Le père Goriot
Honoré de Balzac
Published 1885
336 pages
Free French classic books
Classics are books written long ago that people have never stopped reading. Novels, plays, poems and ideas from before the twentieth century are here, the works that shaped everything written since. Whether you are catching up or returning to an old favorite, they repay the time. This list shows the ones you can read in full for free. Only books in French are listed.
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Du contrat social
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Published 1896
492 pages
Critique de la raison pure
Immanuel Kant
1781 · 1869 edition
1044 pages
Fables
Jean de La Fontaine
1870 · 1881 edition
410 pages
Max Havelaar
Multatuli
Published 1876
468 pages
Le bourgeois gentilhomme
Molière
1882 · 1887 edition
158 pages
Hernani
Victor Hugo, Publishers of the Valley
Published 1891
248 pages
Les précieuses ridicules
Molière, Michel Bouty
1879 · 1892 edition
290 pages
La Dame de Monsoreau
Alexandre Dumas
Published 1883
324 pages
Le Capitaine Fracasse
Théophile Gautier
Published 1876
396 pages
Histoire de ma vie
George Sand
Published 1879
520 pages
Le meneur de loups
Alexandre Dumas, Sir Angels
Published 1883
328 pages
La petite Roque
Guy de Maupassant
Published 1899
342 pages
Cligés
Chrétien de Troyes
Published 1888
244 pages
Le Tour du Monde en Quatre-vingts Jours
Jules Verne
Published 1890
404 pages
Kenilworth
Walter Scott
Published 1827
224 pages
Les châtiments
Victor Hugo, Chantal de Biasi
Published 1885
660 pages
Jean qui grogne et Jean qui rit
Sophie comtesse de Ségur
Published 1876
424 pages
Lourdes
Emile Zola
1894 · 1896 edition
648 pages
Ascanio
Alexandre Dumas
Published 1884
360 pages
Le progrès
Edmond About
Published 1867
466 pages
Les paysans
Honoré de Balzac, nerva nerva esis
Published 1876
384 pages
Le grand dictionnaire de cuisine
Alexandre Dumas
Published 1873
1208 pages
Stello
Alfred de Vigny
Published 1873
370 pages