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Which French author do you like? Multiple choice.
Please select all that apply:
Tolstoy?
I agree, Tolstoy?
Tolstoy is a famous French writer. 
He was Russian
Maybe there are two Tolstoy’s? I have to research it.
Lev Tolstoy was Russian. But a great author, nonetheless. ❤️
One of the best! I mean, The Brothers Karazimov! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_T...
Awesome! ❤️🏄♀️
I love The Brothers Karamazov too but the author was my favourite, Dostoyevsky. I do love Tolstoy’s War and Peace though.
Sorry, I was making a very poor joke on Tolstoy being French. But yes, I do love Dostoyevsky too.
Leo Tolstoy? Do tell. Bx
Can’t comment because I haven’t read any of them.
No worries about it.
Tolstoy was Russian
Sorry about that!
Hello Activity2004
You may want to research Tolstoy because whereas he was Russian, I seem to recall he was exiled to France, he was still a great author. War and Peace was a book I could put down because it dragged on and on. Now Victor Hugo's Les Misérables was a great book.
Thank you for letting me know that! Very helpful and a great idea.😀👍🌈📚🐇📖
I dont think that ive read any french authours .. is jules verne french?
I looked up Jules Verne and he's French.
Woo hoo 😂 i recently read jurny to the center of the earth and i knew his books are translated from reading the author intro just count rememer were he was from
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Had to google that one before I opened my big mouth. Yep, as French as can be.❤️🏄♀️
Thank you for doing that! Much appreciated!
Didn’t know I had read a French author. I think I’d like to read Balzac. ❤️🏄♀️
I will have to look him up and see what I find soon.
Balzac. Yes Balzac, not Bazzak!😊🐰
What books/stories did he do? I never heard of him.
I studied him for A level french. 19th Century - a bit like Dickens. Did Pere Goriot .
Thank you for letting us all know. Very interesting. I only got 6 weeks of French when I was in the 6th grade and they didn't talk about the stories from the authors. 
Great poll!!!!! Read the first line in "Anna Karenina".
WHOOPS....Tolstoy was Russian!!!
Thank you for letting me know.
My brother read that story for high school graduation/credit years ago. Read it on a beach for a week.
Parley-vous ingles?
That one is a French band.
Then my answer is Non. 😀
Non. 😁🌸
Oui. 😀
Je suis confus! 😁🌸
He was chinese
Thank you for letting us know that.😀👍🌈
Oui
Parlez-vous ecosse?
Ich verstehen sie nicht. 😃
Pardon
Do you mean, pardon moi?
Oui 😂
What did he write?
La peste; l’etranger - came from Algeria
Good, but very gloomy! Had to read l'Etranger years ago. Doesn't it start, Ma mere est morte, something like that!
The Outsider
The Outsider? Very interesting!😀👍🌈
Collette would be my favourite French author, or Tolstoy, but he was Russian.
Good choice! Thank you for letting us know!
I was going to say that I'm not a great reader of French literature but when I think it through, who doesn't love Dangerous Liaisons by Choderos de Laclos? I also like Marguerite Duras and one or two Albert Camus novels too. If I really dug down, I'd probably come up with more that I like but have forgotten about.
This sounds great! Thank you!
And Jean de Florette, Manon de Source, Les Miserables even, Victor Hugo
Oh yes Dangerous liaisons. And the Phantom of the opera. And Madame Bovary.
I saw Phantom of the Opera years ago. One of my favorite plays.😀👍🌈
Zola
Tolstoy Russian. How about Zola? Fabulous writer!
What did Zola write?
Flaubert...
Albert Camus
I quite like Georges Simeon, particularly his Maigret series.
Albert Camus
Alexandre Dumas...
Voltaire's Candide, Montaigne's Essays
Candide by Francois-Marie Arouet [Voltaire] or Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Pierre Ambroise Choderlos de Laclos
I’ve only heard of Tolstoy !! But I thought he was Russian and wrote ‘ war and peace?’ 😂
Camus was also the goalkeeper for the Algerian National side! Weird eh!
