The first French novelist wrote about an adulterous affair and moved to Paris after separating from her husband.
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On house arrest, Xavier de Maistre took a journey around his room where he discovered there was much to wonder at.
A french classic has had a thoroughly modern update, meditating on themes of class, race and colonialism.
Created by a prolific French author, Inspector Jules Maigret observes without judgement and moves like a chameleon between social classes.
For a handful of French writers, the best fiction they wrote was their life story.
Is a 19th-century French author’s cosmic joke turning into a real-life global nightmare?
His legacy connects a great swathe of modern popular culture.
The fire that devastated the Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral on April 15 is a historic event that reminds us of the symbolic power of national monuments.
From the Archives: Ernaux’s English translation, Happening, has come to be seen as one of the great pieces of writing about abortion.
An emerging genre of fiction in France is providing an unlikely brand of escapism.
The French writer’s work and life make perfect cinematic subjects.
Proust’s masterpiece À La Recherche du Temps Perdu reveals how people’s irrational beliefs become entrenched.
Two women writers died in July 1817. One was Jane Austen. The other was much more famous.
Macron’s portrait and taste in literature are full of political symbols to be sussed.
There was more than meets the eye to one of the most famous versions of Beauty and the Beast.
Though sharing with Fifty Shades the overall themes of sexual domination and submission, Story of O remains a work of substantial literary merit.
When translating The 120 Days of Sodom, we had a duty to be just as rude, crude, and revolting as Sade.
The French novel uniquely blends social critique, personal struggle, entertainment and aesthetics – underpinned by an irony that winks at human weakness. Can it help us in these dark days of extremist violence?
The original book is one of the most influential French crime novels, but the film is an utter flop.
When gunmen (thought to be radicalized Muslims) burst into the offices of Charlie Hebdo on the morning of January 7, the front page of the satirical newspaper’s most recent edition featured a caricature…
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A.R. Chisholm Professor of French, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of French and Comparative Literature, Queen Mary University of London
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Reader in Late Victorian Literature, Loughborough University
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