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## Middle Ages

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* Turold (eleventh century)
* Wace (c. 1110 – c. 1180)
* Chrétien de Troyes (c. 1135 – c. 1183)
* Richard the Lionheart (Richard Coeur de Lion) (1157–1199)
* Benoît de Sainte-Maure (12th-century)
* Herman de Valenciennes (12th-century)
* Le Châtelain de Couci (d.1203)
* Jean Bodel (12th century – c. 1210)
* Conon de Béthune (c. 1150–1220)
* Geoffroi de Villehardouin (c. 1160 – c. 1213)
* Béroul (c. 1170)
* Thomas d'Angleterre (c. 1170)
* Aimeric de Peguilhan (c. 1170 – c. 1230)
* Gace Brulé (c. 1170)
* Marie de France (c. 1175)
* Gautier de Coincy (1177/8–1236)
* Gautier de Dargies (c. 1170–after 1236)
* Gautier d'Espinal († before July 1272)
* Gillebert de Berneville (fl c.1255)
* Gontier de Soignies (fl c.1180–1220)
* Guiot de Dijon (fl c.1200–30)
* Perrin d'Angicourt (fl c.1245–50)
* Jean Renart (fl. late 12th-first half of 13th century)
* Philippe de Rémi (c.1205–c1265)
* Philippe de Beaumanoir (c.1247–c1296)
* Raoul de Soissons (c.1215–1272)
* Richard de Fournival (1201– c.1260)
* Andrieu Contredit d'Arras († c.1248)
* Jehan le Cuvelier d'Arras (fl c.1240–70)
* Guillaume le Vinier (fl c.1220–45; †1245)
* Audefroi le Bâtard (fl c.1200–1230)
* Jehan Bretel (c.1200–1272)
* Jehan Erart († c.1259)
* Moniot d'Arras (fl c.1250–75)
* Robert de Clari (late twelfth century)
* Blondel de Nesle (late twelfth century)
* Robert de Boron (twelfth–thirteenth century)
* Guiot de Provins (d. after 1208)
* Bertrand de Bar-sur-Aube (late twelfth-early thirteenth century)
* Guillaume de Lorris (c.1200 – c.1238)
* Theobald IV of Champagne (1201–1253)
* Jean de Joinville ( c.1224 – c.1317)
* Rutebeuf (c.1230 – c.1285)
* Adam de la Halle (c.1250 – c.1285)
* Jean de Meung or Jean de Meun (1250 – c.1305) or Jean Clopinel or Chopinel
* Jacques Bretel (c. 1285 – c. 1310)
* Jean Le Bel (c.1290–1370)
* Colin Muset (end of thirteenth century)
* Guillaume de Machaut ( c.1300 – c.1377)
* Nicole Oresme (1325–1382)
* Philippe de Mézières (c.1327–1405)
* Jean Froissart (1333 – c.1404)
* Eustache Deschamps (c.1346 – c.1407)
* Jean Charlier called Gerson (1363–1429
* Christine de Pisan (1364–1430)
* Alain Chartier (c.1385 – c.1435)
* Jean Juvénal des Ursins (1388–1473)
* Antoine de la Sale (1388 – c.1469)
* Enguerrand de Monstrelet (c.1390 – c.1453)
* Charles, duc d'Orléans (1394–1465)

## Fifteenth century

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* Martin Le Franc (c.1410–1461)
* Eustache Marcadé (1414–1440)
* Georges Chastellain (1415–1475)
* Olivier de la Marche (1425–1502)
* Martial d'Auvergne ( c.1430–1508)
* François Villon (c.1431–after 1463)
* Jean Michel (c.1435–1501)
* Jean Molinet (1435–1507)
* Philippe de Commines (1445–1511)
* Jean Marot (1450–1526)
* Lefèvre d'Etaples (1455–1537)
* Guillaume Crétin (Guillaume Dubois) (1460–1525)
* Octavien de Saint-Gelais (1468–1505)
* Guillaume Budé (1468–1540)
* Jean Meschinot (active from 1450–1490)
* Guillaume Alexis (active from 1450–1490)
* Jean Lemaire de Belges (1473 – c.1525)
* Pierre Gringore or Gringoire (c.1475–1538/1539)
* François Rabelais (c.1483–1553)
* Aliénor de Poitiers (fl.1484)
* Mellin de Saint-Gelais (c.1491–1558)
* Marguerite de Navarre (c.1492–1549)
* Clément Marot (c.1496–1544)

## Sixteenth century

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### 1500–1549

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* Bonaventure des Périers (c.1500–1544)
* Maurice Scève (c.1505 – c.1562)
* Michel de l'Hospital (1505–1573)
* Étienne Dolet (1509–1546)
* Jean Calvin (1509–1564)
* Hélisenne de Crenne (Marguerite Briet de Crenne) (c.1510–after 1552)
* Pierre Viret (1511–1571)
* Charles de Sainte-Marthe (1512–1555)
* Thomas Sébillet (c.1512–1589)
* Jacques Amyot (1513–1593)
* Jacques Peletier du Mans (1517–1582)
* Théodore de Bèze (1519–1605)
* Pierre de Saint-Julien de Balleure (1519–1593)
* Denis Sauvage (1520–1587)
* Noël du Fail (1520–1591)
* Pernette Du Guillet (c.1520–1545)
* Jacques Yver (1520–1570)
* Gilles de Gouberville (1521–1578)
* Pontus de Tyard or de Thiard (1521–1605)
* Joachim du Bellay (1522–1560)
* Pierre de Ronsard (1524–1585)
* Pierre Boaistuau (?–1566)
* Louise Labé (c.1526 – c.1565)
* Rémy Belleau (1528–1577)
* Étienne Pasquier (1529–1615)
* Étienne de La Boétie (1530–1563)
* Claude Fauchet (1530–1601)
* Jean Bodin (1530–1596)
* François de Belleforest (1530–1583)
* Henri Estienne (1531–1598)
* Jean Antoine de Baïf (1532–1589)
* Étienne Jodelle (1532–1573)
* Michel de Montaigne (Michel Eyquem, seigneur de Montaigne) (1533–1592)
* Jean de la Taille (c.1533/1540 – c.1617)
* Robert Garnier (1534–1590)
* Nicolas Rapin (1535–1608)
* Jacques Grévin (1538–1570)
* Olivier de Serres (1539–1619)
* Pierre Pithou (1539–1596)
* Pierre de Bourdeille, seigneur de Brantôme (1540–1614)
* Pierre de Larivey (1540–1619)
* Florent Chrestien (1540–1596)
* Pierre Charron (1541–1603)
* Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas (1544–1590)
* Antoine du Verdier (1544–1600)
* Philippe Desportes (1546–1606)
* Pierre de L'Estoile (1546–1611)
* Jean de La Ceppède (1548–1623)
* Philippe Duplessis-Mornay (Philippe de Mornay, called Duplessis-Mornay) (1549–1623)

