Chronological list of
French language
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author
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s (regardless of nationality), by date of birth. For an alphabetical list of writers of French nationality (broken down by genre), see
French writers category.
Middle Ages
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Turold (eleventh century)
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Wace ()
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Chrétien de Troyes
Chrétien de Troyes (; ; 1160–1191) was a French poet and trouvère known for his writing on King Arthur, Arthurian subjects such as Gawain, Lancelot, Perceval and the Holy Grail. Chrétien's chivalric romances, including ''Erec and Enide'' ...
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Richard the Lionheart (Richard Coeur de Lion) (1157–1199)
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Benoît de Sainte-Maure (12th-century)
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Herman de Valenciennes (12th-century)
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Le Châtelain de Couci (d.1203)
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Jean Bodel (12th century – )
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Conon de Béthune (–1220)
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Geoffroi de Villehardouin ()
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Béroul ()
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Thomas d'Angleterre ()
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Aimeric de Peguilhan ()
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Gace Brulé ()
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Marie de France ()
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Gautier de Coincy (1177/8–1236)
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Gautier de Dargies (–after 1236)
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Gautier d'Espinal († before July 1272)
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Gillebert de Berneville (
fl c.1255)
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Gontier de Soignies (
fl c.1180–1220)
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Guiot de Dijon (
fl c.1200–30)
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Perrin d'Angicourt (
fl c.1245–50)
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Jean Renart (fl. late 12th-first half of 13th century)
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Philippe de Rémi (c.1205–c1265)
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Philippe de Beaumanoir (c.1247–c1296)
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Raoul de Soissons (c.1215–1272)
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Richard de Fournival (1201– c.1260)
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Andrieu Contredit d'Arras († c.1248)
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Jehan le Cuvelier d'Arras (
fl c.1240–70)
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Guillaume le Vinier (
fl c.1220–45; †1245)
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Audefroi le Bâtard (
fl c.1200–1230)
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Jehan Bretel (c.1200–1272)
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Jehan Erart († c.1259)
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Moniot d'Arras (
fl c.1250–75)
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Robert de Clari (late twelfth century)
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Blondel de Nesle (late twelfth century)
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Robert de Boron (twelfth–thirteenth century)
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Guiot de Provins (d. after 1208)
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Bertrand de Bar-sur-Aube (late twelfth-early thirteenth century)
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Guillaume de Lorris (c.1200 – c.1238)
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Theobald IV of Champagne (1201–1253)
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Jean de Joinville ( c.1224 – c.1317)
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Rutebeuf (c.1230 – c.1285)
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Adam de la Halle (c.1250 – c.1285)
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Jean de Meung or
Jean de Meun (1250 – c.1305) or Jean Clopinel or Chopinel
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Jacques Bretel (c. 1285 – c. 1310)
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Jean Le Bel (c.1290–1370)
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Colin Muset (end of thirteenth century)
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Guillaume de Machaut ( c.1300 – c.1377)
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Nicole Oresme (1325–1382)
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Philippe de Mézières (c.1327–1405)
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Jean Froissart (1333 – c.1404)
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Eustache Deschamps (c.1346 – c.1407)
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Jean Charlier called Gerson (1363–1429
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Christine de Pisan (1364–1430)
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Alain Chartier (c.1385 – c.1435)
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Jean Juvénal des Ursins (1388–1473)
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Antoine de la Sale (1388 – c.1469)
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Enguerrand de Monstrelet (c.1390 – c.1453)
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Charles, Duke of Orléans (1394–1465)
Fifteenth century
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Martin Le Franc (c.1410–1461)
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Eustache Marcadé (1414–1440)
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Georges Chastellain (1415–1475)
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Olivier de la Marche (1425–1502)
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Martial d'Auvergne ( c.1430–1508)
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François Villon (c.1431–after 1463)
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Jean Michel (c.1435–1501)
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Jean Molinet
Jean Molinet (1435 – 23 August 1507) was a French poet, chronicler, and composer. He is best remembered for his prose translation of '' Roman de la rose''.
Born in Desvres, which is now part of France, he studied in Paris. He entered th ...
(1435–1507)
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Philippe de Commines (1445–1511)
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Jean Marot
Jean Marot (; Mathieu, near Caen, 1463 – c. 1526) was a French poet of the late 15th and early 16 century and the father of the French Renaissance poet Clément Marot. He is often grouped with the " Grands Rhétoriqueurs". Jean Marot seems ...
(1450–1526)
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Lefèvre d'Etaples (1455–1537)
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Guillaume Crétin (Guillaume Dubois) (1460–1525)
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Octavien de Saint-Gelais (1468–1505)
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Guillaume Budé (1468–1540)
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Jean Meschinot (active from 1450 to 1490)
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Guillaume Alexis (active from 1450 to 1490)
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Jean Lemaire de Belges (1473 – c.1525)
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Pierre Gringore or Gringoire (c.1475–1538/1539)
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François Rabelais
François Rabelais ( , ; ; born between 1483 and 1494; died 1553) was a French writer who has been called the first great French prose author. A Renaissance humanism, humanist of the French Renaissance and Greek scholars in the Renaissance, Gr ...
(c.1483–1553)
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Aliénor de Poitiers (fl.1484)
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Mellin de Saint-Gelais (c.1491–1558)
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Marguerite de Navarre (c.1492–1549)
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Clément Marot (c.1496–1544)
Sixteenth century
1500–1549
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Bonaventure des Périers (c.1500–1544)
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Maurice Scève (c.1505 – c.1562)
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Michel de l'Hospital (1505–1573)
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Étienne Dolet
Étienne Dolet (; 3 August 15093 August 1546) was a French scholar, translation, translator and printer (publisher), printer. He was a controversial figure throughout his lifetime, which was buffeted by the opposing forces of the Renaissance and ...
(1509–1546)
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Jean Calvin (1509–1564)
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Hélisenne de Crenne (Marguerite Briet de Crenne) (c.1510–after 1552)
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Pierre Viret (1511–1571)
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Charles de Sainte-Marthe (1512–1555)
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Thomas Sébillet (c.1512–1589)
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Jacques Amyot (1513–1593)
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Jacques Peletier du Mans (1517–1582)
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Théodore de Bèze (1519–1605)
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Pierre de Saint-Julien de Balleure (1519–1593)
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Denis Sauvage (1520–1587)
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Noël du Fail (1520–1591)
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Pernette Du Guillet (c.1520–1545)
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Jacques Yver (1520–1570)
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Gilles de Gouberville (1521–1578)
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Pontus de Tyard or de Thiard (1521–1605)
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Joachim du Bellay (1522–1560)
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Pierre de Ronsard (1524–1585)
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Pierre Boaistuau (?–1566)
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Louise Labé (c.1526 – c.1565)
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Rémy Belleau (1528–1577)
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Étienne Pasquier (1529–1615)
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Étienne de La Boétie (1530–1563)
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Claude Fauchet (1530–1601)
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Jean Bodin (1530–1596)
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François de Belleforest (1530–1583)
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Henri Estienne (1531–1598)
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Jean Antoine de Baïf (1532–1589)
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Étienne Jodelle (1532–1573)
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Michel de Montaigne
Michel Eyquem, Seigneur de Montaigne ( ; ; ; 28 February 1533 – 13 September 1592), commonly known as Michel de Montaigne, was one of the most significant philosophers of the French Renaissance. He is known for popularising the the essay ...
(Michel Eyquem, seigneur de Montaigne) (1533–1592)
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Jean de la Taille (c.1533/1540 – c.1617)
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Robert Garnier (1534–1590)
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Nicolas Rapin (1535–1608)
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Jacques Grévin (1538–1570)
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Olivier de Serres (1539–1619)
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Pierre Pithou (1539–1596)
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Pierre de Bourdeille, seigneur de Brantôme (1540–1614)
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Pierre de Larivey (1540–1619)
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Florent Chrestien (1540–1596)
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Pierre Charron (1541–1603)
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Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas (1544–1590)
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Antoine du Verdier (1544–1600)
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Philippe Desportes (1546–1606)
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Pierre de L'Estoile (1546–1611)
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Jean de La Ceppède (1548–1623)
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Philippe Duplessis-Mornay (Philippe de Mornay, called Duplessis-Mornay) (1549–1623)
1550–1599
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Benigne Poissenot (c.1550–?)
