Can you name the authors of these works of French literature?

Work	Author	Published
The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel		ca. 1532-52
The Misanthrope		1666
Phèdre		1677
Candide		1759
Julie, or the New Heloise		1761
The Human Comedy		1829-48
The Hunchback of Notre Dame		1831
The Charterhouse of Parma		1839
Consuelo		1842-43
The Three Musketeers		1844
Les fleurs du mal		1857
Madame Bovary		1857
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea		1870

Work	Author	Published
Les Rougon-Macquart		1871-93
A Season in Hell		1873
L'après-midi d'un faune		1876
Cyrano de Bergerac		1897
Alcools		1913
In Search of Lost Time (À la recherche du temps perdu		1913-27
Les Enfants Terribles		1929
The Stranger (L’Étranger)		1942
Le Petit Prince		1943
The Age of Reason		1945
The Second Sex		1949
The Balcony		1957
The Interrogation (Le Procès-Verbal)		1963

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French Literature Quiz

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Created by: davidr -
Published: April 22nd, 2009
Category: Literature
Plays: 23,335

Tags: French Quizzes, Novel Quizzes, author, published

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	Dennis:	Apr 22nd, 2009 at 17:17 GMT	2 points
	I got two - I even think I did well...

	Handrejka:	Apr 22nd, 2009 at 17:20 GMT	0 points
	12 - Can't beleive I forgot Flaubert

	Sparky:	Apr 22nd, 2009 at 17:20 GMT	2 points
	"Baudelaire, Jules Verne, Jean Paul Sartre...." "SSSHHHHAKESPEARE!" Ah, thanks Sophie from the Renault Clio ad! I wouldn't have got Baudelaire without that (still would have got the other two though).

	Kicking222:	Apr 22nd, 2009 at 17:21 GMT	8 points
	I'm never one to say "Why isn't this person on the quiz?!", so it's not that I think it necessarily should be... but when I didn't see Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's "Le Petit Prince", I was saddened. In my opinion, it's one of the most beautiful books ever written, period.

	SporcleAdmin:	Apr 22nd, 2009 at 17:27 GMT	8 points
	Sacrebleu!!! You are right, we have added this to the quiz.

	BigFlax:	Apr 22nd, 2009 at 17:32 GMT	2 points
	The name is "Stendhal," not "Stendahl" as it currently is.

	BigFlax:	Apr 22nd, 2009 at 17:37 GMT	5 points
	Also, it's "Genet," not "Jenet" - or at the very least "Genet" needs to be acceptable.

	sub:	Apr 22nd, 2009 at 17:39 GMT	1 point
	Corneille sur Racine Boileau de la Fontaine

	russl:	Apr 22nd, 2009 at 17:51 GMT	-4 points
	Ou est Ionesco?

	leob:	Apr 22nd, 2009 at 18:06 GMT	2 points
	Andre Gide (a Nobel laureate) is missing.

	davidr:	Apr 22nd, 2009 at 18:08 GMT	7 points
	@BigFlax: Oops. Yes, "Stendahl" and "Jenet" are just plain wrong. I've asked the admins to rename the quiz "French Illiterature".

	davidr:	Apr 22nd, 2009 at 18:26 GMT	1 point
	@leob: So are Sully Prudhomme (Nobel Prize in 1901), Frédéric Mistral (1904), Romain Rolland (1915), Anatole France (1921), Henri Bergson (1927), Ivan Bunin (1933), Roger Martin du Gard (1937), François Mauriac (1952), Saint-John Perse (1960), Claude Simon (1980) and Gao Xingjian (2000). It's not possible to include everyone.

	CarpeDiem:	Apr 22nd, 2009 at 19:29 GMT	2 points
	GREAT game, davidr! Also love your comment about renaming the quiz "French Illiterature". LOL :-)

	paoletti:	Apr 22nd, 2009 at 19:41 GMT	5 points
	Very good quizz :) Geographical quizzes on france would be very nice,too:)

	ntnon:	Apr 22nd, 2009 at 19:55 GMT	1 point
	A fairly good list, DavidR, thank you. But... where's the writer of Gigi? A far bigger oversight than de Saint-Exupéry (who, incidentally, is out of order chronologically), and would add another woman to combat the gender imbalance.

