List writers of French language by chronological order

List writers of French language, classified per year of birth (then alphabetically within each year):

Born at the 11th century

Turold (11th century)

Born at the 12th century

Benoit of Holy-Moor (12th century)
Blondel de Nesle (fine of the 12th century)
Eudes de Deuil (v. 1110 - 1151)
Christian of Troyes (v. 1135 - v. 1183)
Robert Wace (1110 - v. 1180)
Geoffroi de Villehardouin (1148 - v. 1213)
Conon de Béthune (v. 1150 - 1220)
Robert of Boron (12th century-13th century)
Jean Bodel (12th century-v. 1210)
Béroul (v. 1170)
Thomas of England (v. 1170)
Jean Renaut (fine of the 12th century-beginning of the 13th century)
Gace Flaring (v. 1170)
Marie de France (v. 1175)
Gauthier de Coincy (1178 - 1236)

Born at the 13th century

Guillaume de Lorris (v. 1200 - v. 1238)
Thibaut de Champagne (1201 - 1253)
Jean de Joinville (v. 1224 - v. 1317)
Rutebeuf (v. 1230 - v. 1285)
Adam of the Market (v. 1250 - v. 1285)
Marguerite Porete (v. 1250 - 1310)
Jean de Meun or Jean Clopinel or Chopinel (1250 - v. 1305)
Jean Beautiful the (v. 1290 - 1370)
Hake Muset (fine of the 13th century)

Born at the 14th century

Guillaume de Machaut (v. 1300 - v. 1377)
Jean de Venette (1307 - 1368)
Nicolas d' Oresme (1325 - 1382)
Jean Froissart (1333 - v. 1404)
Eustace Deschamps (v. 1346 - v. 1407)
Jean Charlier says Gerson (1363 - 1429)
Christine de Pizan or Christine de Pisan ( 1364 - 1430)
Alain Chartier (v. 1385 - v. 1435)
Jean Juvénal of Ursins (1388 - 1473)
Antoine of Dirty the (1388 - v. 1469)
Enguerrand de Monstrelet (v. 1390 - v. 1453)
Charles of Orleans (1394 - 1465)
Eustace Marcadé (13?? - 1440)
Michault Charon, known as Taillevent (v. 1390/1395 - between 1448 and 1458)

Born at the 15th century

Jean de Bueil (1405 - 1477)
Martin the Franc (v. 1410 - 1461)
Georges Chastellain (1415 - 1475)
Arnoul Gréban (v. 1420 - v. 1470
Olivier of Walk (1425 - 1502)
Martial of Auvergne (v. 1430 - 1508)
François Villon (v. 1431 - after 1463)
Jean Michel (v. 1435 - 1501)
Jean Molinet (1435 - 1507)
Philippe de Commynes (1445 - 1511)
Jacques Lefèvre d' Étaples (1455 - 1537)
Jean Marot (v. 1450 - v. 1526)
Guillaume Dubois says Crétin (1460 - 1525)
Octavien of Saint-Froze (1468 - 1502)
Guillaume Budé (1468 - 1540
Jean Lemaire of Belgians (1473 - v. 1525)
Pierre Gringore (v. 1475 - 1538/1539)
Jean Bouchet (1476 - v. 1558)
François Rabelais (v. 1483 - 1553)
Mellin of Saint-Froze (1491 - 1558)
Marguerite de Navarre (v. 1492 - 1549)
Clement Marot (v. 1496 - 1544)

