Memorable Quotations: French Writers of the PastCarol A. Dingle This impressive collection of remarkable quotations from more than a hundred French writers of the past (including Honoré de Balzac, Simone de Beauvoir, Georges Bernanos, Albert Camus, Jean Cocteau, Colette, Cyrano de Bergerac, Alexandre Dumas, Marguerite Duras, Gustave Flaubert, Anatole France, André Gide, Heloise, Victor Hugo, Molière, Alfred de Musset, Anais Nin, Blaise Pascal, Marcel Proust, Jean Racine, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, George Sand, Jean-Paul Sartre, Madame de Stael, Stendhal, Voltaire, and Simone Weil) is a must for every lover of great literature. |
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