France
172 authors
Peter Abelard
Medieval Latin· 1079–1142
Alain-Fournier
French· 1886–1914
Marcel Allain
French· 1885–1969
Guillaume Apollinaire
French· 1880–1918
Nathacha Appanah
French· born 1973
Louis Aragon
French· 1897–1982
Antonin Artaud
French· 1896–1948
Marcel Aymé
French· 1902–1967
Honoré de Balzac
French· 1799–1850
Muriel Barbery
French· b. 1969
Henri Barbusse
French· 1873–1935
Roland Barthes
French· 1915–1980
Charles Baudelaire
French· 1821–1867
Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais
French· 1732–1799
Simone de Beauvoir
French· 1908–1986
Nina Berberova
Russian· 1901–1993
Henri Bergson
French· 1859–1941
Bernard of Clairvaux
Medieval Latin· c. 1090–1153
Béroul
Old French· c. 1140-1200
Aloysius Bertrand
French· 1807–1841
Robert de Boron
Old French· lived c. 1150-1250
André Breton
French· 1896–1966
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
French· 1755–1826
Jean de La Bruyère
French· 1645–1696
Gui de Cambrai
Old French· born late 1100s - died early 1200s
Albert Camus
French· 1913–1958
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
French· 1894–1961
Éric Chevillard
French· b. 1964
Thomas Clerc
French· b. 1965
J. M. G. Le Clézio
French· b. 1940
Jean Cocteau
French· 1889–1963
Philippe de Commines
Middle French· 1447–1511
Benjamin Constant
French· 1767–1830
Pierre Corneille
French· 1606–1684
Julio Cortázar
Spanish· 1914–1984
Laurence Cossé
French· born 1950
Albert Cossery
French· 1913–2008
Marquis de Custine
French· 1790–1857
Christelle Dabos
French· born 1980
Jean-Paul de Dadelsen
French· 1913–1957
Alphonse Daudet
French· 1840–1897
René Daumal
French· 1908–1944
Gilles Deleuze
French· 1925–1995
Agnès Desarthe
French· born 1966
René Descartes
Neo-Latin, French· 1596–1650
Denis Diderot
French· 1713–1784
Alexandre Dumas
French· 1802–1870
Marguerite Duras
French· 1914–1996
Émile Durkheim
French· 1858–1917
Jean Echenoz
French· b. 1947
Françoise Ega
French· 1920–1976
Einhard
Carolingian Latin· 775–840
Mathias Énard
French· born 1972
Erasmus
Neo-Latin· c. 1466–1536
Annie Ernaux
French· b. 1940
Alexandre Dumas fils
French· 1824–1895
Gustave Flaubert
French· 1821–1889
Jean de La Fontaine
French· 1621–1695
Michel Foucault
French· 1926–1984
Anatole France
French· 1844–1924
Marie de France
Old French· fl. 1160-1215
Jean Froissart
Old French· c. 1337 - c. 1405
Marc Fumaroli
French· 1932–2020
Antoine Galland
French· 1646–1715
Anne Garréta
French· born c. 1962
Émile Ajar / Romain Gary
French· 1914–1980
Théophile Gautier
French· 1811–1872
Anna Gavalda
French· born 1970
Jean Genet
French· 1910–1986
André Gide
French· 1869–1951
Jean Giono
French· 1895–1970
René Girard
French· 1923–2015
Goncourt Brothers
French· Edmond (1822-1896), Jules (1830-1870)
Félix Guattari
French· 1930–1992
François Guizot
French· 1787–1874
Héloïse d'Argenteuil
Medieval Latin· 1101–1164
Michel Houellebecq
French· b. 1956
Victor Hugo
French· 1802–1885
Joris-Karl Huysmans
French· 1848–1907
Vladimir Jankélévitch
French· 1903–1985
Alfred Jarry
French· 1873–1907
John of Joinville
Old French· c. 1224–1317
François Jullien
French· b. 1951
Hédi Kaddour
French· b. 1945
Thomas à Kempis
Medieval Latin· 1380–1471
Vénus Khoury-Ghata
French· 1937–2026
