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French Literature

Quotes & Thinkers in French Literature

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Honoré de Balzac
🇫🇷Honoré de Balzac
journalism
literary realism
1799–1850
"The most real of all splendors are not in outward things, they are within us."
21 quotes
Jean Giraudoux
🇫🇷Jean Giraudoux
Literature
1882–1944
"Everyone always dies for his country. If you have lived in it, well and wisely and actively, you die for it too."
11 quotes
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🇬🇧Michael Andrew Screech
Religion
1926–2018
3 quotes
Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
Philosophy
Classicism
1657–1757
"Fontenelle's Dialogues of the Dead Tr. John Hughes"
11 quotes
Charles Perrault
🇫🇷Charles Perrault
Literature
Classicism
1628–1703
"Fetch me my seven-league boots so I can catch the children."
11 quotes
Irving Babbitt
🇺🇸Irving Babbitt
Politics
Humanism
1865–1933
"When the element of conversion with reference to a standard is eliminated from life, what remains is the irresponsible quest for thrills."
20 quotes
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