Home›French Literature›Original LanguageBrowse ByOriginal LanguageOriginal language groups authors by the language they actually wrote in. Wikipedia identifies Jane Austen as "an English writer," and her six novels were all composed in English rather than translated into it. This dimension lets a visitor find every author who wrote in the same original language.FactsOriginal LanguageSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsComparisonEra of EmergenceWell-attested1000 1Primary Language or TraditionWell-attestedFrench 1Original LanguageFilter Results5 entriesGenreAllAutobiography (1)Belles-lettres (1)Children Literature (1)Chivalric Romance (1)Comedy (1)Crime Fiction (1)Detective Fiction (1)Drama (1)Epic (3)Fable (1)Fabliau (1)Fairy Tale (1)Lyric Poetry (2)Memoir (2)Nonfiction Prose (1)Parody (2)Poetry (1)Psychological Fiction (1)Satire (2)Science Fiction (1)Short Fiction (1)The Novel (2)The Picaresque Novel (1)Tragedy (1)Utopian and Dystopian Fiction (2)War Novel (1)NationalityAllBelgium (1)France (4)Germany (1)Italy (1)Romania (3)Russia (1)Switzerland (1)United Kingdom (1)United States (2)Active EraAll1165 to 1210 (1)1483 to 1553 (1)1533 to 1592 (1)1606 to 1684 (1)1607 to 1701 (1)1621 to 1695 (1)1622 to 1673 (1)1628 to 1703 (1)1639 to 1699 (1)1668 to 1747 (1)1694 to 1778 (1)1712 to 1778 (1)1713 to 1784 (1)1723 to 1789 (1)1783 to 1842 (1)1799 to 1850 (1)1802 to 1870 (1)1802 to 1885 (1)1804 to 1876 (1)1818 to 1894 (1)1821 to 1867 (1)1821 to 1880 (1)1828 to 1905 (1)1840 to 1902 (1)1842 to 1898 (1)1844 to 1896 (1)1850 to 1893 (1)1854 to 1891 (1)1862 to 1949 (1)1864 to 1941 (1)1868 to 1927 (1)1871 to 1922 (1)1873 to 1935 (1)1877 to 1939 (1)1888 to 1948 (1)1896 to 1963 (2)1896 to 1966 (1)1896 to 1970 (1)1900 to 1944 (1)1903 to 1987 (1)1903 to 1989 (1)1905 to 1980 (1)1908 to 1986 (1)1909 to 1945 (1)1909 to 1994 (1)1913 to 1960 (1)1914 to 1996 (1)1928 to 2006 (1)1928 to 2016 (2)MovementAllDadaism (2)Decadent Movement (1)Existentialism (1)Lost Generation (1)Modernism (2)Naturalism (1)Nouveau Roman (1)Parnassianism (1)Realism (1)Romanticism (1)Surrealism (1)Symbolism (1)Influenced ByAllCharles Baudelaire (1)Dante Alighieri (1)Edgar Allan Poe (1)Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1)John Milton (1)Ovid (1)GenderAllMale (1)Form Mostly WrittenAllEssay (1)Novel (1)Play (1)Poem (1)Major PrizeAllNobel Prize in Literature (1)Attested From (Year)All75 BCE (1)450 (1)801 (1)842 (1)901 (1)Attested To (Year)All750 (1)Difficulty for an English SpeakerAllCategory I (2)Category III (1)ISO 639-3 CodeAlleng (1)fra (1)lat (1)por (1)ru (1)Speaker CountAll0 (1)154,000,000 (1)267,000,000 (1)312,000,000 (1)1,500,000,000 (1)StatusAllLiturgical / Learned Use Only (1)Living (4)ToneAllNot Tonal (3)Word OrderAllSOV (1)SVO (4)Show ResultsBrowseCompareSelect all 5EnglishOriginal Language1 entryFrenchOriginal Language53 entriesLatinOriginal Language1 entryPortugueseOriginal Language1 entryRussianOriginal Language1 entrySources1. French Literature (Wikipedia)tier 2WikipediaFrench literature, lead sectionQuote, French literature, lead sectionBeginning in the 11th century, literature written in medieval French was one of the oldest vernacular (non-Latin) literatures in western EuropeView the SourceComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.