FRENCH LITERATURE

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Language: French

Capital: Paris

Currencies: Euro

Population: 66.3 million

Famous Place

Work of Art

Famous writers

Honoré de Balzac

A novelist and playwrightFamous for his work entitled “ La Comedie Humaine”Founding father of Realism

Samuel BeckettAn irish who moved in France permanentlyConsidered as the Last ModernistEn Attendant Godot (waiting for Godot)

Cyrano de Bergerac

He is not a writer but there is a play written by Edmond Rostand entitled Cyrano de Bergerac.The play is about his own life.He had an enormously Large now which he is very proud

Albert Camus

An Algerian born author who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957Best known tor two novels of the absurd “L’Estranger” (The Stranger) and Le Mythe de Sisyphe

Victor Hugo

He would describe himself as the first Humanitarian who used literature as a mean to describe the human conditions and the injustices of society.His famous works are Les Miserables and Notre-Dame de Paris

Alexandre Dumas considered as the most widely read author in history. famous works are:

The Three Musketeers

The Count of Montecristo

SONG OF ROLANDAn epic poem based on the Battle of Roncevaux in 778, during the reign of Charlemagne.

CharactersRolandCharlemagne

TurnipNaimonBramimonde

BaligantBlancadrinKing Marsile

OliwierGanelon