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François d'Amboise (1550–1619)
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Odet de Turnèbe (1552–1581)
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Jean Bertaut (1552–1611)
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Théodore Agrippa d'Aubigné (1552–1630)
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François de Malherbe (1552–1630)
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Jacques Davy Du Perron (1556–1618)
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François Béroalde de Verville (1556–1626)
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Guillaume du Vair (1556–1621)
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Jean de Sponde (1557–1595)
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Maximilien de Béthune, baron de Rosny, duc de Sully (1560–1641)
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Alexandre Hardy (1560/1570 – c.1632)
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Nicolas de Montreux (1561–1608)
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Pierre Matthieu (1563–1621)
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Eustache de Refuge, seigneur de Précy et de Courcelles (1564–1617)
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Saint François de Sales (1567–1622)
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Honoré d'Urfé (1567–1625)
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Scipion Dupleix (1569–1661)
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Sylvestre de Laval (1570–1616)
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Antoine de Nervèze (c.1570–after 1622)
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Nicolas des Escuteaux (after 1570 – c.1628)
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François du Souhait (between 1570 & 1580–1617)
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Jean Ogier de Gombaud (1570–1666)
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Antoine de Balinghem (1571–1630)
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Mathurin Régnier (1573–1613)
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Nicholas Camusat (1575–1655)
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Antoine de Montchrestien
Antoine de Montchrestien (; also ''Montchrétien''; c. 15757 or 8 October 1621) was a French soldier, dramatist, adventurer and economist.
Biography
Montchrestien was born in Falaise, Normandy. Son of an apothecary named Mauchrestien and orphan ...
(c.1575–1621)
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Henri, duc de Rohan (1579–1638)
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Saint Vincent de Paul (1581–1660)
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Jean Duvergier de Hauranne, abbé de Saint-Cyran (1581–1643)
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François Maynard (1582–1646)
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Jean-Pierre Camus (1584–1652)
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Francis Garasse (1585–1631)
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Jean de Schelandre (c.1585–1635)
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François de La Mothe-Le-Vayer (1588–1672)
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Honorat de Bueil, seigneur de Racan (1589–1670)
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Bertrand de Loque (1589)
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Théophile de Viau (1590–1626)
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Marc Gilbert de Varennes (1591–1660)
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François le Métel de Boisrobert (1592–1662)
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Antoine Gérard de Saint-Amant (1594–1661)
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Jean Chapelain (1595–1674)
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Jean Desmarets de Saint-Sorlin (1595–1676)
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René Descartes
René Descartes ( , ; ; 31 March 1596 – 11 February 1650) was a French philosopher, scientist, and mathematician, widely considered a seminal figure in the emergence of modern philosophy and Modern science, science. Mathematics was paramou ...
(1596–1650)
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Claude de Malleville (1597–1647)
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Vincent Voiture (1597–1648)
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Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac (1597–1684)
Seventeenth century
1600–1649
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Nicolas de Bralion (1600–1672)
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Marin le Roy de Gomberville (1600–1674)
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Georges de Scudéry (1601–1667)
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François Tristan l'Hermite (1601–1655)
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Guy Patin (1601–1672)
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Jean de Bernieres-Louvigny (1602–1659)
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Charles Sorel (1602–1674)
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Charles Cotin (1604–1682)
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Jean Mairet (1604–1686)
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François Hédelin, abbé d'Aubignac (1604–1676)
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Pierre du Ryer (1605–1658)
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Charles Coypeau d'Assoucy (1605–1675)
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Jean François Sarrazin (1605–1654)
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Pierre Corneille (1606–1684)
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Antoine Gombaud, chevalier de Méré (1607–1685)
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Madeleine de Scudéry (1607–1701)
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Jean Rotrou (1609–1650)
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Paul Scarron (1610–1660)
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François-Eudes de Mézeray (1610–1683)
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Charles de Saint-Evremond (c.1610–1703)
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Antoine Arnauld
Antoine Arnauld (; 6 February 16128 August 1694) was a French Catholic theologian, priest, philosopher and mathematician. He was one of the leading intellectuals of the Jansenist group of Port-Royal and had a very thorough knowledge of patr ...
(1612–1694)
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Isaac de Benserade (1612–1691)
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Jean François Paul de Gondi, cardinal de Retz (1613–1679)
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François de La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)
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Gauthier de Costes, seigneur de la Calprenède (1614–1663)
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Georges de Brébeuf (1618–1661)
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Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy, called Bussy-Rabutin (1618–1693)
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Cyrano de Bergerac (Hector-Savinien Cyrano de Bergerac) (1619–1655)
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Antoine Furetière (1619–1688)
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Gédéon Tallemant des Réaux (1619–1692)
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Jean de La Fontaine
Jean de La Fontaine (, ; ; 8 July 162113 April 1695) was a French Fable, fabulist and one of the most widely read French poets of the 17th century. He is known above all for his ''La Fontaine's Fables, Fables'', which provided a model for subs ...
(1621–1695)
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Molière
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin (; 15 January 1622 (baptised) – 17 February 1673), known by his stage name Molière (, ; ), was a French playwright, actor, and poet, widely regarded as one of the great writers in the French language and world liter ...
(Jean-Baptiste Poquelin) (1622–1673)
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Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal (19June 162319August 1662) was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, philosopher, and Catholic Church, Catholic writer.
Pascal was a child prodigy who was educated by his father, a tax collector in Rouen. His earliest ...
(1623–1662)
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Jean Renaud de Segrais (1624–1701)
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Paul Pellisson (1624–1693)
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Thomas Corneille (1625–1709)
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Samuel Chappuzeau (1625–1701)
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Madame de Sévigné (Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné) (1626–1696)
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Laurent Drelincourt (1626–1680)
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Jacques Bénigne Bossuet (1627–1704)
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Gabriel-Joseph de La Vergne, comte de Guilleragues (1628–1685)
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Charles Perrault (1628–1703)
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Pierre Daniel Huet
P. D. Huetius
Pierre Daniel Huet (; ; 8 February 1630 – 26 January 1721) was a French churchman and scholar, editor of the Delphin Classics, founder of the Académie de Physique in Caen (1662–1672) and Bishop of Soissons from 1685 to 1689 ...
(1630–1721)
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Louis Bourdaloue (1632–1704)
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Esprit Fléchier (1632–1710)
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Jacques Pradon (1632–1698)
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Madame de Villedieu (Marie-Catherine-Hortence Desjardins, marquise de Villedieu) (1632–1683)
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Madame de Lafayette (Marie-Madeleine, comtesse de La Fayette) (1634–1693)
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Pierre Thomas, sieur du Fossé (1634–1698)
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Philippe Quinault (1635–1688)
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Nicolas Boileau (1636–1711)
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Edmé Boursault (1638–1701)
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Antoinette du Ligier de la Garde Deshoulières (1638–1694)
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Nicolas Malebranche (1638–1715)
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Jean Donneau de Visé (1638–1710)
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Philippe de Courcillon, marquis de Dangeau (1638–1720)
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Claude Estiennot de la Serre (1639–1699)
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Guillaume Amfrye de Chaulieu (1639–1720)
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César Vichard de Saint-Réal (1639–1692)
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Jean Racine
Jean-Baptiste Racine ( , ; ; 22 December 1639 – 21 April 1699) was a French dramatist, one of the three great playwrights of 17th-century France, along with Molière and Corneille, as well as an important literary figure in the Western tr ...
