Founded in 1972, the French major is one of the earliest French undergraduate majors in science and technology universities in China. In 1979, it began to enroll master's degree in French language and literature. In 1986, it was granted the right to grant the master's degree in French language and Literature. After more than 50 years of development, the team of professional teachers is mainly composed of young and middle-aged teachers with senior titles, which has great development potential: there are 9 teachers and 1 foreign teacher. There are 7 teachers with doctor's degree and 1 postdoctoral fellow. 1 professor, 6 associate professors; 6 master supervisors; Full-time teachers doctor, senior titles accounted for 78%; The proportion of overseas visiting students is 100%.

In recent years, it has undertaken 4 national Social science fund projects, 1 humanities and Social Science project of the Ministry of Education, dozens of Social Science Fund projects of Hunan Province, Social Science Achievement Evaluation Committee projects of Hunan Province, Department of Education projects, and Philosophy and Social Science Base projects of Hunan Province; He has published more than 10 academic monographs and translated books. He has published more than 50 papers, including more than 20 ESI papers and CSSCI papers; Provincial first-class courses 2.

With the tenet of "cultivating talents and serving the country" and the specialty characteristics of "multi-language cross-integration, undergraduate and doctoral training, industry-university-research collaborative education, and international cooperative education", the major has a strong faculty team, a curriculum system combining teaching and research, a resource platform integrating disciplines and a mechanism of industry-learning collaborative education. It has cultivated students' broad field of vision and strong adaptability. In recent years, the number of interdisciplinary and cross-professional students entering the university has increased year by year. The employment rate of students in the past five years is 100%.