Cyrano de Bergerac, Manon Lescaut, Jean Valjean, Esmeralda... Whether they are a scoundrel Gascon or a repentant convict, a big-hearted gypsy or a beautiful intriguer, they have all found a place in the great world of the novel and French literature.
To discover
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Witnesses to sometimes distant eras and customs, these heroes, far from constituting a type of smooth and smooth character, embody a condition: that of man, with his greatness and his baseness.
As Etienne de Montety, director of Le
Figaro littéraire
, points out in his preface to the
100 heroes of literature:
“It is through their silences, their contradictions that they interest us.
They look like us.”
If they are close to us, do we really know them, these heroes?
The Cid, Phèdre and the Little Prince, pass again.
But what about the others: Meursault, Cosette, Duroy?
Will you be able to find the work that saw them born?
Le Figaro invites you to discover it in a short test.