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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

* Turold (eleventh century) *

Wace Wace ( 1110 – after 1174), sometimes referred to as Robert Wace, was a Medieval Norman poet, who was born in Jersey and brought up in mainland Normandy (he tells us in the ''Roman de Rou'' that he was taken as a child to Caen), ending his car ...

(1110 – c.1180) * Chrétien de Troyes (c.1135 – c.1183) *

Richard the Lionheart Richard I (8 September 1157 – 6 April 1199) was King of England from 1189 until his death in 1199. He also ruled as Duke of Normandy, Aquitaine and Gascony, Lord of Cyprus, and Count of Poitiers, Anjou, Maine, and Nantes, and was overl ...

(Richard Coeur de Lion) (1157–1199) *

Benoît de Sainte-Maure Benoît de Sainte-Maure (; died 1173) was a 12th-century French poet, most probably from Sainte-Maure-de-Touraine near Tours, France. The Plantagenets' administrative center was located in Chinon, west of Tours. ''Le Roman de Troie'' His 40,000 ...

(12th-century) * Herman de Valenciennes (12th-century) * Le Châtelain de Couci (d.1203) *

Jean Bodel Jean Bodel (c. 1165 – c. 1210), was an Old French poet who wrote a number of ''chanson de geste, chansons de geste'' as well as many fabliaux. He lived in Arras. Writings Bodel wrote ("Song of the Saxons") about the war of King Charlemagne wi ...

(12th century – c.1210) *

Conon de Béthune Conon de Béthune (before 1160 in the former region of Artois, today Pas-de-Calais - 17 December 1219, possibly at Adrianople) was a French crusader and trouvère poet who became a senior official and finally regent of the Latin Empire of Cons ...

(c.1150–1220) *

Geoffroi de Villehardouin Geoffrey of Villehardouin (c. 1150 – c. 1213) was a French knight and historian who participated in and chronicled the Fourth Crusade. He is considered one of the most important historians of the time period,Smalley, p. 131 best known for w ...

(c.1160 – c.1213) *

Béroul Béroul was a Norman or Breton poet of the 12th century. He wrote ''Tristan'', a Norman language version of the legend of Tristan and Iseult of which a certain number of fragments (approximately 3000 verses) have been preserved; it is the earlies ...

(c.1170) *

Thomas d'Angleterre Thomas of Britain (also known as Thomas of England) was a poet of the 12th century. He is known for his Old French poem ''Tristan'', a version of the Tristan and Iseult legend that exists only in eight fragments, amounting to around 3,300 lines of v ...

(c.1170) *

Aimeric de Peguilhan Aimeric or Aimery de Peguilhan, Peguillan, or Pégulhan (c. 1170 – c. 1230) was a troubadour (fl. 1190–1221)Gaunt and Kay, 279. born in Peguilhan (near Saint-Gaudens), the son of a cloth merchant. Aimeric's first patron was Raimon ...

(c.1170 -c. 1230) * Gace Brulé (c.1170) *

Marie de France Marie de France ( fl. 1160 to 1215) was a poet, possibly born in what is now France, who lived in England during the late 12th century. She lived and wrote at an unknown court, but she and her work were almost certainly known at the royal court ...

(c.1175) *

Gautier de Coincy Gautier de Coincy (1177–1236) was a French abbot, trouvère and musical arranger, chiefly known for his devotion to the Virgin Mary. While he served as prior of Vic-sur-Aisne he compiled ''Les Miracles de Nostre-Dame'' (known in English as ''T ...

(1177/8–1236) * Gautier de Dargies (c.1170–after 1236) * Gautier d'Espinal († before July 1272) *

Gillebert de Berneville Gillebert (Guillebert) de Berneville (''fl. '' 1250–70) was a French trouvère. According to Theodore Karp, in its time, "his poetry was much appreciated", but it is " ither original nor profound," rather he was and is admired more for "facility, ...

( fl c.1255) *

Gontier de Soignies Gontier de Soignies was a medieval trouvère and composer who was active from around 1180 to 1220. Biography Gontier was from the region of Soignies in the County of Hainaut, a region that was then a state of the Holy Roman Empire. His life is mo ...

( fl c.1180–1220) *

Guiot de Dijon Guiot de Dijon ('' fl.'' 1215–25) was a Burgundian trouvère. The seventeen ''chansons'' ascribed to him in the standard listing of Raynaud-Spanke are found in fifteen chansonniers, some without attribution or with conflicting attributions w ...

( fl c.1200–30) *

Perrin d'Angicourt Perrin d'Angicourt (''floruit'' 1245–70) was a trouvère associated with the group of poets active in and around Arras. His birthplace was most likely Achicourt, just south of Arras. His surviving oeuvre is large by the standards of the trouvère ...

( fl c.1245–50) *

Jean Renart Jean Renart, also known as Jean Renaut, was a Norman trouvère from the end of the 12th century and the first half of the 13th to whom three works are firmly ascribed: two metrical chivalric romances, ''L'Escoufle'' ("The Kite") and ''Guillaume de ...

(fl. late 12th-first half of 13th century) * Philippe de Rémi (c.1205–c1265) * Philippe de Beaumanoir (c.1247–c1296) *

Raoul de Soissons Raoul de Soissons (1210x15 – 1270, or shortly thereafter) was a French nobleman, Crusader, and trouvère. He was the second son of Raoul le Bon, Count of Soissons, and became the Sire de Coeuvres in 1232. Raoul participated in three Crusad ...

(c.1215–1272) *

Richard de Fournival Richard de Fournival or Richart de Fornival (1201 – ?1260) was a medieval philosopher and trouvère perhaps best known for the '' Bestiaire d'amour'' ("The Bestiary of Love"). Life Richard de Fournival was born in Amiens on October 10, 1201. He ...

(1201– c.1260) *

Andrieu Contredit d'Arras Andrieu Contredit d'Arras ( 1200 – 1248) was a trouvère from Arras and active in the Puy d'Arras. "Contredit" is probably a nickname. He wrote mostly ''grand chants'', but also a ''pastourelle'', a '' lai'', and a ''jeu-parti'' with Guillaum ...

(† c.1248) *

Jehan le Cuvelier d'Arras Jehan le Cuvelier d'Arras (''fl''. ''c''. 1240–70) was a trouvère associated with the so-called "school of Arras". He may be the same person as Johannes Cuvellarius from Bapaume, a suburb of Arras, who is mentioned in documents of 1258. He was th ...

( fl c.1240–70) *

Guillaume le Vinier Guillaume le Vinier (''c''. 1190–1245) was a cleric and trouvère, one of the most prolific composers in the genre.Theodore Karp, "Le Vinier, Guillaume", ''Grove Music Online'', ''Oxford Music Online'' (accessed 20 September 2008). He has left c ...

( fl c.1220–45; †1245) * Audefroi le Bâtard ( fl c.1200–1230) * Jehan Bretel (c.1200–1272) *

Jehan Erart Jehan Erart (or Erars) (''c''.1200/10–1258/9) was a trouvère from Arras, particularly noted for his favouring the ''pastourelle'' genre. He has left behind eleven ''pastourelles'', ten ''grand chants'', and one '' serventois''. Erart's pres ...

(† c.1259) * Moniot d'Arras ( fl c.1250–75) *

Robert de Clari Robert de Clari (or Cléry, the modern name of the place, on the commune of Pernois) was a knight from Picardy. He participated in the Fourth Crusade with his lord, Count Peter of Amiens, and his brother, Aleaumes de Clari, and left a chronicle of ...

(late twelfth century) *

Blondel de Nesle Blondel de Nesle – either Jean I of Nesle (c. 1155 – 1202) or his son Jean II of Nesle (died 1241) – was a French trouvère. The name 'Blondel de Nesle' is attached to twenty-four or twenty-five courtly songs. He was identified in 1942, b ...

(late twelfth century) * Robert de Boron (twelfth–thirteenth century) * Guiot de Provins (d. after 1208) *

Bertrand de Bar-sur-Aube Bertrand de Bar-sur-Aube (i.e. Bertrand from Bar-sur-Aube) (end of the 12th century – early 13th centuryHasenohr, 170.) was an Old French poet from the Champagne region of France who wrote a number of '' chansons de geste''. He is the author of ...

(late twelfth-early thirteenth century) *

Guillaume de Lorris Guillaume de Lorris (c. 1200c. 1240) was a French scholar and poet from Lorris. He was the author of the first section of the ''Roman de la Rose''. Little is known about him, other than that he wrote the earlier section of the poem around 1230, ...

(c.1200 – c.1238) *

Theobald IV of Champagne Theobald I (french: Thibaut, es, Teobaldo; 30 May 1201 – 8 July 1253), also called the Troubadour and the Posthumous, was Count of Champagne (as Theobald IV) from birth and King of Navarre from 1234. He initiated the Barons' Crusade, was famous ...

(1201–1253) *

Jean de Joinville Jean de Joinville (, c. 1 May 1224 – 24 December 1317) was one of the great chroniclers of medieval France. He is most famous for writing the ''Life of Saint Louis'', a biography of Louis IX of France that chronicled the Seventh Crusade.''V ...

( c.1224 – c.1317) * Rutebeuf (c.1230 – c.1285) *

Adam de la Halle Adam de la Halle (1245–50 – 1285–8/after 1306) was a French poet-composer '' trouvère''. Among the few medieval composers to write both monophonic and polyphonic music, in this respect he has been considered both a conservative and progr ...

(c.1250 – c.1285) *

Jean de Meun Jean de Meun (or de Meung, ) () was a French author best known for his continuation of the '' Roman de la Rose''. Life He was born Jean Clopinel or Jean Chopinel at Meung-sur-Loire. Tradition asserts that he studied at the University of Paris. He ...

