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| 1842 |
| | Honoré de Balzac begins publication of a collected edition of his fiction under the title La Comédie Humaine | |
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| 1848 |
| | Honoré de Balzac completes publication of La Comédie Humaine, a 17-volume collected edition of his numerous novels and stories | |
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| 1856 |
| | Gustave Flaubert publishes Madame Bovary, a novel of frustrated romanticism in a provincial French context | |
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| 1857 |
| | Charles Baudelaire publishes his first and extremely influential collection of poems, Les Fleurs du Mal | |
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| 1859 |
| | French author Stendhal publishes his novel La Chartreuse de Parme ('The Charterhouse of Parma') | |
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| 1859 |
| | Charles Dickens publishes his French Revolution novel, A Tale of Two Cities | |
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| 1862 |
| | Victor Hugo publishes his novel Les Misérables, an immensely complex story about the adventures of ex-convict Jean Valjean | |
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| 1867 |
| | French author Paul Verlaine wins a reputation with his first published collection, Poémes saturniens ('Saturnine Poems') | |
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| 1870 |
| | 16-year-old Arthur Rimbaud sends some of his poems to Paul Verlaine, already an established poet | |
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| 1871 |
| | French author Émile Zola publishes The Fortune of the Rougons, the first in a 20-novel series that he calls Les Rougon-Macquart | |
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