### 1550–1599

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* Benigne Poissenot (c.1550–?)
* François d'Amboise (1550–1619)
* Odet de Turnèbe (1552–1581)
* Jean Bertaut (1552–1611)
* Théodore Agrippa d'Aubigné (1552–1630)
* François de Malherbe (1552–1630)
* Jacques Davy Du Perron (1556–1618)
* François Béroalde de Verville (1556–1626)
* Guillaume du Vair (1556–1621)
* Jean de Sponde (1557–1595)
* Maximilien de Béthune, baron de Rosny, duc de Sully (1560–1641)
* Alexandre Hardy (1560/1570 – c.1632)
* Nicolas de Montreux (1561–1608)
* Pierre Matthieu (1563–1621)
* Eustache de Refuge, seigneur de Précy et de Courcelles (1564–1617)
* Saint François de Sales (1567–1622)
* Honoré d'Urfé (1567–1625)
* Scipion Dupleix (1569–1661)
* Sylvestre de Laval (1570–1616)
* Antoine de Nervèze (c.1570–after 1622)
* Nicolas des Escuteaux (after 1570 – c.1628)
* François du Souhait (between 1570 & 1580–1617)
* Jean Ogier de Gombaud (1570–1666)
* Antoine de Balinghem (1571–1630)
* Mathurin Régnier (1573–1613)
* Nicholas Camusat (1575–1655)
* Antoine de Montchrestien (c.1575–1621)
* Henri, duc de Rohan (1579–1638)
* Saint Vincent de Paul (1581–1660)
* Jean Duvergier de Hauranne, abbé de Saint-Cyran (1581–1643)
* François Maynard (1582–1646)
* Jean-Pierre Camus (1584–1652)
* Francis Garasse (1585–1631)
* Jean de Schelandre (c.1585–1635)
* François de La Mothe-Le-Vayer (1588–1672)
* Honorat de Bueil, seigneur de Racan (1589–1670)
* Bertrand de Loque (1589)
* Théophile de Viau (1590–1626)
* Marc Gilbert de Varennes (1591–1660)
* François le Métel de Boisrobert (1592–1662)
* Antoine Gérard de Saint-Amant (1594–1661)
* Jean Chapelain (1595–1674)
* Jean Desmarets de Saint-Sorlin (1595–1676)
* René Descartes (1596–1650)
* Claude de Malleville (1597–1647)
* Vincent Voiture (1597–1648)
* Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac (1597–1684)

## Seventeenth century

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### 1600–1649

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* Nicolas de Bralion (1600–1672)
* Marin le Roy de Gomberville (1600–1674)
* Georges de Scudéry (1601–1667)
* François Tristan l'Hermite (1601–1655)
* Guy Patin (1601–1672)
* Jean de Bernieres-Louvigny (1602–1659)
* Charles Sorel (1602–1674)
* Charles Cotin (1604–1682)
* Jean Mairet (1604–1686)
* François Hédelin, abbé d'Aubignac (1604–1676)
* Pierre du Ryer (1605–1658)
* Charles Coypeau d'Assoucy (1605–1675)
* Jean François Sarrazin (1605–1654)
* Pierre Corneille (1606–1684)
* Antoine Gombaud, chevalier de Méré (1607–1685)
* Madeleine de Scudéry (1607–1701)
* Jean Rotrou (1609–1650)
* Paul Scarron (1610–1660)
* François-Eudes de Mézeray (1610–1683)
* Charles de Saint-Evremond (c.1610–1703)
* Antoine Arnauld (1612–1694)
* Isaac de Benserade (1612–1691)
* Jean François Paul de Gondi, cardinal de Retz (1613–1679)
* François de La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)
* Gauthier de Costes, seigneur de la Calprenède (1614–1663)
* Georges de Brébeuf (1618–1661)
* Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy, called Bussy-Rabutin (1618–1693)
* Cyrano de Bergerac (Hector-Savinien Cyrano de Bergerac) (1619–1655)
* Antoine Furetière (1619–1688)
* Gédéon Tallemant des Réaux (1619–1692)
* Jean de La Fontaine (1621–1695)
* Molière (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin) (1622–1673)
* Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)
* Jean Renaud de Segrais (1624–1701)
* Paul Pellisson (1624–1693)
* Thomas Corneille (1625–1709)
* Samuel Chappuzeau (1625–1701)
* Madame de Sévigné (Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné) (1626–1696)
* Laurent Drelincourt (1626–1680)
* Jacques Bénigne Bossuet (1627–1704)
* Gabriel-Joseph de La Vergne, comte de Guilleragues (1628–1685)
* Charles Perrault (1628–1703)
* Pierre Daniel Huet (1630–1721)
* Louis Bourdaloue (1632–1704)
* Esprit Fléchier (1632–1710)
* Jacques Pradon (1632–1698)
* Madame de Villedieu (Marie-Catherine-Hortence Desjardins, marquise de Villedieu) (1632–1683)
* Madame de Lafayette (Marie-Madeleine, comtesse de La Fayette) (1634–1693)
* Pierre Thomas, sieur du Fossé (1634–1698)
* Philippe Quinault (1635–1688)
* Nicolas Boileau (1636–1711)
* Edmé Boursault (1638–1701)
* Antoinette du Ligier de la Garde Deshoulières (1638–1694)
* Nicolas Malebranche (1638–1715)
* Jean Donneau de Visé (1638–1710)
* Philippe de Courcillon, marquis de Dangeau (1638–1720)
* Claude Estiennot de la Serre (1639–1699)
* Guillaume Amfrye de Chaulieu (1639–1720)
* César Vichard de Saint-Réal (1639–1692)
* Jean Racine (1639–1699)
* Claude de Fleury (1640–1723)
* Louis Moréri (1643–1680)
* Gatien de Courtilz de Sandras (1644–1712)
* Anne de La Roche-Guilhem (1644–1707)
* Jean de La Bruyère (1645–1696)
* Pierre Le Pesant, sieur de Boisguilbert ( c.1646–1714)
* Antoine Galland (1646–1715)
* Pierre Bayle (1647–1706)
* Joseph Anthelmi (1648–1697)

