id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-5533 French literature - Wikipedia .html text/html 3206 513 68 For detailed information on French literature in specific historic periods, see the separate historical articles in the template to the right. Beginning in the 11th century, literature written in medieval French was one of the oldest vernacular (non-Latin) literatures in western Europe and it became a key source of literary themes in the Middle Ages across the continent. Under the aristocratic ideals of the Ancien Régime (the "honnête homme"), the nationalist spirit of post-revolutionary France, and the mass educational ideals of the Third Republic and modern France, the French have come to have a profound cultural attachment to their literary heritage. As of 2006, French literary people have been awarded more Nobel Prizes in Literature than novelists, poets and essayists of any other country. French Nobel Prize in Literature winners[edit] French contemporary literature workshop with Marc Avelot, Philippe Binant, Bernard Magné, Claudette Oriol-Boyer, Jean Ricardou, Cerisy (France), 1980. A short history of French literature (Penguin Books, 1976) Categories: French literature ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-5533.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-5533.txt