Marguerite Yourcenar

Marguerite Yourcenar

female, deceased (1987)
Marguerite Yourcenar was the pseudonym of French novelist Marguerite Cleenewerck de Crayencour (June 8, 1903 - December 17, 1987). She was the...
Henri Troyat

Henri Troyat

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...
Maurice Druon

Maurice Druon

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...

Hélène Carrère D'Encausse

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...

Léopold Sédar Senghor

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...

Jean-François Revel

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...
Assia Djebar

Assia Djebar

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...
Jean Guitton

Jean Guitton

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...
Michel Serres

Michel Serres

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...
Alain Robbe-Grillet

Alain Robbe-Grillet

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...