### 1650–1699

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* Madame d'Aulnoy (Marie-Catherine le Jumelle de Barneville, Baronne d'Aulnoy) (1651–1705)
* François de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon (1651–1715)
* Louis Du Four de Longuerue (1652–1733)
* Charlotte-Rose de Caumont La Force (Mademoiselle de La Force) (1650–1724)
* Louis Legendre (1655–1733)
* Jean-François Regnard (1655–1709)
* Jean Galbert de Campistron (1656–1723)
* Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle (1657–1757)
* Louis (or Jean) de Mailly (1657–1724)
* Henri de Boulainvilliers (1658–1712)
* François Armand Gervaise (1660–1761)
* Charles Rollin (1661–1741)
* Florent Carton Dancourt (1661–1725)
* Jean-François Foucquet (1665–1741)
* Alain-René Lesage (1668–1747)
* Jacques Bouillart (1669–1726)
* Jean-Baptiste Rousseau (1670–1741)
* Jean-Baptiste Dubos (1670–1742)
* Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon (Crébillon père) (1674–1762)
* Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon (1675–1755)
* Jean-François Boyer (1675–1755)
* Philippe Néricault Destouches (1680–1754)
* Claudine Alexandrine Guérin de Tencin (Madame de Tencin) (1681–1749)
* Jérôme Besoigne (1686–1763)
* Marivaux (Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux) (1688–1763)
* Alexis Piron (1689–1773)
* Montesquieu (Charles Louis de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu) (1689–1755)
* Louis Petit de Bachaumont (1690–1771)
* Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet) (1694–1778)
* René-Louis de Voyer de Paulmy, marquis d' Argenson (1694–1757)
* Françoise de Graffigny (1695–1758)
* Antoine François Prévost (Antoine Francois Prevost d'Exiles) a/k/a Abbé Prévost (1697–1763)
* Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand (1697–1780)
* Denis-François Camusat (1697–1732)

## Eighteenth century

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### 1700–1749

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* Charles Pinot Duclos (1704–1772)
* Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon (Crébillon, fils) (1707–1777)
* Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon) (1707–1788)
* Julien Offray de La Mettrie (1709–1751)
* Gabriel Bonnot de Mably (1709–1785)
* Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset (1709–1777)
* Jean-Jacques Lefranc, marquis de Pompignan (1709–1784)
* Charles-Simon Favart (1710–1792)
* Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778)
* Denis Diderot (1713–1784)
* Étienne Bonnot de Condillac (1714–1780)
* Marie Jeanne Riccoboni (Madame Riccoboni) (1714–1792)
* Claude Adrien Helvétius (1715–1771)
* Vauvenargues (Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues) (1715–1747)
* François-André-Adrien Pluquet (1716–1790)
* Jean-François de Saint-Lambert (1716–1803)
* Louis Carrogis Carmontelle (1717–1806
* Jean Le Rond d'Alembert (1717–1783)
* Michel-Jean Sedaine (1719–1797)
* Antoine Henri de Bérault-Bercastel (1720–c.1794)
* Jacques Cazotte (1720–1792)
* Denis Dominique Cardonne (1721–1783)
* Tiphaigne de la Roche (Charles-François Tiphaigne de la Roche) (1722–1774)
* Baron d'Holbach (Paul Henri Dietrich, baron d'Holbach) (1723–1789)
* Jean-François Marmontel (1723–1799)
* Casanova a/k/a Jacques Casanova de Seingalt (1725–1798)
* Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune (1727–1781)
* Jean Dussaulx (1728–1799)
* Nicolas Bricaire de la Dixmerie (c.1730–1791)
* Jacqueline-Aimée Brohon (1731–1778)
* Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais (1732–1799)
* Anne-Marie Lacroix (1732–1802)
* Jacques Clinchamps de Malfilâtre (1733–1767)
* Nicolas Edme Restif de La Bretonne (1734–1806)
* Jean-Benjamin François de la Borde (1734–1794)
* Charles Joseph, Prince de Ligne (1735–1814)
* Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre (1737–1814)
* Jacques Delille (1738–1813)
* Jean-François de la Harpe (1739–1803)
* Marquis de Sade (Donatien Alphonse François de Sade) (1740–1814)
* Isabelle de Charrière a/k/a Belle de Zuylen (1740–1805)
* Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos de Laclos (1741–1803)
* Condorcet (Marie Jean Antoine Caritat, marquis de Condorcet) (1744–1794)
* Gabriel Brizard (c1744–1793)
* André-Samuel-Michel Cantwell (1744–1802)
* Étienne Pélabon (1745–1808)
* Jean Antoine Roucher (1745–1794)
* Jean-Sifrein Maury (Abbé Maury) (1746–1817)
* Joseph-Alexandre-Victor Hupay de Fuveau (1746–1818)
* Stéphanie Félicité Ducrest de St-Albin, comtesse de Genlis (Madame de Genlis) (1746–1830)
* Armand Louis de Gontaut, duc de Biron, duc de Lauzun (1747–1793)
* Olympe de Gouges (1748–1793)
* Pierre-Louis Ginguené (1748–1815)
* Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau (1749–1791)
* Jean-Marie Collot d'Herbois (1749–1796)

### 1750–1799

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* Georges Henri Victor Collot (1750–1805)
* Nicolas Joseph Laurent Gilbert (1751–1780)
* Évariste de Forges de Parny (1753–1814)
* Joseph de Maistre (1753–1821)
* Jean Armand Charlemagne (1753–1838)
* Marie Thérèse Péroux d’Abany (1753–1821)
* Joseph Joubert (1754–1824)
* Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian (1754–1794)
* Jacques Pierre Brissot a/k/a Jean-Pierre Brissot (1754–1793)
* Charles Maurice de Talleyrand (1754–1838)
* Constantin François de Chasseboeuf, Comte de Volney (1757–1820)
* William Vincent Barré (c.1760–1829)
* Victoire Babois (1760–1839)
* Adelaide Filleul, Marquise de Souza-Botelho (Madame de Souza) (1761–1836)
* André Chénier (1762–1794)
* Claude-François-Xavier Mercier de Compiègne (1763–1800)
* Joseph Chénier (1764–1811)
* Barbara Juliana, Baroness von Krüdener (Madame de Krüdener) (1764–1824)
* Madame de Staël (1766–1817)
* Las Cases (Emmanuel-Augustin-Dieudonné, comte de Las Cases) (1766–1842)
* Benjamin Constant (Benjamin Constant de Rebecque) (1767–1830)
* Joseph Fiévée (1767–1839)
* François-René de Chateaubriand (1768–1848)
* Étienne Pivert de Senancour (1770–1846)
* Fanny Raoul (1771–1833)
* Sophie de Renneville (1772–1822)
* Charles-Jean Baptiste Bonnin (1772–1846)
* Paul Louis Courier de Méré (1772–1825)
* René Charles Guilbert de Pixérécourt (1773–1844)
* Sophie Ristaud Cottin (Madame Cottin) (1773–1807)
* Eugène François Vidocq (1775–1857)
* Claire de Duras (Madame de Duras) (1777–1828)
* Ambroise Rendu (1778–1860)
* Charles Nodier (1780–1844)
* Pierre-Jean de Béranger (1780–1857)
* Victor de Bonald (1780–1871)
* Aimé Martin (1781–1844)
* Félicité Robert de Lamennais (1782–1854)
* Amable Guillaume Prosper Brugière, baron de Barante (1782–1866)
* Victor Henri-Joseph Brahain Ducange (1783–1833)
* Stendhal (Henri Beyle) (1783–1842) (The Red and the Black, 1830)
* Pierre-Antoine Lebrun (1785–1873)
* Marceline Desbordes-Valmore (1786–1859)
* Alphonse Rabbe (1786–1829)
* Élise Voïart (1786–1866)
* François Guizot (1787–1874)
* Alexandre Guiraud (1788–1847)
* Alphonse de Lamartine (1790–1869)
* Victor Cousin (1792–1867)
* Charles Paul de Kock (1793–1871)
* Jean-M.-Vincent Audin (1793)
* Casimir Delavigne (Jean-François Casimir Delavigne) (1793–1843)
* François Stoepel (1794–1836)
* Rosine de Chabaud-Latour (1794–1860)
* Arthur Dinaux (1795–1864)
* Amédée Pichot (1795–1877)
* Modeste Gruau (1795–1883)
* Augustin Thierry (1795–1856)
* Zulma Carraud (1796–1889)
* François Mignet (1796–1884)
* Alfred de Vigny (1797–1863)
* Antoinette Henriette Clémence Robert (1797–1872)
* Adolphe Thiers (1797–1877)
* Auguste Comte (1798–1857)
* Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863)
* Charles Dezobry (1798–1871)
* Jules Michelet (1798–1874)
* Sophie Rostopchine, Comtesse de Ségur (1799–1874)
* Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850)

