<p>Table of Contents:**<br><br>**

Chapter 1

: Medieval and Renaissance Literature**<br>1.1 Troubadours and Courtly Love: The Influence of Provencal Poetry<br>1.2 Epic Poetry and Chivalric Romance: The Matter of France<br>1.3 Medieval Mysticism: The Devotional Poetry of François Villon<br>1.4 Humanism and the Renaissance: Rabelais and Montaigne<br>1.5 Theater of the Absurd: Religious Drama and Morality Plays<br>1.6 The Rise of Vernacular Literature: From Latin to French<br><br>**

Chapter 2

: Enlightenment and Revolutionary Literature**<br>2.1 The Age of Enlightenment: Voltaire, Rousseau, and the Philosophes<br>2.2 The Marquis de Sade: Libertine Literature and Radical Thought<br>2.3 Revolutionary Rhetoric: Political Pamphlets and Revolutionary Tracts<br>2.4 Romanticism and the Birth of the Modern Novel: Hugo, Stendhal, and Balzac<br>2.5 Realism and Naturalism: Flaubert, Zola, and the Literary Gaze<br>2.6 Symbolism and Decadence: Baudelaire, Rimbaud, and Mallarmé<br><br>**

Chapter 3

: Modernism and Avant-Garde Movements**<br>3.1 Surrealism and the Unconscious: Breton, Artaud, and Dali<br>3.2 Existentialism and Absurdism: Sartre, Camus, and Beauvoir<br>3.3 Nouveau Roman: Experimental Narratives and Formal Innovation<br>3.4 Postcolonial Literature: Francophone Writers and Diasporic Voices<br>3.5 Feminist Literature: Écriture Féminine and the Female Perspective<br>3.6 Contemporary French Poetry: From Structuralism to Post-Structuralism<br><br>**

Chapter 4

: Francophone Literature and Global Perspectives**<br>4.1 African Literature in French: Senghor, Césaire, and Fanon<br>4.2 Caribbean Literature: Negritude and the Francophone Antilles<br>4.3 Maghrebi Literature: Identity, Exile, and Memory<br>4.4 Quebecois Literature: Language Politics and Cultural Identity<br>4.5 Francophone Asian Literature: Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos<br>4.6 Francophone Middle Eastern Literature: Lebanon, Algeria, and Syria<br><br>**

Chapter 5

: Contemporary Trends and Emerging Voices**<br>5.1 Immigration and Diaspora Literature: Voices of the Marginalized<br>5.2 LGBTQ+ Literature: Queer Narratives and Subversive Discourses<br>5.3 Eco-Literature and Environmental Consciousness<br>5.4 Digital Literature: Hypertext, Interactive Fiction, and E-Lit<br>5.5 Graphic Novels and Bande Dessinée: Visual Storytelling in French<br>5.6 Literary Criticism and Theory: Postcolonial Readings and Cultural Analysis <br></p>