Born at the 16th century

Guillaume of the Stone quarry (1503 - 1565)
Maurice Scève (v. 1505 - v. 1562)
Michel of Hospital (1505 - 1573)
Guillaume Guéroult (1507 - 1569)
Jean Calvin (1509 - 1564)
Bonaventure Of Périers (v. 1510 - v. 1544)
Pierre Viret (1511 - 1571)
Thomas Sébillet (v. 1512 - 1589)
Jacques Amyot (1513 - 1593)
Louis Of the Hovels (v. 1515 - 1574)
Guillaume Bouchet (1515 - 1594)
Jacques Furrier of Mans (1517 - 1582)
Theodore de Bèze (1519 - 1605)
Christmas of Fail (1520 - 1591)
Jacques Yver (1520 - 1570)
Gilles de Gouberville (1521 - 1578)
Pontus de Thyard or of Thiard (1521 - 1605)
Joachim of Bellay (1522 - 1560)
Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585)
François Hotman (1524 - 1590)
Louise Labé (v. 1526 - v. 1565)
Rémy Belleau (1528 - 1577)
Etienne Pasquier (1529 - 1615)
Etienne of Boétie (1530 - 1563)
Claude Fauchet (1530 - 1602)
Jean Bodin (1530 - 1596)
Henri Estienne (1531 - 1598)
Jean Antoine de Baïf (1532 - 1589)
Etienne Jodelle (1532 - 1573)
Michel Eyquem, lord of Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
Jean of the Size (v. 1533/1540 - v. 1617)
Robert Garnier (1534 - 1590)
Jean Passerat (1534 - 1590)
Nicolas Painter (1535 - 1608)
Jean Vauquelin of Fresnaye (1536 - 1606)
Scévole of Holy-Marthe (1536 - 1623)
Benign Poissenot (1537/1538 - 1587)
Jacques Grévin (1538 - 1570)
Olivier de Serres (1539 - 1619)
Pierre Pithou (1539 - 1596)
Pierre de Bourdeille, abbot of Brantôme (1540 - 1614)
Pierre de Larivey (1540 - 1619)
Florent Chrestien (1540 - 1596)
Pierre Cartwright (1541 - 1603)
Guillaume of Bartas (1544 - 1590)
Jean Papire Masson (1544 - 1611)
Philippe Desportes (1546 - 1606)
Pierre of Estoile (1546 - 1611)
Jean of Ceppède (1548 - 1623)
Etienne Tabourot of the Agreements (1549 - 1590)
Philippe de Mornay, known as Duplessis-Mornay (1549 - 1623)
François d' Amboise (1550 - 1619)
Odet de Turnèbe (1552 - 1581)
Jean Bertaut (1552 - 1611)
Theodore Clutched of Aubigné (1552 - 1630)
François de Malherbe (1552 - 1630)
Jacques Davy Of the Perron (1556 - 1618)
François Béroalde de Verville (1556 - 1626)
Guillaume of Squirrel fur (1556 - 1621)
Honore d' Urfé (1557 - 1625)
Jean de Sponde (1557 - 1595)
Maximilien de Béthune, baron de Rosny, duke of Sully (1560 - 1641)
Alexandre Hardy (1560/1570 - v. 1632)
François Dirty (1567 - 1622)
Honore d' Urfé (1567 - 1625)
Jean-Baptiste Chassignet (1570 - 1635)
Jean Ogier de Gombauld (1570 - 1666)
Antoine de Nervèze (v. 1570 - v. 1622)
Mathurin Régnier (1573 - 1613)
Antoine de Montchrétien or of Montchrestien (v. 1575 - 1621)
Henri duke of Rohan (1579 - 1638)
Jean Duvergier de Hauranne, abbot of Saint-Cyran (1581 - 1643)
François Maynard (1582 - 1646)
Jean-Pierre Camus (1583 - 1652)
Jean de Schelandre (v. 1585 - 1635)
Claude Favre de Vaugelas (1585 - 1650)
François of Mothe Vayer (1588 - 1672)
Honorat de Bueil, lord of Racan (1589 - 1670)
Theophilus de Viau (1590 - 1626 )
François Métel de Boisrobert (1592 - 1662)
Marc-Antoine Girard of Saint-Lover (1594 - 1661)
Jean Chapelain (1595 - 1674)
Jean Desmarets de Saint-Sorlin (1595 - 1676)
Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650)
Claude Malleville (1597 - 1647)
Vincent Conveys (1597 - 1648)
Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac (1597 - 1684)
Guillaume Colletet (1598 - 1659)
Madeleine de Sablé (1599 - 1678)