## Nineteenth century

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### 1800–1824

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* Pierre Alexandre Jean Mollière (1800–1850)
* Victor Hugo (1802–1885) (Les Misérables, 1862)
* Alexandre Dumas, père (1802–1870)
* Prosper Mérimée (1803–1870)
* Edgar Quinet (1803–1875)
* Eugène Daumas (1803–1871)
* Eugène Sue (1804–1857)
* Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve (1804–1869)
* Jules Janin (1804–1874)
* George Sand (Amandine-Lucie-Aurore Dupin, baronne Dudevant) (1804–1876)
* Alexis Henri Charles Clérel, comte de Tocqueville (1805–1859)
* Jules-Romain Tardieu (1805–1868)
* Émile de Girardin (1806–1881)
* Désiré Nisard (1806–1888)
* Émile Souvestre (1806–1854)
* Aloysius Bertrand (1807–1841)
* Gérard de Nerval (Gérard Labrunie) (1808–1855)
* Jules-Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly (1808–1889)
* Jacques Claude Demogeot (1808–1894)
* Lucien de la Hodde (1808–1865)
* Frédéric Villot (1809–1875)
* Petrus Borel (1809–1859)
* Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809–1865)
* Xavier Forneret (1809–1884)
* Hégésippe Moreau (1810–1838)
* Maurice de Guérin (1810–1839)
* Alfred de Musset (1810–1857)
* Joseph Bouchardy (1810–1870)
* Alphonse Jolly (1810–1893)
* Pier Angelo Fiorentino (1811–1864)
* Armand de Pontmartin (1811–1890)
* Adolphe-Philippe d'Ennery (1811–1889)
* Théophile Gautier (1811–1872)
* Louis Blanc (1811–1882)
* Victor de Laprade (1812–1883)
* Louis du Couret (1812–1867)
* Eugène Bonnemère (1813–1893)
* Eugène Labiche (1815–1888)
* Joseph Arthur de Gobineau (1816–1882)
* Victor Séjour (1817–1874)
* Paul Féval, père (1817–1887)
* Adine Riom (1818–1899)
* Charles-Marie Leconte de Lisle (1818–1894)
* Eugène Despois (1818–1876)
* Jean Baptiste Marius Augustin Challamel (1818–1894)
* Adèle Hommaire de Hell (1819–1883), travel writer
* Eugène Fromentin (1820–1876)
* Émile Augier (1820–1889)
* Antoine-Élisabeth-Cléophas Dareste de la Chavanne (1820–1882)
* Jules Pizzetta (1820–1900)
* Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867) (Les Fleurs du mal, 1857)
* Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880) (Madame Bovary, 1857)
* Octave Feuillet (1821–1890)
* Jules-François-Félix Husson a/k/a Champfleury (1821–1889)
* Edmond de Goncourt (1822–1896)
* Erckmann-Chatrian (Emile Erckmann & Alexandre Chatrian) (1822–1899 & 1826–1890)
* Louis-Nicolas Ménard (1822–1901)
* Théodore de Banville (1823–1891)
* Ernest Renan (1823–1892)
* Alexandre Dumas, fils (1824–1895)

### 1825–1849

[edit]

* Sainte Suzanne Melvil-Bloncourt (1825–1880)
* Jean-Félix Nourrisson (1825–1899)
* Charles De Coster (1827–1879)
* Juliette Figuier (1827–1879)
* Clair Tisseur (Nizier du Puitspelu) (1827–1896)
* Edmond About (1828–1885)
* Hyppolyte Taine (1828–1893)
* Jules Verne (1828–1905)
* Pauline Cassin Caro (1828/34/35 - 1901)
* Zénaïde Fleuriot (1829–1890)
* Numa-Denis Fustel de Coulanges (1830–1889)
* Jules de Goncourt (1830–1870)
* Hector Malot (1830–1907)
* Henri Rochefort (1830–1913)
* Henri Meilhac (1831–1897)
* Victorien Sardou (1831–1908)
* Valérie Simonin (1831–1919)
* Émile Gaboriau (1832–1873)
* Jules Vallès (1832–1885)
* Gaston Lavalley (1834–1922)
* Claire Julie de Nanteuil (1834–1897)
* Édouard Pailleron (1834–1899)
* Ludovic Halévy (1834–1908)
* Jean-Marie Déguignet (1834–1905)
* Amélie Gex (Dian de la Jeânna) (1835–1883)
* Félix Narjoux (1836–1891)
* Jules Simon Troubat (1836–1914)
* Constant Fouard (1837–1903)
* Henry Becque (1837–1899)
* Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam (1838–1889)
* Lucie Boissonnas (1839–1877)
* Sully Prudhomme (1839–1907)
* Jules Lermina (1839–1913)
* Alphonse Daudet (1840–1897)
* Émile Zola (1840–1902)
* Arvède Barine (1840–1908)
* Jules Claretie (1840–1913)
* Catulle Mendès (1841–1909)
* Charles Cros (1842–1888)
* Stéphane Mallarmé (1842–1898)
* José María de Heredia (1842–1905)
* François Coppée (1842–1908)
* Albert Sorel (1842–1906)
* René de Lespinasse (1843–1922)
* Paul Arène (1843–1896)
* Paul Verlaine (1844–1896)
* Anatole France (Anatole François Thibault) (1844–1924)
* Tristan Corbière (Edouard-Joachim) (1845–1875)
* Comte de Lautréamont (Isidore Lucien Ducasse) (1846–1870)
* Léon Bloy (1846–1917)
* Auguste Edgard Dietrich (1846)
* Henri François Marion (1846–1896)
* Geoffroi Jacques Flach (1846–1919)
* Brada (writer) (1847–1938)
* Émile Faguet (1847–1916)
* Joris-Karl Huysmans (1848–1907)
* Octave Mirbeau (1848–1917)
* Georges de Peyrebrune (1848–1917)
* Ferdinand Brunetière (1849–1906)
* Jean Richepin (1849–1926)
* Georges de Porto-Riche (1849–1930)

