Product Description
This impressive collection of remarkable quotations by French writers of the past is a must for every lover of great literature. The writers featured in this book are Charlotte Elizabeth Aisse, Alain [Émile-Auguste Chartier], Anne of Austria, Jean Anouilh, Guillaume Apollinaire, Louis Aragon, Jean Arp, Gaston Bachelard, Honoré de Balzac, Natalie Clifford Barney, Roland Barthes, Frédéric Bastiat, Georges Bataille, Charles Baudelaire, Pierre de Beaumarchais, Simone de Beauvoir, Henri Bergson, Georges Bernanos, Maurice Blanchot, Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, Paul Bourget, Comte de Bussy-Rabutin, Albert Camus, Peire Cardenal, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Michel de Certeau, Sébastien-Roch Nicolas de Chamfort, Pierre Charron, Malcolm de Chazal, E. M. Cioran, Jean Cocteau, Colette, Marquis de Custine, Serge Daney, René Daumal, Cyrano de Bergerac, Pierre de Bourdeille, Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, Rene Descartes, Camille Desmoulins, Denis Diderot, Alexandre Dumas, Marguerite Duras, Émile Durkheim, Henri Estienne, Gustave Flaubert, Michel Foucault, Anatole France, Émile Gaboriau, Jean Genet, André Gide Jean Giraudoux, Edmond de Goncourt, Jules de Goncourt, Rémy de Gourmont, François Guizot, Heloise, Victor Hugo, Eugène Ionesco, Isidore Ducasse, Comte de Lautréamont, Alfred Jarry, Joseph Joubert, Marcel Jouhandeau, Alphonse Karr, Jean de La Bruyère, Jean de La Fontaine, Jules Laforgue, Jean-François de La Harpe, François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Louise Labe, Edouard Laboulaye, Michel Leiris, Luc Vauvenargues, Marquis de, Joseph de Maistre, Stéphane Mallarmé, André Malraux, Marguerite of Navarre, Marguerite of Valois, Jacques Maritain, Marie de France, André Maurois, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Octave Mirbeau, Molière, Michel de Montaigne, Charles de Montesquieu, Alfred de Musset, Gérard de Nerval, Anais Nin, Marcel Pagnol, Blaise Pascal, Francis Picabia, Jacques Prévert, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Marcel Proust, Edgar Quinet, Jean Racine, Raymond Radiguet, Henri Benjamin Constant de Rebecque, Ernest Renan, Jules Renard, Cardinal de Richelieu, Arthur Rimbaud, Edmond Rostand, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Joseph Roux, Marquis de Sade, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Valentine de Saint-Point, Saint Francis de Sales, George Sand, Nathalie Sarraute, Jean-Paul Sartre, Bernard Joseph Saurin, Marie de Sevigne, Georges Simenon, Madame de Stael, Stendhal, Alexis de Tocqueville, Flora Tristan, Tristan Tzara, Paul Valéry, Voltaire, Simone Weil, and Marguerite Yourcenar.
About the Author
Carol A. Dingle, whose ancestors came to the United States from Normandy, is a former English teacher, USO director, business owner, and world traveler who lived and worked in Paris. Her other book is Memorable Quotations: Philosophers of Western Civilization.
