The list is a collection of some of the most outstanding opus from (mostly) contemporary Francophone authors.

Creation The philosophers' stone is created by the alchemical method known as The Magnum Opus or The Great Work.

He accepted the position of Director of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of the Scientific Technical World in Starnberg (near Munich) in 1971, and worked there until 1983, two years after the publication of his magnum opus, The Theory of Communicative Action .