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'''Chronological list of [[French language]] [[author]]s''' (regardless of nationality), by date of birth.  For an alphabetical list of writers of French nationality (broken down by genre), see [[:Category:French writers|French writers category]].
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==Middle Ages==

* [[Turold]] (eleventh century)
* [[Wace]] ({{Circa|1110|1180}})
* [[Chrétien de Troyes]] ({{Circa|1135|1183}})
* [[Richard I of England|Richard the Lionheart]] (Richard Coeur de Lion) (1157–1199)
* [[Benoît de Sainte-Maure]] (12th-century)
* [[Herman de Valenciennes]] (12th-century)
* [[Le Châtelain de Couci]] (d.1203)
* [[Jean Bodel]] (12th century – {{circa|1210}})
* [[Conon de Béthune]] ({{circa|1150}}–1220)
* [[Geoffroi de Villehardouin]] ({{circa|1160|1213}})
* [[Béroul]] ({{circa|1170}})
* [[Thomas d'Angleterre]] ({{circa|1170}})
* [[Aimeric de Peguilhan]] ({{circa|1170|1230}})
* [[Gace Brulé]] ({{circa|1170}})
* [[Marie de France]] ({{circa|1175}})
* [[Gautier de Coincy]] (1177/8–1236)
* [[Gautier de Dargies]] ({{circa|1170}}–after 1236)
* [[Gautier d'Espinal]] († before July 1272)
* [[Gillebert de Berneville]] ([[Floruit|fl]] c.1255)
* [[Gontier de Soignies]] ([[Floruit|fl]] c.1180–1220)
* [[Guiot de Dijon]] ([[Floruit|fl]] c.1200–30)
* [[Perrin d'Angicourt]] ([[Floruit|fl]] c.1245–50)
* [[Jean Renart]] (fl. late 12th-first half of 13th century)
* [[Philippe de Rémi (died 1265)|Philippe de Rémi]] (c.1205–c1265)
* [[Philippe de Rémi (died 1296)|Philippe de Beaumanoir]] (c.1247–c1296)
* [[Raoul de Soissons]] (c.1215–1272)
* [[Richard de Fournival]] (1201– c.1260)
* [[Andrieu Contredit d'Arras]] († c.1248)
* [[Jehan le Cuvelier d'Arras]] ([[Floruit|fl]] c.1240–70)
* [[Guillaume le Vinier]] ([[Floruit|fl]] c.1220–45; †1245)
* [[Audefroi le Bâtard]] ([[Floruit|fl]] c.1200–1230)
* [[Jehan Bretel]] (c.1200–1272)
* [[Jehan Erart]] († c.1259)
* [[Moniot d'Arras]] ([[Floruit|fl]] c.1250–75)
* [[Robert de Clari]] (late twelfth century)
* [[Blondel de Nesle]] (late twelfth century)
* [[Robert de Boron]] (twelfth–thirteenth century)
* [[Guiot de Provins]] (d. after 1208)
* [[Bertrand de Bar-sur-Aube]] (late twelfth-early thirteenth century)
* [[Guillaume de Lorris]] (c.1200 – c.1238)
* [[Theobald IV of Champagne]] (1201–1253)
* [[Jean de Joinville]] ( c.1224 – c.1317)
* [[Rutebeuf]] (c.1230 – c.1285)
* [[Adam de la Halle]] (c.1250 – c.1285)
* [[Jean de Meun]]g or [[Jean de Meun]] (1250 – c.1305) or Jean Clopinel or Chopinel
* [[Jacques Bretel]] (c. 1285 – c. 1310)
* [[Jean Le Bel]] (c.1290–1370)
* [[Colin Muset]] (end of thirteenth century)
* [[Guillaume de Machaut]] ( c.1300 – c.1377)
* [[Nicole Oresme]] (1325–1382)
* [[Philippe de Mézières]] (c.1327–1405)
* [[Jean Froissart]] (1333 – c.1404)
* [[Eustache Deschamps]] (c.1346 – c.1407)
* [[Jean Charlier]] called Gerson (1363–1429
* [[Christine de Pisan]] (1364–1430)
* [[Alain Chartier]] (c.1385 – c.1435)
* [[Jean Juvénal des Ursins]] (1388–1473)
* [[Antoine de la Sale]] (1388 – c.1469)
* [[Enguerrand de Monstrelet]] (c.1390 – c.1453)
* [[Charles, Duke of Orléans]] (1394–1465)

==Fifteenth century==

* [[Martin le Franc|Martin Le Franc]] (c.1410–1461)
* [[Eustache Marcadé]] (1414–1440)
* [[Georges Chastellain]] (1415–1475)
* [[Olivier de la Marche]] (1425–1502)
* [[Martial d'Auvergne]] ( c.1430–1508)
* [[François Villon]] (c.1431–after 1463)
* [[Jean Michel (poet)|Jean Michel]] (c.1435–1501)
* [[Jean Molinet]] (1435–1507)
* [[Philippe de Commines]] (1445–1511)
* [[Jean Marot]] (1450–1526)
* [[Lefèvre d'Etaples]] (1455–1537)
* [[Guillaume Crétin]] (Guillaume Dubois) (1460–1525)
* [[Octavien de Saint-Gelais]] (1468–1505)
* [[Guillaume Budé]] (1468–1540)
* [[Jean Meschinot]] (active from 1450 to 1490)
* [[Guillaume Alexis]] (active from 1450 to 1490)
* [[Jean Lemaire de Belges]] (1473 – c.1525)
* [[Pierre Gringore]] or Gringoire (c.1475–1538/1539)
* [[François Rabelais]] (c.1483–1553)
* [[Aliénor de Poitiers]] (fl.1484)
* [[Mellin de Saint-Gelais]] (c.1491–1558)
* [[Marguerite de Navarre]] (c.1492–1549)
* [[Clément Marot]] (c.1496–1544)

==Sixteenth century==

===1500–1549===

* [[Bonaventure des Périers]] (c.1500–1544)
* [[Maurice Scève]] (c.1505 – c.1562)
* [[Michel de l'Hôpital|Michel de l'Hospital]] (1505–1573)
* [[Étienne Dolet]] (1509–1546)
* [[Jean Calvin]] (1509–1564)
* [[Hélisenne de Crenne]] (Marguerite Briet de Crenne) (c.1510–after 1552)
* [[Pierre Viret]] (1511–1571)
* [[Charles de Sainte-Marthe]] (1512–1555)
* [[Thomas Sébillet]] (c.1512–1589)
* [[Jacques Amyot]] (1513–1593)
* [[Jacques Peletier du Mans]] (1517–1582)
* [[Théodore de Bèze]] (1519–1605)
* [[Pierre de Saint-Julien de Balleure]] (1519–1593)
* [[Denis Sauvage]] (1520–1587)
* [[Noël du Fail]] (1520–1591)
* [[Pernette Du Guillet]] (c.1520–1545)
* [[Jacques Yver]] (1520–1570)
* [[Gilles de Gouberville]] (1521–1578)
* [[Pontus de Tyard]] or de Thiard (1521–1605)
* [[Joachim du Bellay]] (1522–1560)
* [[Pierre de Ronsard]] (1524–1585)
* [[Pierre Boaistuau]] (?–1566)
* [[Louise Labé]] (c.1526 – c.1565)
* [[Rémy Belleau]] (1528–1577)
* [[Étienne Pasquier]] (1529–1615)
* [[Étienne de La Boétie]] (1530–1563)
* [[Claude Fauchet (historian)|Claude Fauchet]] (1530–1601)
* [[Jean Bodin]] (1530–1596)
* [[François de Belleforest]] (1530–1583)
* [[Henri Estienne]] (1531–1598)
* [[Jean Antoine de Baïf]] (1532–1589)
* [[Étienne Jodelle]] (1532–1573)
* [[Michel de Montaigne]] (Michel Eyquem, seigneur de Montaigne) (1533–1592)
* [[Jean de la Taille]] (c.1533/1540 – c.1617)
* [[Robert Garnier]] (1534–1590)
* [[Nicolas Rapin]] (1535–1608)
* [[Jacques Grévin]] (1538–1570)
* [[Olivier de Serres]] (1539–1619)
* [[Pierre Pithou]] (1539–1596)
* [[Pierre de Bourdeille, seigneur de Brantôme]] (1540–1614)
* [[Pierre de Larivey]] (1540–1619)
* [[Florent Chrestien]] (1540–1596)
* [[Pierre Charron]] (1541–1603)
* [[Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas]] (1544–1590)
* [[Antoine du Verdier]] (1544–1600)
* [[Philippe Desportes]] (1546–1606)
* [[Pierre de L'Estoile]] (1546–1611)
* [[Jean de La Ceppède]] (1548–1623)
* [[Philippe de Mornay|Philippe Duplessis-Mornay]] (Philippe de Mornay, called Duplessis-Mornay) (1549–1623)

