French novels adapted into films

novel by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1943)

1862 novel by Victor Hugo

1844 novel by Alexandre Dumas

1942 novel by Albert Camus

The Count of Monte Cristo is an adventure novel by the French writer Alexandre Dumas. It was serialised from 1844 to 1846, then published in book form in 1846. It is one of his most popular works, along with The Three Musketeers (1844) and Man in the Iron Mask (1850). Like many of his novels, it was expanded from plot outlines suggested by his collaborating ghostwriter, Auguste Maquet. It is regarded as a classic of French and world literature.

novel by Jules Verne

novel by Victor Hugo

novel by Gustave Flaubert (1857)

1869/1870 novel by Jules Verne

' ( , ) is a French satire written by Voltaire, a philosopher of the Age of Enlightenment, first published in 1759. The novella has been widely translated, with English versions titled Candide: or, All for the Best (1759); Candide: or, The Optimist (1762); and Candide: Optimism''''' (1947). A young man, Candide, lives a sheltered life in an Edenic paradise, being indoctrinated with Leibnizian optimism by his mentor, Professor Pangloss. This lifestyle is abruptly ended, followed by Candide's slow and painful disillusionment as he witnesses and experiences great hardships in the world. Voltaire

1864 science fiction novel by Jules Verne

French novel by Albert Camus

1835 novel by Honoré de Balzac

novel sequence by Marcel Proust

1984 Czech novel by Milan Kundera

1874 novel by Jules Verne

French novel by Stendhal (1830)

novel by Jules Verne

1910 novel by Gaston Leroux

1848 novel by Alexandre Dumas fils

1865 novel by Jules Verne

1863 novel by Jules Verne

novel by Émile Zola

novel by Octave Mirbeau

novel by Jules Verne

1963 French novel by Pierre Boulle

1878 novel by Jules Verne

2000–2003 French-language graphic novel series by Marjane Satrapi

1782 epistolary novel by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

1870 novel by Jules Verne

1866 novel by Jules Verne

novel by Alexandre Dumas; sequel to The Three Musketeers

novel by Gustave Flaubert

Salammbô is an 1862 historical novel by Gustave Flaubert. It is set in Carthage immediately before and during the Mercenary Revolt (241–237 BCE). Flaubert's principal source was Book I of the Histories, written by the Greek historian Polybius. The novel was enormously popular when first published and jumpstarted a renewed interest in the history of the Roman Republic's conflict with the North African Phoenician outpost of Carthage.

Bel-Ami (, "Dear Friend") is the second novel by French author Guy de Maupassant, published in 1885; an English translation titled Bel Ami, or, The History of a Scoundrel: A Novel first appeared in 1903.

1785 novel by Marquis de Sade

novel by Stendhal (1839)

novel by Abbé Prévost

1888 novel by Jules Verne

novel by Honoré de Balzac (1831)

novel by Hector Malot

1879 novel by Jules Verne

book by Alexandre Dumas, second sequel to The Three Musketeers

1925 novel by André Gide

1833 novel by Honoré de Balzac

1947 novel by Boris Vian

1886 novel by Jules Verne

novel by Alexandre Dumas

novel by Émile Zola

1845 novel by Prosper Mérimée

novel by Victor Hugo

'''''' , published as a serial in 1876, and in book form in 1877, is the seventh novel in Émile Zola's twenty-volume series Les Rougon-Macquart. Usually considered one of Zola's masterpieces, the novel—a study of alcoholism and poverty in the working-class districts of Paris—was a huge commercial success and helped establish Zola's fame and reputation throughout France and the world.

novel by Émile Zola

1954 novel by Françoise Sagan

children's book series by René Goscinny

1892 novel by Jules Verne

book by Marguerite Duras

1882 novel by Jules Verne

1791 erotic novel by the Marquis de Sade

1885 novel by Jules Verne