Marcel Proust and the HUGE novel thingy he wrote!
Don't know any ,sorry
It’s okay! No sorry necessary at all!😀👍🌈
These Existentialist eh! They got everywhere!
Fred Vargas, female, writes mysteries
I will have to look her up tomorrow during the day after breakfast.😀👍🌈
Is that how you spell Sartre?
Do any of these authors do science fiction?
I will check it out tomorrow for you.😀👍🌈
I want to mention another favourite: Stendhal (19th-century French writer) author of Le Rouge et le Noir, a wonderful novel that I read some 40+ years ago and really loved. Now I only read easy "page turners", especially British crime novels.
Thank you for letting us know. This sounds really interesting. 😀👍🌈
Jules Verne & Pierre Boulle
Nice! Which is your favorite book that they each do? 😀👍🌈
Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Journey to the Centre of the Earth, Mysterious Island. Pierre Boulle, Planet of the Apes
I have Planet of the Apes from many years ago.😀👍🌈
Alexander Dumas, and I can't remember who wrote Hunchback of Notre Dame. Uderzo and Gocinny for Asterix!
This sounds great! Thank you for letting us know. 😀👍🌈
Alexandre Dumas is my favourite French author.
What is your favorite book by Alexandre Dumas? 😀👍🌈📚🐇📖
The Count of Monte Cristo.
That’s fantastic! 😀👍🌈📖🐇📚
Tolstoy was French?
Sartre. No Exit
Tolstoy?
Tolstoy definitely Russian. I like Victor Hugo- Hunchback of Notre Dame, Les Miserables, and poems
I like poetry.😀👍🌈
Emile Zola
Enjoyed all replies and thanks for the reminders of all the books by French authors I did know.
You’re welcome! 😀👍🌈
Maupassant
Camus
Moliere
De Maupassant
I have read myriad books in french but they were all translated from the English. Bx
Which ones?😀👍🌈
Alexandre Dumas - Loved Count of Monte Cristo
Thought of two more French authors. François de La Rochefoucauld, (The)Maxim's (Brilliant book on life, mostly short pithy sayings. And Jean Jacques Rousseau who was famous for the book The Social Contract (Man is born free, but everywhere he is in Chains) but I loved his Reveries of a Solitary Walker.
How long is it?😀👍🌈
The Social Contract is quite short, I guess a couple hundred pages. Brilliant, classic book though. Reveries is about 300 - 350 pages, each chapter is Rousseau narrating his own solitary walk in and around Paris and his many observations of what he sees and what he thinks of French Society at that time. Highly recommended.
This sounds very interesting. Thank you for letting me know. I will have to look out for this one in a few weeks from now.
Dumas fils, Flaubert, Merrimee
I hadn't read any of those. But when they mentioned Jules Verne was French that's one. So I can say he's my favorite.
That’s fantastic!😀👍🌈
I did love Stendahl : " le rouge et le noir"
Alexander Dumas, more for the 3 muskateers films than the books. Is that allowed? I don't read much.
It’s allowed. No worries!😀👍🌈
Its funny, I did not think I likes french authors and throughout, the day names I did like and read kept zinging in my head, Simeon for the wonderful Maigret and his black car, De Maupassant for stories, Alexander Dumas for those brave Musketeers, Albert Camus, the list goes on. , Thank you for raising this poll, gave me new names to delve into and happy thoughts as i pruned my roses yesterday.
You’re welcome! I hope you enjoy the books that you get by them.😀👍🌈📚🐇📖
Jean Paul Sartre is the only French one I recognise here and he was a very clever Existentialist writer that I studied at French A level. Huis Clos and Les Mouches were his famous plays. So, I’ll go for him.
I studied Satre's Les Mains Sales for A Level French. I discovered Huis Clos when I was a student teacher, and loved it. We also studied some Voltaire but couldn't get on with that at all.
This is very interesting to hear. Thank you for letting us know.😀👍🌈
Victor Hugo
Which books by him have you read?
Not into this.
That’s okay. What books/authors do you enjoy?😀👍🌈📚🐇📖