===1550–1599===

* [[Benigne Poissenot]] (c.1550–?)
* [[François d'Amboise]] (1550–1619)
* [[Odet de Turnèbe]] (1552–1581)
* [[Jean Bertaut]] (1552–1611)
* [[Agrippa d'Aubigné|Théodore Agrippa d'Aubigné]] (1552–1630)
* [[François de Malherbe]] (1552–1630)
* [[Jacques Davy Du Perron]] (1556–1618)
* [[Béroalde de Verville|François Béroalde de Verville]] (1556–1626)
* [[Guillaume du Vair]] (1556–1621)
* [[Jean de Sponde]] (1557–1595)
* [[Maximilien de Béthune]], baron de Rosny, duc de Sully (1560–1641)
* [[Alexandre Hardy]] (1560/1570 – c.1632)
* [[Nicolas de Montreux]] (1561–1608)
* [[Pierre Matthieu]] (1563–1621)
* [[Eustache de Refuge]], seigneur de Précy et de Courcelles (1564–1617)
* [[Francis de Sales|Saint François de Sales]] (1567–1622)
* [[Honoré d'Urfé]] (1567–1625)
* [[Scipion Dupleix]] (1569–1661)
* [[Sylvestre de Laval]] (1570–1616)
* [[Antoine de Nervèze]] (c.1570–after 1622)
* [[Nicolas des Escuteaux]] (after 1570 – c.1628)
* [[François du Souhait]] (between 1570 & 1580–1617)
* [[Jean Ogier de Gombaud]] (1570–1666)
* [[Antoine de Balinghem]] (1571–1630)
* [[Mathurin Régnier]] (1573–1613)
* [[Nicholas Camusat]] (1575–1655)
* [[Antoine de Montchrestien]] (c.1575–1621)
* [[Henri, duc de Rohan]] (1579–1638)
* [[Vincent de Paul (saint)|Saint Vincent de Paul]] (1581–1660)
* [[Jean Duvergier de Hauranne]], abbé de Saint-Cyran (1581–1643)
* [[François Maynard]] (1582–1646)
* [[Jean-Pierre Camus]] (1584–1652)
* [[Francis Garasse]] (1585–1631)
* [[Jean de Schelandre]] (c.1585–1635)
* [[François de La Mothe-Le-Vayer]] (1588–1672)
* [[Honorat de Bueil, seigneur de Racan]] (1589–1670)
* [[Bertrand de Loque]] (1589)
* [[Théophile de Viau]] (1590–1626)
* [[Marc Gilbert de Varennes]] (1591–1660)
* [[François le Métel de Boisrobert]] (1592–1662)
* [[Antoine Gérard de Saint-Amant]] (1594–1661)
* [[Jean Chapelain]] (1595–1674)
* [[Jean Desmarets de Saint-Sorlin]] (1595–1676)
* [[René Descartes]] (1596–1650)
* [[Claude de Malleville]] (1597–1647)
* [[Vincent Voiture]] (1597–1648)
* [[Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac]] (1597–1684)

==Seventeenth century==

===1600–1649===

* [[Nicolas de Bralion]] (1600–1672)
* [[Marin le Roy de Gomberville]] (1600–1674)
* [[Georges de Scudéry]] (1601–1667)
* [[François Tristan l'Hermite]] (1601–1655)
* [[Guy Patin]] (1601–1672)
* [[Jean de Bernieres-Louvigny]] (1602–1659)
* [[Charles Sorel]] (1602–1674)
* [[Charles Cotin]] (1604–1682)
* [[Jean Mairet]] (1604–1686)
* [[François Hédelin, abbé d'Aubignac]] (1604–1676)
* [[Pierre du Ryer]] (1605–1658)
* [[Assoucy|Charles Coypeau d'Assoucy]] (1605–1675)
* [[Jean François Sarrazin]] (1605–1654)
* [[Pierre Corneille]] (1606–1684)
* [[Antoine Gombaud]], chevalier de Méré (1607–1685)
* [[Madeleine de Scudéry]] (1607–1701)
* [[Jean Rotrou]] (1609–1650)
* [[Paul Scarron]] (1610–1660)
* [[François-Eudes de Mézeray]] (1610–1683)
* [[Charles de Saint-Evremond]] (c.1610–1703)
* [[Antoine Arnauld]] (1612–1694)
* [[Isaac de Benserade]] (1612–1691)
* [[Jean François Paul de Gondi, cardinal de Retz]] (1613–1679)
* [[François de La Rochefoucauld (writer)|François de La Rochefoucauld]] (1613–1680)
* [[Gauthier de Costes, seigneur de la Calprenède]] (1614–1663)
* [[Georges de Brébeuf]] (1618–1661)
* [[Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy]], called Bussy-Rabutin (1618–1693)
* [[Cyrano de Bergerac (writer)|Cyrano de Bergerac]] (Hector-Savinien Cyrano de Bergerac) (1619–1655)
* [[Antoine Furetière]] (1619–1688)
* [[Gédéon Tallemant des Réaux]] (1619–1692)
* [[Jean de La Fontaine]] (1621–1695)
* [[Molière]] (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin) (1622–1673)
* [[Blaise Pascal]] (1623–1662)
* [[Jean Renaud de Segrais]] (1624–1701)
* [[Paul Pellisson]] (1624–1693)
* [[Thomas Corneille]] (1625–1709)
* [[Samuel Chappuzeau]] (1625–1701)
* [[Madame de Sévigné]] (Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné) (1626–1696)
* [[Laurent Drelincourt]] (1626–1680)
* [[Jacques Bénigne Bossuet]] (1627–1704)
* [[Gabriel-Joseph de La Vergne, comte de Guilleragues]] (1628–1685)
* [[Charles Perrault]] (1628–1703)
* [[Pierre Daniel Huet]] (1630–1721)
* [[Louis Bourdaloue]] (1632–1704)
* [[Esprit Fléchier]] (1632–1710)
* [[Jacques Pradon]] (1632–1698)
* [[Madame de Villedieu]] (Marie-Catherine-Hortence Desjardins, marquise de Villedieu) (1632–1683)
* [[Madame de Lafayette]] (Marie-Madeleine, comtesse de La Fayette) (1634–1693)
* [[Pierre Thomas (scholar)|Pierre Thomas]], sieur du Fossé (1634–1698)
* [[Philippe Quinault]] (1635–1688)
* [[Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux|Nicolas Boileau]] (1636–1711)
* [[Edmé Boursault]] (1638–1701)
* [[Antoinette du Ligier de la Garde Deshoulières]] (1638–1694)
* [[Nicolas Malebranche]] (1638–1715)
* [[Jean Donneau de Visé]] (1638–1710)
* [[Philippe de Courcillon, marquis de Dangeau]] (1638–1720)
* [[Claude Estiennot de la Serre]] (1639–1699)
* [[Guillaume Amfrye de Chaulieu]] (1639–1720)
* [[César Vichard de Saint-Réal]] (1639–1692)
* [[Jean Racine]] (1639–1699)
* [[Claude Fleury|Claude de Fleury]] (1640–1723)
* [[Louis Moréri]] (1643–1680)
* [[Gatien de Courtilz de Sandras]] (1644–1712)
* [[Anne de La Roche-Guilhem]] (1644–1707)
* [[Jean de La Bruyère]] (1645–1696)
* [[Pierre Le Pesant, sieur de Boisguilbert]] ( c.1646–1714)
* [[Antoine Galland]] (1646–1715)
* [[Pierre Bayle]] (1647–1706)
* [[Joseph Anthelmi]] (1648–1697)

