List of Historical Novels - France

France

  • The Jester by James Patterson (11th century)
  • The Accursed King series (Les Rois Maudits) by Maurice Druon (13th-14th century)
  • Quentin Durward by Sir Walter Scott (Louis XI - 15th century)
  • The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo (15th century)
  • The Lady and the Unicorn by Tracey Chevalier (during the Renaissance)
  • The King's Cavalier by Samuel Shellabarger (16th century)
  • Queen Margot by Alexandre Dumas, père (16th century)
  • The Virgin Blue by Tracey Chevalier (during the religious wars)
  • The Angélique series by Anne & Serge Golon (Mid-17th century France during Louis XIV)
  • The d'Artagnan romances, including the novels The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After, and The Vicomte de Bragelonne by Alexandre Dumas, père (17th century)
  • A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (French Revolution)
  • Desirée by Annemarie Selinko (about Désirée Clary, time of Napoleon and after)
  • Les Misérables by Victor Hugo (19th century)
  • The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, père (19th century)
  • The Monsters of St. Helena by Brooks Hansen (exile of Napoléon)
  • La Plevitskaya by Ally Hauptmann-Gurski (about Nadezhda Plevitskaya, – A Gypsy Singer in Tsarist Russia and in Exile (Paris 1920s, 30s) )
  • The Book of Kings by James Thackara (World War II)

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