### 1850–1859

[edit]

* Guy de Maupassant (1850–1893)
* Pierre Loti (Julien Viaud) (1850–1923)
* Gyp (1850–1932)
* Germain Nouveau (1851–1920)
* Élémir Bourges (1852–1925)
* Paul Bourget (1852–1935)
* Alfred Masson-Forestier (1852–1912)
* Maurice Rollinat (1853–1903)
* Arthur Rimbaud (1854–1891), Une Saison en Enfer
* Alphonse Allais (1854–1905)
* Laurent Tailhade (1854–1919)
* Georges Rodenbach (1855–1898)
* Jean Lorrain (1855–1906)
* Émile Verhaeren (1855–1916)
* Adolphe Chenevière (1855–1917)
* Noël Valois (1855–1915)
* Marie Lion (1855–1922)
* Jean Moréas (Jean Papadiamantopoulos) (1856–1910)
* Pierre Decourcelle (1856–1926)
* Claude Ferval (1856–1943)
* Gustave Lanson (1857–1934)
* Albert Samain (1858–1900)
* Jules Lemaître (1858–1915)
* Remy de Gourmont (1858–1915)
* Émile Durkheim (1858–1917)
* Alfred Capus (1858–1922)
* Georges Courteline (Georges Moineaux) (1858–1929)
* Neel Doff (1858–1942)
* Jean-Baptiste Chautard (1858–1935)
* Henri Danoy (1859–1928)
* Gustave Belot (1859–1929)
* Paul Naudet (1859–1929)
* Anatole Le Braz (1859–1926)
* Gustave Kahn (1859–1936)
* Henri Bergson (1859–1941)

### 1860–1869

[edit]

* Jules Laforgue (1860–1887)
* Paul Margueritte (1860–1918)
* Michel Zévaco (1860–1918)
* Paul Roux a/k/a Saint-Pol-Roux le Magnifique (1861–1940)
* Paul Adam (1862–1920)
* Georges Darien (1862–1921)
* Georges Feydeau (1862–1921)
* Maurice Barrès (1862–1923)
* Maurice Maeterlinck (1862–1949)
* Stuart Merrill (1863–1915)
* Marguerite Audoux (1863–1937)
* Jules Renard (1864–1910)
* Henri de Régnier (1864–1936)
* Léon Broutin (fl. 1865–77)
* Maurice Leblanc (1864–1941)
* Juliette Heuzey (1865–1952)
* Romain Rolland (1866–1944)
* Tristan Bernard (1866–1947)
* Fortunat Strowski (1866–1952)
* Charles de Beaupoil, comte de Saint-Aulaire (1866–1954)
* Émile Lauvrière (1866–1954)
* René Boylesve (René Tardivaux) (1867–1926
* Jehan Rictus (Gabriel Randon) (1867–1933)
* Léon Daudet (1867–1942)
* Marcel Schwob (1867–1905)
* Paul-Jean Toulet (1867–1920)
* Romain Coolus (1868–1952)
* Edmond Rostand (1868–1918)
* Gaston Leroux (1868–1927) (The Phantom of the Opera, Le Mystère de la chambre jaune)
* Achille Essebac (1868–1936)
* Francis Jammes (1868–1938)
* Émile Auguste Chartier a/k/a "Alain" (1868–1951)
* Paul Claudel (1868–1955)
* André Spire (1868–1966)
* Gaston Arman de Caillavet (1869–1915)
* Augustin Chaboseau (1868–1946)
* André Gide (1869–1951)

### 1870–1879

[edit]

* Marcelle Tinayre (1870–1948)
* Henry Bordeaux (1870–1963)
* Pierre Louÿs (Pierre Louis) (1870–1925)
* Maximilien Winter (1871–1935)
* André Chéradame (1871–1948)
* Albert Geouffre de Lapradelle (1871–1955)
* Gaston Brière (1871–1962)
* Marcel Proust (1871–1922), In Search of Lost Time
* Paul Valéry (1871–1945)
* Louis Madelin (1871–1956)
* Henry Bataille (1872–1922)
* Robert de Flers (1872–1927)
* Paul Fort (1872–1960)
* Alfred Jarry (1873–1907)
* Charles Péguy (1873–1914)
* Henri Barbusse (1873–1935)
* Colette (Sidonie Gabrielle Colette) (1873–1954)
* Alice Jouenne (1873–1954)
* Pierre Souvestre (1874–1914)
* Albert Thibaudet (1874–1936)
* Tristan Klingsor (1874–1966)
* Binet-Valmer (1875–1940)
* Paul Watrin (1876–1950)
* Anna de Noailles (Anne de Brancovan, comtesse de Noailles) (1876–1933)
* Max Jacob (1876–1944)
* Léon-Paul Fargue (1876–1947)
* Pierre Albert-Birot (1876–1967)
* Marcel Bouteron (1877–1962)
* Raymond Roussel (1877–1933)
* Oscar Venceslas de Lubicz-Milosz (1877–1939)
* Charles Ferdinand Ramuz, dit C. F. Ramuz (1878–1947)
* Victor Segalen (1878–1919)
* Henry de Monfreid (1879–1974)
* Francis Picabia (1879–1953)
* Henri Fauconnier (1879–1973)

### 1880–1889

[edit]