Dezső Kosztolányi
Hungarian· 1885–1936
Milan Kundera
Czech, French· 1929–2023
Madame de La Fayette
French· 1634–1693
Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
French· 1741–1803
Jules Laforgue
French· 1860–1887
Alexandra Lapierre
French· born 1955
Comte de Lautréamont
French· 1846–1870
Maurice Leblanc
French· 1864–1941
Michel Leiris
French· 1901–1990
Jonathan Littell
French· b. 1969
Guillaume de Lorris
Old French· c. 1200 - c. 1240
Andreï Makine
French
Stéphane Mallarmé
French· 1842–1898
Jean-Patrick Manchette
French· 1942–1995
Pierre de Marivaux
French· 1688–1763
Roger Martin du Gard
French· 1881–1958
Guy de Maupassant
French· 1850–1893
François Mauriac
French· 1885–1970
Jean de Meun
Old French· c. 1240 - c. 1305
Henri Michaux
French· 1899–1984
Pierre Michon
French· b. 1945
Hubert Mingarelli
French· 1956–2020
Patrick Modiano
French· b. 1945
Molière
French· 1622–1673
Henry de Monfreid
French· 1879–1974
Michel de Montaigne
Middle French· 1533–1592
Montesquieu
French· 1689–1755
Scholastique Mukasonga
French· born 1956
Alfred de Musset
French· 1810–1857
Marguerite de Navarre
Middle French· 1492–1549
Irene Nemirovsky
French· 1903–1942
Gérard de Nerval
French· 1808–1855
Blaise Pascal
French· 1623–1662
Georges Perec
French· 1936–1981
Charles Perrault
French· 1628–1703
Valérie Perrin
French· born 1967
Saint-John Perse
French· 1887–1975
Christine de Pizan
Middle French· 1364–c. 1430
Jacques Collin de Plancy
French· 1793–1881
Claude Ponti
French· born 1948
Marguerite Porete
Old French· 1258–1310
Abbé Prévost
French· 1697–1763
Marcel Proust
French· 1871–1922
Raymond Queneau
French· 1903–1976
François Rabelais
Middle French· 1494–1553
Jean Racine
French· 1639–1699
Maurice Renard
French· 1875–1939
Arthur Rimbaud
French· 1854–1891
François de La Rochefoucauld
French· 1613–1680
Pierre de Ronsard
Middle French· 1524–1585
Edmond Rostand
French· 1868–1918
Jacques Roubaud
French· 1932–2024
Raymond Roussel
French· 1877–1933
Jean-Christophe Rufin
French
Marquis de Sade
French· 1740–1814
Françoise Sagan
French· 1935–2004
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
French· 1900–1944
Bernardin de Saint-Pierre
French· 1737–1814
Duc de Saint-Simon
French· 1760–1822
Lydie Salvayre
French· born 1948
George Sand
French· 1804–1876
Nathalie Sarraute
French· 1900–1999
Jean-Paul Sartre
French· 1905–1980
Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
French· born 1960
Marcel Schwob
French· 1867–1905
Pierre Senges
French· b. 1968
Anne Serre
French· born 1960
Madame de Sévigné
French· 1626–1696
Claude Simon
French· 1913–2005
Philippe Soupault
French· 1897–1990
Pierre Souvestre
French· 1874–1914
Germaine de Staël
French· 1766–1817
Stendhal
French· 1783–1842
Alexis de Tocqueville
French· 1805–1859
Gregory of Tours
Late Latin· c. 538–594
Chrétien de Troyes
Old French· 1160–1191
Turoldus
French, Old French· 1000–1100
Jean-Christophe Valtat
French, English· b. 1968
Jules Verne
French· 1828–1905
Alfred de Vigny
French· 1797–1863
Geoffrey of Villehardouin
Old French· c. 1150 - c. 1218
François Villon
Middle French· c. 1431 - after 1463
Antoine Volodine
French· b. 1950
Voltaire
French· 1694–1778
Simone Weil
French· 1909–1943
Émile Zola
French· 1840–1902