(1639–1699)
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Claude de Fleury (1640–1723)
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Louis Moréri (1643–1680)
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Gatien de Courtilz de Sandras (1644–1712)
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Anne de La Roche-Guilhem (1644–1707)
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Jean de La Bruyère (1645–1696)
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Pierre Le Pesant, sieur de Boisguilbert ( c.1646–1714)
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Antoine Galland (1646–1715)
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Pierre Bayle (1647–1706)
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Joseph Anthelmi (1648–1697)
1650–1699
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Madame d'Aulnoy (Marie-Catherine le Jumelle de Barneville, Baronne d'Aulnoy) (1651–1705)
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François de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon (1651–1715)
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Louis Du Four de Longuerue (1652–1733)
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Charlotte-Rose de Caumont La Force (Mademoiselle de La Force) (1650–1724)
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Louis Legendre (1655–1733)
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Jean-François Regnard (1655–1709)
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Jean Galbert de Campistron (1656–1723)
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Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle (1657–1757)
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Louis ''(or Jean)'' de Mailly (1657–1724)
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Henri de Boulainvilliers (1658–1712)
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François Armand Gervaise (1660–1761)
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Charles Rollin (1661–1741)
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Florent Carton Dancourt (1661–1725)
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Jean-François Foucquet (1665–1741)
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Alain-René Lesage (1668–1747)
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Jacques Bouillart (1669–1726)
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Jean-Baptiste Rousseau (1670–1741)
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Jean-Baptiste Dubos (1670–1742)
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Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon (Crébillon père) (1674–1762)
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Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon
Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon, Grandee of Spain, GE (; 16 January 16752 March 1755), was a French soldier, diplomat, and memoirist. He was born in Paris at the Hôtel Selvois, 6 rue Taranne (demolished in 1876 to make way for the Boulevard ...
(1675–1755)
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Jean-François Boyer (1675–1755)
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Philippe Néricault Destouches (1680–1754)
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Claudine Alexandrine Guérin de Tencin (Madame de Tencin) (1681–1749)
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Jérôme Besoigne (1686–1763)
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Marivaux (Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux) (1688–1763)
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Alexis Piron (1689–1773)
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Montesquieu (Charles Louis de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu) (1689–1755)
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Louis Petit de Bachaumont (1690–1771)
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Voltaire
François-Marie Arouet (; 21 November 169430 May 1778), known by his ''Pen name, nom de plume'' Voltaire (, ; ), was a French Age of Enlightenment, Enlightenment writer, philosopher (''philosophe''), satirist, and historian. Famous for his wit ...
(François-Marie Arouet) (1694–1778)
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René-Louis de Voyer de Paulmy, marquis d' Argenson (1694–1757)
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Françoise de Graffigny (1695–1758)
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Antoine François Prévost (Antoine Francois Prevost d'Exiles) a/k/a Abbé Prévost (1697–1763)
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Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand (1697–1780)
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Denis-François Camusat (1697–1732)
Eighteenth century
1700–1749
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Charles Pinot Duclos (1704–1772)
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Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon (Crébillon, fils) (1707–1777)
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Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon) (1707–1788)
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Julien Offray de La Mettrie (1709–1751)
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Gabriel Bonnot de Mably (1709–1785)
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Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset (1709–1777)
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Jean-Jacques Lefranc, marquis de Pompignan (1709–1784)
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Charles-Simon Favart (1710–1792)
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (, ; ; 28 June 1712 – 2 July 1778) was a Republic of Geneva, Genevan philosopher (''philosophes, philosophe''), writer, and composer. His political philosophy influenced the progress of the Age of Enlightenment through ...
(1712–1778)
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Denis Diderot
Denis Diderot (; ; 5 October 171331 July 1784) was a French philosopher, art critic, and writer, best known for serving as co-founder, chief editor, and contributor to the along with Jean le Rond d'Alembert. He was a prominent figure during th ...
(1713–1784)
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Étienne Bonnot de Condillac
Étienne Bonnot de Condillac ( ; ; 30 September 1714 – 2 August or 3 August 1780) was a French philosopher, epistemologist, and Catholic priest, who studied in such areas as psychology and the philosophy of the mind.
Biography
He was born a ...
(1714–1780)
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Marie Jeanne Riccoboni (Madame Riccoboni) (1714–1792)
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Claude Adrien Helvétius (1715–1771)
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Vauvenargues (Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues) (1715–1747)
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François-André-Adrien Pluquet (1716–1790)
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Jean-François de Saint-Lambert (1716–1803)
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Louis Carrogis Carmontelle (1717–1806
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Jean Le Rond d'Alembert (1717–1783)
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Michel-Jean Sedaine (1719–1797)
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Antoine Henri de Bérault-Bercastel (1720–c.1794)
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Jacques Cazotte (1720–1792)
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Denis Dominique Cardonne (1721–1783)
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Tiphaigne de la Roche (Charles-François Tiphaigne de la Roche) (1722–1774)
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Baron d'Holbach (Paul Henri Dietrich, baron d'Holbach) (1723–1789)
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Jean-François Marmontel (1723–1799)
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Casanova a/k/a Jacques Casanova de Seingalt (1725–1798)
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Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune
Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, Baron de l'Aulne ( ; ; 10 May 172718 March 1781), commonly known as Turgot, was a French economist and statesman. Sometimes considered a physiocrat, he is today best remembered as an early advocate for economic liber ...
(1727–1781)
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Jean Dussaulx (1728–1799)
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Nicolas Bricaire de la Dixmerie (c.1730–1791)
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Jacqueline-Aimée Brohon (1731–1778)
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Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais (1732–1799)
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Anne-Marie Lacroix (1732–1802)
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Jacques Clinchamps de Malfilâtre (1733–1767)
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Nicolas Edme Restif de La Bretonne (1734–1806)
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Jean-Benjamin François de la Borde (1734–1794)
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Charles Joseph, Prince de Ligne (1735–1814)
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Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre (1737–1814)
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Jacques Delille (1738–1813)
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Jean-François de la Harpe (1739–1803)
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Marquis de Sade (Donatien Alphonse François de Sade) (1740–1814)
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Isabelle de Charrière a/k/a Belle de Zuylen (1740–1805)
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Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos de Laclos (1741–1803)
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Condorcet (Marie Jean Antoine Caritat, marquis de Condorcet) (1744–1794)
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Gabriel Brizard (c1744–1793)
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André-Samuel-Michel Cantwell (1744–1802)
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Étienne Pélabon (1745–1808)
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Jean Antoine Roucher (1745–1794)
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Jean-Sifrein Maury (Abbé Maury) (1746–1817)
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Joseph-Alexandre-Victor Hupay de Fuveau (1746–1818)
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Stéphanie Félicité Ducrest de St-Albin, comtesse de Genlis (Madame de Genlis) (1746–1830)
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Armand Louis de Gontaut, duc de Biron, duc de Lauzun (1747–1793)
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Olympe de Gouges (1748–1793)
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Pierre-Louis Ginguené (1748–1815)
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Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau (1749–1791)
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Jean-Marie Collot d'Herbois (1749–1796)
1750–1799
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Georges Henri Victor Collot (1750–1805)
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Nicolas Joseph Laurent Gilbert (1751–1780)
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Évariste de Forges de Parny (1753–1814)
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Joseph de Maistre (1753–1821)
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Jean Armand Charlemagne (1753–1838)
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Marie Thérèse Péroux d’Abany (1753–1821)
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Joseph Joubert (1754–1824)
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Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian (1754–1794)
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Jacques Pierre Brissot a/k/a Jean-Pierre Brissot (1754–1793)
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Charles Maurice de Talleyrand (1754–1838)
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Constantin François de Chasseboeuf, Comte de Volney (1757–1820)
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William Vincent Barré (c.1760–1829)
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Victoire Babois (1760–1839)
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Adelaide Filleul, Marquise de Souza-Botelho (Madame de Souza) (1761–1836)
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André Chénier (1762–1794)
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Claude-François-Xavier Mercier de Compiègne (1763–1800)
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Joseph Chénier (1764–1811)
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Barbara Juliana, Baroness von Krüdener (Madame de Krüdener) (1764–1824)
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Madame de Staël (1766–1817)
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Las Cases (Emmanuel-Augustin-Dieudonné, comte de Las Cases) (1766–1842)
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Benjamin Constant (Benjamin Constant de Rebecque) (1767–1830)
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Joseph Fiévée (1767–1839)
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François-René de Chateaubriand (1768–1848)
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Étienne Pivert de Senancour (1770–1846)
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Fanny Raoul (1771–1833)
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Sophie de Renneville (1772–1822)
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Charles-Jean Baptiste Bonnin (1772–1846)
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Paul Louis Courier de Méré (1772–1825)
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René Charles Guilbert de Pixérécourt (1773–1844)
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Sophie Ristaud Cottin (Madame Cottin) (1773–1807)
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Eugène François Vidocq (1775–1857)
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Claire de Duras (Madame de Duras) (1777–1828)
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Ambroise Rendu (1778–1860)
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Charles Nodier (1780–1844)
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Pierre-Jean de Béranger (1780–1857)
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Victor de Bonald (1780–1871)
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Aimé Martin (1781–1844)
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Fanny Tercy (1782–1851)
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Félicité Robert de Lamennais (1782–1854)
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Amable Guillaume Prosper Brugière, baron de Barante (1782–1866)
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Victor Henri-Joseph Brahain Ducange (1783–1833)
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Stendhal (Henri Beyle) (1783–1842) (''
The Red and the Black'', 1830)
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Pierre-Antoine Lebrun (1785–1873)
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Marceline Desbordes-Valmore (1786–1859)
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Alphonse Rabbe (1786–1829)
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Élise Voïart (1786–1866)
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François Guizot
François Pierre Guillaume Guizot (; 4 October 1787 – 12 September 1874) was a French historian, orator and Politician, statesman. Guizot was a dominant figure in French politics between the July Revolution, Revolution of 1830 and the Revoluti ...
