Presentation

1. French authors and their works

2. VICTOR HUGO
Victor HUGO was a poet, dramatist and
French romantic prose writer born on
February 26, 1802 in Besançon and died on
May 22, 1885 in Paris. He is considered
one of the most important French writers.
Lili

3. Les Misérables and Notre-Dame de Paris
Two of his most famous novels are
“Les Misérables” writen 1862 and
“Notre-Dame de Paris” in 1831.
Antonin

4. SUMMARY OF ONE FAMOUS NOVEL OF HIS
The novel “Notre Dame de Paris” by
Victor HUGO tells the love story
between Quasimodo, an ugly and
horrible protagonist, and Esmeralda, a
bohemian woman of a remarkable
beauty… To help the young bohemian,
he feads Esmeralda in the cathedral to
give her asylum. He falls madly in love
with her. But Esmeralda love Phoebus
De Chateauperss and he loves
Esmeralda.
Lili

5. WHO IS QUASIMODO ?
Aged about twenty years old,
Quasimodo is deaf, hunchbacked,
shapless. He is the emblematic figure of
the ugliness, this man has the gift of
words and of their poetic effects but he
is so repulsive that he is elected “POPE
OF FOOLS”.
Antonin

6. Pierre Corneille
Lynana & Louna

7. Pierre Corneille was born on the 6th day of june in 1606
in Rouen.
He studied in the Jesuites college of Rouen in 1615 to
1622.
He wrote his first comic play : « Melite » in 1629.
He wrote « Médée » a tragedy in 1634 then « Le Cid »
A tragycomedy which made a polemic in 1637 .
He got maried with Marie Lampiere in 1641.
The 22th day of january 1647 ht got elected in the
«Académie française » (french academy).
He died in the 1st october of 1684 .
Lyana

8. SUMMARY
Rodrigue and Chimene are about to get married but
their fathers quarelled .
After this quarrel, the count (Chimene’s father)
slaps Don Diegue (Rodrigue’s father).
Dishonoured , Don Diegue ask to his son to kill the
count .
Rodrigue have to do a choice : lost his lover or save
the honor of his father.
Louna

9. Rodrigue
Rodrigue is Don Diegue’s son and Chimene’s
lover.
We can say that he is the main caracter .
Rodrigue is brave ,loyal ,his father gave him the
sense of honor and responsability .he fights at the
battle of Maures for his kingdom.
Louna

10. Molière

11. Molière’s life
Real name Jean-Batiste Poquelin or Molière was born
the 15th January 1622 and studied at the college of
Clermont in 1638.
Molière created The Famed Theatre in 1643. He wrote
the first play : « L’Absent minded » in 1654. He wrote a
lot of plays. He married Armande Béjar, daughter of
Madelaine. In 26 December 1662 he wrote « The
school of the women ». He died on February 17,1673.
7 day after the creation of the « The imaginary sick ».

12. The works of Molière
L’Avare :
Arpagon is a rich old man, blinded by his passion for money. His
avarice hinders his children’s love plans, pushes him to suspect his
relatives and makes his servants cheat on him

13. 13
Guillaume MUSSO

14. 14
His name is Guillaume MUSSO. He was
born in 1974. He lives in Antibes in the
south of the france.
He started writing for an exam his
teacher suggested. He had a economic
science diploma. After, he became a
teacher.
In 2001, he published his first novel
« Skidamarink » but « et après… » is
more famous.

15. 15
The main works are « La fille de Brooklyn »,
« Central Park », « L’appel de l’ange »,
« parce que je t’aime » and « Et après ».

16. It’s the story of a man and a woman who collide with each
other. Madeline and Jonathan exchange their phones. A
secret separates them afterwards.
The famous character is Madeline in « l’Appel de l’ange ».
Madeline is English. She has a flower shop in
montparnasse.
L’Appel de l’ange

18. Elsa Triolet, whose real name was Elsa Kagan, was born on September 12, 1896,
in Moscow and died on June 16, 1978 in her Saint-Arnaud-les-Yvelines. She was a
French writer and resistance fighter with a Jewish father. She married Andre
Triolet. Then she met Louis Aragon in 1928 in Paris and spent her whole life with
him. She participated in the foundation of the French Letters and the National
Commite of Writers.
In the course of her life, Elsa Triolet wrote many works
including A Tahiti (1926), Fraise des Bois (1926),
Camouflage (1928) Bonsoir Thérèse (1938) Le Cheval
Blanc (1943) which won the Goncourt prize on its release;
Les Amants D'Avignon (1943); Le Premier Accros Coûte
Deux Cents Francs in 1944 which also won the Prix
Goncourt; L'age de Nylon; Rose à Crédit (1959); Luna Park
(1959); L’Âme (1963).

