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TOP ICONIC FRENCH
4 NOVELS

Candide by Voltaire
Published in 1759 and
widely banned for years.
The Three Musketeers
DISCOVER France Your Way this is Dumas's most
by Alexandre Dumas
A swashbuckling epic,
famous title.

Madame Bovary by
Gustav Flaubert
This 1856 novel has an
enduringly famous
female protagonist.
The Stranger by
Albert Camus
A novel that examines
the fundamental
absurdity of life. The exterior of the
Shakespeare and
Company bookshop

FRANCE FOR
BOOKWORMS

If you like literature, you’ll love France. There's plenty for writers and readers
to celebrate, with literary festivals, inspiring bookshops and numerous
opportunities to walk along the real streets that inspired your favourite
work of fiction. Few countries reward the bibliophile so richly.

Literary Festivals
The Paris Book Fair is France's
largest literary event,
draw ing huge crowds and
fantastic writers across all
genres. Fans of crime fiction
should head to Lyon (p370)
for the atmo spheric Quais du
Polar, an international festival
that combines books, cinema
and art. The Charroux’s (p408)
eponymous Literary Festival
is a wonderful bilingual event
in southwest France, which
brings together English- and
French-speaking writers.

The bustling stands of
Paris Book Fair, which is
held in spring every year

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