===1650–1699===

* [[Madame d'Aulnoy]] (Marie-Catherine le Jumelle de Barneville, Baronne d'Aulnoy) (1651–1705)
* [[Fénelon|François de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon]] (1651–1715)
* [[Louis Du Four de Longuerue]] (1652–1733)
* [[Charlotte-Rose de Caumont La Force]] (Mademoiselle de La Force) (1650–1724)
* [[Louis Legendre (historian)|Louis Legendre]] (1655–1733)
* [[Jean-François Regnard]] (1655–1709)
* [[Jean Galbert de Campistron]] (1656–1723)
* [[Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle]] (1657–1757)
* [[Chevalier de Mailly|Louis ''(or Jean)'' de Mailly]] (1657–1724)
* [[Henri, Comte de Boulainvilliers|Henri de Boulainvilliers]] (1658–1712)
* [[François Armand Gervaise]] (1660–1761)
* [[Charles Rollin]] (1661–1741)
* [[Florent Carton Dancourt]] (1661–1725)
* [[Jean-François Foucquet]] (1665–1741)
* [[Alain-René Lesage]] (1668–1747)
* [[Jacques Bouillart]] (1669–1726)
* [[Jean-Baptiste Rousseau]] (1670–1741)
* [[Jean-Baptiste Dubos]] (1670–1742)
* [[Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon]] (Crébillon père) (1674–1762)
* [[Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon]] (1675–1755)
* [[Jean-François Boyer]] (1675–1755)
* [[Philippe Néricault Destouches]] (1680–1754)
* [[Claudine Alexandrine Guérin de Tencin]] (Madame de Tencin) (1681–1749)
* [[Jérôme Besoigne]] (1686–1763)
* [[Marivaux]] (Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux) (1688–1763)
* [[Alexis Piron]] (1689–1773)
* [[Montesquieu]] (Charles Louis de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu) (1689–1755)
* [[Louis Petit de Bachaumont]] (1690–1771)
* [[Voltaire]] (François-Marie Arouet) (1694–1778)
* [[René-Louis de Voyer de Paulmy, marquis d' Argenson]] (1694–1757)
* [[Françoise de Graffigny]] (1695–1758)
* [[Antoine François Prévost]] (Antoine Francois Prevost d'Exiles) a/k/a Abbé Prévost (1697–1763)
* [[Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand]] (1697–1780)
* [[Denis-François Camusat]] (1697–1732)

==Eighteenth century==

===1700–1749===

* [[Charles Pinot Duclos]] (1704–1772)
* [[Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon]] (Crébillon, fils) (1707–1777)
* [[Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon]] (Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon) (1707–1788)
* [[Julien Offray de La Mettrie]] (1709–1751)
* [[Gabriel Bonnot de Mably]] (1709–1785)
* [[Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset]] (1709–1777)
* [[Jean-Jacques Lefranc, marquis de Pompignan]] (1709–1784)
* [[Charles-Simon Favart]] (1710–1792)
* [[Jean-Jacques Rousseau]] (1712–1778)
* [[Denis Diderot]] (1713–1784)
* [[Étienne Bonnot de Condillac]] (1714–1780)
* [[Marie Jeanne Riccoboni]] (Madame Riccoboni) (1714–1792)
* [[Claude Adrien Helvétius]] (1715–1771)
* [[Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues|Vauvenargues]] (Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues) (1715–1747)
* [[François-André-Adrien Pluquet]] (1716–1790)
* [[Jean-François de Saint-Lambert]] (1716–1803)
* [[Louis Carrogis Carmontelle]] (1717–1806
* [[Jean Le Rond d'Alembert]] (1717–1783)
* [[Michel-Jean Sedaine]] (1719–1797)
* [[Antoine Henri de Bérault-Bercastel]] (1720–c.1794)
* [[Jacques Cazotte]] (1720–1792)
* [[Denis Dominique Cardonne]] (1721–1783)
* [[Tiphaigne de la Roche]] (Charles-François Tiphaigne de la Roche) (1722–1774)
* [[Baron d'Holbach]] (Paul Henri Dietrich, baron d'Holbach) (1723–1789)
* [[Jean-François Marmontel]] (1723–1799)
* [[Giacomo Casanova|Casanova]] a/k/a Jacques Casanova de Seingalt (1725–1798)
* [[Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune]] (1727–1781)
* [[Jean Dussaulx]] (1728–1799)
* [[Nicolas Bricaire de la Dixmerie]] (c.1730–1791)
* [[Jacqueline-Aimée Brohon]] (1731–1778)
* [[Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais]] (1732–1799)
* [[Anne-Marie Lacroix]] (1732–1802)
* [[Jacques Clinchamps de Malfilâtre]] (1733–1767)
* [[Nicolas-Edme Rétif|Nicolas Edme Restif de La Bretonne]] (1734–1806)
* [[Jean-Benjamin François de la Borde]] (1734–1794)
* [[Charles Joseph, Prince de Ligne]] (1735–1814)
* [[Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre]] (1737–1814)
* [[Jacques Delille]] (1738–1813)
* [[Jean-François de la Harpe]] (1739–1803)
* [[Marquis de Sade]] (Donatien Alphonse François de Sade) (1740–1814)
* [[Isabelle de Charrière]] a/k/a Belle de Zuylen (1740–1805)
* [[Choderlos de Laclos|Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos de Laclos]] (1741–1803)
* [[Condorcet]] (Marie Jean Antoine Caritat, marquis de Condorcet) (1744–1794)
* [[Gabriel Brizard]] (c1744–1793)
* [[André-Samuel-Michel Cantwell]] (1744–1802)
* [[Étienne Pélabon]] (1745–1808)
* [[Jean Antoine Roucher]] (1745–1794)
* [[Jean-Sifrein Maury]] (Abbé Maury) (1746–1817)
* [[Joseph-Alexandre-Victor Hupay de Fuveau]] (1746–1818)
* [[Stéphanie Félicité Ducrest de St-Albin, comtesse de Genlis]] (Madame de Genlis) (1746–1830)
* [[Armand Louis de Gontaut]], duc de Biron, duc de Lauzun (1747–1793)
* [[Olympe de Gouges]] (1748–1793)
* [[Pierre-Louis Ginguené]] (1748–1815)
* [[Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau]] (1749–1791)
* [[Jean-Marie Collot d'Herbois]] (1749–1796)

