A Short History of French Literature
A Short History of French Literature, first published by George Saintsbury in 1882 and revised through several editions, covers French writing from the earliest texts to the late nineteenth century in a single volume. Saintsbury moves through the chansons de geste and the romances of the Middle Ages, Villon and the Renaissance of Rabelais, Montaigne and the Pléiade, the classical age of Corneille, Racine, Molière, Pascal and La Fontaine, the eighteenth century of Voltaire, Rousseau and Diderot, and the Romantics and realists from Chateaubriand and Hugo to Flaubert and Zola, with chapters on history, philosophy and criticism in each period. He writes with strong opinions and a liking for the forgotten minor writer. The full text is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, and the first chapter is free.
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