Middle ages
* k6 H: G+ l) Z+ D+ v+ @6 C Chrétien de Troyes (around 1135 - around 1183)2 N$ L; T% N! N6 ^$ O/ H
16th centuryFrancois Rabelais (around 1483 or 1494 – 1553)
* K5 M5 I; V- x7 { Pierre de Ronsard (1524 – 1585)
1 d9 \- F$ s N% W$ z/ o Louise Labé (a.1526 - a.1565)) [9 X/ J# i5 H0 C/ W9 A6 Q
17th centuryRené Descartes (1596 - 1650)
* H' |. v. L8 H$ P4 @ Pierre Corneille (1606–1684)
# A0 D, X5 m5 _/ v1 S0 _3 L% {! R* g Jean de La Fontaine (1621–1695)
% c7 ^' X9 l( n3 _7 j Molière (1622–1673)
6 P; T/ e7 i3 C8 L) J0 ^7 j; A8 e Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)
6 Q4 n9 f" @1 ^) O* `4 z6 O6 c, J, Q Charles Perrault (1628–1703)
/ u& r' l0 {1 w% I" X Jean Racine (1639–1699), J! y' O6 `2 D7 J
18th century
2 X. K3 Q @2 L6 g- q& E2 x Marivaux (1688–1763)
: X: p2 y l2 H0 T; _0 m Montesquieu (1689–1755)5 m) D* W9 v* `1 O% g
Voltaire (1694–1778)2 A6 P8 D4 K1 h, y. K. E) S
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712 - 1778)
* \3 O% C. y6 m1 Q, A( T# o Denis Diderot (1713 - 1784)7 B2 P# @, T; u( J6 n5 d
Beaumarchais (1732 - 1799)$ M0 d7 G6 V' c" c6 E. S
19th centuryFran?ois-René de Chateaubriand (1768 - 1848)' ]% e/ u+ s; ~9 C+ L- e" D! m
Honoré de Balzac (1799 - 1850)
' O, J2 Z1 \/ X. p+ N0 X Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885)
9 u& a* g6 C, C5 j( B9 P Alexandre Dumas (1802 - 1870)
% Y5 D$ u" K& W0 b/ F9 F Prosper Mérimée (1803 - 1870)* s5 a" r3 W4 V9 {
George Sand (1804 - 1876): X) \5 `2 O! n! D8 ?( v2 T) A* D
Alfred de Musset (1810 - 1857)
- ~# W( f! Z+ D# _1 Q" y/ W9 p& K5 z Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867)- ^! Y" P; C0 H! k. N$ o" v( Y
Gustave Flaubert (1821 - 1880)$ `! A+ j. I& h* X- A1 ?
Jules Verne (1828 - 1905)
6 l( S3 `* Z' |, e Alphonse Daudet (1840 - 1897)8 ~, S. E5 i! J7 J
Emile Zola (1840 - 1902)5 Q$ g5 S3 _1 n. t+ W5 w/ E
Paul Verlaine (1844 - 1896)/ ^- k% a+ g2 p% b; }) Z
Henri Bergson (1859 - 1941)
( D. p1 g( h3 J: _ Edmond Rostand (1868 - 1918)3 l/ b1 Q5 x, _! \; s) b9 t
20th centuryPaul Claudel (1868 - 1955)
9 z: u4 H6 h* U* h Marcel Proust (1871 - 1922)
' S$ S2 h4 ]4 X, M( B4 l+ n. L6 Y" l Guillaume Apollinaire (1880 - 1918)% d0 A- r E q4 e: J/ L
Jean Cocteau (1892 - 1963)$ {6 X) w% i4 z3 ^& a# ?
Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1894 - 1961)# n' e* `8 S3 Y$ [- R( C
Jean Giono (1895 - 1970)
4 Q- R- x$ m( R2 }: o) s7 B0 {. z6 ^ Marcel Pagnol (1895 - 1974)
o& o5 Z" \: q André Breton (1896 - 1966)/ E" k) h3 s q9 Y
Jacques Prévert (1900 - 1977)
/ J8 w. {$ q- Z) v6 y8 H6 G André Malraux (1901 - 1976)
* L) y/ E% {* v0 u Raymond Queneau (1903 - 1976); D: @1 N( m% d# G. y
Jean-Paul Sartre (1905 - 1980)3 g$ d/ o- V T+ H T
Robert Merle (1908 - 2004)
, J$ G% U0 d% R5 V1 i0 ^. _3 d Nicolas Bouvier (1929 - 1998)+ o! l. E& _: D+ H7 m8 [: U$ p
Georges Perec (1936 - 1982)- Y' B% P0 |! Q; \" C: l
Antoine Marie Roger de Saint-Exupery (1900 - 1944)6 X, V6 y$ i0 `0 W
Albert Camus (1913 – 1960)/ x% s+ Q8 E; O% o& q
Colette (1873 - 1954)+ z% u* d( E# O
Ana?s Nin (1903-1977)
5 {5 j2 L% E/ M3 R, T: v6 b5 ` Simone de Beauvoir (1908 - 1986) |