Le Roman Humaniste: Un Genre Novateur Francais (1532-1564)

France is not absent from the European landscape of the novel in the sixteenth century. Francois Rabelais, Helisenne de Crenne, Guillaume des Autels, and Barthelemy Aneau created a type of fiction without national or foreign precedent by imbuing it with the modes of writing and thought that came from humanism.