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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Lifestyle
Saskia Kemsley

Best French novels of all time for a window into the Gallic soul

If you’ve ever been lucky enough to travel to France, you’ll likely have come across those unmistakable, classic French literature covers.

These remarkably understated, cream-coloured paperbacks are the signature design for all books published under Gallimard – a French publishing house founded in 1911 by Gaston Gallimard, André Gide, and Jean Schlumberge which originally held the name Les Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française.

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