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French Poets and Writers - a guide

Literature and authors

Learn a little about the great French poets and authors who have shaped the course of literature both within France and around the world.

French writers

the lives and works of some of the greatest and best known classical French writers:

• Balzac
• Proust
• Camus
• Victor Hugo

French poets

biographies and introductions to some of the best loved French poets:

• Lamartine
• Baudelaire
• Verlaine
• Rimbaud
• Mallarmé