19. Novel by the writer Elsa Triolet,
published in 1943. This novel was
writter in 1941-42 while part of France
was occupied : that is why themes
such as politics and resistance are at
the centre of the book. It is divided into
5 parts, each illustrating a part of the
life of the main character. The
« hero », Michel Vigaud, is a seducer
who takes a close interest in young
and beautiful women : of course, true
love never touched him, which
prevents him from fully grasping the
meaning of Irene’s suicide. Howver, thi
drama reaches him and transform him.
To forget him, he starts reading the
newspapers, listening to the advice of
his best friend, Bielenki, which he had
never done before. Politics begins to
interest him. As for love, he discovers
it with a certain Elisabeth...
Each Part corresponds to a period of the hero’s life. Michel Vigaud, born at the begening of the 20th century, is a teenager during the WW2. He
lives alone with his mother , withe whom he experiencies finacial ups and downs because of his mother’s job, they travel all over Europe.
Michel will remane unable to settle down for the rest of his life. He has alway been free, living alone with his mother who is not very dissolute.
He lives from day to day, without any possesions, always looking for adventures and love with women he soon gets tired of. As you will have
understood, Michel is indecisive, but also intelligent, gifted in music and interested in politics despite being a little limited intellectually and not
very cultured.

20. Guy de Maupassant
Biography :
His full name is Henry-René-Albert-Guy de Maupassant.
He was born on august,five one thousand eight hundred
fifty in Tourville-sur-Arques. He died the six july one
thousand eight hundred ninety three in Paris. When he
died, he was forty-two years old. He was a writer. He
wrote The Horla in 1887, Boule de suifs in 1880, and Bel-
Ami in 1885...He wrote three hundred and ninety books in
his career.

21. The most famous works
Novels :
-Bel-Ami (1885)
-Pierre et Jean (1888)
Story :
-Boule de suif (1880)
-Le Horla (1887)

22. Le Horla
The Horla is a book written by Maupassant in
1887. This is the most famous book by
Maupassant. This book is about
a person who writes anxieties in his diary.
He gradually feels the presence of an
invisible being around him. He named it the
Horla .
Because of that, he's going crazy.

23. The character famous in "Le Horla"
The main character in the Horla
is the narrator. After noticing a
presence around him, he is going
crazy. This is the victim chosen
by the Horla. He absolutely tries
to eliminate the Horla

24. Alexandre DUMAS
Alexandre Dumas is a French dramatist
and novelist born on July 24 1809 at
Villiers-Cottrêts and dead on December 5
1870 at Neuville- les-Dieppe. He is a
mixed a Caribean. In 1824 he knew
success with the book « La chasse et
l’amour ».

25. His major famous works
-Twenty years after (1845)
-The court of Monte
Cristal (1844)
-The three musketer (1844)

26. The three musketers
The three musketer is a novel telling
adventures of an impecunious 18 years old
Gascon, Artagan a who came to Paris to make
a career as a musketer. He befriends Athos,
Porthos and Aramis, musketer of King Louis
XIII.

27. Arthos
Athos of the full name Armand de
Sillègue d'Athos d'Hauteville is a
musketer of King born on 1615 at
Brearn and dead on December 21 1645
at Paris. He has inspired the person of
«Arthos» in The three musketer.
Tamar and Janely

28. Jules Verne
Jules Verne was born in 1828 in Nantes and he died in 1905 from a disease in Amiens. He was
reather specialised in science-fiction. He got his baccalauréat in Nantes in 1846 and he studied law
in Paris
Major works :
20 Mille lieu sous les mers
De la terre à la lune
Voyage au centre de la terre
Le tour du monde en 80 jour
20 Mille lieu sous les mers
The teacher Aronax and his servant Conseil go on sea to kill a sea monster with the help of an
harponeur Ned Land.
Description of a character from 20 Mille lieu sous les mers :
Nemo is the antagonist. he’s the captain of sous-marin the Nautilus

29. Christian Grenier was born on 26 May 1945 in Paris .He is 75 years old
,he has two children .He was a teacher . He left his job of teacher to become
a writer ,he wrote l’Ordinatueur ,Coup de theatre ,Simulator … His
parents are a actor ,he got O.R.T.F Literary Prize in 1972 thanks to « La
Machination ».
The main character is Logiciel supported by his two acolytes Germain and Maxe.
Logicel whose real name is Laure Gisèle will investigate the death of several people in
front of computers around Périgord, in the middle of summer. Logiciel will find
common points between the murders and will link them to each other.
Logiciel is a policewoman who investigates on cold cases at the police station IT
department.
Christian Grenier

30. «Le livre dont vous êtes la victime» tell the history of Alex who heard about a bookshop , the library of the styx
and he decided to visit it. Once in the bookshop , one book with a silver cover book attracts him and he
decides to buy it. Then, he goes through many adventures.
Arthur Ténor
Christian ESCAFFRE was born on 1959 in Auvergne . Xx author since 1998 under the name of Arthur Ténor. This
author is specialized in children’s literature.
He was appointed laureate of Senlis children literature price in 2006 for his book «La Table De Feu» (editor
MILAN) and the price of PEEP on 2008 «Les Messagères Des Abysses» (editorGRASSET J)
Alex is an adolescent without history and rather solitary, he is passionate
about books and the fantastic stories. In his school the children don’t
understand him and at home his family doesn’t understand him too.

