Modern Algerian literature, split between Arabic, Kabyle and French, has been strongly influenced by the country's recent history.

Today Algeria contains, in its literary landscape, big names having not only marked the Algerian literature, but also the universal literary heritage in Arabic and French.

In Jarry's later work Ubu Roi, Père Heb would develop into Ubu, one of the most monstrous and astonishing characters in French literature.

Alexandrines are common in the German literature of the Baroque period and in French poetry of the early modern and modern periods.

In syllabic verse, such as that used in French literature, an alexandrine is a line of twelve syllables.

The new work, which was henceforth to set the fashion to French literature, was written in lines of twelve syllables, but with a freedom of pause which was afterwards greatly curtailed.

Although written literature is only slowly evolving ( due to the predominance of French as the " language of the educated "), there exists a wealth of oral literature, which is often tales of kings and heroes.

It is sometimes argued that the greatest contribution that this work made to English literature was in popularizing the literary use of the vernacular, English, rather than French or Latin.

This includes simulation of cell signaling, multicell interactions and regulatory genomic networks in development of multicellular structures and processes ( see French flag model or: Category: Developmental biology journals for literature ).

The initial 15th edition ( 1974 – 1985 ) was faulted for having reduced or eliminated coverage of children's literature, military decorations, and the French poet Joachim du Bellay ; editorial mistakes were also alleged, such as inconsistent sorting of Japanese biographies.

There, English literature, French, Italian and German, as well as deportment, were taught.

Caliburnus or Caliburn became Excalibur, Escalibor, and other variations when the Arthurian legend entered into French literature.

In the 19th century, esotericism is also represented by certain aspects of the philosophy, literature and science associated with Romanticism, by spiritualism, and by a notable French wave of occultism.

There he learned French history, literature and philosophy.

In Catholic literature in English, the term " assist at Mass " has been used to mean " to attend Mass " due to a mistranslation of the French " assister à la messe " which means " to attend Mass ".

The pre-eminence of Parisian French has reigned largely unchallenged throughout the history of modern French literature.

Moving to Paris, he taught at the Sorbonne, and became professor of the history of French literature at the Collège de France.

The 12th-century French writer Chrétien de Troyes, who added Lancelot and the Holy Grail to the story, began the genre of Arthurian romance that became a significant strand of medieval literature.

Described by one source as a " determined, rather plodding organizer ", he failed to obtain a degree, but, according to the Jesuit priest, Father François Ponchaud, he acquired a taste for the classics of French literature as well as for the writings of Karl Marx.

Lesbianism became almost exclusive to French literature in the 19th century, based on male fantasy and the desire to shock bourgeois moral values.

Reflecting French society, as well as employing stock character associations, many of the lesbian characters in 19th-century French literature were prostitutes or courtesans: personifications of vice who died early, violent deaths in moral endings.

:( The French language is worthier and better suited for romances and pastourelles ; but the language from Limousin is of greater value for writing poems and cançons and sirventés ; and across the whole of the lands where our tongue is spoken, the literature in the Limousin language has more authority than any other dialect, wherefore I shall use this name in priority.

" Pommes de terre frites à cru, en petites tranches " (" Potatoes deep-fried while raw, in small cuttings ") in a manuscript in Thomas Jefferson's hand ( circa 1801 – 1809 ) and the recipe almost certainly comes from his French chef, Honoré Julien.

* 1808 – Honoré Daumier, French painter, illustrator, and sculptor ( d. 1879 )

* 1568 – Honoré d ' Urfé, French writer ( d. 1625 )

* 1625 – Honoré d ' Urfé, French writer ( b. 1568 )

Honoré Lannuier Cabinetmaker from Paris: The Life and Work of French Ébiniste in Federal New York.

* Honoré Mirabeau, French writer and politician

* February 26 – Honoré Daumier, French painter, illustrator, and sculptor ( d. 1879 )

* February 11 – Honoré d ' Urfé, French writer ( d. 1625 )

* February 11 – Honoré Daumier, French caricaturist and painter ( b. 1808 )

** Honoré de Balzac, French author ( b. 1799 )

* June 1 – Honoré d ' Urfé, French writer ( b. 1568 )

* May 20 – Honoré de Balzac, a French author ( d. 1850 )

Honoré de Balzac ( ; 20 May 1799 – 18 August 1850 ) was a French novelist and playwright.

* Adieu is a novella by Honoré de Balzac in which can be found a short description of the French retreat from Russia, particularly the battle of Berezina, where the fictional couple of the story are tragically separated.

Though most of Provence, with the exception of Marseille, Aix and Avignon, was rural, conservative and largely royalist, it did produce some memorable figures in the French Revolution ; Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau from Aix, who tried to moderate the Revolution, and turn France into a constitutional monarchy like England ; the Marquis de Sade from Lacoste in the Luberon, who was a Deputy from the far left in the National Assembly ; Charles Barbaroux from Marseille, who sent a battalion of volunteers to Paris to fight in the French Revolutionary Army ; and Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès ( 1748 – 1836 ), an abbé, essayist and political leader, who was one of the chief theorists of the French Revolution, French Consulate, and First French Empire, and who, in 1799, was the instigator of the coup d ' état of 18 Brumaire, which brought Napoleon to power.

The Dixon Gallery and Gardens, founded in 1976, focuses on French and American impressionism and features works by Monet, Degas, and Renoir, as well as pieces by Pierre Bonnard, Mary Cassatt, Marc Chagall, Honoré Daumier, Henri Fantin-Latour, Paul Gauguin, Henri Matisse, Berthe Morisot, Edvard Munch, Auguste Rodin, and Alfred Sisley, as well as an extensive collection of works by French Impressionist artist Jean-Louis Forain.

* Great French Romances ( 1946 ) novels by Madame De Lafayette, Choderlos De Laclos, the Abbe Prévost, Honoré de Balzac

" Gautier admired Honoré de Balzac for his contributions to the development of French literature.

Upon the death of the popular French orator and statesman Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau on 2 April 1791, the National Constituent Assembly, whose president had been Mirabeau, ordered that the building be changed from a church to a mausoleum for the interment of great Frenchmen, retaining Quatremère de Quincy to oversee the project.

The French artist Meissonnier made two paintings showing people playing the game, and Honoré de Balzac described a match in La Comédie Humaine.