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(1250 – c.1305) or Jean Clopinel or Chopinel *

Jacques Bretel Jacques Bretel or Jacques Bretex (dates of birth and death unknown) was a French language ''trouvère'', best known for having written '' le Tournoi de Chauvency''. His only known work, signed and dated in 1285, ''le Tournoi de Chauvency'' is a l ...

(c. 1285 – c. 1310) *

Jean Le Bel Jean Le Bel (c. 1290 – 15 February 1370) was a chronicler from Liège. Biography Jean Le Bel's father, Gilles le Beal des Changes, was an alderman of Liège. Jean entered the church and became a canon of the cathedral church, but he and his b ...

(c.1290–1370) *

Colin Muset Colin Muset (''fl''. ''c''. 1210–50 or 1230–70) was an Old French trouvère and a native of Lorraine. He made his living in the Champagne by travelling from castle to castle singing songs of his own composition and playing the vielle. ...

(end of thirteenth century) * Guillaume de Machaut ( c.1300 – c.1377) *

Nicole Oresme Nicole Oresme (; c. 1320–1325 – 11 July 1382), also known as Nicolas Oresme, Nicholas Oresme, or Nicolas d'Oresme, was a French philosopher of the later Middle Ages. He wrote influential works on economics, mathematics, physics, astrology an ...

(1325–1382) *

Philippe de Mézières Philippe de Mézières (c. 1327 – May 29, 1405), a French soldier and author, was born at the chateau of Mézières in Picardy. Period of soldiering (1344–1358) Philippe belonged to the poorer nobility. At first, he served under Luchino Visc ...

(c.1327–1405) *

Jean Froissart Jean Froissart ( Old and Middle French: '' Jehan'', – ) (also John Froissart) was a French-speaking medieval author and court historian from the Low Countries who wrote several works, including ''Chronicles'' and ''Meliador'', a long Arthuria ...

(1333 – c.1404) *

Eustache Deschamps Eustache Deschamps (13461406 or 1407) was a French poet, byname Morel, in French "Nightshade". Life and career Deschamps was born in Vertus. He received lessons in versification from Guillaume de Machaut and later studied law at Orleans Univers ...

(c.1346 – c.1407) * Jean Charlier called Gerson (1363–1429 *

Christine de Pisan Christine de Pizan or Pisan (), born Cristina da Pizzano (September 1364 – c. 1430), was an Italian poet and court writer for King Charles VI of France and several French dukes. Christine de Pizan served as a court writer in medieval France ...

(1364–1430) * Alain Chartier (c.1385 – c.1435) *

Jean Juvénal des Ursins Jean (II) Juvénal des Ursins (1388–1473), the son of the royal jurist and provost of the merchants of Paris Jean Juvénal, was a French cleric and historian. He is the author of several legal treatises and clerical publications and the ''Histoi ...

(1388–1473) *

Antoine de la Sale Antoine de la Sale (also ''la Salle'', ''de Lasalle''; 1385/861460/61) was a French courtier, educator and writer. He participated in a number of military campaigns in his youth and he only began writing when he had reached middle age, in the late ...

(1388 – c.1469) *

Enguerrand de Monstrelet Enguerrand de Monstrelet (c. 140020 July 1453) was a French chronicler. He was born in Picardy, most likely into a family of the minor nobility. Life In 1436 and later he held the office of lieutenant of the ''gavenier'' (i.e. receiver of the ' ...

(c.1390 – c.1453) * Charles, duc d'Orléans (1394–1465)

Fifteenth century

Martin Le Franc Martin le Franc ( – 1461) was a French poet of the late Middle Ages and early Renaissance. Life and career He was born in Normandy, and studied in Paris. He entered clerical orders, becoming an apostolic prothonotary, and later becoming secretar ...

(c.1410–1461) * Eustache Marcadé (1414–1440) *

Georges Chastellain Georges Chastellain (c. 1405 or c. 1415 – 20 March 1475), Burgundian chronicler and poet, was a native of Aalst in Flanders. Chastellain's historical works are valuable for the accurate information they contain. As a poet he was famous am ...

(1415–1475) *

Olivier de la Marche Olivier de la Marche (1425–1502) was a courtier, soldier, chronicler and poet in the last decades of the independent Duchy of Burgundy. He was close to Charles the Bold, and after his death held the important position of maître d'hotel to his ...

(1425–1502) *

Martial d'Auvergne Martial d'Auvergne (Martial of Auvergne, Martial of Paris, 1420 – 13 May 1508) was a French poet. Originally from Auvergne, he served as notary at Châtelet, and later as attorney (''procureur'') for the Paris parlement. His most importa ...

( c.1430–1508) *

François Villon François Villon ( Modern French: , ; – after 1463) is the best known French poet of the Late Middle Ages. He was involved in criminal behavior and had multiple encounters with law enforcement authorities. Villon wrote about some of these ...

(c.1431–after 1463) * Jean Michel (c.1435–1501) *

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 the s ...

(1435–1507) *

Philippe de Commines Philippe de Commines (or de Commynes or "Philippe de Comines"; Latin: ''Philippus Cominaeus''; 1447 – 18 October 1511) was a writer and diplomat in the courts of Burgundy and France. He has been called "the first truly modern writer" ( Charle ...

(1445–1511) *

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 to ha ...

(1450–1526) * Lefèvre d'Etaples (1455–1537) *

Guillaume Crétin Guillaume Dubois or Guillaume Crétin (c. 1460 – 30 November 1525) was a French poet who is considered to belong to the school of the Grands Rhétoriqueurs ("rhetoricians"). Life He was treasurer of the Sainte-Chapelle de Vincennes, then cantor ...

(Guillaume Dubois) (1460–1525) * Octavien de Saint-Gelais (1468–1505) *

Guillaume Budé Guillaume Budé (; Latinized as Guilielmus Budaeus; 1468 – 1540) was a French scholar and humanist. He was involved in the founding of Collegium Trilingue, which later became the Collège de France. Budé was also the first keeper of the ...

(1468–1540) *

Jean Meschinot Jean Meschinot (1420, Monnières, near Clisson – September 12, 1491) was a Breton poet who wrote in French at the court of the dukes of Brittany. His birthplace was in the Mortiers domain, around 30 km south of Nantes, capital of the duch ...

(active from 1450–1490) * Guillaume Alexis (active from 1450–1490) *

Jean Lemaire de Belges Jean Lemaire de Belges (c. 1473c. 1525) was a Walloon poet and historian, and pamphleteer who, writing in French, was the last and one of the best of the school of poetic 'rhétoriqueurs' (“rhetoricians”) and the chief forerunner, both in style ...

(1473 – c.1525) *

Pierre Gringore Pierre Gringore (; 1475? – 1538) was a popular French poet and playwright. Biography Pierre Gringore was born in Normandy, at Thury-Harcourt, but the exact date and place of his death are unknown. His first work was ''Le Chasteau de Labour ...

or Gringoire (c.1475–1538/1539) *

François Rabelais François Rabelais ( , , ; born between 1483 and 1494; died 1553) was a French Renaissance writer, physician, Renaissance humanist, monk and Greek scholar. He is primarily known as a writer of satire, of the grotesque, and of bawdy jokes and ...

(c.1483–1553) * Aliénor de Poitiers (fl.1484) *

Mellin de Saint-Gelais Mellin de Saint-Gelais (or ''Melin de Saint-Gelays'' or ''Sainct-Gelais''; c. 1491 – October, 1558) was a French poet of the Renaissance and Poet Laureate of Francis I of France. Life He was born at Angoulême, most likely the natural ...

(c.1491–1558) *

Marguerite de Navarre Marguerite de Navarre (french: Marguerite d'Angoulême, ''Marguerite d'Alençon''; 11 April 149221 December 1549), also known as Marguerite of Angoulême and Margaret of Navarre, was a princess of France, Duchess of Alençon and Berry, and Queen ...

(c.1492–1549) *

Clément Marot Clément Marot (23 November 1496 – 12 September 1544) was a French Renaissance poet. Biography Youth Marot was born at Cahors, the capital of the province of Quercy, some time during the winter of 1496–1497. His father, Jean Marot (c.&n ...

(c.1496–1544)

Sixteenth century

1500–1549

Bonaventure des Périers Bonaventure ( ; it, Bonaventura ; la, Bonaventura de Balneoregio; 1221 – 15 July 1274), born Giovanni di Fidanza, was an Italian Catholic Franciscan, bishop, Cardinal (Catholic Church), cardinal, Scholasticism, scholastic theologian ...

(c.1500–1544) *

Maurice Scève Maurice Scève (c. 1501–c. 1564), was a French poet active in Lyon during the Renaissance period. He was the centre of the Lyonnese côterie that elaborated the theory of spiritual love, derived partly from Plato and partly from Petrarch. This ...

(c.1505 – c.1562) * Michel de l'Hospital (1505–1573) *

Étienne Dolet Étienne Dolet (; 3 August 15093 August 1546) was a French scholar, translator and printer. Dolet was a controversial figure throughout his lifetime. His early attacks upon the Inquisition, the city council and other authorities in Toulouse, tog ...

(1509–1546) *

Jean Calvin John Calvin (; frm, Jehan Cauvin; french: link=no, Jean Calvin ; 10 July 150927 May 1564) was a French theologian, pastor and reformer in Geneva during the Protestant Reformation. He was a principal figure in the development of the system ...

