- male, deceased (1963)
- Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau was a French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager and filmmaker. His versatile, unconventional ap...
- male, deceased (1922)
- Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust, a monumental work of twentieth-century fiction published in seven volumes from 1913 to 1927.
- female, deceased (1876)
- Amantine-Aurore-Lucile Dupin, Baroness Dudevant (July 1, 1804 - June 8, 1876), best known by her pseudonym George Sand, was a French novelist and...
- 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,...
- male, deceased (1984)
- Michel Foucault (October 15, 1926 - June 25, 1984) was a French philosopher and historian. He held a chair at the Collège de France, giving it the t...
- male, deceased (1814)
- Donatien Alphonse-François de Sade (pronounced) was a French aristocrat and writer of philosophy-laden and often violent pornography. He was a p...
- male, deceased (1980)
- Roland Barthes (November 12, 1915 - March 25, 1980) (pronounced) was a French literary critic, literary and social theorist, philosopher, and...
- male, deceased (1891)
- Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud (October 20, 1854 - November 10, 1891) was a French poet, born in Charleville. His influence on modern literature,...
- male, deceased (1986)
- Jean Genet (–), was a prominent, controversial French writer and later political activist. Early in his life he was a vagabond and petty cr...
- male, deceased (1951)
- André Paul Guillaume Gide was a French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1947. Gide's career spanned from the symbolist m...
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