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The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as french-language)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,445,970 ratings — published 1943
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as french-language)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,377,517 ratings — published 1942
Madame Bovary (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as french-language)
avg rating 3.71 — 372,291 ratings — published 1856
Candide (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as french-language)
avg rating 3.76 — 299,784 ratings — published 1759
Les Misérables (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as french-language)
avg rating 4.21 — 839,857 ratings — published 1862
Les Fleurs du Mal (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as french-language)
avg rating 4.19 — 79,837 ratings — published 1857
The Plague (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as french-language)
avg rating 4.02 — 311,557 ratings — published 1947
Le Petit Nicolas (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as french-language)
avg rating 4.14 — 40,806 ratings — published 1959
The Count of Monte Cristo (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as french-language)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,014,964 ratings — published 1844
Swann’s Way (In Search of Lost Time, #1)
by (shelved 18 times as french-language)
avg rating 4.16 — 67,889 ratings — published 1913
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as french-language)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,303,516 ratings — published 1997
Bonjour tristesse (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as french-language)
avg rating 3.74 — 71,733 ratings — published 1954
The Red and the Black (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as french-language)
avg rating 3.86 — 82,990 ratings — published 1830
The Three Musketeers (Trilogie des Mousquetaires #1)
by (shelved 14 times as french-language)
avg rating 4.10 — 345,564 ratings — published 1844
The Lover (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as french-language)
avg rating 3.71 — 71,925 ratings — published 1984
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as french-language)
avg rating 4.02 — 217,084 ratings — published 1831
Père Goriot (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as french-language)
avg rating 3.85 — 66,511 ratings — published 1835
Stupeur et tremblements (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as french-language)
avg rating 3.74 — 44,655 ratings — published 1999
Bel-Ami (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as french-language)
avg rating 3.86 — 48,612 ratings — published 1885
Waiting for Godot (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as french-language)
avg rating 3.84 — 221,084 ratings — published 1951
Soumission (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as french-language)
avg rating 3.65 — 51,532 ratings — published 2015
Les Liaisons dangereuses (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as french-language)
avg rating 4.05 — 58,560 ratings — published 1782
The Elegance of the Hedgehog (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as french-language)
avg rating 3.80 — 199,029 ratings — published 2006
Huis clos: suivi de Les Mouches (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as french-language)
avg rating 4.04 — 14,872 ratings — published 1946
The Princesse de Clèves (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as french-language)
avg rating 3.35 — 18,727 ratings — published 1678
Germinal (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as french-language)
avg rating 4.20 — 42,721 ratings — published 1885
Le Grand Meaulnes (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as french-language)
avg rating 3.72 — 15,439 ratings — published 1913
Memoirs of Hadrian (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as french-language)
avg rating 4.22 — 35,560 ratings — published 1951
Tartuffe (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as french-language)
avg rating 3.66 — 43,019 ratings — published 1664
Around the World in Eighty Days (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as french-language)
avg rating 3.95 — 280,659 ratings — published 1872
The Fall (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as french-language)
avg rating 4.03 — 133,470 ratings — published 1956
L'écume des jours (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as french-language)
avg rating 3.92 — 42,646 ratings — published 1947
Lettres de mon moulin (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as french-language)
avg rating 3.69 — 6,494 ratings — published 1869
Rhinocéros (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as french-language)
avg rating 3.83 — 19,768 ratings — published 1959
Suite Française (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as french-language)
avg rating 3.86 — 77,820 ratings — published 2004
La Gloire de mon père (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as french-language)
avg rating 4.02 — 10,917 ratings — published 1957
The Immoralist (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as french-language)
avg rating 3.55 — 13,556 ratings — published 1902
Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as french-language)
avg rating 3.71 — 13,231 ratings — published 1670
The Horla and Others: Guy de Maupassant's Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories: Tales of Mystery, Murder, Fantasy & Horror (Oldstyle Tales' Horror Authors)
by (shelved 8 times as french-language)
avg rating 3.88 — 23,435 ratings — published 1886
Nausea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as french-language)
avg rating 3.93 — 138,284 ratings — published 1938
At Night All Blood is Black (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as french-language)
avg rating 3.80 — 28,117 ratings — published 2018
Journey to the End of the Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as french-language)
avg rating 4.18 — 47,522 ratings — published 1932
The Perfect Nanny (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as french-language)
avg rating 3.40 — 123,684 ratings — published 2016
A Man's Place (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as french-language)
avg rating 3.88 — 36,433 ratings — published 1983
Lost Illusions (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as french-language)
avg rating 4.16 — 12,448 ratings — published 1843
No Exit (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as french-language)
avg rating 4.11 — 46,301 ratings — published 1944
L'École des Femmes (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as french-language)
avg rating 3.62 — 10,143 ratings — published 1662
The Misanthrope (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as french-language)
avg rating 3.76 — 25,396 ratings — published 1666
The Phantom of the Opera (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as french-language)
avg rating 3.96 — 275,070 ratings — published 1910
Cyrano de Bergerac (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as french-language)
avg rating 4.06 — 90,539 ratings — published 1897
“Putain' literally means 'prostitute', but the meaning has evolved with the years, it has left the red light district to settle as a daily word, it is quite common, it lives near the onomatopoeias area, because, phonetically, it is such a convenient word to express when having to emphasise a feeling as it almost acts like an exclamation mark.”
― "Darling, it's not only about sex"
― "Darling, it's not only about sex"
“After the mother tongue follows French, for it is the most widely spoken and indispensable language of Europe; according to our present-day standards it is the most cultivated; fine style and the expressions of taste have been for the most part formed in this language and translated from it into others; it is the simplest and most uniform of languages from which to obtain a foretaste of philosophical grammar; it is the most suitable for the purposes of narrative, logic and reasoning. It must therefore, by the standards of our modern world, follow immediately after the mother tongue and precede every other, even Latin. I would like even the scholar to know French better than Latin!”
― Journal meiner Reise im Jahre 1769: Historisch-kritische Ausgabe
― Journal meiner Reise im Jahre 1769: Historisch-kritische Ausgabe











