{"id":24260,"count":17,"description":"Our experts have chosen the best books on France including French literature, French novels and fiction, French history<\/a> and leading French figures such as Charles de Gaulle<\/span><\/a>, Marie Curie<\/a>, Emile Zola,<\/a> Coco Chanel<\/a>, Simone De Beauvoir<\/a>, Voltaire<\/a> and <\/span>\u00a0Napoleon<\/a>. Some French book recommendation lists are city specific such as the best books on Paris,<\/a> some based on the country of France and some on topics such as French cooking<\/a>.\r\n\r\nIf you are looking for French fiction, David Bellos of Princeton had made his selection of the greatest French novels.<\/a> Other classics of French literature include Stendhal's Le rouge et le noir<\/em><\/a>, Marcel Proust's \u00c0 la recherche du temps perdu<\/em>,<\/a> and Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary<\/a><\/em>.\u00a0The Nobel Prize in Literature<\/a> has been won nearly 20 times by French authors, including Albert Camus<\/a> (1957), Jean-Paul Sartre<\/a> (1964, though he refused it) and most recently Patrick Modiano<\/a> (2014) and\u00a0Annie Ernaux<\/a> (2022).\r\n\r\nWe have spoken to several French experts including Geoffroy de Lagasnerie, a leading philosopher and sociologist about books on State, Power and Violence<\/a> and Thomas Piketty, an economist, gave recommendations on the best books on historical change and economic ideology.<\/a>\r\n\r\nNovels Set in Paris<\/a> | The Best Marcel Proust Books<\/a> |","link":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/category\/world\/europe\/france\/","name":"France","slug":"france","taxonomy":"category","parent":5304,"meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/24260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/category"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/5304"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?categories=24260"},{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book?categories=24260"},{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books_like_this?categories=24260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}