basic info about french lit

1. LITERATURE

2. FRANCE

3. PEOPLE

4. Language: French
Capital: Paris
Currencies: Euro
Population: 66.3 million

5. Famous Place

6. Work of Art

7. Famous writers

8. Honoré de
Balzac
A novelist and playwright
Famous for his work
entitled “ La Comedie
Humaine”
Founding father of
Realism

9. Samuel
Beckett
An irish who moved in France
permanently
Considered as the Last Modernist
En Attendant Godot (waiting for
Godot)

10. Cyrano
de
Bergerac
He is not a writer but
there is a play written by
Edmond Rostand entitled
Cyrano de Bergerac.
The play is about his own
life.
He had an enormously
Large now which he is very
proud

11. Albert
Camus
An Algerian born author
who won the Nobel Prize
for Literature in 1957
Best known tor two novels
of the absurd “L’Estranger”
(The Stranger) and Le
Mythe de Sisyphe

12. Victor
Hugo
He would describe
himself as the first
Humanitarian who used
literature as a mean to
describe the human
conditions and the
injustices of society.
His famous works are
Les Miserables and
Notre-Dame de Paris

13. Alexandre
Dumas
 considered as the most
widely read author in
history.
 famous works are:
 The Three Musketeers
 The Count of
Montecristo

14. SONG OF ROLAND
An epic poem based on the Battle of Roncevaux in
778, during the reign of Charlemagne.

15. Characters
Roland
Charlemagne
Turnip
Naimon
Bramimonde
Baligant
Blancadrin
King Marsile
Oliwier
Ganelon