Born at the 17th century

Marine Roy de Gomberville (1600 - 1674)
Georges de Scudéry (1601 - 1667)
Francois, known as Tristan the Hermit (1601 - 1655)
Guy Shoe (1601 - 1672)
Charles Sorel (1602 - 1674)
Pierre Moyne (1602 - 1671)
Charles Cotin (1604 - 1682
Jean Mairet (1604 - 1686)
Pierre Of Ryer (1605 - 1658)
Charles Coypeau d' Assoucy (1605 - 1675)
Jean-François Sarasin (1605 - 1654)
Pierre Corneille (1606 - 1684)
Antoine Gombaud, knight of Mother (1607 - 1685)
Madeleine de Scudéry (1607 - 1701)
Jean Rotrou (1609 - 1650)
Paul Scarron (1610 - 1660)
François Eude de Mézeray (1610 - 1683)
Antoine Arnauld (1612 - 1694)
Richemont Banchereau (1612 -????)
Isaac de Benserade (1612 - 1691
Paul de Gondi, cardinal of Retz (1613 - 1679)
François VI, duke of Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
Charles de Marguetel of Saint-Denis de Saint-Evremond (v. 1614 - 1703)
Gautier de Costes of Calprenède (1614 - 1663)
Georges de Brébeuf (1617 - 1661)
Jacques Slipper (1618 - 1661)
Roger de Rabutin, count de Bussy, known as Bussy-Rabutin (1618 - 1693)
Savinien de Cyrano of Bergerac (1619 - 1655)
Antoine Furetière (1619 - 1688)
Jean of the Fountain (1621 - 1695)
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known as Molière (1622 - 1673)
Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662)
Jean Regnault de Segrais (1624 - 1701)
Thomas Crow (1625 - 1709)
Marie of Rabutin-Chantal, marchioness of Sévigné (1626 - 1696)
Laurent Drelincourt (1626 - 1680)
Jacques Benign Bossuet (1627 - 1704)
Gabriel de Guilleragues (1628 - 1685)
Charles Perrault (1628 - 1703)
Louis Bourdaloue (1632 - 1704)
Spirit Arrow-maker (1632 - 1710)
Marie-Catherine de Villedieu (1632 - 1683)
Marie-madeleine, countess of Fayette (1634 - 1693)
Philippe Quinault (1635 - 1688)
Adrien-Thomas Perdou de Subligny (1636 - 1696)
Nicolas Boileau (1636 - 1711)
Claude Small the (1638 - 1662)
Nicolas Malebranche (1638 - 1715)
Jean Donneau de Visé (1638 - 1710)
Philippe de Courcillon, marquis de Dangeau (1638 - 1720)
César Vichard de Saint-Réal (1639 - 1692)
Jean Root (1639 - 1699)
Claude de Fleury (1640 - 1723)
Louis Moréri (1643 - 1680)
Jean of the Heather (1645 - 1696)
Pierre the Heavy one, sior of Wood-Guillebert (v. 1646 - 1714)
Antoine Galland (1646 - 1715)
Pierre Bayle (1647 - 1706)
Charles Dufresny (1648 - 1724)
François de Salignac of Mothe-Fénelon (1651 - 1715)
Jean-François Regnard (1655 - 1709)
Bernard Bovier de Fontenelle (1657 - 1757)
Henri de Boulainvilliers (1658 - 1712)
Charles Rollin (1661 - 1741)
Alain-Rene Lesage (1668 - 1747)
Jean-Baptiste Rousseau (1670 - 1741)
Jean-Baptiste Abbot Of the Boss (1670 - 1742)
Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon (1674 - 1762)
Louis de Rouvroy, duke of Saint-Simon (1675 - 1755)
Philippe Néricault Destouches (1680 - 1754)
Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux (1688 - 1763)
Alexis Piron (1689 - 1773)
Charles Louis de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu (1689 - 1755)
Small Louis of Bachaumont (1690 - 1771)
François-Marie Arouet, known as Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
Rene-Louis de Voyer de Paulmy d' Argenson (1694 - 1757 )
Antoine-François abbot Prévost d' Exiles (1697 - 1763)
Marie of Vichy-Chamrond, marchioness of Deffand (1697 - 1780)
Marie-Anne Barbier (fine of the 17th century 1742)