(1509–1564) *

Hélisenne de Crenne Hélisenne de Crenne was a French novelist, epistolary writer and translator during the Renaissance. Critics generally agree that "Hélisenne de Crenne" was the pseudonym of Marguerite Briet (c. 1510, Abbeville - after 1552), a French gentlewoman ...

(Marguerite Briet de Crenne) (c.1510–after 1552) *

Pierre Viret Pierre Viret (1509/1510 – 4 April 1571) was a Swiss Reformed theologian, evangelist and Protestant reformer. Early life Pierre Viret was born in 1509 or 1510 in Orbe, then in the Barony of Vaud, now in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland. He wa ...

(1511–1571) *

Charles de Sainte-Marthe Charles de Sainte-Marthe (1512–1555) was a French Protestant and theologian. External links * 1512 births 1555 deaths French Renaissance humanists French Protestant theologians 16th-century Protestant theologians 16th-century French ...

(1512–1555) * Thomas Sébillet (c.1512–1589) *

Jacques Amyot Jacques Amyot (; 30 October 15136 February 1593), French Renaissance bishop, scholar, writer and translator, was born of poor parents, at Melun. Biography Amyot found his way to the University of Paris, where he supported himself by serving som ...

(1513–1593) * Jacques Peletier du Mans (1517–1582) *

Théodore de Bèze Theodore Beza ( la, Theodorus Beza; french: Théodore de Bèze or ''de Besze''; June 24, 1519 – October 13, 1605) was a French Calvinist Protestant theologian, reformer and scholar who played an important role in the Protestant Reformation ...

(1519–1605) *

Pierre de Saint-Julien de Balleure Pierre de Saint-Julien de Balleure (1519–1593) was a Burgundian historian of the Renaissance period The Renaissance ( , ) , from , with the same meanings. is a period in European history marking the transition from the Middle Age ...

(1519–1593) * Denis Sauvage (1520–1587) * Noël du Fail (1520–1591) * Pernette Du Guillet (c.1520–1545) *

Jacques Yver Jacques Yver, seigneur de la Bigoterie and de Plaisance (c.1548 – 1571/72) Simonin, Michel, ed. ''Dictionnaire des lettres françaises - Le XVIe siècle.'' Article "Yver (Jacques)", pp. 1214–1215, Paris: Fayard, 2001. was a French writer of th ...

(1520–1570) * Gilles de Gouberville (1521–1578) *

Pontus de Tyard Pontus de Tyard (also Thyard, Thiard) (c. 1521 – 23 September 1605) was a French poet and priest, a member of " La Pléiade". Life He was born at Bissy-sur-Fley in Burgundy, of which he was ''seigneur'', but the exact year of his birth is ...

or de Thiard (1521–1605) *

Joachim du Bellay Joachim du Bellay (; – 1 January 1560) was a French poet, critic, and a founder of the Pléiade. He notably wrote the manifesto of the group: '' Défense et illustration de la langue française'', which aimed at promoting French as an a ...

(1522–1560) *

Pierre de Ronsard Pierre de Ronsard (; 11 September 1524 – 27 December 1585) was a French poet or, as his own generation in France called him, a " prince of poets". Early life Pierre de Ronsard was born at the Manoir de la Possonnière, in the village of ...

(1524–1585) *

Pierre Boaistuau Pierre Boaistuau, also known as Pierre Launay or Sieur de Launay (c. 1517, Nantes – 1566, Paris), was a French Renaissance humanist writer, author of a number of popularizing compilations and discourses on various subjects. Beside his many popu ...

(?–1566) *

Louise Labé Louise Charlin Perrin Labé, ( 1524 – 25 April 1566), also identified as La Belle Cordière (The Beautiful Ropemaker), was a feminist French poet of the Renaissance born in Lyon, the daughter of wealthy ropemaker Pierre Charly and his second wif ...

(c.1526 – c.1565) *

Rémy Belleau Remy (or Rémi) Belleau (1528 – 6 March 1577) was a poet of the French Renaissance. He is most known for his paradoxical poems of praise for simple things and his poems about precious stones. Life Remy was born in Nogent-le-Rotrou. A noblema ...

(1528–1577) *

Étienne Pasquier Étienne Pasquier (7 June 15291 September 1615) was a French lawyer and man of letters. By his own account he was born in Paris on 7 June 1529, but according to others he was born in 1528. He was called to the Paris bar in 1549. In 1558 he bec ...

(1529–1615) *

Étienne de La Boétie Étienne or Estienne de La Boétie (; oc, Esteve de La Boetiá; 1 November 1530 – 18 August 1563) was a French magistrate, classicist, writer, poet and political theorist, best remembered for his intense and intimate friendship with essayist ...

(1530–1563) * Claude Fauchet (1530–1601) *

Jean Bodin Jean Bodin (; c. 1530 – 1596) was a French jurist and political philosopher, member of the Parlement of Paris and professor of law in Toulouse. He is known for his theory of sovereignty. He was also an influential writer on demonology. Bodi ...

(1530–1596) *

François de Belleforest François de Belleforest (1530 – 1 January 1583) was a prolific French author, poet and translator of the Renaissance. He was born in Samatan (actual department of Gers), into a poor family, and his father (a soldier) was killed when he was s ...

(1530–1583) *

Henri Estienne Henri Estienne (; ; 1528 or 15311598), also known as Henricus Stephanus (), was a French printer and classical scholar. He was the eldest son of Robert Estienne. He was instructed in Latin, Greek, and Hebrew by his father and would eventually tak ...

(1531–1598) *

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(1532–1589) *

Étienne Jodelle Étienne Jodelle, seigneur de Limodin (1532July 1573), French dramatist and poet, was born in Paris of a noble family. He attached himself to the poetic circle of the Pléiade and proceeded to apply the principles of the reformers to dramatic ...

(1532–1573) * Michel de Montaigne (Michel Eyquem, seigneur de Montaigne) (1533–1592) * Jean de la Taille (c.1533/1540 – c.1617) *

Robert Garnier Robert Garnier (1544 – 20 September 1590) was a French poet and dramatist. He published his first work while still a law-student at Toulouse, where he won a prize (1565) in the Académie des Jeux Floraux. It was a collection of lyrical pi ...

(1534–1590) *

Nicolas Rapin Nicolas Rapin (1535 – 16 February 1608) was a French Renaissance magistrate, royal officer, translator, poet and satirist, known for being one of the authors of the Satire Ménippée (1593/4) and an outspoken critic of the excesses of the Holy L ...

(1535–1608) *

Jacques Grévin Jacques Grévin (''c''. 1539 – 5 November 1570) was a French playwright. Grévin was born at Clermont, Oise in about 1539, and he studied medicine at the University of Paris. He became a disciple of Ronsard, and was one of the band of dramati ...

(1538–1570) *

Olivier de Serres Olivier de Serres (; 1539–1619) was a French author and soil scientist whose '' Théâtre d'Agriculture'' (1600) was the accepted textbook of French agriculture in the 17th century. Biography Serres was born in 1539 at Villeneuve-de-Berg, ...

(1539–1619) *

Pierre Pithou Pierre Pithou (1 November 1539 – 1 November 1596) was a French lawyer and scholar. He is also known as Petrus Pithoeus. Life He was born at Troyes. From childhood he loved literature, and his father Pierre encouraged this interest. Young ...

(1539–1596) *

Pierre de Bourdeille, seigneur de Brantôme Pierre de Bourdeille (, – 15 July 1614), called the seigneur et abbé de Brantôme, was a French historian, soldier and biographer. Life Born at Bourdeilles in the Périgord, Brantôme was the third son of the baron François de Bourde ...

(1540–1614) * Pierre de Larivey (1540–1619) *

Florent Chrestien Florent Chrestien (January 26, 1541 – October 3, 1596) was a French satirist and Latin poet. Chrestien was the son of Guillaume Chrestien, an eminent French physician and writer on physiology, was born at Orléans. A pupil of Henri Estienne, the ...

(1540–1596) *

Pierre Charron Pierre Charron (; 1541 – 16 November 1603, Paris), French Catholic theologian and major contributor to the new thought of the 17th century. He is remembered for his controversial form of skepticism and his separation of ethics from religion as ...

(1541–1603) *

Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas (1544, in Monfort – July 1590, in Mauvezin) was a Gascon Huguenot courtier and poet. Trained as a doctor of law, he served in the court of Henri de Navarre for most of his career. Du Bartas was celebrated acro ...

(1544–1590) * Antoine du Verdier (1544–1600) *

Philippe Desportes Philippe Desportes or Desports (1546 – 5 October 1606) was a French poet.Jean Balsamo. Philippe Desports (1546-1606) Volume 62 of Actes et colloques. Editor, Contributor, Jean Balsamo. Publisher, Klincksieck, 2000 Biography Philippe Desp ...

(1546–1606) * Pierre de L'Estoile (1546–1611) * Jean de La Ceppède (1548–1623) * Philippe Duplessis-Mornay (Philippe de Mornay, called Duplessis-Mornay) (1549–1623)

1550–1599

* Benigne Poissenot (c.1550–?) *

François d'Amboise François d'Amboise (1550 – 1619) was a French jurist and writer. He was counseller to the Parlement of Brittany and advocate general to the Grand Conseil. Biography François d'Amboise was born in Paris, the son of Jean d'Amboise, ordi ...

(1550–1619) *

Odet de Turnèbe Odet de Turnèbe (23 October 1552 – 20 July 1581) was a French dramatist. Biography Odet de Turnèbe was born in Paris to Greek scholar Adrien Turnèbe. He received a solid education and was known, from an early age, for his intelligence and ...

