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Free French books for people learning French
40 books in French, all public domain and free to download as EPUB from Project Gutenberg. Each one is measured from its own text — sentence length, and how much of it is built from the two thousand commonest French words.
These shelves carry no CEFR level. A CEFR-graded wordlist exists for English and is used on the English shelf; no equivalent is available for French, and inventing one from word frequency would be a number that looks precise and means nothing. What is shown here is measured — how, exactly.
Books on this shelf
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La dame aux camélias
Gentle 8 h
Fiction
85.3% of this book is built from the two thousand commonest French words. About 8 h at a learner’s pace.
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Le Fantôme de l'Opéra
Gentle 13 h
Mystery
81.9% of this book is built from the two thousand commonest French words. About 13 h at a learner’s pace.
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Les cœurs les plus farouches
Gentle 8 h
AdventureMystery
81.7% of this book is built from the two thousand commonest French words. About 8 h at a learner’s pace.
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La Femme Abbé
Gentle 2 h
Fiction
81.3% of this book is built from the two thousand commonest French words. About 2 h at a learner’s pace.
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Maman Léo: Les Habits Noirs Tome V
Gentle 12 h
Mystery
81.6% of this book is built from the two thousand commonest French words. About 12 h at a learner’s pace.
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Les misérables Tome I: Fantine
Gentle 14 h
Fiction
80.8% of this book is built from the two thousand commonest French words. About 14 h at a learner’s pace.
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Le comte de Monte-Cristo, Tome I
Gentle 16 h
Adventure Dialogue-heavy
81.9% of this book is built from the two thousand commonest French words. About 16 h at a learner’s pace.
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Mon oncle et mon curé; Le voeu de Nadia
Gentle 13 h
Fiction
81.2% of this book is built from the two thousand commonest French words. About 13 h at a learner’s pace.
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Lucifer — roman moderne
Steady 8 h
Fiction
79.6% of this book is built from the two thousand commonest French words. About 8 h at a learner’s pace.
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L'homme à l'Hispano — roman
Steady 7 h
Fiction
79.6% of this book is built from the two thousand commonest French words. About 7 h at a learner’s pace.
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Amitié amoureuse
Steady 10 h
Romance
80.2% of this book is built from the two thousand commonest French words. About 10 h at a learner’s pace.
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Le cas étrange du docteur Jekyll; Un logement pour la nuit
Steady 4 h
Mystery Dialogue-heavy
80.3% of this book is built from the two thousand commonest French words. About 4 h at a learner’s pace.
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Roméo et Juliette: Tragédie
Steady 5 h
Fiction
79.2% of this book is built from the two thousand commonest French words. About 5 h at a learner’s pace.
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Deux générations
Steady 4 h
Fiction
78.1% of this book is built from the two thousand commonest French words. About 4 h at a learner’s pace.
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La marque des quatre
Steady 6 h
Mystery Dialogue-heavy
78.7% of this book is built from the two thousand commonest French words. About 6 h at a learner’s pace.
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Histoire amoureuse des Gaules; suivie des Romans historico-satiriques du XVIIe siècle, Tome I
Steady 16 h
HistoricalComedy Dialogue-heavy
80.4% of this book is built from the two thousand commonest French words. About 16 h at a learner’s pace.
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Esprit des lois: livres I à V, précédés d'une introduction de l'éditeur
Steady 15 h
Fiction
80.3% of this book is built from the two thousand commonest French words. About 15 h at a learner’s pace.
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Arsène Lupin, gentleman-cambrioleur
Steady 7 h
Mystery
77.5% of this book is built from the two thousand commonest French words. About 7 h at a learner’s pace.
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L'imposture
Steady 10 h
Fiction
77.7% of this book is built from the two thousand commonest French words. About 10 h at a learner’s pace.
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Quand le rideau s'est baissé
Stretching 4 h
Fiction
77.3% of this book is built from the two thousand commonest French words. About 4 h at a learner’s pace.
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Les Mémoires d'un Parapluie
Stretching 3 h
Fiction Dialogue-heavy
79.1% of this book is built from the two thousand commonest French words. About 3 h at a learner’s pace.
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Littérature Française (Première Année) — Moyen-Âge, Renaissance, Dix-Septième Siècle
Stretching 8 h
Fiction
78.3% of this book is built from the two thousand commonest French words. About 8 h at a learner’s pace.
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Lourdes
Stretching 23 h
Fiction
77.9% of this book is built from the two thousand commonest French words. About 23 h at a learner’s pace.
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Le jeune Européen
Stretching 4 h
Fiction
76.9% of this book is built from the two thousand commonest French words. About 4 h at a learner’s pace.
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Histoire de France 1724-1759 (Volume 18/19)
Stretching 13 h
Fiction
76.4% of this book is built from the two thousand commonest French words. About 13 h at a learner’s pace.
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Voyage au Centre de la Terre
Stretching 9 h
Adventure Dialogue-heavy
75.8% of this book is built from the two thousand commonest French words. About 9 h at a learner’s pace.
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Les Contemporains, 3ème Série: Études et Portraits Littéraires
Stretching 11 h
Fiction Dialogue-heavy
78.0% of this book is built from the two thousand commonest French words. About 11 h at a learner’s pace.
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Vingt mille Lieues Sous Les Mers — Complete
Demanding 18 h
Adventure
75.6% of this book is built from the two thousand commonest French words. About 18 h at a learner’s pace.
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En pays lointain
Demanding 7 h
Fiction
75.7% of this book is built from the two thousand commonest French words. About 7 h at a learner’s pace.
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Du côté de chez Swann
Demanding 22 h
Fiction Dialogue-heavy
81.4% of this book is built from the two thousand commonest French words. About 22 h at a learner’s pace.
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Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe, Tome 4
Demanding 19 h
Biography Dialogue-heavy
77.5% of this book is built from the two thousand commonest French words. About 19 h at a learner’s pace.
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Abrégé de l'Histoire Générale des Voyages (Tome 2)
Demanding 12 h
Fiction
77.4% of this book is built from the two thousand commonest French words. About 12 h at a learner’s pace.
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Vie de Jésus
Demanding 14 h
Biography
75.4% of this book is built from the two thousand commonest French words. About 14 h at a learner’s pace.
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Aventures d'un Gentilhomme Breton aux îles Philippines
Demanding 17 h
AdventureBiography
76.9% of this book is built from the two thousand commonest French words. About 17 h at a learner’s pace.
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L'homme tout nu
Demanding 7 h
Fiction
76.4% of this book is built from the two thousand commonest French words. About 7 h at a learner’s pace.
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L'art d'aimer: ou conseils à un jeune homme qui se destine à l'amour
Demanding 3 h
Fiction
76.8% of this book is built from the two thousand commonest French words. About 3 h at a learner’s pace.
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Les enchantements de la forêt
Demanding 6 h
Fiction
74.4% of this book is built from the two thousand commonest French words. About 6 h at a learner’s pace.
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Robert Burns. Vol. 2, Les Oeuvres
Demanding 24 h
Biography
74.1% of this book is built from the two thousand commonest French words. About 24 h at a learner’s pace.
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Cités et ruines américaines: Mitla, Palenqué, Izamal, Chichen-Itza, Uxmal
Demanding 15 h
Fiction
73.4% of this book is built from the two thousand commonest French words. About 15 h at a learner’s pace.
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Chroniques de J. Froissart, tome 09/13 — 1377-1380 (Depuis la prise de Bergerac jusqu'à la mort de Charles V)
Demanding 18 h
Fiction
69.8% of this book is built from the two thousand commonest French words. About 18 h at a learner’s pace.
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