(1787–1874)
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Alexandre Guiraud (1788–1847)
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Alphonse de Lamartine (1790–1869)
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Victor Cousin (1792–1867)
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Charles Paul de Kock (1793–1871)
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Jean-M.-Vincent Audin (1793)
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Casimir Delavigne (Jean-François Casimir Delavigne) (1793–1843)
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François Stoepel (1794–1836)
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Rosine de Chabaud-Latour (1794–1860)
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Arthur Dinaux (1795–1864)
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Amédée Pichot (1795–1877)
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Modeste Gruau (1795–1883)
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Augustin Thierry (1795–1856)
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Zulma Carraud (1796–1889)
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François Mignet (1796–1884)
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Alfred de Vigny (1797–1863)
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Antoinette Henriette Clémence Robert (1797–1872)
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Adolphe Thiers (1797–1877)
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Auguste Comte
Isidore Auguste Marie François Xavier Comte (; ; 19 January 1798 – 5 September 1857) was a French philosopher, mathematician and writer who formulated the doctrine of positivism. He is often regarded as the first philosopher of science in the ...
(1798–1857)
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Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863)
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Charles Dezobry (1798–1871)
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Jules Michelet (1798–1874)
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Sophie Rostopchine, Comtesse de Ségur (1799–1874)
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Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850)
Nineteenth century
1800–1824
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Pierre Alexandre Jean Mollière (1800–1850)
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Victor Hugo
Victor-Marie Hugo, vicomte Hugo (; 26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885) was a French Romanticism, Romantic author, poet, essayist, playwright, journalist, human rights activist and politician.
His most famous works are the novels ''The Hunchbac ...
(1802–1885) (''
Les Misérables'', 1862)
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Alexandre Dumas, père
Alexandre Dumas (born Alexandre Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie, 24 July 1802 – 5 December 1870), also known as Alexandre Dumas , was a French novelist and playwright.
His works have been translated into many languages and he is one of the mos ...
(1802–1870)
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Prosper Mérimée (1803–1870)
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Edgar Quinet (1803–1875)
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Eugène Daumas (1803–1871)
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Eugène Sue
Marie-Joseph "Eugène" Sue (; 26 January 18043 August 1857) was a French novelist. He was one of several authors who popularized the genre of the serial novel in France with his very popular and widely imitated '' The Mysteries of Paris'', whi ...
(1804–1857)
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Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve (1804–1869)
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Jules Janin (1804–1874)
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George Sand
Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin de Francueil (; 1 July 1804 – 8 June 1876), best known by her pen name George Sand (), was a French novelist, memoirist and journalist. Being more renowned than either Victor Hugo or Honoré de Balz ...
(Amandine-Lucie-Aurore Dupin, baronne Dudevant) (1804–1876)
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Alexis Henri Charles Clérel, comte de Tocqueville (1805–1859)
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Jules-Romain Tardieu (1805–1868)
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Émile de Girardin (1806–1881)
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Désiré Nisard (1806–1888)
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Émile Souvestre (1806–1854)
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Aloysius Bertrand (1807–1841)
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Gérard de Nerval (Gérard Labrunie) (1808–1855)
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Jules-Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly (1808–1889)
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Jacques Claude Demogeot (1808–1894)
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Lucien de la Hodde (1808–1865)
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Frédéric Villot (1809–1875)
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Petrus Borel (1809–1859)
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Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809–1865)
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Xavier Forneret (1809–1884)
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Hégésippe Moreau (1810–1838)
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Maurice de Guérin (1810–1839)
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Alfred de Musset (1810–1857)
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Joseph Bouchardy (1810–1870)
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Alphonse Jolly (1810–1893)
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Pier Angelo Fiorentino (1811–1864)
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Armand de Pontmartin (1811–1890)
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Adolphe-Philippe d'Ennery (1811–1889)
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Théophile Gautier (1811–1872)
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Louis Blanc (1811–1882)
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Victor de Laprade (1812–1883)
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Louis du Couret (1812–1867)
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Eugène Bonnemère (1813–1893)
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Eugène Labiche (1815–1888)
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Joseph Arthur de Gobineau (1816–1882)
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Victor Séjour (1817–1874)
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Paul Féval, père (1817–1887)
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Adine Riom (1818–1899)
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Charles-Marie Leconte de Lisle (1818–1894)
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Eugène Despois (1818–1876)
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Jean Baptiste Marius Augustin Challamel (1818–1894)
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Adèle Hommaire de Hell (1819–1883), travel writer
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Eugène Fromentin (1820–1876)
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Émile Augier (1820–1889)
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Antoine-Élisabeth-Cléophas Dareste de la Chavanne (1820–1882)
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Jules Pizzetta
Jules Pizzetta (1820–1900) was the pseudonym of a French naturalist and author, J. P. Houzé.OCLC, http://orlabs.oclc.org/identities/viaf-27199404
Publications
Science
* ''Quinze jours au bord de la mer: flâneries d'un naturaliste'' (1845), ...
(1820–1900)
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Charles Baudelaire
Charles Pierre Baudelaire (, ; ; 9 April 1821 – 31 August 1867) was a French poet, essayist, translator and art critic. His poems are described as exhibiting mastery of rhythm and rhyme, containing an exoticism inherited from the Romantics ...
(1821–1867) (''
Les Fleurs du mal'', 1857)
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Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880) (''
Madame Bovary'', 1857)
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Octave Feuillet (1821–1890)
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Jules-François-Félix Husson a/k/a Champfleury (1821–1889)
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Edmond de Goncourt (1822–1896)
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Erckmann-Chatrian (Emile Erckmann & Alexandre Chatrian) (1822–1899 & 1826–1890)
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Louis-Nicolas Ménard (1822–1901)
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Théodore de Banville (1823–1891)
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Ernest Renan (1823–1892)
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Alexandre Dumas, fils (1824–1895)
1825–1849
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Sainte Suzanne Melvil-Bloncourt (1825–1880)
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Jean-Félix Nourrisson (1825–1899)
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Charles De Coster (1827–1879)
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Juliette Figuier (1827–1879)
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Clair Tisseur (Nizier du Puitspelu) (1827–1896)
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Edmond About (1828–1885)
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Hyppolyte Taine (1828–1893)
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Jules Verne
Jules Gabriel Verne (;''Longman Pronunciation Dictionary''. ; 8 February 1828 – 24 March 1905) was a French novelist, poet and playwright.
His collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel led to the creation of the ''Voyages extraor ...