(1552–1581) *

Jean Bertaut Jean Bertaut (1552 – 8 June 1611), French poet, was born at Caen. Life He figures with Philippe Desportes in the disdainful couplet of Boileau on Ronsard: "''Ce poëte orgueilleux, trébuché de si haut,'' ''Rendit plus retenus Desport ...

(1552–1611) * Théodore Agrippa d'Aubigné (1552–1630) *

François de Malherbe François de Malherbe (, 1555 – 16 October 1628) was a French poet, critic, and translator. Life He was born in Le Locheur (near Caen, Normandie), to a family of standing, although the family's pedigree did not satisfy the heralds in terms of ...

(1552–1630) * Jacques Davy Du Perron (1556–1618) *

François Béroalde de Verville François Béroalde de Verville (27 April 1556 – 19–26 October 1626) was a French Renaissance novelist, poet and intellectual. He was born in Paris, the son of Matthieu Brouard (or Brouart), called "Béroalde", a professor of Agrippa ...

(1556–1626) * Guillaume du Vair (1556–1621) *

Jean de Sponde Jean de Sponde (''Joanes Ezponda''; 1557 in Basque – 18 March 1595) was a Baroque French poet. Biography Born at Mauléon, in what is now Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Jean de Sponde was raised in an austere Protestant family in the Basque region ...

(1557–1595) * Maximilien de Béthune, baron de Rosny, duc de Sully (1560–1641) *

Alexandre Hardy Alexandre Hardy (c. 1570/1572 – 1632) was a French dramatist, one of the most prolific of all time. He claimed to have written some six hundred plays, but only thirty-four are extant. He was born in Paris, and seems to have been connected mo ...

(1560/1570 – c.1632) *

Nicolas de Montreux Nicolas de Montreux (c. 1561–1608) was a French nobleman, novelist, poet, translator and dramatist. Born in Sablé-sur-Sarthe, in the province of Maine, he was the son of a ''maître des requêtes'' and may have become a priest around 1585. In ...

(1561–1608) * Pierre Matthieu (1563–1621) * Eustache de Refuge, seigneur de Précy et de Courcelles (1564–1617) * Saint François de Sales (1567–1622) *

Honoré d'Urfé Honoré d'Urfé, marquis de Valromey, comte de Châteauneuf (11 February 15681 June 1625) was a French novelist and miscellaneous writer. Life He was born at Marseille, the grandson of Claude d'Urfé, and was educated at the Collège de T ...

(1567–1625) *

Scipion Dupleix Scipion Dupleix, lord of Clarens ( Condom, 1569 – Condom, 1661), was a French historian. Dupleix came to Paris in 1605, in Queen Margaret of Valois' retinue, who appointed him as her hotel's ''maitre de requêtes''. In his position as tutor of ...

(1569–1661) * Sylvestre de Laval (1570–1616) * Antoine de Nervèze (c.1570–after 1622) *

Nicolas des Escuteaux Nicolas des Escuteaux (or the "sieur des Escuteaux", sometimes written "Escuteaus"; after 1570 – c. 1628) was a French novelist from the early 17th century. Life He was born into a noble family in the region around Loudun. The Reformation w ...

(after 1570 – c.1628) * François du Souhait (between 1570 & 1580–1617) *

Jean Ogier de Gombaud Jean Ogier de Gombauld (1576 – 1666) was a French playwright and poet. Gombauld was born in Saint-Just-Luzac, Charente-Maritime and was a Huguenot. He was one of the original members of the Académie française. He also wrote novels, but has ...

(1570–1666) * Antoine de Balinghem (1571–1630) *

Mathurin Régnier Mathurin Régnier (December 21, 1573 – October 22, 1613) was a French satirist. Life Régnier was born in Chartres, capital city of the current department of Eure-et-Loir, in Centre-Val de Loire region . His father, Jacques Régnier, was a ...

(1573–1613) * Nicholas Camusat (1575–1655) *

Antoine de Montchrestien Antoine de Montchrestien (, or ''Montchrétien'') (c. 15757 or 8 October 1621) was a French soldier, dramatist, adventurer and economist. Montchrestien was born in Falaise, Normandy. Son of an apothecary named Mauchrestien and orphan at a young a ...

(c.1575–1621) *

Henri, duc de Rohan Henri (II) de Rohan (21 August 157913 April 1638), Duke of Rohan and Prince of Léon, was a Breton-French soldier, writer and leader of the Huguenots. Early life Rohan was born at the Château de Blain (now a part of Blain, Loire-Atlantique), ...

(1579–1638) *

Saint Vincent de Paul Vincent de Paul, CM (24 April 1581 – 27 September 1660), commonly known as Saint Vincent de Paul, was a Occitan French Catholic priest who dedicated himself to serving the poor. In 1622 Vincent was appointed a chaplain to the galleys. After ...

(1581–1660) * Jean Duvergier de Hauranne, abbé de Saint-Cyran (1581–1643) * François Maynard (1582–1646) *

Jean-Pierre Camus Jean-Pierre Camus (November 3, 1584 – April 26, 1652) was a French bishop, preacher, and author of works of fiction and spirituality. Biography Jean-Pierre Camus was born in Paris in 1584, the son of Jean Camus, seigneur de Saint Bonnet, who w ...

(1584–1652) *

Francis Garasse Francis Garasse (French: ''François Garasse''; 1585-1631) was a French Jesuit, preacher, polemicist and writer. He was the Jesuitical writer, notable, for his wit and buffoonery, but more distinguished himself by his writings which were bold, li ...

(1585–1631) *

Jean de Schelandre Jean de Schelandre (c.1585 – 18 October 1635), Seigneur de Saumazènes, was a French poet. Biography He was born about 1585 near Verdun of a Calvinist family, and studied at the university of Paris. He then joined Turenne's army in the Nethe ...

(c.1585–1635) *

François de La Mothe-Le-Vayer François () is a French masculine given name and surname, equivalent to the English name Francis. People with the given name * Francis I of France, King of France (), known as "the Father and Restorer of Letters" * Francis II of France, King o ...

(1588–1672) *

Honorat de Bueil, seigneur de Racan Honorat de Bueil, seigneur de Racan (sometimes mistakenly listed as "marquis de Racan", although he never held this title) (5 February 1589 – 21 January 1670) was a French aristocrat, soldier, poet, dramatist and (original) member of the Aca ...

(1589–1670) *

Bertrand de Loque Bertrand de Loque, author of ''Deux Traitéz: l'un de la guerre, l'autre du duel'' (Lyon: Iacob Ratoyre, 1589), Protestant Protestantism is a branch of Christianity that follows the theological tenets of the Protestant Reformation, a movemen ...

(1589) *

Théophile de Viau Théophile de Viau (159025 September 1626) was a French Baroque poet and dramatist. Life Born at Clairac, near Agen in the Lot-et-Garonne and raised as a Huguenot, Théophile de Viau participated in the Huguenot rebellions in Guyenne from 1615� ...

(1590–1626) * Marc Gilbert de Varennes (1591–1660) *

François le Métel de Boisrobert François le Métel de Boisrobert (1 August 1592 – 30 March 1662) was a French poet, playwright, and courtier. Life He was born in Caen. He trained as a lawyer, later practising for a time in Rouen. He traveled to Paris in 1622 and establis ...

(1592–1662) *

Antoine Gérard de Saint-Amant Antoine Girard, sieur de Saint-Amant (September 30, 1594December 29, 1661) was a French poet. Saint-Amant was born near Rouen. His father was a merchant who had, according to his son's account, been a sailor and had commanded for 22 years "''une ...

(1594–1661) *

Jean Chapelain Jean Chapelain (4 December 1595 – 22 February 1674) was a French poet and critic during the Grand Siècle, best known for his role as an organizer and founding member of the Académie française. Chapelain acquired considerable prestige as a l ...

(1595–1674) *

Jean Desmarets de Saint-Sorlin Jean Desmarets, Sieur de Saint-Sorlin (1595 – 28 October 1676) was a French writer and dramatist. He was a founding member, and the first to occupy seat 4 of the Académie française in 1634. Biography Born in Paris, Desmarets was introduced ...

(1595–1676) *

René Descartes René Descartes ( or ; ; Latinized: Renatus Cartesius; 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 science. Mathem ...

(1596–1650) *

Claude de Malleville Claude Malleville, born in Paris probably between 1594 and 1596 and died in the same city in 1647, was a French poet. He became one of the first members of the Académie Française in 1634. His life Knowledge about Claude Malleville's life was ...

(1597–1647) *

Vincent Voiture Vincent Voiture (24 February 1597 – 26 May 1648), French poet and writer of prose, was the son of a rich wine merchant of Amiens. He was introduced by a schoolfellow, the count Claude d'Avaux, to Gaston, Duke of Orléans, and accompanied him ...

(1597–1648) * Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac (1597–1684)

Seventeenth century

1600–1649

* Nicolas de Bralion (1600–1672) *

Marin le Roy de Gomberville Marin le Roy, sieur du Parc et de Gomberville (1600 – 14 June 1674) was a French poet and novelist. He was born at Paris, and at fourteen he produced a volume of poetry. At twenty he wrote a ''Discours sur l'histoire'' and at twenty-two a pa ...

(1600–1674) *

Georges de Scudéry Georges de Scudéry (22 August 1601 – 14 May 1667), the elder brother of Madeleine de Scudéry, was a French novelist, dramatist and poet. Life Georges de Scudéry was born in Le Havre, in Normandy, whither his father had moved from Provence. ...

(1601–1667) *

François Tristan l'Hermite François l'Hermite (c. 16017 September 1655) was a French dramatist who wrote under the name Tristan l'Hermite. He was born at the Château de Soliers in the Haute Marche. Life His adventures began early, for he killed his enemy in a due ...