Born at the 18th century

Charles Pinot Duclos (1704 - 1772)
Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon (1707 - 1777)
Buffon (1707 - 1788)
François Strainer (1707 - 1784)
Julien Offray of Mettrie (1709 - 1751)
Gabriel Bonnot de Mably (1709 - 1785)
Jean-Baptiste Gresset (1709 - 1777)
Jean-Jacques Lefranc de Pompignan (1709 - 1784)
Charles-Simon Favart (1710 - 1792)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712 - 1778)
Denis Diderot (1713 - 1784)
Etienne Bonnot de Condillac (1714 - 1780)
Riccoboni Marijuana, known as Mrs Riccoboni (1713 - 1792)
Claude-Adrien Helvétius (1715 - 1771)
Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 - 1747)
Jean-François of Saint-Lambert (1716 - 1803)
Louis Carbogis, known as Carmontelle (1717 - 1806
Jean the Round of Alembert (1717 - 1783)
Michel-Jean Sedaine (1719 - 1797)
Jacques Cazotte (1720 - 1792)
Tiphaigne of the Rock (1722 - 1774)
Paul Henri Dietrich, baron d' Holbach (1723 - 1789)
Jean-François Marmontel (1723 - 1799)
Jean-Jacques Casanova de Seingalt (1725 - 1798)
Anne Robert Jacques, baron of the Alder Turgot (1727 - 1781)
Pierre-Augustin Charon de Beaumarchais (1732 - 1799)
Jean Baptist Lefebvre de Villebrune (1732 - 1809)
Nicolas Edme Restif of Breton the (1734 - 1806)
Charles-Joseph, prince de Ligne (1735 - 1814)
Jacques-Henri Bernardin of Saint-Pierre (1737 - 1814)
Jacques Delille (1738 - 1813)
Donatien Alphonse Francois, marquis de Sade (1740 - 1814)
Beautiful of Zuylen (1740 - 1805)
Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos de Laclos (1741 - 1803)
Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet (1743 - 1794)
Jean-Antoine Roucher (1745 - 1794)
Jean-Sifrein Maury (1746 - 1817)
Congratulated on Genlis (1746 - 1830)
Armand-Louis de Gontaut-Biron, duke of Lauzun (1747 - 1793)
Honore Gabriel Riqueti, count de Mirabeau (1749 - 1791)
Nicolas-Joseph-Laurent Gilbert (1750 - 1780)
Évariste de Forges of Parny (1753 - 1814)
Joseph de Maistre (1753 - 1821)
Joseph Joubert (1754 - 1824)
Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian (1754 - 1794)
Jacques Pierre Brissot (1754 - 1793)
Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (1754 - 1838)
Constantin-François Chassebœuf, Count de Volney (1757 - 1820)
Andre Chénier (1762 - 1794)
Louis-Charles Caigniez (1762 - 1842)
Sophie Marie Louise de Grouchy, marchioness of Condorcet (1764 - 1822)
Madam de Staël (1766 - 1817)
Emmanuel-Augustin-Dieudonné, count de Las Boxes (1766 - 1842)
Benjamin Constant of Rebecque (1767 - 1830)
Joseph Fiévée (1767 - 1839)
François-Rene de Chateaubriand (1768 - 1848)
Sophie Cottin (1770 - 1807)
Etienne Green woodpecker of Senancour (1770 - 1846)
Paul-Louis Courier de Méré (1772 - 1825)
Rene-Charles Guilbert de Pixérécourt (1773 - 1844)
Eugene-François Vidocq (1775 - 1857)
Charles Nodier (1780 - 1844)
Pierre-Jean de Béranger (1780 - 1857)
Theophilus Marion Dumersan (1780 - 1849)
Congratulated Robert de Lamennais (1782 - 1854)
Guillaume de Barante (1782 - 1866)
Victor Henri-Joseph Brahain Ducange (1783 - 1833)
Henri Beyle, known as Stendhal (1783 - 1842)
Pierre-Antoine Lebrun (1785 - 1873)
Marceline Desbordes-Valmore (1786 - 1859)
Alphonse Rabbe (1786 - 1829)
Theodore Leclercq (1787 - 1851)
François Guizot (1787 - 1874)
Abel Dufresne (1788 - 1872)
Alexandre Guiraud (1788 - 1847)
Charles-Victor Prévost, Viscount of Arlincourt (1788 - 1856)
Alphonse of Lamartine (1790 - 1869)
Paul de Kock (1793 - 1871)
Augustin Thierry (1795 - 1856)
Adolphe Thiers (1797 - 1877)
Casimir Delavigne (1797 - 1863)
Alfred, count de Vigny (1797 - 1863)
Eugene Delacroix (1798 - 1863)
Jules Michelet (1798 - 1874)
Auguste Count (1798 - 1857)
Sophie Rostopchine, countess of Ségur (1799 - 1874)
Henri Monnier (1799 - 1877)
Honore de Balzac (1799 - 1850)
Jean-Jacques Amp (1800 - 1864)

