Books like Etudiant étranger by Philippe Labro

*Les fleurs du mal* is Charles Baudelaire’s seminal collection of poems, first published in 1857 and later expanded through 1868. The work, initially censored for its moral content, has become a cornerstone of modern French poetry.

Ce sac de billes, en 1941, Joseph Joffo le reçoit d'un camarade d'école, en échange de son étoile jaune d'enfant juif. Il a dix ans ; pour lui, c'est un jeu. Mais il faut partir seul avec son frère de douze ans, pour gagner la zone libre : passer inaperçu, travailler, faire un peu de commerce, chercher la famille éparpillée, déjouer les interrogatoires... Avoir enfin toutes les astuces et bien du courage.

An undercover reporter follows a celebrity into rehab to uncover juicy gossip about her personal life.

The tale is recounted by François Seurel, whose father heads the village school where Augustin Meaulnes comes to board. A tall, somber youth of 17, he instantly becomes the class ringleader, and is soon known as le grand Meaulnes. When the youth sets off on an impetuous errand of a few hours and doesn't return for several days, events take a darker turn. After Meaulnes's reappearance, Seurel notices his companion's unrest, and tries to uncover its source. He wakes in the midwinter nights to find Meaulnes pacing the room "like someone rummaging about in his memory, sorting out scraps." Meaulnes remains disconsolate, but finally reveals the nature of his travels, and the strange days of revelry at his unintended destination--the "lost domain" to which he is desperate to return and doesn't know how to find. Seurel rightly guesses that Meaulnes met a young woman there, and that he is in love. The two friends set about retracing Meaulnes's path, and their journeys take them into manhood, when Meaulnes finds at last a way to bring his quest full circle.

Cheri, a classic novel by Colette, depicts a character's journey through the streets of Paris, surrounded by nature and the changing seasons.