(1601–1655) *

Guy Patin Guy (or Guido) Patin (1601 in Hodenc-en-Bray, Oise – 30 August 1672 in Paris) was a French doctor and man of letters. Patin was doyen (or dean) of the Faculty of Medicine in Paris (1650–1652) and professor in the Collège de France starti ...

(1601–1672) * Jean de Bernieres-Louvigny (1602–1659) *

Charles Sorel Charles Sorel, sieur de Souvigny (c. 1602 – 7 March 1674) was a French novelist and general writer. Life Very little is known of his life except that in 1635 he was historiographer of France. He wrote on science, history and religion, ...

(1602–1674) * Charles Cotin (1604–1682) *

Jean Mairet Jean (de) Mairet (10 May 160431 January 1686) was a classical french dramatist who wrote both tragedies and comedies. Life He was born at Besançon, and went to Paris to study at the Collège des Grassins about 1625. In that year he produced ...

(1604–1686) *

François Hédelin, abbé d'Aubignac François Hédelin, abbé d'Aubignac (4 August 1604 in Paris – 27 July 1676) was a French author and cleric. The father of François Hédelin was Claude Hédelin, a lawyer at the Parliament, and his mother Catherine Paré, the daughter of the ...

(1604–1676) *

Pierre du Ryer Pierre du Ryer (c.1606 – 6 November 1658) was a French dramatist. Life and works Du Ryer was born in Paris in about 1606. His early comedies are loosely modelled on those of Alexandre Hardy, but after the production of the ''Cid'' (1636) he b ...

(1605–1658) *

Charles Coypeau d'Assoucy Charles Coypeau (16 October 1605 Paris – 29 October 1677, Paris) was a French musician and burlesque poet. In the mid-1630s he began using the ''nom de plume'' D'Assouci or Dassoucy. Life From the time he was eight or nine, Charles Coypeau b ...

(1605–1675) *

Jean François Sarrazin Jean François Sarrazin (c. 1611 – 5 December 1654), or Sarasin, was a French writer. Biography Sarrazin was born at Hermanville, near Caen, the son of Roger Sarasin, treasurer-general at Caen. He was educated at Caen, and later settled in ...

(1605–1654) *

Pierre Corneille Pierre Corneille (; 6 June 1606 – 1 October 1684) was a French tragedian. He is generally considered one of the three great seventeenth-century French dramatists, along with Molière and Racine. As a young man, he earned the valuable patronag ...

(1606–1684) * Antoine Gombaud, chevalier de Méré (1607–1685) *

Madeleine de Scudéry Madeleine de Scudéry (15 November 1607 – 2 June 1701), often known simply as Mademoiselle de Scudéry, was a French writer. Her works also demonstrate such comprehensive knowledge of ancient history that it is suspected she had received inst ...

(1607–1701) *

Jean Rotrou Jean Rotrou (21 August 1609 – 28 June 1650) was a French poet and tragedian. Life Rotrou was born at Dreux, city of the current department of Eure-et-Loir, in Centre-Val de Loire region. He studied at Dreux and at Paris, and, though three years ...

(1609–1650) *

Paul Scarron Paul Scarron (c. 1 July 1610 in Paris – 6 October 1660 in Paris) (a.k.a. Monsieur Scarron) was a French poet, dramatist, and novelist, born in Paris. Though his precise birth date is unknown, he was baptized on 4 July 1610. Scarron was the fi ...

(1610–1660) * François-Eudes de Mézeray (1610–1683) * Charles de Saint-Evremond (c.1610–1703) *

Antoine Arnauld Antoine Arnauld (6 February 16128 August 1694) was a French Catholic theologian, philosopher and mathematician. He was one of the leading intellectuals of the Jansenist group of Port-Royal and had a very thorough knowledge of patristics. Contem ...

(1612–1694) *

Isaac de Benserade Isaac de Benserade (; baptized 5 November 161310 October 1691) was a French poet. Born in Lyons-la-Forêt, Normandy, his family appears to have been connected with Richelieu, who bestowed on him a pension of 600 ''livres''. He began his liter ...

(1612–1691) *

Jean François Paul de Gondi, cardinal de Retz Jean may refer to: People * Jean (female given name) * Jean (male given name) * Jean (surname) Fictional characters * Jean Grey, a Marvel Comics character * Jean Valjean, fictional character in novel ''Les Misérables'' and its adaptations * Jea ...

(1613–1679) * François de La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680) *

Gauthier de Costes, seigneur de la Calprenède Gauthier de Costes, seigneur de la Calprenède (1609 or 1610 – 1663) was a French novelist and dramatist. He was born at the Château of Tolgou in Salignac-Eyvigues (Dordogne). After studying at Toulouse, he came to Paris and entered the reg ...

(1614–1663) *

Georges de Brébeuf Georges de Brébeuf () (1618 – 1661) was a French poet and translator best known for his verse translation of Lucan's ''Pharsalia'' (1654) which was warmly received by Pierre Corneille, but which was ridiculed by Nicolas Boileau in his ''Art p ...

(1618–1661) *

Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy Roger de Rabutin, comte de Bussy (13 April 1618 – 9 April 1693), commonly known as Bussy-Rabutin, was a French memoirist. He was the cousin and frequent correspondent of Madame de Sévigné. Born at Epiry, near Autun, he represented a fami ...

, called Bussy-Rabutin (1618–1693) *

Cyrano de Bergerac Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac ( , ; 6 March 1619 – 28 July 1655) was a French novelist, playwright, epistolarian, and duelist. A bold and innovative author, his work was part of the libertine literature of the first half of the 17th cen ...

(Hector-Savinien Cyrano de Bergerac) (1619–1655) * Antoine Furetière (1619–1688) *

Gédéon Tallemant des Réaux Gédéon Tallemant, Sieur des Réaux (7 November 1619 – 6 November 1692) was a French writer known for his ''Historiettes'', a collection of short biographies. Biography Born at La Rochelle, he belonged to a wealthy middle-class Huguenot fa ...

(1619–1692) *

Jean de La Fontaine Jean de La Fontaine (, , ; 8 July 162113 April 1695) was a French fabulist and one of the most widely read French poets of the 17th century. He is known above all for his ''Fables'', which provided a model for subsequent fabulists across Euro ...

(1621–1695) *

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 greatest writers in the French language and world ...

(Jean-Baptiste Poquelin) (1622–1673) *

Blaise Pascal Blaise Pascal ( , , ; ; 19 June 1623 – 19 August 1662) was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, philosopher, and Catholic Church, Catholic writer. He was a child prodigy who was educated by his father, a tax collector in Rouen. Pa ...

(1623–1662) *

Jean Renaud de Segrais Jean Regnault de Segrais (22 August 1624, Caen – 25 March 1701) was a French poet and novelist born in Caen. He was elected a member of the Académie française in 1662. {{DEFAULTSORT:Regnault De Segrais, Jean 1624 births 1701 death ...

(1624–1701) *

Paul Pellisson Paul Pellisson (30 October 1624 – 7 February 1693) was a French author. Pellisson was born in Béziers, of a distinguished Calvinist family. He studied law at Toulouse, and practised at the bar of Castres. Going to Paris with letters of intr ...

(1624–1693) *

Thomas Corneille Thomas Corneille (20 August 1625 – 8 December 1709) was a French lexicographer and dramatist. Biography Born in Rouen some nineteen years after his brother Pierre, the "great Corneille", Thomas's skill as a poet seems to have shown itself e ...

(1625–1709) * Samuel Chappuzeau (1625–1701) *

Madame de Sévigné Madame may refer to: * Madam, civility title or form of address for women, derived from the French * Madam (prostitution), a term for a woman who is engaged in the business of procuring prostitutes, usually the manager of a brothel * ''Madame'' ...

(Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné) (1626–1696) *

Laurent Drelincourt Laurent Drelincourt (1626–1681) was son of the French Reformed Church theologian Charles Drelincourt (1595–1669), who was a French Protestant divine. Laurent also was a theologian, who later became a pastor, and was the author of ''Sonnets c ...

(1626–1680) * Jacques Bénigne Bossuet (1627–1704) *

Gabriel-Joseph de La Vergne, comte de Guilleragues Gabriel-Joseph de Lavergne, comte de Guilleragues (1628–1684), was a French politician of the 17th century. For a time, he was secretary of the King's Chamber, and he also director of the ''Gazette de France''. In 1677, he was named ambassador ...

(1628–1685) *

Charles Perrault Charles Perrault ( , also , ; 12 January 1628 – 16 May 1703) was an iconic French author and member of the Académie Française. He laid the foundations for a new literary genre, the fairy tale, with his works derived from earlier folk tales ...

(1628–1703) *

Pierre Daniel Huet image:Portret van Pierre-Daniel Huet Petrus Daniel Huetius (titel op object), RP-P-BI-7523.jpg, P. D. Huetius Pierre Daniel Huet (; la, Huetius; 8 February 1630 – 26 January 1721) was a French churchman and scholar, Editing, editor of the Delph ...

(1630–1721) *

Louis Bourdaloue Louis Bourdaloue (20 August 1632 – 13 May 1704) was a French Jesuit and preacher. Biography He was born in Bourges. At the age of sixteen he entered the Society of Jesus, and was appointed successively professor of rhetoric, philosophy ...

(1632–1704) *

Esprit Fléchier Esprit Fléchier (10 June 163216 February 1710) was a French preacher and author, Bishop of Nîmes from 1687 to 1710. Biography Fléchier was born at Pernes-les-Fontaines, in today's ''département'' of Vaucluse, in the then Comtat Venaissin, ...

