Fictional French people in literature

"Bluebeard" ( ) is a French folktale, the most famous surviving version of which was written by Charles Perrault and first published by in Paris in 1697 in . The tale is about a wealthy man in the habit of murdering his wives and the attempts of the present one to avoid the fate of her predecessors. "The White Dove", "The Robber Bridegroom", and "Fitcher's Bird" (also called "Fowler's Fowl") are tales similar to "Bluebeard". The notoriety of the tale is such that Merriam-Webster gives the word Bluebeard the definition of "a man who marries and kills one wife after another". The verb bluebeardi

fictional gentleman thief and master of disguise created by French writer Maurice Leblanc

1878 novel by Jules Verne

fictional French crime-solver created by Edgar Allan Poe

fictional character from The Count of Monte Cristo

fictional James Bond villain

fictional character created by Anne Rice

literary character; fictional adventurer created by Pierre Alexis Ponson du Terrail

fictional character created by Anne Rice

fictional character created by Jules Verne

1923 play by Jules Romains

character from Victor Hugo's "The Hunchback of Notre Dame"

Honoré de Balzac character

1893 novel by Hector Malot

thumb| as Tartarin in an 1888 stage adaptation of Tartarin on the Alps Tartarin is the main character in the French writer Alphonse Daudet's novels Tartarin of Tarascon (1872), Tartarin on the Alps (1885) and Port Tarascon (1890). He is a plump and gullible man who is spurred by the small-town dynamics of Tarascon in Provence to go on a series of misadventures abroad. The stories are written as parodies of heroic genres.

protagonist in Stendhal's "The Red and the Black"

character from Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Madeline is a media franchise that originated as a series of children's books written and illustrated by Ludwig Bemelmans. The books have been adapted into numerous formats, spawning telefilms, television series and a live action feature film. The stories take place in a Catholic boarding school in Paris. The teacher, named Miss Clavel, is strict but loves the children, cares for them, and is open to their ideas.

character created by Jules Verne

fictionally detective

novel by the Countess of Ségur