List of French language authors
List of French speaking authors
Jean Anouilh (1910 - 1987)
Antonin Artaud (1896 - 1948)
Honoré de Balzac (1799 - 1850)
Charles-Pierre Baudelaire (April 9, 1821 - August 31, 1867), (Les fleurs du mal , 1857)
Simone de Beauvoir (1908 - 1986)
Cyrano de Bergerac (March 6, 1619 - 1655)
Pierre-Jean de Béranger (1780 - 1857)
Georges Brassens (October 22 1921 - October 29 1981)
Andre Breton (February 18, 1896 - 1966)
Albert Camus (1913 - 1960)
Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1894 - 1961), (Voyage au bout de la nuit , 1932)
François-René de Chateaubriand (1768 - 1848)
Jean Cocteau (July 5, 1889 - October 11, 1963)
Albert Cohen (1895 - 1981)
José Maria Vicente Ferrer Francisco de Paola Patricio Manuel Contamine a.k.a Patrice Contamine a.k.a J.P. Contamine de Latour a.k.a Lord Cheminot (1867 - 1926)
René Descartes (March 31, 1596 - February 11, 1650)
Paul Dirmeikis (1954 - )
Alexandre Dumas, fils (1824 - 1895)
Alexandre Dumas, père (1802 - 1870)
Gustave Flaubert (1821 - 1880) (Madame Bovary , 1857)
Jean Genet (1910-1986)
André Gide (1869 - 1951) (Les Faux Monnayeurs , 1925)
Emile de Girardin (1806 - 1881)
Theophile Gautier (August 31, 1811 - December 23, 1872)
Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885) (Les Misérables , 1862)
Eugène Ionesco (1912 - 1994)
Agota Kristof
Alphonse de Lamartine (1790 - 1869)
Charles-François Tiphaigne de la Roche (1722 - 1774)
Hector Malot (1830-1907)
Henry de Montherlant (1896 - 1972)
Nicolas Oresme (1325 - 1382)
Georges Perec (1936-1982)
Roger Peyrefitte (1907-2000)
Marcel Proust (1871 - 1922) (In Search of Lost Time )
François Rabelais (ca. 1493 - April 9, 1553)
Raymond Radiguet (1903 - 1923)
Arthur Rimbaud (1854 - 1891), Une Saison en Enfer
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712 - 1778)
Marquis de Sade (1740-1814)
George Sand (July 1, 1804 - June 8, 1876)
Jean-Paul Sartre (June 21, 1905 - April 15, 1980)
Stendhal (1783 - 1842) (The Red and the Black , 1830)
Julien Torma (1902 - 1933)
Jules Verne (1828 - 1905)
Boris Vian (1920 - 1959)
Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
Emile Zola (1840 - 1902)
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