31. Jean de La Fontaine
Jean De La Fontaine was born in 1621. On The 8th of july 1621, he was baptized in the region of Champagne. Marie Hericar
became his wife in 1647 . He lived in Castle Thierry near Paris did his studies . He became dad of one boy named Charles . H
also wrote a book called « Epitre a Monseigneur le dauphin» in 1668, before writing«Les Fables De La Fontaine»(little narrat
about plant or animals) . Jean De La Fontaine had 48 years old when the 6 first books that he wrote «Les Fables De La
Fontaine» were published in 1668 . After this evenement «Les Fables De La Fontaine» are quoted , quoted again and
collected.
He was ennobled in 1664 and died in 1695.
Here are some of the Stories that we can find in « Les Fables De La Fontaine» : «Le corbeau et le renard» , «La cigale et la
fourmis»,«Le lièvre et la tortue»
For example «Le corbeau et le renard» is talking about a proud crow and a smart fox who wants to steal the crow’s cheese .
succed , the fow will try flatter the crow.
«Bien bonjour, Monsieur du corbeau
que vous etes joli!que vous me semblez beau!»
Morality: we have to not forget about our goals and don’t ourselves distracted.

32. ARTHUR RIMBAUD
Arthur Rimbaud, (full name : Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud) ,
was born on the 20th of october 1854 at Charleville, in France,
he died in 1891. Arthur Rimbaud was a writer, he wrote quite a lot of books.
When he was younger, 6 years old to be precise,he witnessed the absence of
his dad,
which was also part of the military and a divorced man. It led
Arthur to take refuge in writing poems.
He followed his career as a poet, and wrote many famous works, such as like :
« Le Bateau Ivre » (1871), « Une Saison En Enfer » (1873) and
« Illuminations »
(1872-1875) .We are going to talk about a poem in his work ILLUMINATION
called « Royauté ». ILLUMINATIONS is a collection of fifty-four poem
that can be as sad as they can be happy.

33. ROYAUTE
Un beau matin, chez un peuple fort doux, un homme et une
femme superbes criaient sur la place publique: "Mes amis, je
veux qu'elle soit reine!" "Je veux être reine!" Elle riait et
tremblait. Il parlait aux amis de révélation, d'épreuve
terminée. Ils se pâmaient l'un contre l'autre.
En effet ils furent rois toute une matinée, où les tentures
carminées se relevèrent sur les maisons, et tout l'après-midi, où
ils s'avancèrent du côté des jardins de palmes.
We think that this poem tells that the woman screaming to be
a queen, means by that, that she wants to marry her partner
and by doing that she will become a queen, that is an indirect
way to say that her partner is a king. They end up marrying
each other at the end of the poem.
« LES ILLUMINATIONS » , par ARTHUR RIMBAUD

34. His name is Paul Verlaine. He was born a 30 march
1844 in Metz and he died in 1896 in his house . He
was alcoholic, sick and poor. He was a romantic,
dramatic and psychological poet . In 1870 he
married Mathilde Mauté .In 1871 he met Arthur
Rimbaud with whom he had a relationship
His major titles are:
-Poèmes Saturiens
-Romances Sans Paroles
-Sagesse
-Jadis et Naguère
-Parallelement
Paul Verlaine
CHILD WIFE
Vous n’avez rien compris à ma simplicité.
Rien, ô ma pauvre enfant !
Et c’est avec un front éventé, dépité.
Que vous fuvez devant.
[...]
Et vous n’avez pas su la lumière et l’honneur
D’un amour brave et fort,
Joyeux dans le malheur, grave dans le bonheur,
Jeune jusqu’à la mort !

35. Pierre Corneille
His name is Pierre Corneille. He was born of June 6th 1606,in Rouen and he died on
October 1st 1684 in Paris.
He learned theatre at the College des Jésuites in Rouen.
He made Mélite,his first dramatic work, in 1629.
He triumphed with «le Cid» in 1637.
He married Marie de Lampèrière in 1641.
On January 22th 1947, he was elected in the French Academy.
And he made Surena,his last work in 1647.
Famous titles: Mélite, Médée, le Cid, Horace…
Summary of «le Cid»: Diègue and Gomès want to unite their children Rodrigue and
Chimère. But Gomès is jealous of Diègue for a position and he gives him a slap.
Rodrigue: Son of Diègue, and Chimère is the girlfriend of Rodrigue.

36. Colette
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette is a writer who was born on
January 28th 1873 in Bourgogne where she lived her
twenty first years until her marriage.She died in 1954.
Her works:
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Claudine à l’école (1900)
Chéri (1920)
La maison de Claudine (1922)
Le blé en herbe (1923)
Sido (1929)
Gigi (1944)

37. La maison de Claudine
This book is the autobiographical account of
her happiness . She tells about her youth in
the countryside.