French Literature Companion
The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French, edited by Peter France, Oxford University Press
An adventurous and wide-ranging guide to ten centuries of literature produced in the territory now called France as well as the rich literary output of other French-speaking countries around the world. Individual authors and their works are covered, from the troubadours to Césaire, and from La Princesse de Clèves to La Vie mode d'emploi. Essay entries reflect the latest scholarship on such topics as chivalry, Occupation and Resistance in wartime France, scholasticism, the sciences, literary movements and genres, opera, cinema and press.
On this page: Barrès, Maurice to Belleforest, François de.