Born at the 19th century

Claude Tillier (1801 - 1844)
Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885)
Alexandre Dumas (1802 - 1870)
Prosper Mérimée (1803 - 1870)
Edgar Quinet (1803 - 1875)
Charles Augustin Holy-Beuve (1804 - 1869)
Dupin Amandine-Lucie-Dawn, baroness Dudevant, known as George Sand (1804 - 1876)
Alexis Henri Charles of Clérel, Viscount of Tocqueville (1805 - 1859)
Auguste Anicet, known as Middle-class Anicet (1806 - 1871)
Charles Lassailly (1806 - 1843)
Desired Nisard (1806 - 1888)
Emile Souvestre (1806 - 1854)
Aloysius Bertrand (1807 - 1841)
Gerard Labrunie, known as Gerard de Nerval (1808 - 1855)
Jules-Amédée Barbey of Aurevilly (1808 - 1889)
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809 - 1865)
Petrus Borel (1809 - 1859)
Xavier Forneret (1809 - 1884)
Hégésippe Moreau (1810 - 1838)
Maurice of Guerin (1810 - 1839)
Alfred de Musset (1810 - 1857)
Joseph Bouchardy (1810 - 1870)
Théophile Gautier (1811 - 1872)
Philothée O' Neddy (1811 - 1875)
Victor Duruy (1811 - 1894)
Adolphe d' Ennery (1811 - 1889)
Victor de Laprade (1812 - 1883)
Alphonse Esquiros (1814 - 1876)
Eugene Labiche (1815 - 1888)
Joseph Arthur, count Gobineau (1816 - 1882)
Paul Féval (1817 - 1887)
Pierre Zaccone (1817 - 1895)
Charles-Marie Leconte de Lisle (1818 - 1894)
Eugene Fromentin (1820 - 1876)
Emile Augier (1820 - 1889)
Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867)
Gustave Flaubert (1821 - 1880)
Jules-François-Felix Husson, known as Champfleury (1821 - 1889)
Edmond and Jules de Goncourt (1822 - 1896 & 1830 - 1870)
Emile Erckmann & Alexandre Chatrian, known as Erckmann-Chatrian (1822 - 1899 & 1826 - 1890)
Louis Ménard (1822 - 1901)
Theodore de Banville (1823 - 1891)
Ernest Renan (1823 - 1892)
Theodore Barrier ( 1823 - 1877)
Alexandre Dumas wire (1824 - 1895)
Charles De Coster (1827 - 1879)
Eugene Chavette (1827 - 1902)
Edmond Butt (1828 - 1885)
Hippolyte Taine (1828 - 1893)
Jules Verne (1828 - 1905)
Zénaïde Fleuriot (1829 - 1890)
Numa-Denis Fustel of Coulanges (1830 - 1889)
Hector Malot (1830 - 1907)
Henri Rochefort (1830 - 1913)
Raoul de Navery (1831 - 1885)
Victorien Sardou (1831 - 1908)
Emile Gaboriau (1832 - 1873)
Leon Gautier (1832 - 1897)
Jules Vallès (1832 - 1885)
Augustine Tuillerie, known as G.Bruno (1833 - 1923)
Edouard Pailleron (1834 - 1899)
Jean-Marie Déguignet (1834 - 1905)
Eugene Roy (1836 - 1907)
Louise Drevet (1836 - 1898)
Henry Becque (1837 - 1899)
Auguste de Villiers of Isle-Adam (1838 - 1889)
Sully Prudhomme (1839 - 1907)
Jules Lermina (1839 - 1913)
Alphonse Daudet (1840 - 1897)
Emile Zola (1840 - 1902)
Jules Claretie (1840 - 1913)
Charles Cros (1842 - 1888)
Stephan Mallarmé (1842 - 1898)
José-Maria de Heredia (1842 - 1905)
François Coppée (1842 - 1908)
Paul Arena (1843 - 1896)
Paul Verlaine (1844 - 1896)
Anatole François Thibault, known as Anatole France (1844 - 1924)
Edouard-Joachim, known as Tristan Corbière (1845 - 1875)
Maurice Rollinat (1846 - 1903)
Leon Bloy (1846 - 1917)
Emile Faguet (1847 - 1916)
Joris-Karl Huysmans (1848 - 1907)
Auguste Angellier (1848 - 1911)
Octave Mirbeau (1848 - 1917)
George de Peyrebrune (1848 - 1917)
Georges Ohnet (1848 - 1918)
Ferdinand Brunetière (1849 - 1906)
Gyp (countess of Martel) (1849 - 1932)
Jean Richepin (1849 - 1926)
Georges of Oporto-Rich person (1849 - 1930)
Guy of Maupassant (1850 - 1893)
Julien Viaud, known as Pierre Parcelled out (1850 - 1923)
German New (1851 - 1920)
Élémir Bourges (1852 - 1925)
Paul Le Bourget (1852 - 1935)
Maurice Rollinat (1853 - 1903)
Arthur Rimbaud (1854 - 1891)
Alphonse Allais (1854 - 1905)
Laurent Tailhade (1854 - 1919)
Georges Rodenbach (1855 - 1898)
Emile Verhaeren (1855 - 1916)
Jean Papadiamantopoulos, known as Jean Moréas (1856 - 1910)
Pierre Decourcelle (1856 - 1926)
Gustave Lanson (1857 - 1934)
Neel Doff (1958 - 1942)
Albert Samain (1858 - 1900)
Jules Lemaitre (1858 - 1915)
Remy de Gourmont (1858 - 1915)
Emile Durkheim (1858 - 1917)
Alfred Capus (1858 - 1922)
Georges Sparrows, known as Georges Courteline (1858 - 1929)
Anatole Braz (1859 - 1926)
Gustave Kahn (1859 - 1936)
Henri Bergson (1859 - 1941)
Jules Laforgue (1860 - 1887)
Paul Margueritte (1860 - 1918)
Michel Zévaco (1860 - 1918)
Paul Red-headed, known as Saint-Pol.-Russet-red Splendid the (1861 - 1940)
Paul Adam (1862 - 1920)
Léo Claretie (1862 - 1924)
Georges Darien (1862 - 1921)
Georges Feydeau (1862 - 1921)
Maurice Bars (1862 - 1923)
Rene Ghil (1862 - 1925)
max Elskamp (1862 - 1931)
Maurice Maeterlinck (1862 - 1949)
Stuart Merrill (1863 - 1915)
Marguerite Audoux (1863 - 1937)
Jules Fox (1864 - 1910)
Henri de Régnier (1864 - 1936)
Maurice Leblanc (1864 - 1941)
George-Albert Aurier, (1865 - 1892)
Romain Roland (1866 - 1944)
Tristan Bernard (1866 - 1947)
Rene Tardivaux, known as Rene Boylesve (1867 - 1926 )
Gabriel Randon, known as Jehan-Grin (1867 - 1933)
Leon Daudet (1867 - 1942)
Marcel Schwob (1867 - 1905)
