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Which French author do you like? Multiple choice.

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JP Satre
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Tolstoy
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BrentW profile image
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Tolstoy?

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Isinatra in reply toBrentW

I agree, Tolstoy?

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Activity2004 in reply toIsinatra

Tolstoy is a famous French writer. :-)

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MarcusAurelius62 in reply toActivity2004

He was Russian

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Isinatra in reply toActivity2004

Maybe there are two Tolstoy’s? I have to research it.

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Isinatra in reply toIsinatra

Lev Tolstoy was Russian. But a great author, nonetheless. ❤️

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MarcusAurelius62 in reply toIsinatra

One of the best! I mean, The Brothers Karazimov! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_T...

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Isinatra in reply toMarcusAurelius62

Awesome! ❤️🏄‍♀️

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Frenchhouse3 in reply toMarcusAurelius62

I love The Brothers Karamazov too but the author was my favourite, Dostoyevsky. I do love Tolstoy’s War and Peace though.

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MarcusAurelius62 in reply toFrenchhouse3

Sorry, I was making a very poor joke on Tolstoy being French. But yes, I do love Dostoyevsky too.

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Batteria in reply toActivity2004

Leo Tolstoy? Do tell. Bx

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cathie in reply toBrentW

Tolstoy was Russian my friends

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kitchengardener2

Can’t comment because I haven’t read any of them.

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Activity2004 in reply tokitchengardener2

No worries about it. :-)

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MarcusAurelius62

Tolstoy was Russian

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Activity2004 in reply toMarcusAurelius62

Sorry about that! :-)

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Big_Dee in reply toActivity2004

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.

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Activity2004 in reply toBig_Dee

Thank you for letting me know that! Very helpful and a great idea.😀👍🌈📚🐇📖

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paddington

Can't say that I have read any.

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Activity2004 in reply topaddington

No worries! It's okay. :-)

I dont think that ive read any french authours .. is jules verne french?

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Activity2004 in reply to

I looked up Jules Verne and he's French. :-)

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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

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Isinatra in reply to

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

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Isinatra in reply to

Had to google that one before I opened my big mouth. Yep, as French as can be.❤️🏄‍♀️

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Activity2004 in reply toIsinatra

Thank you for doing that! Much appreciated! :-)

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Isinatra in reply toActivity2004

Didn’t know I had read a French author. I think I’d like to read Balzac. ❤️🏄‍♀️

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Activity2004 in reply toIsinatra

I will have to look him up and see what I find soon. :-)

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suzley

Haven't read any of them.

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Activity2004 in reply tosuzley

That's okay. :-)

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MadBunny

Balzac. Yes Balzac, not Bazzak!😊🐰

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Activity2004 in reply toMadBunny

What books/stories did he do? I never heard of him. :-)

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MadBunny in reply toActivity2004

I studied him for A level french. 19th Century - a bit like Dickens. Did Pere Goriot .

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Activity2004 in reply toMadBunny

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. :-( :-)

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sophie4

Great poll!!!!! Read the first line in "Anna Karenina".

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sophie4 in reply tosophie4

WHOOPS....Tolstoy was Russian!!!

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Activity2004 in reply tosophie4

Thank you for letting me know. :-)

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Activity2004 in reply tosophie4

My brother read that story for high school graduation/credit years ago. Read it on a beach for a week. :-)

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HissingSid

Parley-vous ingles?

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Activity2004 in reply toHissingSid

That one is a French band. :-)

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HissingSid in reply toActivity2004

Then my answer is Non. 😀

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Marnie22 in reply toHissingSid

Non. 😁🌸

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HissingSid in reply toMarnie22

Oui. 😀

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Marnie22 in reply toHissingSid

Je suis confus! 😁🌸

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stamford1234 in reply toMarnie22

He was chinese

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Activity2004 in reply tostamford1234

Thank you for letting us know that.😀👍🌈

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Isinatra in reply toHissingSid

Oui

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HissingSid in reply toIsinatra

Parlez-vous ecosse?

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Isinatra in reply toHissingSid

Ich verstehen sie nicht. 😃

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HissingSid in reply toIsinatra

Pardon

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Isinatra in reply toHissingSid

Do you mean, pardon moi?

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HissingSid in reply toIsinatra

Oui 😂

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Isinatra in reply toIsinatra

It means, I don’t understand you. German. I didn’t know Russian. Trying to keep with the flow.❤️🏄‍♀️

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cathie in reply toHissingSid

Aye!

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HissingSid in reply tocathie

Braw

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Activity2004

What did he write? :-)

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cathie in reply toActivity2004

La peste; l’etranger - came from Algeria

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stamford1234 in reply tocathie

Good, but very gloomy! Had to read l'Etranger years ago. Doesn't it start, Ma mere est morte, something like that!

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MarcusAurelius62 in reply toActivity2004

The Outsider

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Activity2004 in reply toMarcusAurelius62

The Outsider? Very interesting!😀👍🌈

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Mielathecat

Collette would be my favourite French author, or Tolstoy, but he was Russian.

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Activity2004 in reply toMielathecat

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.

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Activity2004 in reply to

This sounds great! Thank you! :-)

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MarcusAurelius62 in reply to

And Jean de Florette, Manon de Source, Les Miserables even, Victor Hugo

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MadBunny in reply to

Oh yes Dangerous liaisons. And the Phantom of the opera. And Madame Bovary.