(1828–1905)
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Pauline Cassin Caro (1828/34/35 – 1901)
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Zénaïde Fleuriot (1829–1890)
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Numa-Denis Fustel de Coulanges (1830–1889)
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Jules de Goncourt (1830–1870)
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Hector Malot (1830–1907)
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Henri Rochefort (1830–1913)
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Henri Meilhac (1831–1897)
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Victorien Sardou (1831–1908)
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Valérie Simonin (1831–1919)
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Émile Gaboriau (1832–1873)
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Jules Vallès (1832–1885)
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Gaston Lavalley (1834–1922)
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Claire Julie de Nanteuil (1834–1897)
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Édouard Pailleron (1834–1899)
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Ludovic Halévy (1834–1908)
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Jean-Marie Déguignet (1834–1905)
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Amélie Gex (Dian de la Jeânna) (1835–1883)
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Félix Narjoux (1836–1891)
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Jules Simon Troubat (1836–1914)
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Constant Fouard (1837–1903)
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Henry Becque (1837–1899)
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Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam (1838–1889)
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Lucie Boissonnas (1839–1877)
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Sully Prudhomme (1839–1907)
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Jules Lermina (1839–1913)
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Alphonse Daudet (1840–1897)
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Émile Zola (1840–1902)
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Arvède Barine (1840–1908)
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Jules Claretie (1840–1913)
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Catulle Mendès (1841–1909)
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Charles Cros (1842–1888)
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Stéphane Mallarmé (1842–1898)
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José María de Heredia (1842–1905)
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François Coppée (1842–1908)
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Albert Sorel (1842–1906)
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René de Lespinasse (1843–1922)
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Paul Arène (1843–1896)
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Paul Verlaine (1844–1896)
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Anatole France (Anatole François Thibault) (1844–1924)
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Tristan Corbière (Edouard-Joachim) (1845–1875)
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Comte de Lautréamont (Isidore Lucien Ducasse) (1846–1870)
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Léon Bloy (1846–1917)
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Auguste Edgard Dietrich (1846)
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Henri François Marion (1846–1896)
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Geoffroi Jacques Flach (1846–1919)
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Brada (writer) (1847–1938)
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Émile Faguet (1847–1916)
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Joris-Karl Huysmans (1848–1907)
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Octave Mirbeau (1848–1917)
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Georges de Peyrebrune (1848–1917)
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Ferdinand Brunetière (1849–1906)
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Jean Richepin (1849–1926)
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Georges de Porto-Riche (1849–1930)
1850–1859
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Guy de Maupassant (1850–1893)
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Pierre Loti (Julien Viaud) (1850–1923)
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Gyp (1850–1932)
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Germain Nouveau (1851–1920)
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Élémir Bourges (1852–1925)
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Paul Bourget (1852–1935)
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Alfred Masson-Forestier (1852–1912)
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Maurice Rollinat (1853–1903)
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Arthur Rimbaud (1854–1891),
Une Saison en Enfer
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Alphonse Allais (1854–1905)
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Hermine Lecomte du Noüy (1854–1915)
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Laurent Tailhade (1854–1919)
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Georges Rodenbach (1855–1898)
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Jean Lorrain (1855–1906)
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Émile Verhaeren (1855–1916)
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Adolphe Chenevière (1855–1917)
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Noël Valois (1855–1915)
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Marie Lion (1855–1922)
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Jean Moréas (Jean Papadiamantopoulos) (1856–1910)
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Pierre Decourcelle (1856–1926)
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Claude Ferval (1856–1943)
*
Gustave Lanson (1857–1934)
*
Albert Samain (1858–1900)
*
Jules Lemaître (1858–1915)
*
Remy de Gourmont
Remy de Gourmont (4 April 1858 – 27 September 1915) was a French symbolist poet, novelist, and influential critic. He was widely read in his era, and an important influence on Blaise Cendrars and Georges Bataille. The spelling ''Rémy'' de Go ...
(1858–1915)
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Émile Durkheim (1858–1917)
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Alfred Capus (1858–1922)
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Georges Courteline (Georges Moineaux) (1858–1929)
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Neel Doff (1858–1942)
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Jean-Baptiste Chautard (1858–1935)
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Henri Danoy (1859–1928)
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Gustave Belot (1859–1929)
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Paul Naudet (1859–1929)
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Anatole Le Braz (1859–1926)
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Gustave Kahn (1859–1936)
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Henri Bergson (1859–1941)
1860–1869
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Jules Laforgue (1860–1887)
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Paul Margueritte (1860–1918)
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Michel Zévaco (1860–1918)
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Paul Roux a/k/a Saint-Pol-Roux le Magnifique (1861–1940)
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Paul Adam (1862–1920)
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Georges Darien (1862–1921)
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Georges Feydeau (1862–1921)
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Maurice Barrès (1862–1923)
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Maurice Maeterlinck
Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck (29 August 1862 – 6 May 1949), also known as Count/Comte Maeterlinck from 1932, was a Belgian playwright, poet, and essayist who was Flemish but wrote in French. He was awarded the 1911 Nobel Prize in ...
(1862–1949)
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Stuart Merrill (1863–1915)
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Marguerite Audoux (1863–1937)
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Jules Renard (1864–1910)
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Henri de Régnier (1864–1936)
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Léon Broutin (fl. 1865–77)
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Maurice Leblanc (1864–1941)
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Juliette Heuzey (1865–1952)
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Romain Rolland (1866–1944)
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Tristan Bernard (1866–1947)
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Fortunat Strowski (1866–1952)
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Charles de Beaupoil, comte de Saint-Aulaire (1866–1954)
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Émile Lauvrière (1866–1954)
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René Boylesve (René Tardivaux) (1867–1926
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Jehan Rictus (Gabriel Randon) (1867–1933)
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Léon Daudet (1867–1942)
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Marcel Schwob (1867–1905)
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Paul-Jean Toulet (1867–1920)
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Romain Coolus
René Max Weill (25 May 1868 – 9 September 1952), who used the pseudonym Romain Coolus, was a French novelist, dramatist and film scriptwriter.
Biography
Works
Theater
* 1893 : ''Le Ménage Brésile'' (first play), one-act comedy, at ...
(1868–1952)
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Edmond Rostand (1868–1918)
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Gaston Leroux (1868–1927) (''
The Phantom of the Opera'', ''
Le Mystère de la chambre jaune'')
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Achille Essebac (1868–1936)
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Francis Jammes (1868–1938)
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Émile Auguste Chartier a/k/a "Alain" (1868–1951)
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Paul Claudel (1868–1955)
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André Spire (1868–1966)
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Gaston Arman de Caillavet (1869–1915)
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Augustin Chaboseau (1868–1946)
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André Gide (1869–1951)
1870–1879
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Marcelle Tinayre (1870–1948)
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Henry Bordeaux (1870–1963)
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Pierre Louÿs (Pierre Louis) (1870–1925)
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Maximilien Winter (1871–1935)
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André Chéradame (1871–1948)
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Albert Geouffre de Lapradelle (1871–1955)
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Gaston Brière (1871–1962)
*
Marcel Proust (1871–1922), ''
In Search of Lost Time
''In Search of Lost Time'' (), first translated into English as ''Remembrance of Things Past'', and sometimes referred to in French as ''La Recherche'' (''The Search''), is a novel in seven volumes by French author Marcel Proust. This early twen ...
''
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Paul Valéry (1871–1945)
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Louis Madelin (1871–1956)
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Henry Bataille (1872–1922)
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Robert de Flers (1872–1927)
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Paul Fort (1872–1960)
*
Alfred Jarry (1873–1907)
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Charles Péguy (1873–1914)
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Henri Barbusse (1873–1935)
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Colette (Sidonie Gabrielle Colette) (1873–1954)
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Alice Jouenne (1873–1954)
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Pierre Souvestre (1874–1914)
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Albert Thibaudet (1874–1936)
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Tristan Klingsor (1874–1966)
*
Binet-Valmer (1875–1940)
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Paul Watrin (1876–1950)
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Anna de Noailles (Anne de Brancovan, comtesse de Noailles) (1876–1933)
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Max Jacob (1876–1944)
*
Léon-Paul Fargue (1876–1947)
*
Pierre Albert-Birot (1876–1967)
*
Marcel Bouteron (1877–1962)
*
Raymond Roussel (1877–1933)
*
Oscar Venceslas de Lubicz-Milosz (1877–1939)
*
Charles Ferdinand Ramuz, dit C. F. Ramuz (1878–1947)
*
Victor Segalen (1878–1919)
*
Henry de Monfreid (1879–1974)
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Francis Picabia
Francis Picabia (: born Francis-Marie Martinez de Picabia; 22January 1879 – 30November 1953) was a French avant-garde painter, writer, filmmaker, magazine publisher, poet, and typography, typographist closely associated with Dada.
