Which French Work Is This?

[Sevo]

The windows were located in the attic. Some of these windows were a door to starlight. Secrets were hidden behind iron bars on the floor below. The air that filtered through the iron bars brought life to this place. The kitchen was on the lower floor. It was divided into three parts, its most precious treasure was in the center. To which work do these clues belong?

[DTCwordfan]

or Alexandre Dumas.....don't think it was Déscartes after all, he was a drunken fart....

[Sevo]

Prudie

Unfortunately, the right to reply is limited. Not Emile Zola

 

[elliemay1]

Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette??

[Sevo]

Elliemay1

Not Sidonie Gabrielle Claudine Colette

[Togo]

Le Petit Prince(The Little Pince) Antoine de Saint-Exupéry?

[Toorak]

Pierre Loti 'Aziyade' ?

[Sevo]

Togo

Not Antoine Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger, comte de Saint Exupéry

[Sevo]

Toorak

 Not Pierre Loti '

[elliemay1]

If you find the answer will you please let us know ?

[Toorak]

A work by Elif Shafak? (She is Turkish but was born in Strasbourg, France)
 

maybe The Forty Rules of Love?

[Sevo]

Elliemay1

Of course. I will write here

[Sevo]

Toorak

Not Elif Şafak

[elliemay1]

Gaston Leroux?

[retrocop]

Well done Auntypoll. Even my terrible Francais tells me you have got it.👍

[jourdain2]

Yes Auntie poll, you've got it bang to rights.  Take my BA away & give it  to her, please, Sevo.   Well done - and thanks for putting me out of the searching my brains all this time.  :)

[Sevo]

Elliemay1

Not Gaston Leroux

[Sevo]

Auntypoll

Not Gustave Flaubert

[Prudie]

Do you think it's Madame Bovary Sevo? Over the weekend I pasted your quote into google translate for French and then searched for them on google. It came up with lots of books that had some of those words - Hugo, Loti etc - but none that matched it anywhere near the majority.

[jourdain2]

Sevo, what Auntypoll wrote is a direct translation of the OP (I speak/read reasonable French).  It has to be that - or else someone has quoted Madam Bovary as the start of another novel.