(1632–1710) *

Jacques Pradon Jacques Pradon, often called Nicolas Pradon (1632 – 14 January 1698), was a French playwright. Early in his career, he was helped by Pierre Corneille and was introduced to the salons at the Hôtel de Nevers and the Hôtel de Bouillon by Mada ...

(1632–1698) * Madame de Villedieu (Marie-Catherine-Hortence Desjardins, marquise de Villedieu) (1632–1683) *

Madame de Lafayette Marie-Madeleine Pioche de La Vergne, Comtesse de La Fayette (baptized 18 March 1634 – 25 May 1693), better known as Madame de La Fayette, was a French writer; she authored ''La Princesse de Clèves'', France's first historical novel and one ...

(Marie-Madeleine, comtesse de La Fayette) (1634–1693) * Pierre Thomas, sieur du Fossé (1634–1698) *

Philippe Quinault Philippe Quinault (; 3 June 1635 – 26 November 1688), French dramatist and librettist, was born in Paris. Biography Quinault was educated by the liberality of François Tristan l'Hermite, the author of ''Marianne''. Quinault's first play w ...

(1635–1688) *

Nicolas Boileau Nicolas or Nicolás may refer to: People Given name * Nicolas (given name) Mononym * Nicolas (footballer, born 1999), Brazilian footballer * Nicolas (footballer, born 2000), Brazilian footballer Surname Nicolas * Dafydd Nicolas (c.1705–1774), ...

(1636–1711) *

Edmé Boursault Edmé Boursault (October 163815 September 1701) was a French dramatist and miscellaneous writer, born at Mussy l'Evéque, now Mussy-sur-Seine (Aube). Biography On Boursault's first arrival in Paris in 1651 his language was limited to Burgundia ...

(1638–1701) * Antoinette du Ligier de la Garde Deshoulières (1638–1694) *

Nicolas Malebranche Nicolas Malebranche ( , ; 6 August 1638 – 13 October 1715) was a French Oratorian Catholic priest and rationalist philosopher. In his works, he sought to synthesize the thought of St. Augustine and Descartes, in order to demonstrate the ...

(1638–1715) *

Jean Donneau de Visé Jean Donneau de Visé (1638 – 8 July 1710) was a French journalist, royal historian ("historiographe du roi"), playwright and publicist. He was founder of the literary, arts and society gazette "le Mercure galant" (founded in 1672) an ...

(1638–1710) *

Philippe de Courcillon, marquis de Dangeau Philippe is a masculine sometimes feminin given name, cognate to Philip. It may refer to: * Philippe of Belgium (born 1960), King of the Belgians (2013–present) * Philippe (footballer) (born 2000), Brazilian footballer * Prince Philippe, Count o ...

(1638–1720) * Claude Estiennot de la Serre (1639–1699) *

Guillaume Amfrye de Chaulieu Guillaume Amfrye de Chaulieu (1639 – 27 June 1720), French poet and wit, was born at Fontenay, Normandy. His father, ''maître des Comptes'' of Rouen, sent him to study at the Collège de Navarre. Guillaume early showed the wit that was to d ...

(1639–1720) * César Vichard de Saint-Réal (1639–1692) * Jean Racine (1639–1699) * Claude Fleury, Claude de Fleury (1640–1723) * Louis Moréri (1643–1680) * Gatien de Courtilz de Sandras (1644–1712) * Anne de La Roche-Guilhem (1644–1707) * Jean de La Bruyère (1645–1696) * Pierre Le Pesant, sieur de Boisguilbert ( c.1646–1714) * Antoine Galland (1646–1715) * Pierre Bayle (1647–1706) * Joseph Anthelmi (1648–1697)

1650–1699

* Madame d'Aulnoy (Marie-Catherine le Jumelle de Barneville, Baronne d'Aulnoy) (1651–1705) * Fénelon, François de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon (1651–1715) * Louis Du Four de Longuerue (1652–1733) * Charlotte-Rose de Caumont La Force (Mademoiselle de La Force) (1650–1724) * Louis Legendre (historian), Louis Legendre (1655–1733) * Jean-François Regnard (1655–1709) * Jean Galbert de Campistron (1656–1723) * Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle (1657–1757) * Chevalier de Mailly, Louis ''(or Jean)'' de Mailly (1657-1724) * Henri, Comte de Boulainvilliers, Henri de Boulainvilliers (1658–1712) * François Armand Gervaise (1660–1761) * Charles Rollin (1661–1741) * Florent Carton Dancourt (1661–1725) * Jean-François Foucquet (1665–1741) * Alain-René Lesage (1668–1747) * Jacques Bouillart (1669–1726) * Jean-Baptiste Rousseau (1670–1741) * Jean-Baptiste Dubos (1670–1742) * Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon (Crébillon père) (1674–1762) * Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon (1675–1755) * Jean-François Boyer (1675–1755) * Philippe Néricault Destouches (1680–1754) * Claudine Alexandrine Guérin de Tencin (Madame de Tencin) (1681–1749) * Jérôme Besoigne (1686–1763) * Marivaux (Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux) (1688–1763) * Alexis Piron (1689–1773) * Montesquieu (Charles Louis de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu) (1689–1755) * Louis Petit de Bachaumont (1690–1771) * Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet) (1694–1778) * René-Louis de Voyer de Paulmy, marquis d' Argenson (1694–1757) * Françoise de Graffigny (1695–1758) * Antoine François Prévost (Antoine Francois Prevost d'Exiles) a/k/a Abbé Prévost (1697–1763) * Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand (1697–1780) * Denis-François Camusat (1697–1732)

Eighteenth century

1700–1749

* Charles Pinot Duclos (1704–1772) * Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon (Crébillon, fils) (1707–1777) * Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon) (1707–1788) * Julien Offray de La Mettrie (1709–1751) * Gabriel Bonnot de Mably (1709–1785) * Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset (1709–1777) * Jean-Jacques Lefranc, marquis de Pompignan (1709–1784) * Charles-Simon Favart (1710–1792) * Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778) * Denis Diderot (1713–1784) * Étienne Bonnot de Condillac (1714–1780) * Marie Jeanne Riccoboni (Madame Riccoboni) (1714–1792) * Claude Adrien Helvétius (1715–1771) * Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues, Vauvenargues (Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues) (1715–1747) * François-André-Adrien Pluquet (1716–1790) * Jean-François de Saint-Lambert (1716–1803) * Louis Carrogis Carmontelle (1717–1806 * Jean Le Rond d'Alembert (1717–1783) * Michel-Jean Sedaine (1719–1797) * Antoine Henri de Bérault-Bercastel (1720–c.1794) * Jacques Cazotte (1720–1792) * Denis Dominique Cardonne (1721–1783) * Tiphaigne de la Roche (Charles-François Tiphaigne de la Roche) (1722–1774) * Baron d'Holbach (Paul Henri Dietrich, baron d'Holbach) (1723–1789) * Jean-François Marmontel (1723–1799) * Giacomo Casanova, Casanova a/k/a Jacques Casanova de Seingalt (1725–1798) * Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune (1727–1781) * Jean Dussaulx (1728–1799) * Nicolas Bricaire de la Dixmerie (c.1730–1791) * Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais (1732–1799) * Jacques Clinchamps de Malfilâtre (1733–1767) * Nicolas-Edme Rétif, Nicolas Edme Restif de La Bretonne (1734–1806) * Jean-Benjamin François de la Borde (1734–1794) * Charles Joseph, Prince de Ligne (1735–1814) * Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre (1737–1814) * Jacques Delille (1738–1813) * Jean-François de la Harpe (1739–1803) * Marquis de Sade (Donatien Alphonse François de Sade) (1740–1814) * Isabelle de Charrière a/k/a Belle de Zuylen (1740–1805) * Choderlos de Laclos, Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos de Laclos (1741–1803) * Condorcet (Marie Jean Antoine Caritat, marquis de Condorcet) (1744–1794) * Gabriel Brizard (c1744–1793) * André-Samuel-Michel Cantwell (1744–1802) * Étienne Pélabon (1745–1808) * Jean Antoine Roucher (1745–1794) * Jean-Sifrein Maury (Abbé Maury) (1746–1817) * Joseph-Alexandre-Victor Hupay de Fuveau (1746–1818) * Stéphanie Félicité Ducrest de St-Albin, comtesse de Genlis (Madame de Genlis) (1746–1830) * Armand Louis de Gontaut, duc de Biron, duc de Lauzun (1747–1793) * Olympe de Gouges (1748–1793) * Pierre-Louis Ginguené (1748–1815) * Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau (1749–1791) * Jean-Marie Collot d'Herbois (1749–1796)

