Most Famous French Writers
50 French Writers in view out of 1,719
Writing 1,719
France 13,591
Victor Hugo French Poet 1802 – 1885
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Voltaire French Writer 1694 – 1778
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau French Writer 1712 – 1778
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René Descartes French Philosopher 1596 – 1650
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Jules Verne French Novelist 1828 – 1905
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Albert Camus French Writer 1913 – 1960
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Michel Foucault French Philosopher 1926 – 1984
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Honoré de Balzac French Novelist 1799 – 1850
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Émile Zola French Novelist 1840 – 1902
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Arthur Rimbaud French Poet 1854 – 1891
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Alexandre Dumas French Novelist 1802 – 1870
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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry French Writer 1900 – 1944
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Simone de Beauvoir French Writer 1908 – 1986
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Montesquieu French Philosopher 1689 – 1755
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Denis Diderot French Novelist 1713 – 1784
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Auguste Comte French Philosopher 1798 – 1857
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Guy de Maupassant French Writer 1850 – 1893
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Stendhal French Writer 1783 – 1842
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Michel de Montaigne French Literary 1533 – 1592
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Jacques Derrida French Philosopher 1930 – 2004
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Pierre Bourdieu French Philosopher 1930 – 2002
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Claude Lévi-Strauss French Philosopher 1908 – 2009
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Jean Racine French Playwright 1639 – 1699
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Paul Verlaine French Poet 1844 – 1896
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François Rabelais French Writer 1494 – 1553
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Jean de La Fontaine French Poet 1621 – 1695
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Michel Houellebecq French Poet Born 1956
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Roland Barthes French Philosopher 1915 – 1980
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André Breton French Poet 1896 – 1966
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François-René de Chateaubriand French Writer 1768 – 1848
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Pierre de Coubertin French Historian 1863 – 1937
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Marguerite Duras French Writer 1914 – 1996
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Colette French Novelist 1873 – 1954
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Louis Althusser French Philosopher 1918 – 1990
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Léopold Sédar Senghor French Poet 1906 – 2001
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Jean Baudrillard French Philosopher 1929 – 2007
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Georges Brassens French Poet 1921 – 1981
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Romain Rolland French Writer 1866 – 1944
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Louis Aragon French Writer 1897 – 1982
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Alphonse de Lamartine French Writer 1790 – 1869
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Théophile Gautier French Writer 1811 – 1872
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Thomas Carlyle French Literary 1795 – 1881
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Georges Perec French Writer 1936 – 1982
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Jean Bodin French Philosopher 1530 – 1596
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Marquis de Condorcet French Philosopher 1743 – 1794
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Bernard-Henri Lévy French Writer Born 1948
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Maurice Merleau-Ponty French Philosopher 1908 – 1961
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Françoise Sagan French Writer 1935 – 2004
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Paul Ricœur French Philosopher 1913 – 2005
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Paul Éluard French Writer 1895 – 1952
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