* Louis Hémon (1880–1913)
* Guillaume Apollinaire (Wilhelm Apollinaris de Kostrowitzky) (1880–1918)
* Lucie Delarue-Mardrus (1880–1945)
* Francis de Miomandre (Francis Durand) (1880–1959)
* Alzir Hella (1881–1953)
* Valery Larbaud (1881–1957)
* Roger Martin du Gard (1881–1958)
* Camille Drevet (1881–1969)
* André Salmon (1881–1969)
* Jérôme Carcopino (1881–1970)
* Louis Pergaud (1882–1915)
* Jean Giraudoux (1882–1944)
* André Billy (1882–1971)
* Pierre MacOrlan (Pierre Dumarchais) (1883–1970)
* Rose Combe (1883–1932)
* Marie Noël (1883–1933)
* Auguste Detœuf (1883–1947)
* Albert Pauphilet (1884–1948)
* Jules Supervielle (1884–1960
* Gaston Bachelard (1884–1962)
* Georges Duhamel (1884–1966)
* Jacques Chardonne (Jacques Boutelleau) (1884–1968)
* Jean Paulhan (1884–1968)
* Alexandre Arnoux (1884–1973)
* Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes (1884–1974)
* René Hubert (1885–1954)
* Sacha Guitry (1885–1957)
* André Maurois (Emile Herzog) (1885–1967)
* Fernand Crommelynck (1885–1970)
* Jules Romains (Jules-Louis de Farigoule) (1885–1972)
* Marthe Bibesco (1885–1973)
* Alain-Fournier (Henri Fournier) (1886–1914)
* Francis Carco (François Carcopino-Tusoli) (1886–1958)
* Pierre Benoit (1886–1962)
* Geneviève Fauconnier (1886–1969)
* Roland Dorgelès (Roland Lecavelé) (1886–1973)
* Jean-Charles Roman d'Amat (1887–1976)
* Henri Pourrat (1887–1959)
* Jean de La Varende (Jean-Balthazar Mallard, comte de La Varende) (1887–1959)
* René Maran (1887–1960)
* Blaise Cendrars (1887–1961)
* François Mauriac (1887–1970)
* Saint-John Perse (Alexis Léger) (1887–1975)
* Pierre-Jean Jouve (1887–1976)
* Marcel Martinet (1887–1944)
* Georges Bernanos (1888–1948)
* Henri Bosco (1888–1976)
* Paul Morand (1888–1976)
* Marcel Jouhandeau (1888–1979)
* Jacques de Lacretelle (1888–1985)
* Tristan Derème (1889–1941)
* Pierre Reverdy (1889–1960)
* Jean Cocteau (1889–1963)
* Émile Henriot (1889–1961)

### 1890–1899

[edit]

* Henriette Sauret (1890–1976)
* Maurice Genevoix (1890–1980)
* Victor Serge (1890–1947)
* Leilah Mahi (1890–1932)
* Édouard Dunglas (1891–1952)
* La Mazille (1891–1984)
* Max Ernst (1891–1976)
* Pierre Drieu La Rochelle (1893–1945)
* Edmond Brazès (1893–1980)
* Luc Benoist (1893–1980)
* Paul Foulquié (1893–1983)
* Claude Cahun (Lucy Schwob) (1894–1954)
* Louis-Ferdinand Céline (Louis Destouches) (1894–1961) (Voyage au bout de la nuit, 1932)
* Rose Celli (1895–1982)
* Paul Éluard (Eugène Grindel) (1895–1952)
* Jean Giono (1895–1970)
* Marcel Pagnol (1895–1974)
* Albert Cohen (1895–1981)
* Antonin Artaud (1896–1948)
* André Breton (1896–1966)
* Henry de Montherlant (Henry Millon de Montherlant) (1896–1972)
* Paulette Nardal (1896–1995)
* Tristan Tzara (1896–1963)
* Elsa Triolet (1896–1970)
* Louis Aragon (1897–1982)
* Georges Bataille (1897–1962)
* Joë Bousquet (1897–1950)
* Philippe Soupault (1897–1990)
* Marcel Thiry (1897–1977)
* Eugène Dabit (1898–1936)
* Michel de Ghelderode (1898–1962)
* Joseph Kessel (1898–1979)
* Paul Vialar (1898–1996)
* Louise Noëlle Malclès (1899–1977)
* Roger Vitrac (1899–1952)
* Pierre Virion (1899–1988)
* Jacques Audiberti (1899–1965)
* Marcel Achard (1899–1974)
* Louis Guilloux (1899–1980)
* Henri Michaux (1899–1984)
* Marcel Arland (1899–1986)
* Marcelle Auclair (1899–1983)
* Armand Salacrou (1899–1989)
* Francis Ponge (1899–1988)

## Twentieth century

[edit]

### 1900–1909

[edit]

* Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900–1944)
* Robert Desnos (1900–1945)
* Jacques Prévert (1900–1977)
* André Chamson (1900–1983)
* André Dhôtel (1900–1991)
* Albert Ayguesparse (1900–1996)
* Julien Green (1900–1998)
* Nathalie Sarraute (1900–1999)
* Amadou Hampâté Bâ (1900 or 1901–1991)
* Georges Limbour (1900–1970)
* Marcel Sendrail (1900–1976)
* Jacques Bordiot (1900–1983)
* Maurice Féaudierre (1901)
* Jean Meuvret (1901–1971)
* Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo (1901–1937)
* Jean Prévost (1901–1944)
* Henri Daniel-Rops (Henri Petiot) (1901–1965)
* Lanza del Vasto (1901–1981)
* Charles Lecocq (1901–1922)
* Michel Leiris (1901–1990)
* Suzanne Lilar (1901–1992)
* André Malraux (1901–1976)
* Marcel Aymé (1902–1967)
* Fernand Braudel (1902–1985)
* Marie-Magdeleine Carbet (1902–1996)
* Julien Torma (1902–1933)
* Louise de Vilmorin (1902–1969)
* Vercors (pseudonym for Jean Bruller) (1902–1991)
* Jean Tardieu (1903–1995)
* Raymond Radiguet (1903–1923)
* Irène Némirovsky (1903–1942)
* Jean Follain (1903–1971)
* Georges Simenon (1903–1989)
* Raymond Queneau (1903–1976)
* Marguerite Yourcenar (Marguerite de Crayencour) (1903–1987)
* René Bansard (1904–1971)
* Marie-Anne Desmarest (1904–1973)
* Gilbert Lely (1904–1985)
* Yves Congar (1904–1995)
* Jean-Paul Sartre (1905–1980)
* Maurice Fombeure (1906–1981)
* Charles Exbrayat (1906–1989)
* Samuel Beckett (1906–1989)
* René Sédillot (1906–1999)
* Léopold Sédar Senghor (1906–2001)
* Roger Vailland (1907–1965)
* Pauline Réage (Anne Desclos) (1907–1998)
* Violette Leduc (1907–1972)
* Raymond Abellio (Georges Soulès) (1907–1986)
* René Char (1907–1988)
* Maurice Blanchot (1907–2003)
* René Ménil (1907–2004)
* Roger Peyrefitte (1907–2000)
* Roger Gilbert-Lecomte (1907–1943)
* Jacques Roumain (1907–1944)
* René Daumal (1908–1944)
* Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986)
* Paul Bénichou (1908–2001)
* Robert Merle (1908–2004)
* Simone Weil (1909–1943)
* Stéphane Pizella (1909–1970)
* Jean-Marie Dallet (1909–1972)
* Anaïs Nin (1909–1977)
* Jean-Fernand Brierre (1909–1993)
* Robert Brasillach (1909–1945)
* André Pieyre de Mandiargues (1909–1991)
* Léo Malet (1909–1996)

