Novels set in 19th-century France

1862 novel by Victor Hugo

The Count of Monte Cristo is an adventure novel by the French writer Alexandre Dumas. It was serialised from 1844 to 1846, then published in book form in 1846. It is one of his most popular works, along with The Three Musketeers (1844) and Man in the Iron Mask (1850). Like many of his novels, it was expanded from plot outlines suggested by his collaborating ghostwriter, Auguste Maquet. It is regarded as a classic of French and world literature.

novel by Gustave Flaubert (1857)

French novel by Stendhal (1830)

novel by Émile Zola

1822–1848 series of novels, essays and stories by Honoré de Balzac

novel by Gustave Flaubert

Bel-Ami (, "Dear Friend") is the second novel by French author Guy de Maupassant, published in 1885; an English translation titled Bel Ami, or, The History of a Scoundrel: A Novel first appeared in 1903.

1848 novel by Charles Dickens

Gobseck is an 1830 novella by French author Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) which is in the Scènes de la vie privée section of his novel sequence La Comédie humaine.

Béatrix is an 1839 novel by French author Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) and included in the Scènes de la vie privée section of his novel sequence La Comédie humaine.

novella by Guy de Maupassant

1834 novel by Honoré de Balzac

1832 novel by Honoré de Balzac

1839 novel by Honoré de Balzac