Paul-Jean Toulet (1867 - 1920)
Alexandra David-Néel 1868 - 1969
Edmond Rostand (1868 - 1918)
Gaston Leroux (1868 - 1927)
Charles Maurras (1868 - 1952)
Maurice Champagne (1868 - 1951)
Francis James (1868 - 1938)
Emile Chartier, known as Alain (1868 - 1951)
Paul Claudel (1868 - 1955)
Andre Spire (1868 - 1966)
Emile Bodin (1869 - 1923)
Gaston Arman de Caillavet (1869 - 1915)
Andre Gide (1869 - 1951)
Pierre Louis, known as Pierre Louÿs (1870 - 1925)
Jacques Boulenger (1870 - 1944)
Marcel Proust (1871 - 1922)
Paul Valéry (1871 - 1945)
Henry Battles (1872 - 1922)
Robert de Flers (1872 - 1927)
Louis Mandin (1872 - 1944)
Strong Paul (1872 - 1960)
Alfred Jarry (1873 - 1907)
Charles Péguy (1873 - 1914)
Henri Barbusse (1873 - 1935)
François-Paul Alibert (1873 - 1953)
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, known as Colette (1873 - 1954)
Charles-Louis Philippe (1874 - 1909)
Emile Guillaumin (1873 - 1951 )
Pierre Souvestre (1874 - 1914)
Albert Thibaudet (1874 - 1936)
Marc Leclerc (1874 - 1946)
Henry Jean-Marie Levet (1874 - 1906)
Anne de Brancovan, known as countess of Noailles (1876 - 1933)
max Jacob (1876 - 1944)
Leon-Paul Fargue (1876 - 1947)
Pierre Albert-Birot ( 1876 - 1967)
Alphonse de Brédenbec de Châteaubriant (1877 - 1951)
Milosz, Oscar Venceslas de Lubicz (1877 - 1939)
Charles Ferdinand Ramuz, known as c.f. Ramuz (1878 - 1947)
Victor Segalen (1878 - 1919)
Henri Bachelin (1879 - 1941)
Henry de Monfreid (1879 - 1974)
Andre Mary (1879 - 1962)
Francis Picabia (1879 - 1953)
Wilhelm Apollinaris de Kostrowitzky, known as Guillaume Apollinaire (1880 - 1918)
Lucie Delarue-Mardrus (1880 - 1945)
Jacques Dyssord (1880 - 1952)
Louis Hémon (1880 - 1913)
Francis Durand, known as Francis de Miomandre (1880 - 1959)
Valery Larbaud (1881 - 1957)
Roger Martin of Gard (1881 - 1958)
André Salmon (1881 - 1969)
Jerome Carcopino (1881 - 1970)
Catherine Pozzi (1882 - 1934)
Jean Giraudoux (1882 - 1944)
Fadhma Has Mansour Amrouche (1882 - 1967)
André Billy (1882 - 1971)
Pierre Dumarchais, known as Pierre Mac-Orlan (1883 - 1970)
Marie Christmas (1883 - 1933)
Jules Supervielle (1884 - 1960)
Gaston Bachelard (1884 - 1962)
Georges Duhamel (1884 - 1966)
Jacques Boutelleau, known as Jacques Burrs (1884 - 1968)
Jean Paulhan (1884 - 1968)
Denis Amiel (1884 - 1977)
Alexandre Arnoux (1884 - 1973)
Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes (1884 - 1974)
Sacha Guitry (1885 - 1957)
Emile Herzog, known as Andre Maurois (1885 - 1967)
Fernand Crommelynck (1885 - 1970)
Jules-Louis de Farigoule, known as Jules Romans (1885 - 1972)
Marthe Bibesco (1885 - 1973)
Albert you Serstevens (1885 - 1974)
Jean Pilgrim (1885 - 1921)
Henri Baker, known as Alain-Baker (1886 - 1914)
François Carcopino-Tusoli, known as Francis Carco (1886 - 1958)
Pierre Benoit (1886 - 1962)
Genevieve Falconer (1886 - 1969)
Roland Lecavelé, known as Roland Dorgelès (1886 - 1973)
Henri Pourrat (1887 - 1959)
Jean-Balthazar Mallard, count of Varende (1887 - 1959)
Blaise Cendrars (1887 - 1961)
François Mauriac (1887 - 1970)
Alexis Leger, known as Persian Saint-John (1887 - 1975)
Pierre Jean Jouve (1887 - 1976)
Marcel Trip hammer (1887 - 1944)
Georges Bernanos (1888 - 1948)
Henri Bosco (1888 - 1976)
Paul Morand (1888 - 1976)
Marcel Jouhandeau (1888 - 1979)
Jacques de Lacretelle (1888 - 1985)
Jacques Prado (1889 - 1928)
Charles Silvestre (1889 - 1948)
Tristan Derème (1889 - 1941)
Pierre Reverdy (1889 - 1960)
Emile Henriot (1889 - 1961)
Maurice Genevoix (1890 - 1980)
Victor Serge (1890 - 1947)
Maurice Blanchard (1890 - 1960)
max Ernst (1891 - 1976)
Jean Cocteau (1892 - 1963)
Pierre Drieu La Rochelle (1893 - 1945)
Claude Cahun (Lucy Schwob) (1894 - 1954)
Louis Destouches, known as Louis-Ferdinand Celine (1894 - 1961)
Joseph Delteil (1894 - 1978)
Eugene Grindel, known as Paul Eluard (1895 - 1952)
Jean Giono (1895 - 1970)
Gabriel Knight (1895 - 1969
Marcel Pagnol (1895 - 1974)
Albert Cohen (1895 - 1981)
Antonin Artaud (1896 - 1948)
André Breton (1896 - 1966)
Henry Million Montherlant (1896 - 1972)
Tristan Tzara (1896 - 1963)
Louis Aragon (1897 - 1982)
Georges Bataille (1897 - 1962)
Joe Bousquet (1897 - 1950)
Kikou Yamata (1897 - 1975)
Philippe Soupault (1897 - 1990)
Marcel Thiry (1897 - 1977)
Eugene Dabit (1898 - 1936)
Michel de Ghelderode (1898 - 1962)
Michel Goffin (1898 - 1984)
Joseph Kessel (1898 - 1979)
Paul Vialar (1898 - 1996)
Géo Norge (1898 - 1990)
Roger Vitrac (1899 - 1952)
Jacques Audiberti (1899 - 1965)
Marcel Achard (1899 - 1974)
Louis Guilloux (1899 - 1980)
Henri Michaux (1899 - 1984)
Marcel Arland (1899 - 1986)
Armand Salacrou (1899 - 1989)
Francis Ponge (1899 - 1988)
Louis Brauquier (1900 - 1976)
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900 - 1944)
Robert Desnos (1900 - 1945)
Jacques Prévert (1900 - 1977)
Andre Chamson (1900 - 1983)
Andre Dhôtel (1900 - 1991)
Julien Green (1900 - 1998)
Emmanuel Bove (1898 - 1945 )