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Activity2004 in reply toMadBunny

I saw Phantom of the Opera years ago. One of my favorite plays.😀👍🌈

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Jaxqueline

Zola

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Jaxqueline

Tolstoy Russian. How about Zola? Fabulous writer!

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Activity2004 in reply toJaxqueline

What did Zola write? :-)

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LWNE

Flaubert...

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Mariposa_65

Albert Camus

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Frenchhouse3

I quite like Georges Simeon, particularly his Maigret series.

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Mariposa_65

Albert Camus

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Mimicat

Alexandre Dumas...

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MarcusAurelius62

Voltaire's Candide, Montaigne's Essays

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Adlon57

Candide by Francois-Marie Arouet [Voltaire] or Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Pierre Ambroise Choderlos de Laclos

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rachelmi

I’ve only heard of Tolstoy !! But I thought he was Russian and wrote ‘ war and peace?’ 😂

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MarcusAurelius62

Camus was also the goalkeeper for the Algerian National side! Weird eh!

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MarcusAurelius62

Marcel Proust and the HUGE novel thingy he wrote!

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Colliesam

Don't know any ,sorry

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Activity2004 in reply toColliesam

It’s okay! No sorry necessary at all!😀👍🌈

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MarcusAurelius62

These Existentialist eh! They got everywhere!

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Mounder

Fred Vargas, female, writes mysteries

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Activity2004 in reply toMounder

I will have to look her up tomorrow during the day after breakfast.😀👍🌈

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stamford1234

Is that how you spell Sartre?

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Big_Dee

Do any of these authors do science fiction?

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Activity2004 in reply toBig_Dee

I will check it out tomorrow for you.😀👍🌈

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INK45

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.

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Activity2004 in reply toINK45

Thank you for letting us know. This sounds really interesting. 😀👍🌈

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Doggie123-UK

Jules Verne & Pierre Boulle

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Activity2004 in reply toDoggie123-UK

Nice! Which is your favorite book that they each do? 😀👍🌈

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Doggie123-UK in reply toActivity2004

Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Journey to the Centre of the Earth, Mysterious Island. Pierre Boulle, Planet of the Apes

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Activity2004 in reply toDoggie123-UK

I have Planet of the Apes from many years ago.😀👍🌈

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MidoriVisually impaired

Alexander Dumas, and I can't remember who wrote Hunchback of Notre Dame. Uderzo and Gocinny for Asterix!

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Activity2004 in reply toMidori

This sounds great! Thank you for letting us know. 😀👍🌈

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rapture4u

Alexandre Dumas is my favourite French author.

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Activity2004 in reply torapture4u

What is your favorite book by Alexandre Dumas? 😀👍🌈📚🐇📖

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rapture4u in reply toActivity2004

The Count of Monte Cristo.

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Activity2004 in reply torapture4u

That’s fantastic! 😀👍🌈📖🐇📚

Tolstoy was French?

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JPMcG

Sartre. No Exit

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Barjac

Tolstoy?

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Sops

Tolstoy definitely Russian. I like Victor Hugo- Hunchback of Notre Dame, Les Miserables, and poems

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Activity2004 in reply toSops

I like poetry.😀👍🌈

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Pentreath

Emile Zola

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Barjac

Enjoyed all replies and thanks for the reminders of all the books by French authors I did know.

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Activity2004 in reply toBarjac

You’re welcome! 😀👍🌈

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Cumbremar5

Maupassant

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Walkingtall62

Camus

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Berrytog

Moliere

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MadBunny in reply toBerrytog

Oh yes. I forgot Moliere. My fave playwright after Shakespeare 😁🐰

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Batteria

De Maupassant

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Batteria

I have read myriad books in french but they were all translated from the English. Bx

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Activity2004 in reply toBatteria

Which ones?😀👍🌈

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Cookie101

Alexandre Dumas - Loved Count of Monte Cristo

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MarcusAurelius62

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.

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Activity2004 in reply toMarcusAurelius62

How long is it?😀👍🌈

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MarcusAurelius62 in reply toActivity2004

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.

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Activity2004 in reply toMarcusAurelius62

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. :-)

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Remyan

Dumas fils, Flaubert, Merrimee

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cljones

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.

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Activity2004 in reply tocljones

That’s fantastic!😀👍🌈

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Lola2003

I did love Stendahl : " le rouge et le noir"

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chrisj

Alexander Dumas, more for the 3 muskateers films than the books. Is that allowed? I don't read much.

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Activity2004 in reply tochrisj

It’s allowed. No worries!😀👍🌈

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Sops

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.

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Activity2004 in reply toSops

You’re welcome! I hope you enjoy the books that you get by them.😀👍🌈📚🐇📖

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stillmovin

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.

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MadBunny in reply tostillmovin

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.

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Activity2004 in reply toMadBunny

This is very interesting to hear. Thank you for letting us know.😀👍🌈

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TheDrivenSnow

François Mauriac

Gustave Flaubert

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Reading4everyone

Victor Hugo

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Activity2004 in reply toReading4everyone

Which books by him have you read? :-)

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nkotbjoeymc

Not into this.

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Activity2004 in reply tonkotbjoeymc

That’s okay. What books/authors do you enjoy?😀👍🌈📚🐇📖

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