This list comprises numerous French classics, from romantic epics, to realist critiques of society, to philosophical fiction, to scandalous stories, poetry, & more!
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The Man in the Iron Mask
Alexandre Dumas
My Fantoms
Théophile Gautier
Le Petit Prince
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
La Bête humaine
Émile Zola
La Belle et la Bête
Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve
L'Amant
Marguerite Duras
The Dead Donkey and the Guillotined Woman by Jules Janin (1993-07-25)
unknown author
The Mysteries of Paris
Eugène Sue
Les Diaboliques
Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly
The Damned
Joris-Karl Huysmans
La Vénus d'Ille
Prosper Mérimée
The Castle of the Carpathians
Jules Verne
The Devil in Love
Jacques Cazotte
La Gloire de mon père
Marcel Pagnol
Dom Juan
Molière Molière
La Peau de chagrin
Honoré de Balzac
Phèdre
Jean Racine
The Game of Love and Chance
Pierre de Marivaux
Femme Fatale
Guy de Maupassant
The Necklace
L'Horla
Antigone
Jean Anouilh
A Season in Hell & The Drunken Boat
Arthur Rimbaud
Illuminations
I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem
Maryse Condé
The Complete Fables of Jean de La Fontaine
Jean de la Fontaine
Les Amours de Psyché Et de Cupidon
Gargantua and Pantagruel
François Rabelais
Au bonheur des dames
Thérèse Raquin
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