### 1910–1919

[edit]

* Jean Anouilh (1910–1987)
* Jean-Louis Baghio'o (1910–1994)
* Jean Genet (1910–1986)
* Paul Guth (1910–1997)
* Julien Gracq (Louis Poirier) (1910–2007)
* Emil Cioran (1911–1995)
* Raphaël Tardon (1911–1967)
* André Hardellet (1911–1974)
* René Barjavel (1911–1985)
* Guy des Cars (Guy de Pérusse des Cars) (1911–1993)
* Hervé Bazin (Jean Hervé-Bazin) (1911–1996)
* Jean Cayrol (1911–2005)
* Henri Troyat (Lev Tarassov) (1911–2007)
* André Jardin (1912–1996)
* Pierre Boulle (1912–1994)
* Edmond Jabès (1912–1991)
* Eugène Ionesco (1912–1994)
* Jacques de Bourbon Busset (1912–2001)
* Armand Robin (1912–1961)
* Claude Simon (1913–2005)
* Luc Dietrich (1913–1944)
* Albert Camus (1913–1960)
* Mouloud Feraoun (1913–1962)
* Gilbert Cesbron (1913–1979)
* Armand Lanoux (1913–1983)
* Pierre Daninos (1913–2005)
* Aimé Césaire (1913–2008)
* Félicien Marceau (Louis Carette)(1913–2012)
* Romain Gary (Romain Kacew a/k/a Romain Gary a/k/a Emile Ajar) (1914–1980)
* Béatrix Beck (1914–2008)
* Marguerite Duras (Marguerite Donnadieu) (1914–1996)
* Ahmed Sefrioui (1915–2004)
* Roland Barthes (1915–1980)
* Suzanne Césaire (1915–1966)
* Louis Dollot (1915–1997)
* Joseph Zobel (1915–2006)
* Virgil Gheorghiu (1916–1992)
* Jean-Louis Curtis (Louis Laffitte) (1917–1995)
* Ambroise Yxemerry (1917–2013)
* Pierre Bettencourt (1917–2006)
* Alain Guy (1918–1998)
* Maurice Druon (1918–2009)
* Michel Quoist (1918–1997)
* Jean Venturini (1919–1940)
* Alain Bosquet (Anatole Bisk) (1919–1998)
* Jacques Laurent a/k/a Jacques Laurent-Cely or Cécil Saint-Laurent (1919–2000)
* Michel Déon (1919–2016)
* Robert Pinget (1919–1997)

### 1920–1929

[edit]

* Jean Dutourd (1920–2011)
* Jean Lartéguy (1920–2011)
* Jean Madiran (1920–2013)
* Mohammed Dib (1920–2003)
* Boris Vian (1920–1959)
* Françoise d'Eaubonne (1920–2005)
* Albert Memmi (1920–2020)
* Georges Brassens (1921–1981)
* Gérald Neveu (1921–1960)
* André Rogerie (1921–2014)
* Michel Guiomar (1921–2013)
* Jean-Pierre Renouard (1922–2014)
* Antoine Blondin (1922–1990)
* Jean-Charles (1922–2003)
* Jean-Claude Renard (1922–2002)
* Stefan Wul (1922–2003)
* Alain Robbe-Grillet (1922–2008)
* Yves Bonnefoy (1923–2016)
* Roger Foulon (1923–2008)
* Georges Perros (1923–1978)
* Ousmane Sembène (1923–2007)
* Jean Dumont (1923–2001)
* Claude Paillat (1924–2001)
* André du Bouchet (1924–2003)
* Salvat Etchart (1924–1985)
* Michel Tournier (1924–2016)
* Philippe Jaccottet (1925–2021)
* Roger Nimier (1925–1962)
* Jean d'Ormesson (1925–2017)
* François Augiéras (1925–1971)
* Alphonse Boudard (1925–2000)
* Roger Giroux (1925–1973)
* Frantz Fanon (1925–1961)
* Jean Robieux (1925–2012)
* Robert Misrahi (1926–2023)
* Yvon Taillandier (1926–2018)
* Michel Foucault (1926–1984)
* Michel Butor (1926–2016)
* Jacques Dupin (1927–2012)
* Gisèle Halimi (1927–2020)
* François Nourissier (1927–2011)
* Robert Fossier (1927–2012)
* Renada-Laura Portet (1927–2021)
* Jacques Rivette (1928–2016)
* André Schwarz-Bart (1928–2006)
* Édouard Glissant (1928–2011)
* Kateb Yacine (1929–1989)
* Nicolas Bouvier (1929–1998)

### 1930–1939

[edit]

* Jacques Lafaye (1930–...)
* Maggi Lidchi-Grassi (1930–...)
* Françoise Mallet-Joris (1930–2016)
* Jacques Ehrmann (1931–1972)
* Fernando Arrabal (1932–...)
* Mongo Beti (1932–2001)
* Hédi Bouraoui (1932–...)
* Claude Pujade-Renaud (1932–...)
* Jacques Roubaud (1932–...)
* Julienne Salvat (1932–2019)
* Marcelin Pleynet (1933–...)
* Claude Esteban (1935–2006)
* Agota Kristof (1935–2011)
* Françoise Sagan (Françoise Quoirez) (1935–2004)
* Daniel Zimmermann (1935–2000)
* Assia Djebar (1936–2015)
* Frankétienne (1936–...)
* Jean-Edern Hallier (1936–1997)
* Georges Perec (1936–1982)
* Philippe Sollers (1936–2023)
* Alain Grée (1936–...)
* Anne-Marie Albiach (1937–2012)
* Marc Alyn (1937–...)
* Pierre Billon (1937–...)
* Andrée Brunin (1937–1993)
* Hélène Cixous (1937–...)
* Maryse Condé (1937–...)
* Abdelkebir Khatibi (1938–2009)
* Daniel Oster (1938–1999)
* Sandra Jayat (c.1939–...)
* Michèle Lesbre (1939–...)
* Kenizé Mourad (1939–...)
* Gérard Roubichou (1939–...)

