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Besides literature written in the French language, the literary culture of France may include literature written in other languages of France. In the medieval period many of the competing in various territories that later came to make up the territory of modern France each produced literary traditions, such as and .|

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The late 15th and early 16th cent. saw the flowering of the Renaissance in France. Three giants of world literature—François , Pierre de , and Michel Eyquem de —towered over a host of brilliant but lesser figures in the 16th cent. Italian influence was strong in the poetry of Clément and the dramas of Éstienne and Robert . The poet Ronsard and the six poets known collectively as the (see ) reacted against Italian influence to produce a body of French poetry to rival Italian achievement. The early 17th-century critic François de attacked the excesses of the ; his zeal for the correct choice of words has marked French literature ever since.|

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In the 18th century, French became the literary and diplomatic language of western Europe (and, to a certain degree, in America), and French letters have had a profound impact on all European and American literary traditions while at the same time being heavily influenced by these other national traditions (for example: British and German Romanticism in the nineteenth century). French literary developments of the 19th and 20th centuries have had a particularly strong effect on modern world literature, including: , , the "" of , and , , , and the "".|

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The upheavals of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic era were accompanied by new intellectual trends. , greatly influenced by the philosophy of Rousseau, was heralded in the writings of Germaine de and François René, vicomte de . The principal figures of the Romantic period include Victor , Alphonse de , Alfred, comte de , Alfred de , Gérard de , Prosper , Alexandre , père, and Théophile .|

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