Simone de Beauvoir

Simone de Beauvoir

female, deceased (1986)
Simone de Beauvoir (January 9, 1908 - April 14, 1986) was a French author and philosopher. She wrote novels, monographs on philosophy, politics,...
Hélène Cixous

Hélène Cixous

female, 72 years old
Hélène Cixous, is a professor, French feminist writer, poet, playwright, philosopher, literary critic and rhetorician. Hélène Cixous was born in O...
Sylvie Germain

Sylvie Germain

female, 55 years old
Sylvie Germain, French author, born in Châteauroux in 1954. She completed a doctorate in philosophy at the Université de Paris X - Nanterre in 19...
Marie de France

Marie de France

female, 909 years old
Marie de France ("Mary of France") was a poet evidently born in France and living in England during the late 12th century. Virtually nothing is...
Rose Valland

Rose Valland

female, deceased (1980)
Rosa Antonia Maria Valland was a French art historian, a member of the French Resistance, a captain in the French military, and one of the most...
Anaïs Nin

Anaïs Nin

female, deceased (1977)
Anaïs Nin (February 21 1903 - January 14 1977) was a French-born author of Spanish, Cuban, and Danish descent who became famous for her published j...
Marguerite Duras

Marguerite Duras

female, deceased (1996) (France)
Marguerite Donnadieu, better known as Marguerite Duras (April 4, 1914 – March 3, 1996) was a French writer and film director. She was born in Sa...
Sarah Bernhardt

Sarah Bernhardt

female, deceased (1923)
Sarah Bernhardt (October 23, 1844 - March 26, 1923) was a stage actress born in Paris. Often referred to as "the most famous actress in the history...

Alexandra David-Néel

female, deceased (1969)
Alexandra David-Néel born Louise Eugénie Alexandrine Marie David was a French explorer, anarchist, spiritualist, Buddhist and writer, most known fo...
Madeleine Pelletier

Madeleine Pelletier

female, deceased (1939)
Madeleine Pelletier was a French physician, psychiatrist, first-wave feminist, and socialist activist. Pelletier originally trained as an...