Andrew, you ask which of my list an intermediate reader could tackle in French. Here's a shortlist.
C20th: Jacques Prevert, "Dejeuner du matin" and "Barbara."
C19th: Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal (I read him in HS).
Victor Hugo, "Demain des l'aube" (about the daughter he lost).
Arthur Rimbaud (the short poems and maybe Illuminations).
Gerard de Nerval, Les Chimeres (very short).
Marceline Desbordes_Valmore, "Les Roses de Saadi."
C17th: Jean de La Fontaine (the fables - French schoolkids learn these).
C16th: Pierre de Ronsard, "Comme on voit sur la branche...".
Jean Du Bellay, "O voyageur...", "Heureux qui comme Ulysse..."
Louise Labe (more sonnets)
C15th: Francois Villon, "Ballade des pendus."
I think this short list is readable for an intermediate reader, and available online. Though I did give you Les Fleurs du Mal, my high school French text. You could also branch out with Rimbaud's Illuminations and some famous La Fontaine fables. :-)
Cheers,
John
Last edited by John Isbell; 08-05-2018 at 11:24 PM.
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