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17th-century French literature was written throughout the Grand Siècle of France, spanning the reigns of Henry IV of France, the Regency of Marie de' Medici, Louis XIII of France, the Regency of Anne of Austria (and the civil war called the Fronde) and the reign of Louis XIV of France.
This is a non-diffusing parent category of Category:17th-century French male writers and Category:17th-century French women writers The contents of these subcategories can also be found within this category, or in diffusing subcategories of it.
Although the European prominence of French literature was eclipsed in part by vernacular literature in Italy in the 14th century, literature in France in the 16th century underwent a major creative evolution, and through the political and artistic programs of the Ancien Régime, French literature came to dominate European letters in the 17th ...
Robert de Clari (late twelfth century) Blondel de Nesle (late twelfth century) Robert de Boron (twelfth–thirteenth century) Guiot de Provins (d. after 1208) Bertrand de Bar-sur-Aube (late twelfth-early thirteenth century) Guillaume de Lorris (c.1200 – c.1238) Theobald IV of Champagne (1201–1253) Jean de Joinville ( c.1224 – c.1317)
17th-century French writers (6 C, 127 P) Pages in category "17th-century French literature" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total.
Jean-Baptiste Racine (/ r æ ˈ s iː n / rass-EEN, US also / r ə ˈ s iː n / rə-SEEN; French: [ʒɑ̃ batist ʁasin]; 22 December 1639 – 21 April 1699) was a French dramatist, one of the three great playwrights of 17th-century France, along with Molière and Corneille as well as an important literary figure in the Western tradition and world literature.
L'Astrée is a pastoral novel [1] by Honoré d'Urfé, published between 1607 and 1627.. Possibly the single most influential work of 17th-century French literature, L'Astrée has been called the "novel of novels", partly for its immense length (six parts, forty stories, sixty books in 5,399 pages) but also for the success it had throughout Europe: it was translated into a great number of ...
French Language and Literature. Authors • Lit categories: French literary history Medieval 16th century • 17th century 18th century • 19th century