===1750–1799===

* [[Georges Henri Victor Collot]] (1750–1805)
* [[Nicolas Joseph Laurent Gilbert]] (1751–1780)
* [[Évariste de Forges de Parny]] (1753–1814)
* [[Joseph de Maistre]] (1753–1821)
* [[Jean Armand Charlemagne]] (1753–1838)
* [[Marie Thérèse Péroux d’Abany]] (1753–1821)
* [[Joseph Joubert]] (1754–1824)
* [[Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian]] (1754–1794)
* [[Jacques Pierre Brissot]] a/k/a Jean-Pierre Brissot (1754–1793)
* [[Charles Maurice de Talleyrand]] (1754–1838)
* [[Constantin François de Chasseboeuf, Comte de Volney]] (1757–1820)
* [[William Vincent Barré]] (c.1760–1829)
* [[Victoire Babois]] (1760–1839)
* [[Adelaide Filleul, Marquise de Souza-Botelho]] (Madame de Souza) (1761–1836)
* [[André Chénier]] (1762–1794)
* [[Claude-François-Xavier Mercier de Compiègne]] (1763–1800)
* [[Joseph Chénier]] (1764–1811)
* [[Barbara Juliana, Baroness von Krüdener]] (Madame de Krüdener) (1764–1824)
* [[Madame de Staël]] (1766–1817)
* [[Las Cases]] (Emmanuel-Augustin-Dieudonné, comte de Las Cases) (1766–1842)
* [[Benjamin Constant]] (Benjamin Constant de Rebecque) (1767–1830)
* [[Joseph Fiévée]] (1767–1839)
* [[François-René de Chateaubriand]] (1768–1848)
* [[Étienne Pivert de Senancour]] (1770–1846)
* [[Fanny Raoul]] (1771–1833)
* [[Sophie de Renneville]] (1772–1822)
* [[Charles-Jean Baptiste Bonnin]] (1772–1846)
* [[Paul Louis Courier]] de Méré (1772–1825)
* [[René Charles Guilbert de Pixérécourt]] (1773–1844)
* [[Sophie Ristaud Cottin]] (Madame Cottin) (1773–1807)
* [[Eugène François Vidocq]] (1775–1857)
* [[Claire de Duras]] (Madame de Duras) (1777–1828)
* [[Ambroise Rendu (educator)|Ambroise Rendu]] (1778–1860)
* [[Charles Nodier]] (1780–1844)
* [[Pierre-Jean de Béranger]] (1780–1857)
* [[Victor de Bonald]] (1780–1871)
* [[Aimé Martin]] (1781–1844)
* [[Fanny Tercy]] (1782–1851)
* [[Félicité Robert de Lamennais]] (1782–1854)
* [[Amable Guillaume Prosper Brugière, baron de Barante]] (1782–1866)
* [[Victor Henri-Joseph Brahain Ducange]] (1783–1833)
* [[Stendhal]] (Henri Beyle) (1783–1842) (''[[The Red and the Black]]'', 1830)
* [[Pierre-Antoine Lebrun]] (1785–1873)
* [[Marceline Desbordes-Valmore]] (1786–1859)
* [[Alphonse Rabbe]] (1786–1829)
* [[Élise Voïart]] (1786–1866)
* [[François Guizot]] (1787–1874)
* [[Alexandre Guiraud]] (1788–1847)
* [[Alphonse de Lamartine]] (1790–1869)
* [[Victor Cousin]] (1792–1867)
* [[Charles Paul de Kock]] (1793–1871)
* [[Jean-M.-Vincent Audin]] (1793)
* [[Casimir Delavigne]] (Jean-François Casimir Delavigne) (1793–1843)
* [[François Stoepel]] (1794–1836)
* [[Rosine de Chabaud-Latour]] (1794–1860)
* [[Arthur Dinaux]] (1795–1864)
* [[Amédée Pichot]] (1795–1877)
* [[Modeste Gruau]] (1795–1883)
* [[Augustin Thierry]] (1795–1856)
* [[Zulma Carraud]] (1796–1889)
* [[François Mignet]] (1796–1884)
* [[Alfred de Vigny]] (1797–1863)
* [[Antoinette Henriette Clémence Robert]] (1797–1872)
* [[Adolphe Thiers]] (1797–1877)
* [[Auguste Comte]] (1798–1857)
* [[Eugène Delacroix]] (1798–1863)
* [[Charles Dezobry]] (1798–1871)
* [[Jules Michelet]] (1798–1874)
* [[Sophie Rostopchine, Comtesse de Ségur]] (1799–1874)
* [[Honoré de Balzac]] (1799–1850)

==Nineteenth century==

===1800–1824===

* [[Pierre Alexandre Jean Mollière]] (1800–1850)
* [[Victor Hugo]] (1802–1885) (''[[Les Misérables]]'', 1862)
* [[Alexandre Dumas, père]] (1802–1870)
* [[Prosper Mérimée]] (1803–1870)
* [[Edgar Quinet]] (1803–1875)
* [[Eugène Daumas]] (1803–1871)
* [[Eugène Sue]] (1804–1857)
* [[Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve]] (1804–1869)
* [[Jules Janin]] (1804–1874)
* [[George Sand]] (Amandine-Lucie-Aurore Dupin, baronne Dudevant) (1804–1876)
* [[Alexis de Tocqueville|Alexis Henri Charles Clérel, comte de Tocqueville]] (1805–1859)
* [[Jules-Romain Tardieu]] (1805–1868)
* [[Émile de Girardin]] (1806–1881)
* [[Désiré Nisard]] (1806–1888)
* [[Émile Souvestre]] (1806–1854)
* [[Aloysius Bertrand]] (1807–1841)
* [[Gérard de Nerval]] (Gérard Labrunie) (1808–1855)
* [[Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly|Jules-Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly]] (1808–1889)
* [[Jacques Claude Demogeot]] (1808–1894)
* [[Lucien de la Hodde]] (1808–1865)
* [[Frédéric Villot]] (1809–1875)
* [[Petrus Borel]] (1809–1859)
* [[Pierre-Joseph Proudhon]] (1809–1865)
* [[Xavier Forneret]] (1809–1884)
* [[Hégésippe Moreau]] (1810–1838)
* [[Maurice de Guérin]] (1810–1839)
* [[Alfred de Musset]] (1810–1857)
* [[Joseph Bouchardy]] (1810–1870)
* [[Alphonse Jolly]] (1810–1893)
* [[Pier Angelo Fiorentino]] (1811–1864)
* [[Armand de Pontmartin]] (1811–1890)
* [[Adolphe d'Ennery|Adolphe-Philippe d'Ennery]] (1811–1889)
* [[Théophile Gautier]] (1811–1872)
* [[Louis Blanc]] (1811–1882)
* [[Victor de Laprade]] (1812–1883)
* [[Louis du Couret]] (1812–1867)
* [[Eugène Bonnemère]] (1813–1893)
* [[Eugène Labiche]] (1815–1888)
* [[Gobineau|Joseph Arthur de Gobineau]] (1816–1882)
* [[Victor Séjour]] (1817–1874)
* [[Paul Féval, père]] (1817–1887)
* [[Adine Riom]] (1818–1899)
* [[Charles Marie René Leconte de Lisle|Charles-Marie Leconte de Lisle]] (1818–1894)
* [[Eugène Despois]] (1818–1876)
* [[Jean Baptiste Marius Augustin Challamel]] (1818–1894)
* [[Adèle Hommaire de Hell]] (1819–1883), travel writer
* [[Eugène Fromentin]] (1820–1876)
* [[Émile Augier]] (1820–1889)
* [[Antoine-Élisabeth-Cléophas Dareste de la Chavanne]] (1820–1882)
* [[Jules Pizzetta]] (1820–1900)
* [[Charles Baudelaire]] (1821–1867) (''[[Les Fleurs du mal]]'', 1857)
* [[Gustave Flaubert]] (1821–1880) (''[[Madame Bovary]]'', 1857)
* [[Octave Feuillet]] (1821–1890)
* [[Champfleury|Jules-François-Félix Husson]] a/k/a Champfleury (1821–1889)
* [[Edmond de Goncourt]] (1822–1896)
* [[Erckmann-Chatrian]] (Emile Erckmann & Alexandre Chatrian) (1822–1899 & 1826–1890)
* [[Louis-Nicolas Ménard]] (1822–1901)
* [[Théodore de Banville]] (1823–1891)
* [[Ernest Renan]] (1823–1892)
* [[Alexandre Dumas, fils]] (1824–1895)