Born with the 20th siècle

1900-1909

Tinder Hampâté Bâ (1900/1901 - 1991)
Georges Limbour (1900 - 1970)
Suzanne Lilar 1901 - 1992
Claude Aveline (1901 - 1992)
Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo (1901 - 1937)
Jean Prévost (1901 - 1944)
Henri Little laddie, known as Daniel-Rops (1901 - 1965)
Jean Guitton (1901 - 1999)
Lanza del Vasto (1901 - 1981)
Charles Lecocq (1901 - 1922)
Michel Leiris (1901 - 1990)
Andre Malraux (1901 - 1976)
Alexandre Vialatte (1901 - 1971)
Marcel Aymé (1902 - 1967)
Malcolm de Chazal, (1902 - 1981)
Julien Torma (1902 - 1933)
Louise de Vilmorin (1902 - 1969)
Jean To burn, known as Vercors (1902 - 1991)
Jean Tardieu (1903 - 1995)
Raymond Radiguet (1903 - 1923)
Irene Némirovsky (1903 - 1942)
Jean Follain (1903 - 1971)
Georges Simenon (1903 - 1989)
Raymond Queneau (1903 - 1976)
Marguerite de Crayencour, known as Marguerite Yourcenar (1903 - 1987)
Ella Maillart 1903 - 1997)
Gilbert Lely (1904 - 1985)
Guy Lévis Mano (1904 - 1980)
Jean-Paul Sartre (1905 - 1980)
Louis Scutenaire (1905 - 1987)
Jean Amrouche (1906 - 1962)
Maurice Fombeure (1906 - 1981)
Rene Huyghe (1906 - 1997)
Charles Exbrayat (1906 - 1989)
Samuel Beckett (1906 - 1989)
Pierre Molaine (1906 - 2000)
Roger Clipping-Rock (1906 - 1999)
Irene Hamoir (1906 - 1994)
Henri Cart-track (1906 - 1973)
Roger Vailland (1907 - 1965)
Violet Leduc (1907 - 1972)
Georges Soulès, known as Raymond Abellio (1907 - 1986)
Rene Tank (1907 - 1988)
Eugene Guillevic, known as Guillevic (1907 - 1997)
Andre Frénaud (1907 - 1993)
Louis Guillaume (1907 - 1971)
Roger Peyrefitte (1907 - 2000)
Roger Gilbert-Lecomte (1907 - 1943)
Rene Daumal (1908 - 1944)
Simone de Beauvoir (1908 - 1986)
Robert Blackbird (1908 - 2004)
Simone Weil (1909 - 1943)
Robert Brasillach (1909 - 1945)
Andre Pieyre de Mandiargues (1909 - 1991)
Léo Malet (1909 - 1996)
Jean d' Osta (1909 - 1993)
Jean Gaulmier (1905 - 1997)