1750–1799

* Georges Henri Victor Collot (1750-1805) * Nicolas Joseph Laurent Gilbert (1751–1780) * Évariste de Forges de Parny (1753–1814) * Joseph de Maistre (1753–1821) * Jean Armand Charlemagne (1753-1838) * Marie Thérèse Péroux d’Abany (1753–1821) * Joseph Joubert (1754–1824) * Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian (1754–1794) * Jacques Pierre Brissot a/k/a Jean-Pierre Brissot (1754–1793) * Charles Maurice de Talleyrand (1754–1838) * Constantin François de Chasseboeuf, Comte de Volney (1757–1820) * William Vincent Barré (c.1760–1829) * Victoire Babois (1760–1839) * Adelaide Filleul, Marquise de Souza-Botelho (Madame de Souza) (1761–1836) * André Chénier (1762–1794) * Claude-François-Xavier Mercier de Compiègne (1763–1800) * Joseph Chénier (1764–1811) * Barbara Juliana, Baroness von Krüdener (Madame de Krüdener) (1764–1824) * Madame de Staël (1766–1817) * Las Cases (Emmanuel-Augustin-Dieudonné, comte de Las Cases) (1766–1842) * Benjamin Constant (Benjamin Constant de Rebecque) (1767–1830) * Joseph Fiévée (1767–1839) * François-René de Chateaubriand (1768–1848) * Étienne Pivert de Senancour (1770–1846) * Sophie de Renneville (1772–1822) * Charles-Jean Baptiste Bonnin (1772–1846) * Paul Louis Courier de Méré (1772–1825) * René Charles Guilbert de Pixérécourt (1773–1844) * Sophie Ristaud Cottin (Madame Cottin) (1773–1807) * Eugène François Vidocq (1775–1857) * Claire de Duras (Madame de Duras) (1777–1828) * Ambroise Rendu (educator), Ambroise Rendu (1778–1860) * Charles Nodier (1780–1844) * Pierre-Jean de Béranger (1780–1857) * Victor de Bonald (1780–1871) * Aimé Martin (1781-1844) * Félicité Robert de Lamennais (1782–1854) * Amable Guillaume Prosper Brugière, baron de Barante (1782–1866) * Victor Henri-Joseph Brahain Ducange (1783–1833) * Stendhal (Henri Beyle) (1783–1842) (''The Red and the Black'', 1830) * Pierre-Antoine Lebrun (1785–1873) * Marceline Desbordes-Valmore (1786–1859) * Alphonse Rabbe (1786–1829) * Élise Voïart (1786–1866) * François Guizot (1787–1874) * Alexandre Guiraud (1788–1847) * Alphonse de Lamartine (1790–1869) * Victor Cousin (1792–1867) * Charles Paul de Kock (1793–1871) * Jean-M.-Vincent Audin (1793) * Casimir Delavigne (Jean-François Casimir Delavigne) (1793–1843) * François Stoepel (1794–1836) * Rosine de Chabaud-Latour (1794–1860) * Arthur Dinaux (1795–1864) * Amédée Pichot (1795–1877) * Modeste Gruau (1795–1883) * Augustin Thierry (1795–1856) * Zulma Carraud (1796–1889) * François Mignet (1796–1884) * Alfred de Vigny (1797–1863) * Antoinette Henriette Clémence Robert (1797–1872) * Adolphe Thiers (1797–1877) * Auguste Comte (1798–1857) * Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863) * Charles Dezobry (1798–1871) * Jules Michelet (1798–1874) * Sophie Rostopchine, Comtesse de Ségur (1799–1874) * Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850)

Nineteenth century

1800–1824

* Pierre Alexandre Jean Mollière (1800–1850) * Victor Hugo (1802–1885) (''Les Misérables'', 1862) * Alexandre Dumas, père (1802–1870) * Prosper Mérimée (1803–1870) * Edgar Quinet (1803–1875) * Eugène Daumas (1803–1871) * Eugène Sue (1804–1857) * Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve (1804–1869) * Jules Janin (1804–1874) * George Sand (Amandine-Lucie-Aurore Dupin, baronne Dudevant) (1804–1876) * Alexis de Tocqueville, Alexis Henri Charles Clérel, comte de Tocqueville (1805–1859) * Jules-Romain Tardieu (1805–1868) * Émile de Girardin (1806–1881) * Désiré Nisard (1806–1888) * Émile Souvestre (1806–1854) * Aloysius Bertrand (1807–1841) * Gérard de Nerval (Gérard Labrunie) (1808–1855) * Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, Jules-Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly (1808–1889) * Jacques Claude Demogeot (1808–1894) * Lucien de la Hodde (1808–1865) * Frédéric Villot (1809–1875) * Petrus Borel (1809–1859) * Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809–1865) * Xavier Forneret (1809–1884) * Hégésippe Moreau (1810–1838) * Maurice de Guérin (1810–1839) * Alfred de Musset (1810–1857) * Joseph Bouchardy (1810–1870) * Alphonse Jolly (1810–1893) * Pier Angelo Fiorentino (1811–1864) * Armand de Pontmartin (1811–1890) * Adolphe d'Ennery, Adolphe-Philippe d'Ennery (1811–1889) * Théophile Gautier (1811–1872) * Louis Blanc (1811–1882) * Victor de Laprade (1812–1883) * Louis du Couret (1812–1867) * Eugène Bonnemère (1813–1893) * Eugène Labiche (1815–1888) * Gobineau, Joseph Arthur de Gobineau (1816–1882) * Victor Séjour (1817–1874) * Paul Féval, père (1817–1887) * Adine Riom (1818–1899) * Charles Marie René Leconte de Lisle, Charles-Marie Leconte de Lisle (1818–1894) * Eugène Despois (1818–1876) * Jean Baptiste Marius Augustin Challamel (1818–1894) * Adèle Hommaire de Hell (1819–1883), travel writer * Eugène Fromentin (1820–1876) * Émile Augier (1820–1889) * Antoine-Élisabeth-Cléophas Dareste de la Chavanne (1820–1882) * Jules Pizzetta (1820–1900) * Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867) (''Les Fleurs du mal'', 1857) * Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880) (''Madame Bovary'', 1857) * Octave Feuillet (1821–1890) * Champfleury, Jules-François-Félix Husson a/k/a Champfleury (1821–1889) * Edmond de Goncourt (1822–1896) * Erckmann-Chatrian (Emile Erckmann & Alexandre Chatrian) (1822–1899 & 1826–1890) * Louis-Nicolas Ménard (1822–1901) * Théodore de Banville (1823–1891) * Ernest Renan (1823–1892) * Alexandre Dumas, fils (1824–1895)

1825–1849

* Sainte Suzanne Melvil-Bloncourt (1825–1880) * Jean-Félix Nourrisson (1825–1899) * Charles De Coster (1827–1879) * Clair Tisseur (Nizier du Puitspelu) (1827–1896) * Edmond About (1828–1885) * Hyppolyte Taine (1828–1893) * Jules Verne (1828–1905) * Pauline Cassin Caro (1828/34/35 - 1901) * Zénaïde Fleuriot (1829–1890) * Fustel de Coulanges, Numa-Denis Fustel de Coulanges (1830–1889) * Jules de Goncourt (1830–1870) * Hector Malot (1830–1907) * Henri Rochefort (1830–1913) * Henri Meilhac (1831–1897) * Victorien Sardou (1831–1908) * Émile Gaboriau (1832–1873) * Jules Vallès (1832–1885) * Gaston Lavalley (1834–1922) * Claire Julie de Nanteuil (1834-1897) * Édouard Pailleron (1834–1899) * Ludovic Halévy (1834–1908) * Jean-Marie Déguignet (1834–1905) * Amélie Gex (Dian de la Jeânna) (1835–1883) * Félix Narjoux (1836–1891) * Jules Simon Troubat (1836–1914) * Constant Fouard (1837–1903) * Henry Becque (1837–1899) * Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam (1838–1889) * Lucie Boissonnas (1839 -1877) * Sully Prudhomme (1839–1907) * Jules Lermina (1839–1913) * Alphonse Daudet (1840–1897) * Émile Zola (1840–1902) * Arvède Barine (1840–1908) * Jules Claretie (1840–1913) * Catulle Mendès (1841–1909) * Charles Cros (1842–1888) * Stéphane Mallarmé (1842–1898) * José María de Heredia (1842–1905) * François Coppée (1842–1908) * Albert Sorel (1842–1906) * René de Lespinasse (1843–1922) * Paul Arène (1843–1896) * Paul Verlaine (1844–1896) * Anatole France (Anatole François Thibault) (1844–1924) * Tristan Corbière (Edouard-Joachim) (1845–1875) * Comte de Lautréamont (Isidore Lucien Ducasse) (1846–1870) * Léon Bloy (1846–1917) * Auguste Edgard Dietrich (1846) * Henri François Marion (1846–1896) * Geoffroi Jacques Flach (1846–1919) * Brada (writer) (1847-1938) * Émile Faguet (1847–1916) * Joris-Karl Huysmans (1848–1907) * Octave Mirbeau (1848–1917) * Georges de Peyrebrune (1848–1917) * Ferdinand Brunetière (1849–1906) * Jean Richepin (1849–1926) * Georges de Porto-Riche (1849–1930)

1850–1859

* Guy de Maupassant (1850–1893) * Pierre Loti (Julien Viaud) (1850–1923) * Sibylle Gabrielle Marie Antoinette Riqueti de Mirabeau, Gyp (1850–1932) * Germain Nouveau (1851–1920) * Élémir Bourges (1852–1925) * Paul Bourget (1852–1935) * Alfred Masson-Forestier (1852–1912) * Maurice Rollinat (1853–1903) * Arthur Rimbaud (1854–1891), Une Saison en Enfer * Alphonse Allais (1854–1905) * Laurent Tailhade (1854–1919) * Georges Rodenbach (1855–1898) * Jean Lorrain (1855–1906) * Émile Verhaeren (1855–1916) * Adolphe Chenevière (1855–1917) * Noël Valois (1855–1915) * Marie Lion (1855-1922) * Jean Moréas (Jean Papadiamantopoulos) (1856–1910) * Pierre Decourcelle (1856–1926) * Gustave Lanson (1857–1934) * Albert Samain (1858–1900) * Jules Lemaître (1858–1915) * Remy de Gourmont (1858–1915) * Émile Durkheim (1858–1917) * Alfred Capus (1858–1922) * Georges Courteline (Georges Moineaux) (1858–1929) * Neel Doff (1858–1942) * Jean-Baptiste Chautard (1858–1935) * Henri Danoy (1859–1928) * Gustave Belot (1859–1929) * Paul Naudet (1859–1929) * Anatole Le Braz (1859–1926) * Gustave Kahn (1859–1936) * Henri Bergson (1859–1941)

