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French literature

literature written by French authors or French-speaking authors
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Summary

French literature is a field of study[1]. It draws 2,590 Wikipedia views per month (field of study category, ranking #87 of 379).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: academic discipline[3]
  • Subclass of: literature[4]
  • Part of: Romance literature[5], Francophone literature[6]
  • Commons category: Literature of France[7]
  • Topic's main category: Category:French literature[8]
  • Topic's main Wikimedia portal: Portal:French and Francophone literature[9]
  • Described by source: Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia[10], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[11], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[12], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[13], The Catholic Encyclopedia[14]
  • Different from: French literature[15], Francophone literature[16]
  • Studied by: French literature[17]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[18]

Why It Matters

French literature has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[19] It is known by 35 alternative names across languages and contexts.[20]

Related Entities

Alexandre Dumas Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle Brooke Shields Charles Perrault Gérard Genette Honoré de Balzac Jean Giraudoux Joachim du Bellay Joanne Harris Ludovic Halévy Margaret of Valois-Angoulême Michel Tournier Monique Wittig Petr Vurm Robert de Montesquiou

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [19] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [20] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 16w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-06-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → french-literature
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: french-literature, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289928960|french literature (#289928960)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Har"
  2. 18w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → ['m001098-francouzsky-psana-literatura', 'h0001979-francouzska-literatura']
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: m001098-francouzsky-psana-literatura, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259547|batch #259547]]"
  3. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Part of → —
    Studied by → French literature
    On focus list of wikimedia project → Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
    Instance of → —
    + 10 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|9 */ Yso id: 17889, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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