===1825–1849===
* [[Sainte Suzanne Melvil-Bloncourt]] (1825–1880)
* [[Jean-Félix Nourrisson]] (1825–1899)
* [[Charles De Coster]] (1827–1879)
* [[Juliette Figuier]] (1827–1879)
* [[Clair Tisseur]] (Nizier du Puitspelu) (1827–1896)
* [[Edmond About]] (1828–1885)
* [[Hyppolyte Taine]] (1828–1893)
* [[Jules Verne]] (1828–1905)
* [[Pauline Cassin Caro]] (1828/34/35 – 1901)
* [[Zénaïde Fleuriot]] (1829–1890)
* [[Fustel de Coulanges|Numa-Denis Fustel de Coulanges]] (1830–1889)
* [[Jules de Goncourt]] (1830–1870)
* [[Hector Malot]] (1830–1907)
* [[Victor Henri Rochefort, Marquis de Rochefort-Luçay|Henri Rochefort]] (1830–1913)
* [[Henri Meilhac]] (1831–1897)
* [[Victorien Sardou]] (1831–1908)
* [[Valérie Simonin]] (1831–1919)
* [[Émile Gaboriau]] (1832–1873)
* [[Jules Vallès]] (1832–1885)
* [[Gaston Lavalley]] (1834–1922)
* [[Claire Julie de Nanteuil]] (1834–1897)
* [[Édouard Pailleron]] (1834–1899)
* [[Ludovic Halévy]] (1834–1908)
* [[Jean-Marie Déguignet]] (1834–1905)
* [[Amélie Gex]] (Dian de la Jeânna) (1835–1883)
* [[Félix Narjoux]] (1836–1891)
* [[Jules Simon Troubat]] (1836–1914)
* [[Constant Fouard]] (1837–1903)
* [[Henry Becque]] (1837–1899)
* [[Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam]] (1838–1889)
* [[Lucie Boissonnas]] (1839–1877)
* [[Sully Prudhomme]] (1839–1907)
* [[Jules Lermina]] (1839–1913)
* [[Alphonse Daudet]] (1840–1897)
* [[Émile Zola]] (1840–1902)
* [[Arvède Barine]] (1840–1908)
* [[Jules Claretie]] (1840–1913)
* [[Catulle Mendès]] (1841–1909)
* [[Charles Cros]] (1842–1888)
* [[Stéphane Mallarmé]] (1842–1898)
* [[José María de Heredia]] (1842–1905)
* [[François Coppée]] (1842–1908)
* [[Albert Sorel]] (1842–1906)
* [[René de Lespinasse]] (1843–1922)
* [[Paul Arène]] (1843–1896)
* [[Paul Verlaine]] (1844–1896)
* [[Anatole France]] (Anatole François Thibault) (1844–1924)
* [[Tristan Corbière]] (Edouard-Joachim) (1845–1875)
* [[Comte de Lautréamont]] (Isidore Lucien Ducasse) (1846–1870)
* [[Léon Bloy]] (1846–1917)
* [[Auguste Edgard Dietrich]] (1846)
* [[Henri François Marion]] (1846–1896)
* [[Geoffroi Jacques Flach]] (1846–1919)
* [[Brada (writer)]] (1847–1938)
* [[Émile Faguet]] (1847–1916)
* [[Joris-Karl Huysmans]] (1848–1907)
* [[Octave Mirbeau]] (1848–1917)
* [[Georges de Peyrebrune]] (1848–1917)
* [[Ferdinand Brunetière]] (1849–1906)
* [[Jean Richepin]] (1849–1926)
* [[Georges de Porto-Riche]] (1849–1930)

===1850–1859===

* [[Guy de Maupassant]] (1850–1893)
* [[Pierre Loti]] (Julien Viaud) (1850–1923)
* [[Sibylle Gabrielle Marie Antoinette Riqueti de Mirabeau|Gyp]] (1850–1932)
* [[Germain Nouveau]] (1851–1920)
* [[Élémir Bourges]] (1852–1925)
* [[Paul Bourget]] (1852–1935)
* [[Alfred Masson-Forestier]] (1852–1912)
* [[Maurice Rollinat]] (1853–1903)
* [[Arthur Rimbaud]] (1854–1891), [[Une Saison en Enfer]]
* [[Alphonse Allais]] (1854–1905)
* [[Hermine Lecomte du Noüy]] (1854–1915)
* [[Laurent Tailhade]] (1854–1919)
* [[Georges Rodenbach]] (1855–1898)
* [[Jean Lorrain]] (1855–1906)
* [[Émile Verhaeren]] (1855–1916)
* [[Adolphe Chenevière]] (1855–1917)
* [[Noël Valois]] (1855–1915)
* [[Marie Lion]] (1855–1922)
* [[Jean Moréas]] (Jean Papadiamantopoulos) (1856–1910)
* [[Pierre Decourcelle]] (1856–1926)
* [[Claude Ferval]] (1856–1943)  
* [[Gustave Lanson]] (1857–1934)
* [[Albert Samain]] (1858–1900)
* [[Jules Lemaître]] (1858–1915)
* [[Remy de Gourmont]] (1858–1915)
* [[Émile Durkheim]] (1858–1917)
* [[Alfred Capus]] (1858–1922)
* [[Georges Courteline]] (Georges Moineaux) (1858–1929)
* [[Neel Doff]] (1858–1942)
* [[Jean-Baptiste Chautard]] (1858–1935)
* [[Henri Danoy]] (1859–1928)
* [[Gustave Belot]] (1859–1929)
* [[Paul Naudet]] (1859–1929)
* [[Anatole Le Braz]] (1859–1926)
* [[Gustave Kahn]] (1859–1936)
* [[Henri Bergson]] (1859–1941)