When consid ...
(1879–1953)
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Henri Fauconnier (1879–1973)
1880–1889
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Louis Hémon (1880–1913)
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Guillaume Apollinaire
Guillaume Apollinaire (; ; born Kostrowicki; 26 August 1880 – 9 November 1918) was a French poet, playwright, short story writer, novelist and art critic of Poland, Polish descent.
Apollinaire is considered one of the foremost poets of the ...
(Wilhelm Apollinaris de Kostrowitzky) (1880–1918)
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Lucie Delarue-Mardrus (1880–1945)
*
Francis de Miomandre (Francis Durand) (1880–1959)
*
Alzir Hella (1881–1953)
*
Valery Larbaud (1881–1957)
*
Roger Martin du Gard (1881–1958)
*
Camille Drevet (1881–1969)
*
André Salmon (1881–1969)
*
Jérôme Carcopino (1881–1970)
*
Louis Pergaud (1882–1915)
*
Jean Giraudoux (1882–1944)
*
André Billy (1882–1971)
*
Pierre MacOrlan (Pierre Dumarchais) (1883–1970)
*
Rose Combe (1883–1932)
*
Marie Noël (1883–1933)
*
Auguste Detœuf (1883–1947)
*
Albert Pauphilet (1884–1948)
*
Jules Supervielle (1884–1960
*
Gaston Bachelard (1884–1962)
*
Georges Duhamel (1884–1966)
*
Jacques Chardonne (Jacques Boutelleau) (1884–1968)
*
Jean Paulhan (1884–1968)
*
Alexandre Arnoux (1884–1973)
*
Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes (1884–1974)
*
René Hubert (1885–1954)
*
Sacha Guitry (1885–1957)
*
André Maurois (Emile Herzog) (1885–1967)
*
Fernand Crommelynck
Fernand Crommelynck (19 November 1886 – 17 March 1970) was a Belgian dramatist. His work is known for farces in which commonplace weaknesses are developed into monumental obsessions.
Biography
He was born into a family of actors, the child o ...
(1885–1970)
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Jules Romains (Jules-Louis de Farigoule) (1885–1972)
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Marthe Bibesco (1885–1973)
*
Alain-Fournier (Henri Fournier) (1886–1914)
*
Francis Carco (François Carcopino-Tusoli) (1886–1958)
*
Pierre Benoit (1886–1962)
*
Geneviève Fauconnier (1886–1969)
*
Roland Dorgelès (Roland Lecavelé) (1886–1973)
*
Jean-Charles Roman d'Amat (1887–1976)
*
Henri Pourrat (1887–1959)
*
Jean de La Varende (Jean-Balthazar Mallard, comte de La Varende) (1887–1959)
*
René Maran (1887–1960)
*
Blaise Cendrars (1887–1961)
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François Mauriac
François Charles Mauriac (; ; 11 October 1885 – 1 September 1970) was a French novelist, dramatist, critic, poet, and journalist, a member of the'' Académie française'' (from 1933), and laureate of the 1952 Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Pr ...
(1887–1970)
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Saint-John Perse (Alexis Léger) (1887–1975)
*
Pierre-Jean Jouve (1887–1976)
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Marcel Martinet (1887–1944)
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Georges Bernanos (1888–1948)
*
Henri Bosco (1888–1976)
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Paul Morand (1888–1976)
*
Marcel Jouhandeau (1888–1979)
*
Jacques de Lacretelle (1888–1985)
*
Tristan Derème (1889–1941)
*
Pierre Reverdy (1889–1960)
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Jean Cocteau
Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau ( , ; ; 5 July 1889 11 October 1963) was a French poet, playwright, novelist, designer, film director, visual artist and critic. He was one of the foremost avant-garde artists of the 20th-c ...
(1889–1963)
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Émile Henriot (1889–1961)
1890–1899
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Henriette Sauret (1890–1976)
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Maurice Genevoix (1890–1980)
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Victor Serge (1890–1947)
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Leilah Mahi (1890–1932)
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Édouard Dunglas (1891–1952)
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La Mazille (1891–1984)
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Max Ernst (1891–1976)
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Pierre Drieu La Rochelle (1893–1945)
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Edmond Brazès (1893–1980)
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Luc Benoist (1893–1980)
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Paul Foulquié (1893–1983)
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Claude Cahun (Lucy Schwob) (1894–1954)
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Louis-Ferdinand Céline (Louis Destouches) (1894–1961) (''
Voyage au bout de la nuit'', 1932)
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Rose Celli (1895–1982)
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Paul Éluard (Eugène Grindel) (1895–1952)
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Jean Giono
Jean Giono (30 March 1895 – 8 October 1970) was a French writer who wrote works of fiction mostly set in the Provence region of France.
First period
Jean Giono was born to a family of modest means, his father a cobbler of Piedmontese descent a ...
(1895–1970)
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Marcel Pagnol (1895–1974)
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Albert Cohen (1895–1981)
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Antonin Artaud (1896–1948)
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André Breton (1896–1966)
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Henry de Montherlant (Henry Millon de Montherlant) (1896–1972)
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Paulette Nardal (1896–1995)
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Tristan Tzara
Tristan Tzara (; ; ; born Samuel or Samy Rosenstock, also known as S. Samyro; – 25 December 1963) was a Romanian and French avant-garde poet, essayist and performance artist. Also active as a journalist, playwright, literary and art critic, c ...
(1896–1963)
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Elsa Triolet (1896–1970)
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Louis Aragon (1897–1982)
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Georges Bataille
Georges Albert Maurice Victor Bataille (; ; 10 September 1897 – 8 July 1962) was a French philosopher and intellectual working in philosophy, literature, sociology, anthropology, and history of art. His writing, which included essays, novels, ...
(1897–1962)
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Joë Bousquet (1897–1950)
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Philippe Soupault (1897–1990)
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Marcel Thiry (1897–1977)
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Eugène Dabit (1898–1936)
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Michel de Ghelderode (1898–1962)
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Joseph Kessel (1898–1979)
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Paul Vialar (1898–1996)
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Louise Noëlle Malclès (1899–1977)
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Roger Vitrac (1899–1952)
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Pierre Virion (1899–1988)
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Jacques Audiberti (1899–1965)
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Marcel Achard (1899–1974)
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Louis Guilloux (1899–1980)
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Henri Michaux (1899–1984)
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Marcel Arland (1899–1986)
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Marcelle Auclair (1899–1983)
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Armand Salacrou (1899–1989)
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Francis Ponge (1899–1988)
Twentieth century
1900–1909
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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900–1944)
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Robert Desnos (1900–1945)
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Jacques Prévert
Jacques Prévert (; 4 February 1900 – 11 April 1977) was a French poet and screenwriter. His poems became and remain popular in the French-speaking world, particularly in schools. His best-regarded films formed part of the Poetic realism, poetic ...