1860–1869

* Jules Laforgue (1860–1887) * Paul Margueritte (1860–1918) * Michel Zévaco (1860–1918) * Paul Roux a/k/a Saint-Pol-Roux le Magnifique (1861–1940) * Paul Adam (French novelist), Paul Adam (1862–1920) * Georges Darien (1862–1921) * Georges Feydeau (1862–1921) * Maurice Barrès (1862–1923) * Maurice Maeterlinck (1862–1949) * Stuart Merrill (1863–1915) * Marguerite Audoux (1863–1937) * Jules Renard (1864–1910) * Henri de Régnier (1864–1936) * Léon Broutin (fl. 1865–77) * Maurice Leblanc (1864–1941) * Juliette Heuzey (1865-1952) * Romain Rolland (1866–1944) * Tristan Bernard (1866–1947) * Fortunat Strowski (1866–1952) * Charles de Beaupoil, comte de Saint-Aulaire (1866–1954) * Émile Lauvrière (1866–1954) * René Boylesve (René Tardivaux) (1867–1926 * Jehan Rictus (Gabriel Randon) (1867–1933) * Léon Daudet (1867–1942) * Marcel Schwob (1867–1905) * Paul-Jean Toulet (1867–1920) * Romain Coolus (1868–1952) * Edmond Rostand (1868–1918) * Gaston Leroux (1868–1927) (''The Phantom of the Opera'', ''Le Mystère de la chambre jaune'') * Achille Essebac (1868–1936) * Francis Jammes (1868–1938) * Émile Auguste Chartier a/k/a "Alain" (1868–1951) * Paul Claudel (1868–1955) * André Spire (1868–1966) * Gaston Arman de Caillavet (1869–1915) * Augustin Chaboseau (1868–1946) * André Gide (1869–1951)

1870–1879

* Marcelle Tinayre (1870–1948) * Henri Bordeaux (1870–1963) * Pierre Louÿs (Pierre Louis) (1870–1925) * Maximilien Winter (1871–1935) * André Chéradame (1871–1948) * Albert Geouffre de Lapradelle (1871–1955) * Gaston Brière (1871–1962) * Marcel Proust (1871–1922), ''In Search of Lost Time'' * Paul Valéry (1871–1945) * Louis Madelin (1871–1956) * Henry Bataille (1872–1922) * Robert de Flers (1872–1927) * Paul Fort (1872–1960) * Alfred Jarry (1873–1907) * Charles Péguy (1873–1914) * Henri Barbusse (1873–1935) * Colette (Sidonie Gabrielle Colette) (1873–1954) * Pierre Souvestre (1874–1914) * Albert Thibaudet (1874–1936) * Tristan Klingsor (1874–1966) * Binet-Valmer (1875–1940) * Paul Watrin (1876–1950) * Anna de Noailles (Anne de Brancovan, comtesse de Noailles) (1876–1933) * Max Jacob (1876–1944) * Léon-Paul Fargue (1876–1947) * Pierre Albert-Birot (1876–1967) * Marcel Bouteron (1877–1962) * Raymond Roussel (1877–1933) * Oscar Milosz, 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) * Francis Picabia (1879–1953) * Henri Fauconnier (1879–1973)

1880–1889

* Louis Hémon (1880–1913) * Guillaume Apollinaire (Wilhelm Apollinaris de Kostrowitzky) (1880–1918) * 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) * 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 (historian), René Hubert (1885–1954) * Sacha Guitry (1885–1957) * André Maurois (Emile Herzog) (1885–1967) * Fernand Crommelynck (1885–1970) * Jules Romains (Jules-Louis de Farigoule) (1885–1972) * Marthe Bibesco (1885–1973) * Alain-Fournier (Henri Fournier) (1886–1914) * Francis Carco (François Carcopino-Tusoli) (1886–1958) * Pierre Benoît (novelist), 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) * François Mauriac (1887–1970) * Saint-John Perse (Alexis Léger) (1887–1975) * Pierre-Jean Jouve (1887–1976) * Marcel Martinet (1887–1944) * Georges Bernanos (1888–1948) * Henri Bosco (1888–1976) * Paul Morand (1888–1976) * Marcel Jouhandeau (1888–1979) * Jacques de Lacretelle (1888–1985) * Tristan Derème (1889–1941) * Pierre Reverdy (1889–1960) * Jean Cocteau (1889–1963) * Émile Henriot (writer), Émile Henriot (1889–1961)

1890–1899

* Maurice Genevoix (1890–1980) * Victor Serge (1890–1947) * Leilah Mahi (1890–1932) * Édouard Dunglas (1891–1952) * La Mazille (1891–1984) * Max Ernst (1891–1976) * Pierre Drieu La Rochelle (1893–1945) * Edmond Brazès (1893 - 1980) * Luc Benoist (1893–1980) * Paul Foulquié (1893–1983) * Claude Cahun (Lucy Schwob) (1894–1954) * Louis-Ferdinand Céline (Louis Destouches) (1894–1961) (''Voyage au bout de la nuit'', 1932) * Paul Éluard (Eugène Grindel) (1895–1952) * Jean Giono (1895–1970) * Marcel Pagnol (1895–1974) * Albert Cohen (novelist), Albert Cohen (1895–1981) * Antonin Artaud (1896–1948) * André Breton (1896–1966) * Henry de Montherlant (Henry Millon de Montherlant) (1896–1972) * Paulette Nardal (1896–1995) * Tristan Tzara (1896–1963) * Elsa Triolet (1896–1970) * Louis Aragon (1897–1982) * Georges Bataille (1897–1962) * Joë Bousquet (1897–1950) * Philippe Soupault (1897–1990) * Marcel Thiry (1897–1977) * Eugène Dabit (1898–1936) * Michel de Ghelderode (1898–1962) * Joseph Kessel (1898–1979) * Paul Vialar (1898–1996) * Louise Noëlle Malclès (1899–1977) * Roger Vitrac (1899–1952) * Pierre Virion (1899–1988) * Jacques Audiberti (1899–1965) * Marcel Achard (1899–1974) * Louis Guilloux (1899–1980) * Henri Michaux (1899–1984) * Marcel Arland (1899–1986) * Marcelle Auclair (1899–1983) * Armand Salacrou (1899–1989) * Francis Ponge (1899–1988)

Twentieth century

1900–1909

* Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900–1944) * Robert Desnos (1900–1945) * Jacques Prévert (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) * 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) * 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–...) * 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) * 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–...) * 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–...) * Julienne Salvat (1932–2019) * Marcelin Pleynet (1933–...) * Claude Esteban (1935–2006) * Agota Kristof (1935–2011) * Françoise Sagan (Françoise Quoirez) (1935–2004) * Daniel Zimmermann (1935–2000) * Assia Djebar (1936–2015) * Frankétienne (1936–...) * Jean-Edern Hallier (1936–1997) * Georges Perec (1936–1982) * Philippe Sollers (1936–...) * Alain Grée (1936–...) * 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–...) * 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) * 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–...) * Loïc Le Ribault (1947–2007) * 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 (1951–2013) * Salim Jay (1951–...) * Bernard Cottret (1951–2020) * Jean-Didier Urbain (1951–...) * Raphaël Confiant (1951–...) * Pierre-Henri Bunel (1952–...) * Dan Franck (1952–...) * Dany Laferrière (1953–...) * Françoise Bettencourt Meyers (1953–...) * Nancy Huston (1953–...) * Patrick Chamoiseau (1953–...) * François Bon (1953–...) * Édouard Brasey (1954–...) * Paul Dirmeikis (1954–...) * Tahar Djaout (1954–1993) * Margaret Maruani (1954–...) * 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–...) * Annie Pietri (1956–...) * Charles Mopsik (1956–2003) * Gisèle Pineau (1956–...) * Jean-Pierre Thiollet (1956–...) * Khal Torabully (1956–...) * 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–...) * Jacques Bonjawo (1960–...) * Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt (1960–...) * Simonetta Greggio (1961–...) * Bernard Werber (1961–...) * Charles Dantzig (1961–...) * Philippe Buc (1961–...) * Valérie Grumelin-Halimi (1961–...) * Philippe Claudel (1962–...) *Catherine Cusset (1963–...) * Beatrice Hammer (1963–...) * Kevin Bokeili (1963–2014) * Alexis Jenni (1963–...) * Bill GB Pallot (1964–...) * Ann Scott (French novelist), Ann Scott (1965–...) * Stéphane Laurent (1966–...) * Odile Benyahia-Kouider (1966–...) * Alain Mabanckou (1966–...) * Delphine Gardey (1967–...) * Paul-Louis Roubert (1967–...) * Jonathan Littell (1967–...) * Amélie Nothomb (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–...) * Cristina Rodríguez (journalist), Cristina Rodríguez (1972–...) * Kilien Stengel (1972–...) * Roland Michel Tremblay (1972–...) * Romain Sardou (1974–...) * Guillaume Musso (1974–...) * Olivier Adam (1974–...) * Benoît Bringer (1979–...) * Agnès Martin-Lugand (1979–...) * Jérémy Marie (1984–...) *Benjamin Hoffmann (1985–...) * Charles Luylier (1989–...) * Blandine Rinkel (1991-…) * Soraya Nini (1993–...) * Estelle Beauchamp (novelist since 1995)