===1860–1869===

* [[Jules Laforgue]] (1860–1887)
* [[Paul Margueritte]] (1860–1918)
* [[Michel Zévaco]] (1860–1918)
* [[Paul Roux]] a/k/a Saint-Pol-Roux le Magnifique (1861–1940)
* [[Paul Adam (French novelist)|Paul Adam]] (1862–1920)
* [[Georges Darien]] (1862–1921)
* [[Georges Feydeau]] (1862–1921)
* [[Maurice Barrès]] (1862–1923)
* [[Maurice Maeterlinck]] (1862–1949)
* [[Stuart Merrill]] (1863–1915)
* [[Marguerite Audoux]] (1863–1937)
* [[Jules Renard]] (1864–1910)
* [[Henri de Régnier]] (1864–1936)
* [[Léon Broutin]] (fl. 1865–77) 
* [[Maurice Leblanc]] (1864–1941)
* [[Juliette Heuzey]] (1865–1952)
* [[Romain Rolland]] (1866–1944)
* [[Tristan Bernard]] (1866–1947)
* [[Fortunat Strowski]] (1866–1952)
* [[Charles de Beaupoil, comte de Saint-Aulaire]] (1866–1954)
* [[Émile Lauvrière]] (1866–1954)
* [[René Boylesve]] (René Tardivaux) (1867–1926
* [[Jehan Rictus]] (Gabriel Randon) (1867–1933)
* [[Léon Daudet]] (1867–1942)
* [[Marcel Schwob]] (1867–1905)
* [[Paul-Jean Toulet]] (1867–1920)
* [[Romain Coolus]] (1868–1952)
* [[Edmond Rostand]] (1868–1918)
* [[Gaston Leroux]] (1868–1927) (''[[The Phantom of the Opera (novel)|The Phantom of the Opera]]'', ''[[Le Mystère de la chambre jaune]]'')
* [[Achille Essebac]] (1868–1936)
* [[Francis Jammes]] (1868–1938)
* [[Émile Auguste Chartier]] a/k/a "Alain" (1868–1951)
* [[Paul Claudel]] (1868–1955)
* [[André Spire]] (1868–1966)
* [[Gaston Arman de Caillavet]] (1869–1915)
* [[Augustin Chaboseau]] (1868–1946)
* [[André Gide]] (1869–1951)

===1870–1879===

* [[Marcelle Tinayre]] (1870–1948)
* [[Henry Bordeaux]] (1870–1963)
* [[Pierre Louÿs]] (Pierre Louis) (1870–1925)
* [[Maximilien Winter]] (1871–1935)
* [[André Chéradame]] (1871–1948)
* [[Albert Geouffre de Lapradelle]] (1871–1955)
* [[Gaston Brière]] (1871–1962)
* [[Marcel Proust]] (1871–1922), ''[[In Search of Lost Time]]''
* [[Paul Valéry]] (1871–1945)
* [[Louis Madelin]] (1871–1956)
* [[Henry Bataille]] (1872–1922)
* [[Robert de Flers]] (1872–1927)
* [[Paul Fort]] (1872–1960)
* [[Alfred Jarry]] (1873–1907)
* [[Charles Péguy]] (1873–1914)
* [[Henri Barbusse]] (1873–1935)
* [[Colette]] (Sidonie Gabrielle Colette) (1873–1954)
* [[Alice Jouenne]] (1873–1954)
* [[Pierre Souvestre]] (1874–1914)
* [[Albert Thibaudet]] (1874–1936)
* [[Tristan Klingsor]] (1874–1966)
* [[Binet-Valmer]] (1875–1940)
* [[Paul Watrin]] (1876–1950)
* [[Anna de Noailles]] (Anne de Brancovan, comtesse de Noailles) (1876–1933)
* [[Max Jacob]] (1876–1944)
* [[Léon-Paul Fargue]] (1876–1947)
* [[Pierre Albert-Birot]] (1876–1967)
* [[Marcel Bouteron]] (1877–1962)
* [[Raymond Roussel]] (1877–1933)
* [[Oscar Milosz|Oscar Venceslas de Lubicz-Milosz]] (1877–1939)
* [[Charles Ferdinand Ramuz]], dit C. F. Ramuz (1878–1947)
* [[Victor Segalen]] (1878–1919)
* [[Henry de Monfreid]] (1879–1974)
* [[Francis Picabia]] (1879–1953)
* [[Henri Fauconnier]] (1879–1973)

===1880–1889===

* [[Louis Hémon]] (1880–1913)
* [[Guillaume Apollinaire]] (Wilhelm Apollinaris de Kostrowitzky) (1880–1918)
* [[Lucie Delarue-Mardrus]] (1880–1945)
* [[Francis de Miomandre]] (Francis Durand) (1880–1959)
* [[Alzir Hella]] (1881–1953)
* [[Valery Larbaud]] (1881–1957)
* [[Roger Martin du Gard]] (1881–1958)
* [[Camille Drevet]] (1881–1969)
* [[André Salmon]] (1881–1969)
* [[Jérôme Carcopino]] (1881–1970)
* [[Louis Pergaud]] (1882–1915)
* [[Jean Giraudoux]] (1882–1944)
* [[André Billy (writer)|André Billy]] (1882–1971)
* [[Pierre MacOrlan]] (Pierre Dumarchais) (1883–1970)
* [[Rose Combe]] (1883–1932)
* [[Marie Noël]] (1883–1933)
* [[Auguste Detœuf]] (1883–1947)
* [[Albert Pauphilet]] (1884–1948)
* [[Jules Supervielle]] (1884–1960
* [[Gaston Bachelard]] (1884–1962)
* [[Georges Duhamel (author)|Georges Duhamel]] (1884–1966)
* [[Jacques Chardonne]] (Jacques Boutelleau) (1884–1968)
* [[Jean Paulhan]] (1884–1968)
* [[Alexandre Arnoux]] (1884–1973)
* [[Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes]] (1884–1974)
* [[René Hubert (historian)|René Hubert]] (1885–1954)
* [[Sacha Guitry]] (1885–1957)
* [[André Maurois]] (Emile Herzog) (1885–1967)
* [[Fernand Crommelynck]] (1885–1970)
* [[Jules Romains]] (Jules-Louis de Farigoule) (1885–1972)
* [[Marthe Bibesco]] (1885–1973)
* [[Alain-Fournier]] (Henri Fournier) (1886–1914)
* [[Francis Carco]] (François Carcopino-Tusoli) (1886–1958)
* [[Pierre Benoît (novelist)|Pierre Benoit]] (1886–1962)
* [[Geneviève Fauconnier]] (1886–1969)
* [[Roland Dorgelès]] (Roland Lecavelé) (1886–1973)
* [[Jean-Charles Roman d'Amat]] (1887–1976)
* [[Henri Pourrat]] (1887–1959)
* [[Jean de La Varende]] (Jean-Balthazar Mallard, comte de La Varende) (1887–1959)
* [[René Maran]] (1887–1960)
* [[Blaise Cendrars]] (1887–1961)
* [[François Mauriac]] (1887–1970)
* [[Saint-John Perse]] (Alexis Léger) (1887–1975)
* [[Pierre-Jean Jouve]] (1887–1976)
* [[Marcel Martinet]] (1887–1944)
* [[Georges Bernanos]] (1888–1948)
* [[Henri Bosco]] (1888–1976)
* [[Paul Morand]] (1888–1976)
* [[Marcel Jouhandeau]] (1888–1979)
* [[Jacques de Lacretelle]] (1888–1985)
* [[Tristan Derème]] (1889–1941)
* [[Pierre Reverdy]] (1889–1960)
* [[Jean Cocteau]] (1889–1963)
* [[Émile Henriot (writer)|Émile Henriot]] (1889–1961)

