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Five favourite characters in French literature

Discover the depth and humanity of five iconic male characters in French literature, including Jean Valjean and D’Artagnan

Did you know: A French literary classic contains no ‘e’s

La Disparition is possibly the most famous example of the restrictive literary movement named Oulipo

Interview: The British translator of Asterix on one of her toughest French challenges yet

The Connexion speaks to Adriana Hunter as she prepares to tackle the poetic bestseller Son odeur après la pluie

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Explore the idyllic Normandy village that inspired a tragic literary masterpiece

Shortlisted as one of France’s favourite villages, Ry was also the setting for Flaubert’s Madame Bovary

British writer pursues award-winning career in rural France

Ann Mary Stanton credits a UK literary society for inspiring her literary endeavours

Booker-nominated novelist among star guests to speak at French literary festival

Author Sunjeev Sahota will be talking about his latest novel at Festilitt, a Franco-English literary festival in Parisot, France, this October

Anniversary tributes for Jean de Florette and Manon des Sources author

April 18 marks the fiftieth anniversary of Marcel Pagnol’s death. Commemorations celebrating his life and work are taking place around the country

Six things that show the French love for books and reading

To mark France’s national day for independent bookshops on April 15, we take a look at what helps foster the country’s love of literature

Books with a link to France November 2022 - The 20 minute review

We read recent releases with a link to France. To be fair, each gets 20 minutes’ reading time

Books with a link to France October 2022 - The 20 minute review

We read recent releases with a link to France. To be fair, each gets 20 minutes’ reading time

How reading Annie Ernaux will help you understand France

The French author has just been awarded the Nobel Prize for literature, having been commended for the unflinching gaze with which she beholds French society

Jules Verne: the hidden story of France’s first science fiction writer

Family turmoil, ill health and hurtful rejection by literary peers plagued a life that was still full of travel and adventure

France buys Marquis de Sade’s 120 Days of Sodom manuscript

The ‘national treasure’ and shocking work of 18th-century fiction, written on a 12-metre-long scroll, has been bought with corporate sponsorship for a public library in Paris

'I am the novelist I am because of Carcassonne'

Novelist Kate Mosse speaks about Carcassonne and her second novel in a series set there during the Wars of Religion

Life and times of ‘world’s first’ radical feminist

The Connexion celebrates one of France’s inspirational intellectual figures, who helped shape a global shift in political thinking in the Sixties and Seventies, but who is still defined by her relationship with Jean-Paul Sartre...

Peter Mayle, author of A Year in Provence, dies age 78

Peter Mayle, the British author of the much-loved bestseller A Year in Provence , has died near his home in the South of France, aged 78, after a short illness.

Read Madame Bovary writer’s own letters

Discover an online log of Flaubert's correspondences

1817: a great year for...

Macron appoints author as French language champion

President Emmanuel Macron has appointed award-winning French-Moroccan writer Leïla Slimani to champion the French language and “represent the open face of Francophonie”.

Victor Hugo’s ‘work of art’ on Guernsey to get revamp

When Victor Hugo, writer of The Hunchback of Notre Dame, was exiled from France he spent 15 years in Hauteville House, Guernsey, where he wrote Les Misérables. It is now a Hugo museum but needs renovation and, Mark Hayes says, funds

Festilitt: The little literary festival that could

Girl with a Pearl Earring author Tracy Chevalier will head a list of writers at a Franco-British literary festival in October.

Literature

Five favourite characters in French literature

Did you know: A French literary classic contains no ‘e’s

Interview: The British translator of Asterix on one of her toughest French challenges yet

Explore the idyllic Normandy village that inspired a tragic literary masterpiece

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Anniversary tributes for Jean de Florette and Manon des Sources author

Six things that show the French love for books and reading

Books with a link to France November 2022 - The 20 minute review

Books with a link to France October 2022 - The 20 minute review

How reading Annie Ernaux will help you understand France

Jules Verne: the hidden story of France’s first science fiction writer

France buys Marquis de Sade’s 120 Days of Sodom manuscript

'I am the novelist I am because of Carcassonne'

Tracy Chevalier takes part in literary weekly talk

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Franco-British literary festival’s lockdown events

Life and times of ‘world’s first’ radical feminist

French hilltop village scales literary heights

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‘British literati can look down at crime writing’

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