French Literature

The grandeur of French letters — Hugo and Dumas, Balzac and Flaubert, Maupassant and Zola — the tradition that perfected the realist novel.

Realism, romance, and revolution

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• The Legend of Saint Julian the Hospitaller
• The Atheist´s Mass
• Taking The Bastile
• La Paix Du Ménage
• At the Church Door
• A Dead Woman's Secret
• The Imaginary Mistress
• Crash
• Queen Hortense
• The Hated Son
• A Madman
• Suicides
• The Village Rector
• Germinal
• The Prisoners
• A Passion in the Desert
• Folk-Tales of Napoleon
• The Putter-To-Sleep
• Alexandre
• Useless Beauty
• What was Really the Matter with Andrew
• Study of a Woman
• The Lesser Bourgeoisie. the Middle Classes
• A Sister's Confession
• Violated
• In the Moonlight
• The Firm of Nucingen
• Martine
• Miss Harriet
• The Necklace
• Boule De Suif
• The Fortune of the Rougons
• Sundays of a Bourgeois
• In the Spring
• The Devil
• Our Letters
• The Illustrious Dr. Mathéus
• To Monseigneur the Dauphin
• The Grasshopper and the Ant
• The Raven and the Fox
• The Frog that Wished to be as Big as the Ox
• The Two Mules
• The Wolf and the Dog
• The Wallet
• The Swallow and the Little Birds
• The City Rat and the Country Rat
• The Wolf and the Lamb
• The Man and his Image
• The Thieves and the Ass
• Simonides Preserved by the Gods
• Death and the Unfortunate
• Death and the Woodman
• The Man between Two Ages, and his Two Mistresses
• The Fox and the Stork
• The Boy and the Schoolmaster
• The Cock and the Pearl
• The Hornets and the Bees
• The Oak and the Reed
• Against the Hard to Suit
• The Council Held by the Rats
• The Wolf Accusing the Fox before the Monkey
• The Two Bulls and the Frog
• The Bat and the Two Weasels
• The Bird Wounded by an Arrow
• The Bitch and her Friend
• The Eagle and the Beetle
• The Lion and the Gnat
• The Astrologer who Stumbled into a Well
• The Hare and the Frogs
• The Cock and the Fox
• The Peacock Complaining to Juno
• The Cat Metamorphosed into a Woman
• The Lion and the Ass Hunting
• The will Explained by Aesop
• The Miller, his Son, and the Ass
• The Members and the Belly
• The Frogs Asking a King
• The Eagle, the Wild Sow, and the Cat
• The Drunkard and his Wife
• The Wolf and the Stork
• The Lion Beaten by the Man
• The Fox and the Grapes
• The Swan and the Cook
• The Wolves and the Sheep
• The Lion Grown Old
• Philomel and Progne
• The Woman Drowned
• The Weasel in the Granary
• The Cat and the Old Rat
• The Lion in Love
• The Shepherd and the Sea
• The Gardener and his Lord
• The Ass and the Little Dog
• The Battle of the Rats and the Weasels
• The Monkey and the Dolphin
• The Man and the Wooden God
• The Jay in the Feathers of the Peacock
• The Camel and the Floating Sticks
• The Frog and the Rat
• The Animals Sending Tribute to Alexander
• The Horse Wishing to be Revenged Upon the Stag
• The Fox and the Bust
• The Wolf, the Goat, and the Kid
• The Eye of the Master
• The Woodman and Mercury
• The Earthen Pot and the Iron Pot
• The Little Fish and the Fisher
• The Ears of the Hare
• The Old Woman and her Two Servants
• The Satyr and the Traveller
• The Horse and the Wolf
• The Ploughman and his Sons
• The Mountain in Labour
• The Doctors
• The Ass Carrying Relics
• The Stag and the Vine
• The Serpent and the File
• The Hare and the Partridge
• The Eagle and the Owl
• The Lion Going to War

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