### 1940–1949

[edit]

* Annie Ernaux (1940–...)
* Marie-Reine de Jaham (1940-...)
* J.M.G. Le Clézio (1940–...)
* Emmanuel Hocquard (1940–2019)
* Charles Duchaussois (1940–1991)
* Bernard Brizay (1941–...)
* Louis Mélennec (1941–...)
* Jean Daive (1941–...)
* Julia Kristeva (1941–...)
* Jean Marcel (1941–...)
* François Weyergans (1941–2019)
* Josaphat-Robert Large (1942–2017)
* François-Xavier Guerra (1942–2002)
* Wladimir Troubetzkoy (1942–2009)
* Jean Bernabé (1942–2017)
* Jean-Patrick Manchette (1942–1995)
* Guy Olivier Faure (1943–...)
* Yves Manglou (1943–...)
* Eva Joly (1943–...)
* René-Louis Baron (1944–2016)
* Noëlle Châtelet (1944–...)
* Doumbi Fakoly (1944–...)
* Jean-Jacques Greif (1944–...)
* Sergio Kokis (1944–...)
* Daniel Pennac (1944–...)
* Lucien Polastron (1944–...)
* Marc Filloux (1944–1974)
* Alain Guillerm (1944–2005)
* Françoise Chandernagor (1945–...)
* Tony Duvert (1945–2008)
* Pierre Michon (1945–...)
* Gisèle Bienne (1946–...)
* Renaud Camus (1946–...)
* Djémil Kessous (1946–...)
* Tahar Ben Jelloun (1947–...)
* Daniel Maximin (1947-...)
* Luc Perino (1947–...)
* Michel Étiévent (1947–2021)
* Loïc Le Ribault (1947–2007)
* Jean-Claude Villain (1947-...)
* Élisabeth Vonarburg (1947–...)
* Jean-Pierre Poccioni (1948–...)
* André Rouillé (1948–...)
* Bertrand Le Gendre (1948–...)
* Jean-Paul Goux (1948–...)
* Serge Duigou (1948–...)
* François Leperlier (1949–...)
* Amin Maalouf (1949–...)
* Didier Daeninckx (1949–...)
* Pierre Bergounioux (1949–...)
* Boualem Sansal (1949–...)

### 1950–present

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* Bernard Bonnejean (1950–...)
* Yolande Cohen (1950–...)
* Pierre Cormon (1965– ...)
* Jean-Paul Dubois (1950–...)
* Moussa Konaté (1951–2013)
* Salim Jay (1951–...)
* Bernard Cottret (1951–2020)
* Jean-Didier Urbain (1951–...)
* Raphaël Confiant (1951–...)
* Carole Achache (1952–2016)
* Pierre-Henri Bunel (1952–...)
* Dan Franck (1952–...)
* Dany Laferrière (1953–...)
* Françoise Bettencourt Meyers (1953–...)
* Nancy Huston (1953–...)
* Patrick Chamoiseau (1953–...)
* François Bon (1953–...)
* Martina Wachendorff (1953–...)
* Édouard Brasey (1954–...)
* Paul Dirmeikis (1954–...)
* Tahar Djaout (1954–1993)
* Margaret Maruani (1954–2022)
* Dai Sijie (1954–...)
* Pascale Roze (1954–...)
* Adelina Yzac (1954–...)
* Jean-Pierre Vallotton (1955–...)
* Alexandra Lapierre (1955–...)
* Caroline Lamarche (1955–...)
* Bertrand Renard (1955–...)
* Joël Henry (journalist) (1955–...)
* Renaud Girard (1955–...)
* Yasmina Khadra (1955-...)
* Annie Pietri (1956–...)
* Charles Mopsik (1956–2003)
* Gisèle Pineau (1956–...)
* Jean-Pierre Thiollet (1956–...)
* Khal Torabully (1956–...)
* Fred Vargas (1957-...)
* Hervé Le Tellier (1957–...)
* Youssef Rzouga (1957–...)
* Jean-Philippe Toussaint (1957–...)
* Azouz Begag (1957–...)
* Didier Ottinger (1957–...)
* Olivier Da Lage (1957–...)
* Simon Basinger (1957–...)
* Michel Houellebecq (1958–...)
* Pierre Leroux (1958-...)
* Marc-Édouard Nabe (1958–...)
* Olivier Weber (1958–...)
* Denis Robert (1958–...)
* Benjamin Sehene (1959–...)
* Christine Angot (1959–...)
* Frédéric-Yves Jeannet (1959–...)
* Jean-Luc Bitton (1959–...)
* Malek Belarbi (1959–...)
* Nicolas Fiévé (1959–...)
* Bruno Laurioux (1959–...)
* Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt (1960–...)
* Simonetta Greggio (1961–...)
* Bernard Werber (1961–...)
* Charles Dantzig (1961–...)
* Philippe Buc (1961–...)
* Valérie Grumelin-Halimi (1961–...)
* Philippe Claudel (1962–...)
* Virginie Caillé-Bastide (1962–...)
* Catherine Cusset (1963–...)
* Beatrice Hammer (1963–...)
* Kevin Bokeili (1963–2014)
* Alexis Jenni (1963–...)
* Bill GB Pallot (1964–...)
* Nadine Ribault (1964–2021)
* Ann Scott (1965–...)
* Stéphane Laurent (1966–...)
* Odile Benyahia-Kouider (1966–...)
* Marie Jaffredo (1966–...)
* Alain Mabanckou (1966–...)
* Delphine Gardey (1967–...)
* Mouna Hachim (1967–...)
* Paul-Louis Roubert (1967–...)
* Jonathan Littell (1967–...)
* Amélie Nothomb (1967–...)
* Basile Panurgias (1967–...)
* Johanna Schipper (1967–...)
* Fréderic Neyrat (1968–...)
* Norbert-Bertrand Barbe (1968–...)
* Kim Thúy (1968–...)
* Virginie Despentes (1969–...)
* Louis Emond (1969–...)
* Antoine Bello (1970–...)
* Christophe Honoré (1970–...)
* Fabienne Kanor (1970–...)
* Édouard Tétreau (1970–...)
* Philippe Boisnard (1971–...)
* Yannick Mireur (1971–...)
* Angela Behelle (1971–...)
* Nicolas Ancion (1971–...)
* Luis de Miranda (1971–...)
* Nicolas Bouyssi (1972–...)
* Cristina Rodríguez (1972–...)
* Kilien Stengel (1972–...)
* Roland Michel Tremblay (1972–...)
* Romain Sardou (1974–...)
* Guillaume Musso (1974–...)
* Olivier Adam (1974–...)
* Harold Cobert (1974–...)
* Juliette Rennes (1976–...)
* Lisa Mandel (1977–...)
* Benoît Bringer (1979–...)
* Agnès Martin-Lugand (1979–...)
* Diane Mazloum (1980–...)
* Nahema Hanafi (1983–...)
* Jérémy Marie (1984–...)
* Benjamin Hoffmann (1985–...)
* Oriane Lassus (1987–...)
* Charles Luylier (1989–...)
* Blandine Rinkel (1991-…)
* Soraya Nini (1993–...)
* Chloé Wary (1995–...)
* Estelle Beauchamp (novelist since 1995)

## See also

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* List of French women writers
* French literature
* Francophone literature
* Lists of French language poets, French novelists, French people, authors
* Quebec literature
* List of Quebec authors
* List of Belgian women writers

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