===1890–1899===

* [[Henriette Sauret]] (1890–1976)
* [[Maurice Genevoix]] (1890–1980)
* [[Victor Serge]] (1890–1947)
* [[Leilah Mahi]] (1890–1932)
* [[Édouard Dunglas]] (1891–1952)
* [[La Mazille]] (1891–1984)
* [[Max Ernst]] (1891–1976)
* [[Pierre Drieu La Rochelle]] (1893–1945)
* [[Edmond Brazès]] (1893–1980)
* [[Luc Benoist]] (1893–1980)
* [[Paul Foulquié]] (1893–1983)
* [[Claude Cahun]] (Lucy Schwob) (1894–1954)
* [[Louis-Ferdinand Céline]] (Louis Destouches) (1894–1961) (''[[Voyage au bout de la nuit]]'', 1932)
* [[Rose Celli]] (1895–1982)
* [[Paul Éluard]] (Eugène Grindel) (1895–1952)
* [[Jean Giono]] (1895–1970)
* [[Marcel Pagnol]] (1895–1974)
* [[Albert Cohen (novelist)|Albert Cohen]] (1895–1981)
* [[Antonin Artaud]] (1896–1948)
* [[André Breton]] (1896–1966)
* [[Henry de Montherlant]] (Henry Millon de Montherlant) (1896–1972)
* [[Paulette Nardal]] (1896–1995)
* [[Tristan Tzara]] (1896–1963)
* [[Elsa Triolet]] (1896–1970)
* [[Louis Aragon]] (1897–1982)
* [[Georges Bataille]] (1897–1962)
* [[Joë Bousquet]] (1897–1950)
* [[Philippe Soupault]] (1897–1990)
* [[Marcel Thiry]] (1897–1977)
* [[Eugène Dabit]] (1898–1936)
* [[Michel de Ghelderode]] (1898–1962)
* [[Joseph Kessel]] (1898–1979)
* [[Paul Vialar]] (1898–1996)
* [[Louise Noëlle Malclès]] (1899–1977)
* [[Roger Vitrac]] (1899–1952)
* [[Pierre Virion]] (1899–1988)
* [[Jacques Audiberti]] (1899–1965)
* [[Marcel Achard]] (1899–1974)
* [[Louis Guilloux]] (1899–1980)
* [[Henri Michaux]] (1899–1984)
* [[Marcel Arland]] (1899–1986)
* [[Marcelle Auclair]] (1899–1983)
* [[Armand Salacrou]] (1899–1989)
* [[Francis Ponge]] (1899–1988)

==Twentieth century==

===1900–1909===

* [[Antoine de Saint-Exupéry]] (1900–1944)
* [[Robert Desnos]] (1900–1945)
* [[Jacques Prévert]] (1900–1977)
* [[André Chamson]] (1900–1983)
* [[André Dhôtel]] (1900–1991)
* [[Albert Ayguesparse]] (1900–1996)
* [[Julien Green]] (1900–1998)
* [[Nathalie Sarraute]] (1900–1999)
* [[Amadou Hampâté Bâ]] (1900 or 1901–1991)
* [[Georges Limbour]] (1900–1970)
* [[Marcel Sendrail]] (1900–1976)
* [[Jacques Bordiot]] (1900–1983)
* [[Maurice Féaudierre]] (1901-1992)
* [[Jean Meuvret]] (1901–1971)
* [[Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo]] (1901–1937)
* [[Jean Prévost]] (1901–1944)
* [[Henri Daniel-Rops]] (Henri Petiot) (1901–1965)
* [[Lanza del Vasto]] (1901–1981)
* [[Charles Lecocq]] (1901–1922)
* [[Michel Leiris]] (1901–1990)
* [[Suzanne Lilar]] (1901–1992)
* [[André Malraux]] (1901–1976)
* [[Marcel Aymé]] (1902–1967)
* [[Fernand Braudel]] (1902–1985)
* [[Marie-Magdeleine Carbet]] (1902–1996)
* [[Julien Torma]] (1902–1933)
* [[Louise de Vilmorin]] (1902–1969)
* Vercors (pseudonym for [[Jean Bruller]]) (1902–1991)
* [[Jean Tardieu]] (1903–1995)
* [[Raymond Radiguet]] (1903–1923)
* [[Irène Némirovsky]] (1903–1942)
* [[Jean Follain]] (1903–1971)
* [[Georges Simenon]] (1903–1989)
* [[Raymond Queneau]] (1903–1976)
* [[Marguerite Yourcenar]] (Marguerite de Crayencour) (1903–1987)
* [[René Bansard]] (1904–1971)
* [[Marie-Anne Desmarest]] (1904–1973)
* [[Gilbert Lely]] (1904–1985)
* [[Yves Congar]] (1904–1995)
* [[Jean-Paul Sartre]] (1905–1980)
* [[Maurice Fombeure]] (1906–1981)
* [[Charles Exbrayat]] (1906–1989)
* [[Samuel Beckett]] (1906–1989)
* [[René Sédillot]] (1906–1999)
* [[Léopold Sédar Senghor]] (1906–2001)
* [[Roger Vailland]] (1907–1965)
* [[Pauline Réage]] (Anne Desclos) (1907–1998)
* [[Violette Leduc]] (1907–1972)
* [[Raymond Abellio]] (Georges Soulès) (1907–1986)
* [[René Char]] (1907–1988)
* [[Maurice Blanchot]] (1907–2003)
* [[René Ménil]] (1907–2004)
* [[Roger Peyrefitte]] (1907–2000)
* [[Roger Gilbert-Lecomte]] (1907–1943)
* [[Jacques Roumain]] (1907–1944)
* [[René Daumal]] (1908–1944)
* [[Simone de Beauvoir]] (1908–1986)
* [[Paul Bénichou]] (1908–2001)
* [[Robert Merle]] (1908–2004)
* [[Simone Weil]] (1909–1943)
* [[Stéphane Pizella]] (1909–1970)
* [[Jean-Marie Dallet (linguist)|Jean-Marie Dallet]] (1909–1972)
* [[Anaïs Nin]] (1909–1977)
* [[Jean-Fernand Brierre]] (1909–1993)
* [[Robert Brasillach]] (1909–1945)
* [[André Pieyre de Mandiargues]] (1909–1991)
* [[Léo Malet]] (1909–1996)

===1910–1919===

* [[Jean Anouilh]] (1910–1987)
* [[Jean-Louis Baghio'o]] (1910–1994)
* [[Jean Genet]] (1910–1986)
* [[Paul Guth]] (1910–1997)
* [[Julien Gracq]] (Louis Poirier) (1910–2007)
* [[Emil Cioran]] (1911–1995)
* [[Raphaël Tardon]] (1911–1967)
* [[André Hardellet]] (1911–1974)
* [[René Barjavel]] (1911–1985)
* [[Guy des Cars]] (Guy de Pérusse des Cars) (1911–1993)
* [[Hervé Bazin]] (Jean Hervé-Bazin) (1911–1996)
* [[Jean Cayrol]] (1911–2005)
* [[Henri Troyat]] (Lev Tarassov) (1911–2007)
* [[André Jardin]] (1912–1996)
* [[Pierre Boulle]] (1912–1994)
* [[Edmond Jabès]] (1912–1991)
* [[Eugène Ionesco]] (1912–1994)
* [[Jacques de Bourbon Busset]] (1912–2001)
* [[Armand Robin]] (1912–1961)
* [[Claude Simon]] (1913–2005)
* [[Luc Dietrich]] (1913–1944)
* [[Albert Camus]] (1913–1960)
* [[Mouloud Feraoun]] (1913–1962)
* [[Gilbert Cesbron]] (1913–1979)
* [[Armand Lanoux]] (1913–1983)
* [[Pierre Daninos]] (1913–2005)
* [[Aimé Césaire]] (1913–2008)
* [[Félicien Marceau]] (Louis Carette) (1913–2012)
* [[Romain Gary]] (Romain Kacew a/k/a Romain Gary a/k/a Emile Ajar) (1914–1980)
* [[Béatrix Beck]] (1914–2008)
* [[Marguerite Duras]] (Marguerite Donnadieu) (1914–1996)
*[[Ahmed Sefrioui]] (1915–2004)
* [[Roland Barthes]] (1915–1980)
* [[Suzanne Césaire]] (1915–1966)
* [[Louis Dollot]] (1915–1997)
* [[Joseph Zobel]] (1915–2006)
* [[Constantin Virgil Gheorghiu|Virgil Gheorghiu]] (1916–1992)
* [[Jean-Louis Curtis]] (Louis Laffitte) (1917–1995)
* [[Ambroise Yxemerry]] (1917–2013)
* [[Pierre Bettencourt]] (1917–2006)
* [[Alain Guy]] (1918–1998)
* [[Maurice Druon]] (1918–2009)
* [[Michel Quoist]] (1918–1997)
* [[Jean Venturini]] (1919–1940)
* [[Alain Bosquet]] (Anatole Bisk) (1919–1998)
* [[Jacques Laurent]] a/k/a Jacques Laurent-Cely or Cécil Saint-Laurent (1919–2000)
* [[Michel Déon]] (1919–2016)
* [[Robert Pinget]] (1919–1997)

