FR308 The French Novel of the 19th Century 0.5 The development of the novel will be discussed as well as the literary trends and social and political history that they reflect. The most important novelists of the period are studied and analyzed with particular attention to Chateaubriand, Constant, Stendhal, Balzac, Flaubert, Maupassant, and Zola. Prerequisite: FR155* or FR205*.