1910-1919

Jean Anouilh (1910 - 1987)
Jean Genet (1910 - 1986)
Paul Guth (1910 - 1997)
Louis Pear tree, known as Julien Gracq (1910 -)
Edouard Lévèque, known as Jean-Louis Boncoeur (1911 - 1997)
Andre Hardellet (1911 - 1974)
Patrice of the Tower of the Pine (1911 - 1975)
Rene Barjavel (1911 - 1985)
Guy de Pérusse of the Bus, known as Guy of the Bus (1911 - 1993)
Jean HervB-azin, known as Herve Bazin (1911 - 1996)
Jean Cayrol (1911 - 2005)
Lev Tarassov, known as Henri Troyat (1911 - 2007)
Armel Guerne (1911 - 1980)
Pierre Swell (1912 - 1994)
Leon-Gontran Damas (1912 - 1978)
Roger Ikor (1912 - 1986)
Eugene Ionesco (1912 - 1994)
Jacques de Bourbon Busset (1912 - 2001)
Armand Robin (1912 - 1961)
Jean Lescure (1912 - 2005)
Leon Gontran Damas (1912 - 1978)
Taos Amrouche (1913 - 1976)
Albert Camus (1913 - 1960)
Aime Césaire (1913)
Gilbert Cesbron (1913 - 1979)
Maurice Hake (1913 - 1999)
Albert Cossery (1913)
Pierre Daninos (1913 - 2005)
Luc Dietrich (1913 - 1944)
Mouloud Feraoun (1913 - 1962)
Armand Lanoux (1913 - 1983)
Louis Carette, known as Félicien Marceau (1913 -)
Romain Kacew says Romain Gary or Emile Ajar (1914 - 1980)
Béatrix Beck (1914 -)
Georges-Emmanuel Clancier (1914)
Robert Rius (1914 - 1944)
Pham Van Ky (1914 -)
Ahmed Sefrioui (1915 -)
Virgil Gheorghiu (1916 - 1992)
Anne Hébert (1916 - 2000)
Paul Morelle (1917 - 2007)
Mouloud Mammeri (1917 - 1989)
Louis Laffitte, known as Jean-Louis Curtis (1917 - 1995)
Maurice Druon (1918 -)
Marc Shoe (1919 - 1944)
Anatole Bisk, known as Alain Bosquet (1919 - 1998)
Jacques Laurent-Cely, known as Jacques Laurent or Cécil the St. Lawrence (1919 - 2000)
Michel Déon (1919 -)
Armand Toupet (1919 -)

1920-1929

1930-1939

Dominique Zardi (1930 -)
Francoise Mallet-Joris (1930 -)
Sebastien Japrisot (1931 - 2003)
Jack Thieuloy (1931 - 1996)
Jacques Bens (1931 - 2001)
Joseph Joffo (1931 -)
Fernando Arrabal (1932 -)
Mongo Beti (1932 - 2001)
Jacques Godbout (1933)
Rene-Victor Pilhes (1934 -)
Agota Kristof (1935 -)
Francoise Quoirez, known as Francoise Sagan (1935 - 2004)
Marie Rouanet (1936 -)
Philippe Sollers (1936 -)
Jacques Bellefroid (1936 -)
Assia Djebar (1936 -)
Jean-Edern Hallier (1936 - 1997)
Georges Perec (1936 - 1982 )
Conrad Detrez (1937 - 1985)
Janine Boissard (1937 -)
Marc Alyn (1937 -)
Jean Métellus (1937 -)
Pierre Balk (1937 -)
Andree Brunin (1937 - 1993)
Henri Lopes (1937 -)
Simone Schwarz-Bart (1938 -)
Marie-Claire Blais (1939 -)
Pierre Mertens (1939 -)

1940-1949

1950-1959

1960-1969

1970-1979

1980-1989

Dominic Bellavance (1982 -)
Matthieu Gosztola (1981 -)

See too

Writers of French language, alphabetically

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