- female, deceased (1987)
- Marguerite Yourcenar was the pseudonym of French novelist Marguerite Cleenewerck de Crayencour (June 8, 1903 - December 17, 1987). She was the...
- male, deceased (2007)
- Henri Troyat, born Levon Aslan Torossian or Lev Aslanovich Tarasov(rus:"Лев Асланович Тарасов"), (November 1, 1911 - March 2, 2007) was a French...
- male, 91 years old
- Maurice Druon is a French novelist and member of Académie française. Maurice Druon was born in Paris. He is the nephew of the writer Joseph Ke...
- female, 80 years old
- Hélène Carrère d'Encausse is the permanent secretary of the Académie Française (elected in 1990). Her birth name is Hélène Zourabichvili and she is...
- male, deceased (2001)
- Léopold Sédar Senghor was a Senegalese poet, politician, and cultural theorist who served as the first president of Senegal (1960-1980). Senghor wa...
- male, deceased (2006)
- Jean-François Revel was a French politician, journalist, author, prolific philosopher and member of the Académie française since June 1998. He was...
- female, 73 years old
- Assia Djebar is the pen-name of Fatima-Zohra Imalayen, an Algerian novelist, translator and filmmaker. Most of her works deal with the obstacles...
- male, deceased (1999)
- Jean Guitton was a French Catholic philosopher and theologian. Born in Saint-Étienne, he studied at the Lycée du Parc in Lyon and was accepted at th...
- male, 79 years old
- Michel Serres is a French philosopher and author with an unusual career. Born the son of a barge man, Serres entered the Ecole Navale in 1949 and...
- male, 87 years old
- Alain Robbe-Grillet (born August 18 1922) is a French writer and filmmaker, born in Brest, Finistère, France into a family of engineers and s...
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