(1900–1977)
* André Chamson (1900–1983)
* André Dhôtel (1900–1991)
* Albert Ayguesparse (1900–1996)
* Julien Green (1900–1998)
* Nathalie Sarraute (1900–1999)
* Amadou Hampâté Bâ (1900 or 1901–1991)
* Georges Limbour (1900–1970)
* Marcel Sendrail (1900–1976)
* Jacques Bordiot (1900–1983)
* Maurice Féaudierre (1901-1992)
* Jean Meuvret (1901–1971)
* Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo (1901–1937)
* Jean Prévost (1901–1944)
* Henri Daniel-Rops (Henri Petiot) (1901–1965)
* Lanza del Vasto (1901–1981)
* Charles Lecocq (1901–1922)
* Michel Leiris (1901–1990)
* Suzanne Lilar (1901–1992)
* André Malraux (1901–1976)
* Marcel Aymé (1902–1967)
* Fernand Braudel (1902–1985)
* Marie-Magdeleine Carbet (1902–1996)
* Julien Torma (1902–1933)
* Louise de Vilmorin (1902–1969)
* Vercors (pseudonym for Jean Bruller) (1902–1991)
* Jean Tardieu (1903–1995)
* Raymond Radiguet (1903–1923)
* Irène Némirovsky (1903–1942)
* Jean Follain (1903–1971)
* Georges Simenon (1903–1989)
* Raymond Queneau (1903–1976)
* Marguerite Yourcenar (Marguerite de Crayencour) (1903–1987)
* René Bansard (1904–1971)
* Marie-Anne Desmarest (1904–1973)
* Gilbert Lely (1904–1985)
* Yves Congar (1904–1995)
* Jean-Paul Sartre (1905–1980)
* Maurice Fombeure (1906–1981)
* Charles Exbrayat (1906–1989)
* Samuel Beckett (1906–1989)
* René Sédillot (1906–1999)
* Léopold Sédar Senghor (1906–2001)
* Roger Vailland (1907–1965)
* Pauline Réage (Anne Desclos) (1907–1998)
* Violette Leduc (1907–1972)
* Raymond Abellio (Georges Soulès) (1907–1986)
* René Char (1907–1988)
* Maurice Blanchot (1907–2003)
* René Ménil (1907–2004)
* Roger Peyrefitte (1907–2000)
* Roger Gilbert-Lecomte (1907–1943)
* Jacques Roumain (1907–1944)
* René Daumal (1908–1944)
* Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986)
* Paul Bénichou (1908–2001)
* Robert Merle (1908–2004)
* Simone Weil (1909–1943)
* Stéphane Pizella (1909–1970)
* Jean-Marie Dallet (linguist), Jean-Marie Dallet (1909–1972)
* Anaïs Nin (1909–1977)
* Jean-Fernand Brierre (1909–1993)
* Robert Brasillach (1909–1945)
* André Pieyre de Mandiargues (1909–1991)
* Léo Malet (1909–1996)
1910–1919
* Jean Anouilh (1910–1987)
* Jean-Louis Baghio'o (1910–1994)
* Jean Genet (1910–1986)
* Paul Guth (1910–1997)
* Julien Gracq (Louis Poirier) (1910–2007)
* Emil Cioran (1911–1995)
* Raphaël Tardon (1911–1967)
* André Hardellet (1911–1974)
* René Barjavel (1911–1985)
* Guy des Cars (Guy de Pérusse des Cars) (1911–1993)
* Hervé Bazin (Jean Hervé-Bazin) (1911–1996)
* Jean Cayrol (1911–2005)
* Henri Troyat (Lev Tarassov) (1911–2007)
* André Jardin (1912–1996)
* Pierre Boulle (1912–1994)
* Edmond Jabès (1912–1991)
* Eugène Ionesco (1912–1994)
* Jacques de Bourbon Busset (1912–2001)
* Armand Robin (1912–1961)
* Claude Simon (1913–2005)
* Luc Dietrich (1913–1944)
* Albert Camus (1913–1960)
* Mouloud Feraoun (1913–1962)
* Gilbert Cesbron (1913–1979)
* Armand Lanoux (1913–1983)
* Pierre Daninos (1913–2005)
* Aimé Césaire (1913–2008)
* Félicien Marceau (Louis Carette) (1913–2012)
* Romain Gary (Romain Kacew a/k/a Romain Gary a/k/a Emile Ajar) (1914–1980)
* Béatrix Beck (1914–2008)
* Marguerite Duras (Marguerite Donnadieu) (1914–1996)
*Ahmed Sefrioui (1915–2004)
* Roland Barthes (1915–1980)
* Suzanne Césaire (1915–1966)
* Louis Dollot (1915–1997)
* Joseph Zobel (1915–2006)
* Constantin Virgil Gheorghiu, Virgil Gheorghiu (1916–1992)
* Jean-Louis Curtis (Louis Laffitte) (1917–1995)
* Ambroise Yxemerry (1917–2013)
* Pierre Bettencourt (1917–2006)
* Alain Guy (1918–1998)
* Maurice Druon (1918–2009)
* Michel Quoist (1918–1997)
* Jean Venturini (1919–1940)
* Alain Bosquet (Anatole Bisk) (1919–1998)
* Jacques Laurent a/k/a Jacques Laurent-Cely or Cécil Saint-Laurent (1919–2000)
* Michel Déon (1919–2016)
* Robert Pinget (1919–1997)
1920–1929
* Jean Dutourd (1920–2011)
* Jean Lartéguy (1920–2011)
* Jean Madiran (1920–2013)
* Mohammed Dib (1920–2003)
* Boris Vian (1920–1959)
* Françoise d'Eaubonne (1920–2005)
* Albert Memmi (1920–2020)
* Georges Brassens (1921–1981)
* Gérald Neveu (1921–1960)
* André Rogerie (1921–2014)
* Michel Guiomar (1921–2013)
* Jean-Pierre Renouard (1922–2014)
* Antoine Blondin (1922–1990)
* Jean-Charles (1922–2003)
* Jean-Claude Renard (1922–2002)
* Stefan Wul (1922–2003)
* Alain Robbe-Grillet (1922–2008)
* Yves Bonnefoy (1923–2016)
* Roger Foulon (1923–2008)
* Georges Perros (1923–1978)
* Ousmane Sembène (1923–2007)
* Jean Dumont (historian), Jean Dumont (1923–2001)
* Claude Paillat (1924–2001)
* André du Bouchet (1924–2003)
* Salvat Etchart (1924–1985)
* Michel Tournier (1924–2016)
* Philippe Jaccottet (1925–2021)
* Roger Nimier (1925–1962)
* Jean d'Ormesson (1925–2017)
* François Augiéras (1925–1971)
* Alphonse Boudard (1925–2000)
* Roger Giroux (1925–1973)
* Frantz Fanon (1925–1961)
* Jean Robieux (1925–2012)
* Robert Misrahi (1926–2023)
* Yvon Taillandier (1926–2018)
* Michel Foucault (1926–1984)
* Michel Butor (1926–2016)
* Jacques Dupin (1927–2012)
* Gisèle Halimi (1927–2020)
* François Nourissier (1927–2011)
* Robert Fossier (1927–2012)
* Renada-Laura Portet (1927–2021)
* Jacques Rivette (1928–2016)
* André Schwarz-Bart (1928–2006)
* Édouard Glissant (1928–2011)
* Kateb Yacine (1929–1989)
* Nicolas Bouvier (1929–1998)
1930–1939
* Jacques Lafaye (1930–2024)
* Maggi Lidchi-Grassi (1930–...)
* Françoise Mallet-Joris (1930–2016)
* Jacques Ehrmann (1931–1972)
* Fernando Arrabal (1932–...)
* Mongo Beti (1932–2001)
* Hédi Bouraoui (1932–...)
* Claude Pujade-Renaud (1932–...)
* Jacques Roubaud (1932–2024)
* Julienne Salvat (1932–2019)
* Marcelin Pleynet (1933–...)
* Claude Esteban (1935–2006)
* Ágota Kristóf (1935–2011)
* Françoise Sagan (Françoise Quoirez) (1935–2004)
* Daniel Zimmermann (1935–2000)
* Assia Djebar (1936–2015)
* Frankétienne (1936–2025)
* Jean-Edern Hallier (1936–1997)
* Georges Perec (1936–1982)
* Philippe Sollers (1936–2023)
* Alain Grée (1936–2025)
* Anne-Marie Albiach (1937–2012)
* Marc Alyn (1937–...)
* Pierre Billon (writer), Pierre Billon (1937–...)
