Table of Contents:**

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Chapter 1

: Medieval and Renaissance Literature**
1.1 Troubadours and Courtly Love: The Influence of Provencal Poetry
1.2 Epic Poetry and Chivalric Romance: The Matter of France
1.3 Medieval Mysticism: The Devotional Poetry of François Villon
1.4 Humanism and the Renaissance: Rabelais and Montaigne
1.5 Theater of the Absurd: Religious Drama and Morality Plays
1.6 The Rise of Vernacular Literature: From Latin to French

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Chapter 2

: Enlightenment and Revolutionary Literature**
2.1 The Age of Enlightenment: Voltaire, Rousseau, and the Philosophes
2.2 The Marquis de Sade: Libertine Literature and Radical Thought
2.3 Revolutionary Rhetoric: Political Pamphlets and Revolutionary Tracts
2.4 Romanticism and the Birth of the Modern Novel: Hugo, Stendhal, and Balzac
2.5 Realism and Naturalism: Flaubert, Zola, and the Literary Gaze
2.6 Symbolism and Decadence: Baudelaire, Rimbaud, and Mallarmé

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Chapter 3

: Modernism and Avant-Garde Movements**
3.1 Surrealism and the Unconscious: Breton, Artaud, and Dali
3.2 Existentialism and Absurdism: Sartre, Camus, and Beauvoir
3.3 Nouveau Roman: Experimental Narratives and Formal Innovation
3.4 Postcolonial Literature: Francophone Writers and Diasporic Voices
3.5 Feminist Literature: Écriture Féminine and the Female Perspective
3.6 Contemporary French Poetry: From Structuralism to Post-Structuralism

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Chapter 4

: Francophone Literature and Global Perspectives**
4.1 African Literature in French: Senghor, Césaire, and Fanon
4.2 Caribbean Literature: Negritude and the Francophone Antilles
4.3 Maghrebi Literature: Identity, Exile, and Memory
4.4 Quebecois Literature: Language Politics and Cultural Identity
4.5 Francophone Asian Literature: Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos
4.6 Francophone Middle Eastern Literature: Lebanon, Algeria, and Syria

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Chapter 5

: Contemporary Trends and Emerging Voices**
5.1 Immigration and Diaspora Literature: Voices of the Marginalized
5.2 LGBTQ+ Literature: Queer Narratives and Subversive Discourses
5.3 Eco-Literature and Environmental Consciousness
5.4 Digital Literature: Hypertext, Interactive Fiction, and E-Lit
5.5 Graphic Novels and Bande Dessinée: Visual Storytelling in French
5.6 Literary Criticism and Theory: Postcolonial Readings and Cultural Analysis