French/Appendices/List of authors

Middle ages

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  • Chrétien de Troyes (around 1135 - around 1183)

16th century

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  • Francois Rabelais (around 1483 or 1494–1553)
  • Pierre de Ronsard (1524–1585)
  • Louise Labé (a.1526 - a.1565)

17th century

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  • René Descartes (1596–1650)
  • Pierre Corneille (1606–1684)
  • Jean de La Fontaine (1621–1695)
  • Molière (1622–1673)
  • Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)
  • Charles Perrault (1628–1703)
  • Jean Racine (1639–1699)

18th century

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  • Marivaux (1688–1763)
  • Montesquieu (1689–1755)
  • Voltaire (1694–1778)
  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778)
  • Denis Diderot (1713–1784)
  • Beaumarchais (1732–1799)

19th century

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  • François-René de Chateaubriand (1768–1848)
  • Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850)
  • Victor Hugo (1802–1885)
  • Alexandre Dumas (1802–1870)
  • Prosper Mérimée (1803–1870)
  • George Sand (1804–1876)
  • Alfred de Musset (1810–1857)
  • Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)
  • Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880)
  • Jules Verne (1828–1905)
  • Alphonse Daudet (1840–1897)
  • Émile Zola (1840–1902)
  • Paul Verlaine (1844–1896)
  • Henri Bergson (1859–1941)
  • Edmond Rostand (1868–1918)

20th century

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  • Paul Claudel (1868–1955)
  • Marcel Proust (1871–1922)
  • Guillaume Apollinaire (1880–1918)
  • Jean Cocteau (1892–1963)
  • Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1894–1961)
  • Jean Giono (1895–1970)
  • Marcel Pagnol (1895–1974)
  • André Breton (1896–1966)
  • Jacques Prévert (1900–1977)
  • André Malraux (1901–1976)
  • Raymond Queneau (1903–1976)
  • Jean-Paul Sartre (1905–1980)
  • Robert Merle (1908–2004)
  • Nicolas Bouvier (1929–1998)
  • Georges Perec (1936–1982)
  • Antoine Marie Roger de Saint-Exupery (1900–1944)
  • Albert Camus (1913–1960)
  • Colette (1873–1954)
  • Anaïs Nin (1903–1977)
  • Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986)
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List of French authors in the French Wikipedia.