List of Historical Novels - France

France

• The Jester by James Patterson (11th century)
• The Accursed King series (Les Rois Maudits) by Maurice Druon (13th-14th century)
• Quentin Durward by Sir Walter Scott (Louis XI - 15th century)
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo (15th century)
• The Lady and the Unicorn by Tracey Chevalier (during the Renaissance)
• The King's Cavalier by Samuel Shellabarger (16th century)
• Queen Margot by Alexandre Dumas, père (16th century)
• The Virgin Blue by Tracey Chevalier (during the religious wars)
• The Angélique series by Anne & Serge Golon (Mid-17th century France during Louis XIV)
• The d'Artagnan romances, including the novels The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After, and The Vicomte de Bragelonne by Alexandre Dumas, père (17th century)
• A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (French Revolution)
• Desirée by Annemarie Selinko (about Désirée Clary, time of Napoleon and after)
• Les Misérables by Victor Hugo (19th century)
• The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, père (19th century)
• The Monsters of St. Helena by Brooks Hansen (exile of Napoléon)
• La Plevitskaya by Ally Hauptmann-Gurski (about Nadezhda Plevitskaya, – A Gypsy Singer in Tsarist Russia and in Exile (Paris 1920s, 30s) )
• The Book of Kings by James Thackara (World War II)