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2. Category:French short stories - Wikipedia

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   Pages for logged out editors learn more. Contributions; Talk; Category: French short stories. 15 languages.

3. 17th-century French literature - Wikipedia

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   A number of these short novels recounted the "secret history" of a famous event (like Villedieu's Annales galantes), linking the action to an amorous intrigue; these were called histoires galantes. Some of these short novels told stories of the contemporary world (such as Préchac's L'Illustre Parisienne). [8] Important nouvelles classiques were:

4. La Fontaine's Fables - Wikipedia

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   Jean de La Fontaine collected fables from a wide variety of sources, both Western and Eastern, and adapted them into French free verse. They were issued under the general title of Fables in several volumes from 1668 to 1694 and are considered classics of French literature. Humorous, nuanced and ironical, they were originally aimed at adults but ...

5. French literature - Wikipedia

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   The French language is a Romance language derived from Latin and heavily influenced principally by Celtic and Frankish. Beginning in the 11th century, literature written in medieval French was one of the oldest vernacular (non-Latin) literatures in western Europe and it became a key source of literary themes in the Middle Ages across the continent.

6. Historiettes, Contes et Fabliaux - Wikipedia

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   The stories range from simple anecdotical tales with plot twists to clever softcore comedy and even some fantastic literature. Nevertheless, de Sade's trademark disdain for religion , morality and the French government remains, as does his sexually-themed narrative and devotion to nature as an excuse for the ways of the libertine .

7. Category:French short story writers - Wikipedia

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