Looking for a gift to buy for your loved one this holiday season? The Guardian recently published a list of the top ten sexiest French books.
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Colette
Chéri, together with The Last of Chéri, is a classic story of a love affair between a very young man and a charming older woman.
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Louise de Vilmorin
It is a story of jewellery, of love, of denial, of society that has the simplicity of a fairy tale and the elegance of an eighteenth century roman-a-clef.
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Marguerite Duras
Lol Stein is a beautiful young woman, securely married, settled in a comfortable life - and a voyeur.
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Francoise Sagan
Deceptively simple in structure, Bonjour Tristesse is a complex and beautifully composed portrait of casual amorality and a young woman's desperate attempt to understand and control the world around her.
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Gustave Flaubert
Flaubert's heroine, Emma Bovary, a bored provincial housewife, abandons her husband to pursue the libertine Rodolphe in a desperate love affair.
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Emmanuelle Arsan
As fiction dealing with the philosophy of sexuality, Emmanuelle is - alongside Story of O - the most famous French underground novel of the past decade, a work of literary merit, and a delight to read.
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Choderlos de Laclos
The complex moral ambiguities of seduction and revenge make Les Liaisons Dangereuses (1782) one of the most scandalous and controversial novels in European literature.
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Anna Gavalda
The stories in I Wish Someone Were Waiting for Me Somewhere are as wicked as they are insightful, as stylish as they are sparse, as fiercely unsentimental as they are emotionally wrought.
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Edmond de Rostand
This is Edmond Rostand's immortal play in which chivalry and wit, bravery and love are forever captured in the timeless spirit of romance.
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Anaïs Nin
In Delta of Venus Anaïs Nin penned a lush, magical world where the characters of her imagination possess the most universal of desires and exceptional of talents.
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