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Jules François Felix Fleury-Husson (17 September 1821, in Laon, Aisne – 6 December 1889, in Sèvres), who wrote under the name Champfleury (French pronunciation: [ʃɑ̃fløʁi]), was a French art critic and novelist, a prominent supporter of the Realist movement in painting and fiction. In 1843 Fleury-Husson moved to Paris.
Gustave Flaubert (UK: / ˈ f l oʊ b ɛər / FLOH-bair, US: / f l oʊ ˈ b ɛər / floh-BAIR; [1] [2] French: [ɡystav flobɛʁ]; 12 December 1821 – 8 May 1880) was a French novelist.He has been considered the leading exponent of literary realism in his country and abroad.
Honoré de Balzac (/ ˈ b æ l z æ k / BAL-zak, [2] more commonly US: / ˈ b ɔː l-/ BAWL-; [3] [4] [5] French: [ɔnɔʁe d(ə) balzak]; born Honoré Balzac; [1] 20 May 1799 – 18 August 1850) was a French novelist and playwright. The novel sequence La Comédie humaine, which presents a panorama of post-Napoleonic French life, is generally ...
Historical realism is a writing style or sub-genre of realistic fiction centered around historical events and time periods. In historical realism, the structure and context of a text is usually solely derived from a real historical event or time period. As a consequence of this, many texts that fall under this category are philosophical by ...
Jules Verne (1828–1905), writer of techno-thrillers like Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas, and founding father of science fiction; Pauline Cassin Caro (1828/34/35 – 1901), novelist; Jules de Goncourt (1830–1870) Hector Malot (1830–1907) Émile Gaboriau (1832–1873), pioneer of modern detective fiction; Jules Vallès (1832–1885)
Writer: Literary movement: Realism: Marie-Henri Beyle (French: [maʁi ɑ̃ʁi bɛl]; 23 January 1783 – 23 March 1842), ... was a French writer.
Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau (UK: / ˈ k ɒ k t oʊ / KOK-toh, US: / k ɒ k ˈ t oʊ / kok-TOH; French: [ʒɑ̃ mɔʁis øʒɛn klemɑ̃ kɔkto]; 5 July 1889 – 11 October 1963) was a French poet, playwright, novelist, designer, film director, visual artist and critic.
Louis Aragon (French: [lwi aʁaɡɔ̃] ⓘ; 3 October 1897 – 24 December 1982) was a French poet who was one of the leading voices of the surrealist movement in France. He co-founded with André Breton and Philippe Soupault the surrealist review Littérature.