	RavenEleni:	Apr 22nd, 2009 at 20:51 GMT	-2 points
	@davidr: i know you cant include everyone (and Im not saying it shold be included) but gutted Jeanne-Marie LePrince de Beaumont didnt cut it (especially since im sure almost EVERYONE will know her story (1783!) )

	RavenEleni:	Apr 22nd, 2009 at 20:52 GMT	1 point
	*her famous story - sorry

	Tahnan:	Apr 22nd, 2009 at 20:55 GMT	4 points
	And don't forget Guy de Maupassant! "Ionesco" is the only one of the abovementioned people that I forgot to try (though, really, if Andre Gide had been on there, I would have gone "Oh, yeah, I should have tried that!"). Still, 18/26; I'm not complaining.

	moocow:	Apr 22nd, 2009 at 21:04 GMT	1 point
	I feel this quiz is missing de Maupassant and Huysmans desperately! :( Sacre bleu!

	brianc:	Apr 23rd, 2009 at 03:54 GMT	-2 points
	i was surprised that No Exit wasn't on there, but then I put in the author anyway and apparently one of his other books is on there that I've never heard of

	afyyrch:	Apr 23rd, 2009 at 12:54 GMT	2 points
	i studied French for 4 years at uni until last June and I still only got 8. OH THE SHAME (J'ai honte)

	johnlk:	Apr 23rd, 2009 at 20:00 GMT	1 point
	Obviously a quiz can't include everyone, but that doesn't mean we can't point out people missing. And obviously given that there are quizzes with hundreds of answers, there's no particular reason it should have to be limited to 26 exactly.

	firenzie:	Apr 23rd, 2009 at 21:35 GMT	1 point
	I'm amazed that I got 12... I'm a lit major but for English, so I've only read Madame Bovary, The Stranger and Candide in translation. I was pissed about blanking on Jules Verne (I love his books), and I just learned about Cocteau as a filmmaker but I misspelled his name and then thought, nah he wouldn't be on here... Still, I'm pretty proud of myself considering I thought I'd get 2 :)

	Reynaert:	Apr 29th, 2009 at 10:50 GMT	1 point
	aw, forgot rousseau, rimbaud, dumas, hugo... I did happen to have a rather delicious teacher in high school, who spent an entire semester reading (and playing) moliere, voltaire and racine, another on hugo, stendhal, gide, proust and balzac, and a third entirely on ionesco. Fun times.

	ClintT13:	Jun 10th, 2009 at 03:32 GMT	1 point
	Louis Ferdinand Celine is one of my five favorite authors. Sad that he doesn't make this list.

	chikka2:	Jun 30th, 2009 at 14:24 GMT	2 points
	dusted off my degree in French lit and am embarrassed to have missed Rousseau and Zola. Mon Dieu, time for remedials...

	coodie:	Oct 15th, 2009 at 06:50 GMT	2 points
	Ha, I noticed about halfway through that the quiz is in the French tricolor. Fun little detail :)

	Vaurien:	Feb 11th, 2010 at 11:26 GMT	1 point
	As an aside, I suppose, to davidr: Ivan Bunin did receive the Nobel Prize but although he died an exile in Paris, he wasn't French... Very good quiz, by the way.

	marsviking:	May 31st, 2010 at 01:59 GMT	0 points
	i tried corneille too, and finally got racine, and i kept typing verlaine for rimbaud

	marsviking:	May 31st, 2010 at 02:01 GMT	-2 points
	kicking 22, why bitch about "le petit prince" when it's listed?

	marsviking:	May 31st, 2010 at 02:01 GMT	0 points
	did you know genet wrote in provencal?

	BamaMuaddib:	Nov 19th, 2010 at 11:26 GMT	1 point
	Thanks for a great quiz! Was happy to do as well as I did. I think more would get Rousseau correct if The Social Contact was used. Of course, it was more political philosophy than literature.

	Jeremy_M:	Apr 16th, 2011 at 21:27 GMT	1 point
	I understand it's heavily slanted towards the 19th and 20th, but the earlier periods need some love too! I agree Maupassant should be added, as well as perhaps l'Abbé Prévost (for Manon Lescaut, 18th) and Laclos (for Liaisons dangereuses, also 18th). Maybe add one of the Renaissance poets (Ronsard, du Bellay, Scève) and then you'd have 30! Either way, it's a great quiz.