · 1839 AD
The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas · 1844 AD
Madame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert · 1857 AD
The Flowers of Evil
Charles Baudelaire · 1857 AD
Mirèio (Mireille)
Frédéric Mistral · 1859 AD
Les Misérables
Victor Hugo · 1862 AD
Poems (Prudhomme: Stances et Poèmes)
Sully Prudhomme · 1865 AD
A Season in Hell / Illuminations
Arthur Rimbaud · 1873 AD
The Counterfeiters
André Gide · 1902 AD
Creative Evolution
Henri Bergson · 1907 AD
Penguin Island / The Gods Are Athirst
Anatole France · 1908 AD
Reflections on Violence
Georges Sorel · 1908 AD
Jean-Christophe
Romain Rolland · 1912 AD
In Search of Lost Time
Marcel Proust · 1913 AD
Anabasis / Selected Poems
Saint-John Perse · 1924 AD
Thérèse Desqueyroux
François Mauriac · 1927 AD
Journey to the End of the Night
L.-F. Céline · 1932 AD
The Thibaults
Roger Martin du Gard · 1936 AD
Being and Nothingness / Nausea
Jean-Paul Sartre · 1938 AD
The Stranger
Albert Camus · 1942 AD
The Little Prince
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry · 1943 AD
Phenomenology of Perception
Maurice Merleau-Ponty · 1945 AD
The Plague
Albert Camus · 1947 AD
The Second Sex
Simone de Beauvoir · 1949 AD
Waiting for Godot
Samuel Beckett · 1952 AD
Tristes Tropiques
Claude Lévi-Strauss · 1955 AD
The Flanders Road
Claude Simon · 1960 AD
The Society of the Spectacle
Guy Debord · 1967 AD
Missing Person / Suspended Sentences
Patrick Modiano · 1978 AD
Desert / The Prospector
J.M.G. Le Clézio · 1980 AD
I See Satan Fall Like Lightning
René Girard · 1999 AD
The Years
Annie Ernaux · 2008 AD
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