By category French literature is, generally speaking, literature written in the French language, particularly by citizens of France; it may also refer to literature written by people living in France who speak other traditional non-French languages. ...
French literary history
Medieval 16th century - 17th century 18th century -19th century 20th century - Contemporary Medieval French literature is, for the purpose of this article, literature written in Oïl languages (including Old French and early Middle French) during the period from the eleventh century to the end of the fifteenth century. ... French Renaissance literature is, for the purpose of this article, literature written in French (Middle French) from the French invasion of Italy in 1494 to 1600, or roughly the period from the reign of Charles VIII of France to the ascension of Henri IV of France to the throne. ... Louis XIV King of France and Navarre By Hyacinthe Rigaud (1701) French literature of the 17th century spans the reigns of Henry IV of France, the Regency of Marie de Medici, Louis XIII of France, the Regency of Anne of Austria (and the civil war called the Fronde) and the... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... French literature of the twentieth century is, for the purpose of this article, literature written in French from (roughly) 1895 to 1990. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ...
Le Silence de la mer (The Silence of the Sea) is a book written in early 1942 by Jean Bruller, under the codename Vercors. ... This article is about the year. ...
Early 20th-century poets, like Emile Verhaeren, Jean Moréas, and Henri de Régnier, all initially embraced Symbolism, then abandoned it, Verhaeren for a violent lyricism that is almost Romantic, Moréas and Régnier for Classical forms and themes.
His own output is very small, but his influence is seen in dramatists like Jean Genet: in Les Bonnes (1947; The Maids, 1954) and Le Balcon (1960; The Balcony, produced earlier than the French version, in 1957), cruelty enshrined in ritual and masquerade, as advocated by Artaud, evokes a visceral response in the spectator.
These are but examples of a rich and varied genre, to which should be added the name of Georges Simenon, a master of the psychological detective novel, and a writer of straight fiction with an acute perception of human nature.
The second part of the poem, of some 18,000 lines, completed by Jean de Meun between 1275 and 1280, is different in character, containing disquisitions on all aspects of medieval life: social, economic, political, and religious.
In the theatre, the tragicomedies of Alexandre Hardy and Jean de Rotrou dramatized conflicts of love and honour among high-born characters, and aimed at surprising and astonishing the spectator with violent action and lavish changes of scenery.
St Jean de Brébeuf, Racan, and the poets whose works appeared in the Recueil de Poésies Chrétiennes et Diverses (Collection of Christian and Other Poems, 1671), edited by Jean de La Fontaine, express personal sentiments in harmonious post-Malherbian verse.
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