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There is a veritable smorgasbord of fantastic and very well-known French literature. The best known ones, and thus the easiest to find information on in the case of a school project or similar, are as follows (names of some well-known works, but not all, follow):
Honoré de Balzac (1799 - 1850) - La Comedie Humaine
Albert Camus (1913-1960) - L'ètranger, The Plague, The Fall, A Happy Death, The First Man
Colette (1873-1954) - Gigi, Cheri
Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870) - The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers, The Nutcracker, The Vicomte de Bragelonne
Denis Diderot (1713-1784) - Jacques the Fatalist
Alphonse Daudet (1840-1897) - Le Petit Chose, Tartarin de Tarascon
Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880) - Madame Bovary
Victor Hugo (1802-1885) - The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Les Misérables
Marcel Proust (1871-1922) - Remembrance of Things Past
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) - Discourse on Inequality, The Social Contract
Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) - No Exit, The Words, The Flies, Being and Nothingness
Gertrude Stein* (1874-1946) - Three Lives, The Making of Americans, How to Write
Jules Verne (1828-1905) - Journey to the Center of the Earth, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Around the World in Eighty Days, Five Weeks in a Balloon
Voltaire (1694-1778) - Candide
Emile Zola (1840-1902) - L'Oeuvre, La Joie de Vivre
*Born in the US, spent most of life in France.
This is by no means an exhaustive list, but should get you started!
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