Top 20 French Authors of All Time (Top 20 French Novels)
In this video I talk about top 20 French authors of all time by the country's 20 great novels. In this video I look at 450 years of French literature and talk about the best novels of all time.
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00.00 Why French literature?
02:07 "Gargantua and Pantagruel" by François Rabelais (1532)
03:42 "The Misanthrope" by Moliere (1666)
04:48 "Candide" by Voltaire (1759)
06:22 "Dangerous Liaisons" by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos (1782)
07:35 "The Red and the Black" by Stendhal (1830)
08:50 "Indiana" by George Sand (1831)
09:58 "Père Goriot" by Honoré de Balzac (1835)
11:13 "The Three Musketeers" by Alexander Dumas (1844)
12:13 "Madame Bovary" by Gustave Flaubert (1856)
13:40 "Le Misérables" or "The Miserables" by Victor Hugo (1862)
14:58 "Bel-Ami" by Guy de Maupassant (1885)
16:17 "Germinal" by Émile Zola (1885)
17:43 "Le Grand Meaulnes" by Alain-Fournier (1913)
18:57 "In search of Lost Time" by Marcel Proust (1913-27)
20:20 "Journey to the End of the Night" by Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1932)
21:53 "The Stranger" by Albert Camus (1942)
23:17 "The Little Prince" Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1943)
24:08 "Gigi" by Colette (1944)
25:00 "Life: A User's Manual" by Georges Perec (1978)
26:30 "The lover" by Marguerite Duras (1984)
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