- male, deceased (1869)
- Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve (December 23, 1804 - October 13, 1869) was a literary critic and one of the major figures of French literary history.
- male, deceased (1838)
- Hégésippe Moreau was a French lyric poet. From birth, he was called by the last name of his biological father (Moreau) and took on the pseudonym Hé...
- male, deceased (1839)
- Georges Maurice de Guérin du Cayla, was a French poet. Descended from a noble and rich family, he was born at the chateau of Le Cayla in L...
- male, deceased (1841)
- Aloysius Bertrand was the writing pseudonym of Louis-Jacques-Napoléon Bertrand (born April 20, 1807 in Ceva (Piedmont, Italy); died April 29, 1841 i...
- male, deceased (1852)
- Xavier de Maistre of Savoy (a region in the Kingdom of Sardinia), lived largely as a military man, but is known as a French literateur. The younger...
- male, deceased (1570)
- Jacques Grévin, French dramatist, was born at Clermont about 1539. He studied medicine at the University of Paris. He became a disciple of R...
- male, deceased (1877)
- François Buloz was a French "littérateur", magazine editor, and theater administrator. He was born in Vulbens, Haute-Savoie, near Geneva, and di...
- male, deceased (1994)
- Pierre Boulle was a French novelist largely known for his combination of psychology and adventure, most famously in "The Bridge over the River...
- male, deceased (1801)
- Antoine de Rivarol, was a French writer and epigrammatist. It appears that Rivarol's father, an innkeeper, was a cultivated man. The son assumed...
- female, deceased (1848)
- Eugénie de Guérin, French writer, was the sister of the poet Maurice de Guérin. Her "Journals" (1861, Eng. trans., 1865) and her "Lettres" (18...
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