📚 French

30 works · ordered by editions in print

The Académie’s entrusted tongue: its grammar tradition, the spelling quarrels, and the Frankophone spread.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject french language in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Title	Author	First published	Editions
La Petite Fadette (Classiques Francais)	George Sand	1851	81
Histoires Extraordinaires	Edgar Allan Poe	1867	70
Oeuvres complètes de Voltaire	Voltaire	1784	64
The lady of Lyons, or, Love and pride	Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton	1800	54
Notre-Dame de Paris. 1482	Victor Hugo	1832	36
Athalie	Jean Racine	1692	35
Les petits enfants du siècle	Christiane Rochefort	1961	32
Contacts	Jean-Paul Valette	1976	32
Ensemble	Raymond F. Comeau	1982	32
Elémens de la grammaire française	Charles François Lhomond	1800	31
Me Talk Pretty One Day	David Sedaris	2000	29
Zaïre	Voltaire	1736	26
La Vie Devant Soi	Romain Gary	1975	26
La comédie humaine	Honoré de Balzac	1901	24
Le répertoire de la cuisine	Louis Saulnier	1914	22
Le Tartuffe	Molière	1933	21
First Thousand Words in French	Heather Amery	1979	20
See it and say it in French	Margarita Madrigal	1962	19
Entre Amis	Michael Oates	1991	18
Le bon usage	Grevisse, Maurice.	1946	17
French in action	Pierre J. Capretz	1987	17
Le désert de l'amour	François Mauriac	1925	15
Fragments d'un discours amoureux	Roland Barthes	1977	15
Chez Nous	Albert Valdman	1996	13
En bonne forme	Simone Renaud Dietiker	1973	12
First Hundred Words In French	Heather Amery	1988	12
French for dummies	Dodi-Katrin Schmidt	2000	11
L' ile mystérieuse	Jules Verne	1875	10
Noces	Albert Camus	1939	10
Graded French reader	Camille Bauer	1978	10

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 05 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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