Most Famous French Writers
France has produced 907 notable writers throughout history, led by Voltaire. Rankings are drawn from a cross-verified academic dataset of 152,953 people.
Category All
Citizenship All
V
Voltaire French Writer 1694 – 1778
#
51
JR
Jean-Jacques Rousseau French Writer 1712 – 1778
#
55
JV
Jules Verne French Novelist 1828 – 1905
#
120
AC
Albert Camus French Writer 1913 – 1960
#
129
HD
Honoré de Balzac French Novelist 1799 – 1850
#
234
ÉZ
Émile Zola French Novelist 1840 – 1902
#
254
AD
Alexandre Dumas French Novelist 1802 – 1870
#
363
AD
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry French Writer 1900 – 1944
#
376
SD
Simone de Beauvoir French Writer 1908 – 1986
#
382
DD
Denis Diderot French Novelist 1713 – 1784
#
456
GD
Guy de Maupassant French Writer 1850 – 1893
#
627
S
Stendhal French Writer 1783 – 1842
#
734
MD
Michel de Montaigne French Literary 1533 – 1592
#
788
JR
Jean Racine French Playwright 1639 – 1699
#
1,232
FR
François Rabelais French Writer 1494 – 1553
#
1,257
FD
François-René de Chateaubriand French Writer 1768 – 1848
#
1,591
MD
Marguerite Duras French Writer 1914 – 1996
#
1,855
C
Colette French Novelist 1873 – 1954
#
1,888
RR
Romain Rolland French Writer 1866 – 1944
#
2,284
LA
Louis Aragon French Writer 1897 – 1982
#
2,358