France

Authors 1 till 100 of 156.

• Achard, Marcel
  French writer 1899 - 1974 1
• Allais, Alphonse
  French writer and humorist 1854 - 1905 4
• Anouilh, Jean
  French playwright 1910 - 1987 20
• Apollinaire, Guillaume
  Italian-born French poet, critic 1880 - 1918 7
• Aragon, Louis
  French poet 1897 - 1982 8
• Artaud, Antonin
  French producer and actor 1896 - 1948 17
• Bachelard, Gaston
  French scientist and philosopher 1884 - 1962 18
• Badiou, Alain
  French philosopher 1937 - 8
• Balzac, Honoré de
  French writer 1799 - 1850 32
• Bardot, Brigitte
  French fashion model, singer and actress 1934 - 31
• Barney, Natalie Clifford
  American-born French author 1876 - 1972 16
• Barthes, Roland
  French writer, literary critic, linguist and philosopher 1915 - 1980 19
• Bataille, Georges
  French writer and critic 1897 - 1962 16
• Baudelaire, Charles
  French poet 1821 - 1867 45
• Baudrillard, Jean
  French sociologist and philosopher. 1929 - 2007 60
• Beaumarchais, Pierre de
  French playwright 1732 - 1799 8
• Beauvoir, Simone de
  French writer and philosopher 1908 - 1986 17
• Bergson, Henri-Louis
  French philosopher and Nobel Prize winner in Literature (1927) 1859 - 1941 7
• Bernanos, Georges
  French writer 1888 - 1948 17
• Bernard of Clairvaux
  French abbot 1090 - 1153 6
• Bernard, Claude
  French physiologist 1813 - 1878 5
• Blanchot, Maurice
  French writer and philosopher 1907 - 2003 3
• Boileau, Nicholas
  French poet and critic 1636 - 1711 12
• Bossuet, Jacques BéNigne
  French bishop and writer 1627 - 1704 2
• Bourget, Paul
  French writer 1852 - 1935 2
• Bresson, Robert
  French film director 1901 - 1999 10
• Breton, Andre
  French writer 1896 - 1966 21
• Briand, Aristide
  French statesman 1862 - 1932 5
• Bruyère, Jean de la
  French writer 1645 - 1696 70
• Camus, Albert
  French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) 1913 - 1960 134
• Capellanus, Andreas
  French writer 1150 - 1220 3
• Carrel, Alexis
  French surgeon, anatomist and biologist 1873 - 1944 20
• Cavanna, Francois
  French journalist and writer 1923 - 2014 1
• Céline, Louis Ferdinand
  French writer 1894 - 1961 17
• Certeau, Michel de
  French writer  6
• Cézanne, Paul
  French painter 1839 - 1906 4
• Chamfort, Nicolas
  French writer, journalist and playwright 1741 - 1794 43
• Chanel, Coco
  French couturier 1883 - 1971 14
• Chardin, Pierre Teilhard de
  French Christian mystic, author 1881 - 1955 10
• Charron, Pierre
  French philosopher 1541 - 1603 4
• Chateaubriand, Francois René de
  French poet, writer and politician 1768 - 1848 6
• Chevalier, Maurice
  French actor and comedian 1888 - 1972 3
• Cioran, E. M.
  French-Romanian philosopher 1911 - 1995 41
• Clemenceau, Georges
  French physician and politician 1841 - 1929 7
• Cocteau, Jean
  French writer 1889 - 1963 36
• Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle
  French writer 1873 - 1954 30
• Comte, Auguste
  French philosopher 1798 - 1857 2
• Corneille, Pierre
  French playwright 1606 - 1684 21
• Curie, Marie
  French physicist, radioactivity pioneer, 2x Nobel Prize winner 1867 - 1934 5
• Daumal, René
  French writer, philosopher and poet 1908 - 1944 6
• Debord, Guy
  French philosopher 1931 - 1994 8
• Delacroix, Eugene
  French artist 1798 - 1863 8
• Delille, Jacques
  French author 1738 - 1813 3
• Descartes, René
  French philosopher, scientist 1596 - 1650 12
• Diderot, Denis
  French philosopher 1713 - 1784 38
• Dubuffet, Jean
  French artist 1901 - 1985 3
• Duchamp, Marcel
  French painter and sculptor 1887 - 1968 4
• Dumas père, Alexandre
  French writer 1802 - 1870 18
• Duras, Marguerite
  French author and filmmaker 1914 - 1996 21
• Durkheim, Emile
  French sociologist 1858 - 1917 6
• Estienne, Henri
  French printer and classicist 1528 - 1598 2
• Fanon, Frantz
  French psychiatrist, Algerian freedom fighter and writer 1925 - 1961 3
• Fénelon, François
  French writer and archbishop 1651 - 1715 13
• Flaubert, Gustave
  French writer 1821 - 1880 5
• Fontaine, Jean de la
  French writer 1621 - 1695 31
• Foucault, Michel
  French essayist and philosopher 1926 - 1984 12
• France, Anatole
  French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) 1844 - 1924 57
• Frieseke, Frederick
  American-born French painter 1874 - 1939 7
• Gauguin, Paul
  French artist 1848 - 1903 7
• Gaulle, Charles de
  French statesman 1890 - 1970 21
• Genet, Jean
  French playwright and author 1910 - 1986 13
• Geraldy, Paul
  French writer and poet 1885 - 1983 2
• Gide, André
  French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) 1869 - 1951 45
• Giraudoux, Jean
  French writer 1882 - 1944 6
• Godard, Jean-Luc
  French film director 1930 - 2022 6
• Goncourt, Edmond de
  French writer and critic 1822 - 1896 13
• Gourmont, Remy de
  French writer, poet and philosopher 1858 - 1915 13
• Guitry, Sacha
  French playwright, actor and director (ps. of Alexandre Georges- 1885 - 1957 5
• Helvétius, Claude Adrien
  French philosopher 1715 - 1771 5
• Hugo, Victor
  French writer 1802 - 1885 78
• Ionesco, Eugène
  Romanian - French writer 1909 - 1994 7
• Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont, Comte De
  French author, poet 1846 - 1870 9
• Jarry, Alfred
  French playwright, author 1873 - 1907 9
• Joubert, Joseph
  French writer 1754 - 1824 43
• Karr, Alphonse
  French writer and editor of Le Figaro 1808 - 1890 13
• Lamartine, Alphonse De
  French poet, statesman and historian 1790 - 1869 16
• Leiris, Michel
  French ethnologist, poet and writer 1901 - 1990 2
• Lévi-Strauss, Claude
  French anthropologist 1908 - 2009 7
• Loisy, Alfred
  French theologian 1857 - 1940 2
• Louis XIV
  French king, also called Sun King 1638 - 1715 6
• Maistre, Joseph De
  French diplomat and philosopher 1753 - 1821 20
• Mallarme, Stephane
  French poet 1842 - 1898 3
• Malraux, André
  French writer and politician (ps. by A. Berger) 1901 - 1976 20
• Marceau, Marcel
  French artist 1923 - 2007 3
• Matisse, Henri
  French painter and sculptor 1869 - 1954 1
• Maupassant, Guy de
  French writer 1850 - 1893 1
• Maurois, André
  French writer (ps. van mile Herzog) 1885 - 1967 31
• Mirabeau, Honoré Gabriel Riqueti Count of
  French revolutionary and writer 1749 - 1791 6
• Moliere
  French playwright (ps. by J. B. Poquelin) 1622 - 1673 25
• Montaigne, Michel Eyquem de
  French essayist and philosopher 1533 - 1592 136

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