French novels adapted into operas

novel by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1943)

novel by Victor Hugo

novel by Gustave Flaubert (1857)

' ( , ) 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

novel by Jules Verne

1910 novel by Gaston Leroux

five novels by François Rabelais

1848 novel by Alexandre Dumas fils

1865 novel by Jules Verne

1782 epistolary novel by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

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.

novel by Abbé Prévost

novel by Stendhal (1839)

novel by Honoré de Balzac (1831)

1947 novel by Boris Vian

novel by Émile Zola

novel by Victor Hugo

1845 novel by Prosper Mérimée

novel by Émile Zola

'''''' , 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.

1892 novel by Jules Verne

novel by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

novel by Victor Hugo

2006 novel by Jonathan Littell

novel by Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre

novel by Anatole France

1715 novel by Alain-René Lesage

1846 novel by Alexandre Dumas

novel by Théophile Gautier (1863)

novel by Honoré de Balzac

Sarrasine is a novella written by Honoré de Balzac. Part of his Comédie humaine, it was published in 1830 in the Revue de Paris.

1851 novel by Henri Murger

1886 novel by Pierre Loti

novel by George Sand

novel by Jacques Cazotte

novel by Émile Zola

novel by Pierre Louÿs

novel by Roland Topor

novel by Eugène Sue

novel by Jean Cocteau

1888 novel by Pierre Loti

novel by Pierre Louÿs

1893 novel by Anatole France

novel by Pierre Louÿs