* Andrée Brunin (1937–1993)
* Hélène Cixous (1937–...)
* Maryse Condé (1937–...)
* Abdelkebir Khatibi (1938–2009)
* Daniel Oster (1938–1999)
* Sandra Jayat (c. 1939–...)
* Michèle Lesbre (1939–...)
* Kenizé Mourad (1939–...)
* Gérard Roubichou (1939–...)
1940–1949
* Annie Ernaux (1940–...)
* Marie-Reine de Jaham (1940-...)
* J.M.G. Le Clézio (1940–...)
* Emmanuel Hocquard (1940–2019)
* Charles Duchaussois (1940–1991)
* Bernard Brizay (1941–...)
* Louis Mélennec (1941–...)
* Jean Daive (1941–...)
* Julia Kristeva (1941–...)
* Jean Marcel (1941–...)
* François Weyergans (1941–2019)
* Josaphat-Robert Large (1942–2017)
* François-Xavier Guerra (1942–2002)
* Wladimir Troubetzkoy (1942–2009)
* Jean Bernabé (1942–2017)
* Jean-Patrick Manchette (1942–1995)
* Guy Olivier Faure (1943–...)
* Yves Manglou (1943–...)
* Eva Joly (1943–...)
* René-Louis Baron (1944–2016)
* Noëlle Châtelet (1944–...)
* Doumbi Fakoly (1944–...)
* Jean-Jacques Greif (1944–...)
* Sergio Kokis (1944–...)
* Daniel Pennac (1944–...)
* Lucien Polastron (1944–...)
* Marc Filloux (1944–1974)
* Alain Guillerm (1944–2005)
* Françoise Chandernagor (1945–...)
* Tony Duvert (1945–2008)
* Bernard Gheur (1945–...)
* Pierre Michon (1945–...)
* Gisèle Bienne (1946–...)
* Renaud Camus (1946–...)
* Djémil Kessous (1946–...)
* Tahar Ben Jelloun (1947–...)
* Daniel Maximin (1947-...)
* Luc Perino (1947–...)
* Michel Étiévent (1947–2021)
* Loïc Le Ribault (1947–2007)
* Jean-Claude Villain (1947–...)
* Élisabeth Vonarburg (1947–...)
* Jean-Pierre Poccioni (1948–...)
* André Rouillé (1948–...)
* Bertrand Le Gendre (1948–...)
* Jean-Paul Goux (1948–...)
* Serge Duigou (1948–...)
* François Leperlier (1949–...)
* Amin Maalouf (1949–...)
* Didier Daeninckx (1949–...)
* Pierre Bergounioux (1949–...)
* Boualem Sansal (1949–...)
1950–present
* Bernard Bonnejean (1950–...)
* Yolande Cohen (1950–...)
* Jean-Paul Dubois (1950–...)
* Moussa Konaté (writer), Moussa Konaté (1951–2013)
* Salim Jay (1951–...)
* Bernard Cottret (1951–2020)
* Jean-Didier Urbain (1951–...)
* Raphaël Confiant (1951–...)
* Carole Achache (1952–2016)
* Pierre-Henri Bunel (1952–...)
* Dan Franck (1952–...)
* Dany Laferrière (1953–...)
* Françoise Bettencourt Meyers (1953–...)
* Nancy Huston (1953–...)
* Patrick Chamoiseau (1953–...)
* François Bon (1953–...)
* Martina Wachendorff (1953–...)
* Édouard Brasey (1954–...)
* Paul Dirmeikis (1954–...)
* Tahar Djaout (1954–1993)
* Margaret Maruani (1954–2022)
* Dai Sijie (1954–...)
* Pascale Roze (1954–...)
* Adelina Yzac (1954–...)
* Jean-Pierre Vallotton (1955–...)
* Alexandra Lapierre (1955–...)
* Caroline Lamarche (1955–...)
* Bertrand Renard (1955–...)
* Joël Henry (journalist), Joël Henry (journalist) (1955–...)
* Renaud Girard (1955–...)
* Yasmina Khadra (1955-...)
* Annie Pietri (1956–...)
* Charles Mopsik (1956–2003)
* Gisèle Pineau (1956–...)
* Jean-Pierre Thiollet (1956–...)
* Khal Torabully (1956–...)
* Fred Vargas (1957-...)
* Hervé Le Tellier (1957–...)
* Youssef Rzouga (1957–...)
* Jean-Philippe Toussaint (1957–...)
* Azouz Begag (1957–...)
* Didier Ottinger (1957–...)
* Olivier Da Lage (1957–...)
* Simon Basinger (1957–...)
* Michel Houellebecq (1958–...)
* Pierre Leroux (author), Pierre Leroux (1958-...)
* Marc-Édouard Nabe (1958–...)
* Olivier Weber (1958–...)
* Denis Robert (1958–...)
* Benjamin Sehene (1959–...)
* Christine Angot (1959–...)
* Frédéric-Yves Jeannet (1959–...)
* Jean-Luc Bitton (1959–...)
* Malek Belarbi (1959–...)
* Nicolas Fiévé (1959–...)
* Bruno Laurioux (1959–...)
* Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt (1960–...)
* Simonetta Greggio (1961–...)
* Bernard Werber (1961–...)
* Charles Dantzig (1961–...)
* Philippe Buc (1961–...)
* Valérie Grumelin-Halimi (1961–...)
* Philippe Claudel (1962–...)
* Virginie Caillé-Bastide (1962–...)
* Catherine Cusset (1963–...)
* Beatrice Hammer (1963–...)
* Kevin Bokeili (1963–2014)
* Alexis Jenni (1963–...)
* Bill Pallot (1964–...)
* Nadine Ribault (1964–2021)
* Pierre Cormon (1965–...)
* Ann Scott (French novelist), Ann Scott (1965–...)
* Stéphane Laurent (1966–...)
* Odile Benyahia-Kouider (1966–...)
* Marie Jaffredo (1966–...)
* Alain Mabanckou (1966–...)
* Delphine Gardey (1967–...)
* Mouna Hachim (1967–...)
* Paul-Louis Roubert (1967–...)
* Jonathan Littell (1967–...)
* Amélie Nothomb (1967–...)
* Basile Panurgias (1967–...)
* Johanna Schipper (1967–...)
* Fréderic Neyrat (1968–...)
* Norbert-Bertrand Barbe (1968–...)
* Kim Thúy (1968–...)
* Virginie Despentes (1969–...)
* Louis Emond (1969–...)
* Antoine Bello (1970–...)
* Christophe Honoré (1970–...)
* Fabienne Kanor (1970–...)
* Édouard Tétreau (1970–...)
* Philippe Boisnard (1971–...)
* Yannick Mireur (1971–...)
* Angela Behelle (1971–...)
* Nicolas Ancion (1971–...)
* Luis de Miranda (1971–...)
* Nicolas Bouyssi (1972–...)
* Cristina Rodríguez (journalist), Cristina Rodríguez (1972–...)
* Kilien Stengel (1972–...)
* Roland Michel Tremblay (1972–...)
* Romain Sardou (1974–...)
* Guillaume Musso (1974–...)
* Olivier Adam (1974–...)
* Harold Cobert (1974–...)
* Juliette Rennes (1976–...)
* Lisa Mandel (1977–...)
* Benoît Bringer (1979–...)
* Agnès Martin-Lugand (1979–...)
* Diane Mazloum (1980–...)
* Nahema Hanafi (1983–...)
* Jérémy Marie (1984–...)
* Benjamin Hoffmann (1985–...)
* Oriane Lassus (1987–...)
* Charles Luylier (1989–...)
* Mélissa Da Costa (1990-...)
* Blandine Rinkel (1991-...)
* Soraya Nini (1993–...)
* Chloé Wary (1995–...)
* Estelle Beauchamp (novelist since 1995)
See also
* List of French women writers
* French literature
* Francophone literature
* Lists of list of French-language poets, French-language poets, List of French novelists, French novelists, list of French people, French people, Lists of authors, authors
* Literature of Quebec, Quebec literature
* List of Quebec authors
* List of Belgian women writers
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