===1920–1929===
* [[Jean Dutourd]] (1920–2011)
* [[Jean Lartéguy]] (1920–2011)
* [[Jean Madiran]] (1920–2013)
* [[Mohammed Dib]] (1920–2003)
* [[Boris Vian]] (1920–1959)
* [[Françoise d'Eaubonne]] (1920–2005)
* [[Albert Memmi]] (1920–2020)
* [[Georges Brassens]] (1921–1981)
* [[Gérald Neveu]] (1921–1960)
* [[André Rogerie]] (1921–2014)
* [[Michel Guiomar]] (1921–2013)
* [[Jean-Pierre Renouard]] (1922–2014)
* [[Antoine Blondin]] (1922–1990)
* [[Jean-Charles]] (1922–2003)
* [[Jean-Claude Renard]] (1922–2002)
* [[Stefan Wul]] (1922–2003)
* [[Alain Robbe-Grillet]] (1922–2008)
* [[Yves Bonnefoy]] (1923–2016)
* [[Roger Foulon]] (1923–2008)
* [[Georges Perros]] (1923–1978)
* [[Ousmane Sembène]] (1923–2007)
* [[Jean Dumont (historian)|Jean Dumont]] (1923–2001)
* [[Claude Paillat]] (1924–2001)
* [[André du Bouchet]] (1924–2003)
* [[Salvat Etchart]] (1924–1985)
* [[Michel Tournier]] (1924–2016)
* [[Philippe Jaccottet]] (1925–2021)
* [[Roger Nimier]] (1925–1962)
* [[Jean d'Ormesson]] (1925–2017)
* [[François Augiéras]] (1925–1971)
* [[Alphonse Boudard]] (1925–2000)
* [[Roger Giroux]] (1925–1973)
* [[Frantz Fanon]] (1925–1961)
* [[Jean Robieux]] (1925–2012)
* [[Robert Misrahi]] (1926–2023)
* [[Yvon Taillandier]] (1926–2018)
* [[Michel Foucault]] (1926–1984)
* [[Michel Butor]] (1926–2016)
* [[Jacques Dupin]] (1927–2012)
* [[Gisèle Halimi]] (1927–2020)
* [[François Nourissier]] (1927–2011)
* [[Robert Fossier]] (1927–2012)
* [[Renada-Laura Portet]] (1927–2021)
* [[Jacques Rivette]] (1928–2016)
* [[André Schwarz-Bart]] (1928–2006)
* [[Édouard Glissant]] (1928–2011)
* [[Kateb Yacine]] (1929–1989)
* [[Nicolas Bouvier]] (1929–1998)

===1930–1939===

* [[Jacques Lafaye]] (1930–2024)
* [[Maggi Lidchi-Grassi]] (1930–...)
* [[Françoise Mallet-Joris]] (1930–2016)
* [[Jacques Ehrmann]] (1931–1972)
* [[Fernando Arrabal]] (1932–...)
* [[Mongo Beti]] (1932–2001)
* [[Hédi Bouraoui]] (1932–...)
* [[Claude Pujade-Renaud]] (1932–...)
* [[Jacques Roubaud]] (1932–2024)
* [[Julienne Salvat]] (1932–2019)
* [[Marcelin Pleynet]] (1933–...)
* [[Claude Esteban]] (1935–2006)
* [[Ágota Kristóf]] (1935–2011)
* [[Françoise Sagan]] (Françoise Quoirez) (1935–2004)
* [[Daniel Zimmermann]] (1935–2000)
* [[Assia Djebar]] (1936–2015)
* [[Frankétienne]] (1936–2025)
* [[Jean-Edern Hallier]] (1936–1997)
* [[Georges Perec]] (1936–1982)
* [[Philippe Sollers]] (1936–2023)
* [[Alain Grée]] (1936–2025)
* [[Anne-Marie Albiach]] (1937–2012)
* [[Marc Alyn]] (1937–...)
* [[Pierre Billon (writer)|Pierre Billon]] (1937–...)
* [[Andrée Brunin]] (1937–1993)
* [[Hélène Cixous]] (1937–...)
* [[Maryse Condé]] (1937–...)
* [[Abdelkebir Khatibi]] (1938–2009)
* [[Daniel Oster]] (1938–1999)
* [[Sandra Jayat]] (c. 1939–...)
* [[Michèle Lesbre]] (1939–...)
* [[Kenizé Mourad]] (1939–...)
* [[Gérard Roubichou]] (1939–...)

===1940–1949===

* [[Annie Ernaux]] (1940–...)
* [[Marie-Reine de Jaham]] (1940-...)
* [[J.M.G. Le Clézio]] (1940–...)
* [[Emmanuel Hocquard]] (1940–2019)
* [[Charles Duchaussois]] (1940–1991)
* [[Bernard Brizay]] (1941–...)
* [[Louis Mélennec]] (1941–...)
* [[Jean Daive]] (1941–...)
* [[Julia Kristeva]] (1941–...)
* [[Jean Marcel]] (1941–...)
* [[François Weyergans]] (1941–2019)
* [[Josaphat-Robert Large]] (1942–2017)
* [[François-Xavier Guerra]] (1942–2002)
* [[Wladimir Troubetzkoy]] (1942–2009)
* [[Jean Bernabé]] (1942–2017)
* [[Jean-Patrick Manchette]] (1942–1995)
* [[Guy Olivier Faure]] (1943–...)
* [[Yves Manglou]] (1943–...)
* [[Eva Joly]] (1943–...)
* [[René-Louis Baron]] (1944–2016)
* [[Noëlle Châtelet]] (1944–...)
* [[Doumbi Fakoly]] (1944–...)
* [[Jean-Jacques Greif]] (1944–...)
* [[Sergio Kokis]] (1944–...)
* [[Daniel Pennac]] (1944–...)
* [[Lucien Polastron]] (1944–...)
* [[Marc Filloux]] (1944–1974)
* [[Alain Guillerm]] (1944–2005)
* [[Françoise Chandernagor]] (1945–...)
* [[Tony Duvert]] (1945–2008)
* [[Bernard Gheur]] (1945–...)
* [[Pierre Michon]] (1945–...)
* [[Gisèle Bienne]] (1946–...)
* [[Renaud Camus]] (1946–...)
* [[Djémil Kessous]] (1946–...)
* [[Tahar Ben Jelloun]] (1947–...)
* [[Daniel Maximin]] (1947-...)
* [[Luc Perino]] (1947–...)
* [[Michel Étiévent]] (1947–2021)
* [[Loïc Le Ribault]] (1947–2007)
* [[Jean-Claude Villain]] (1947–...)
* [[Élisabeth Vonarburg]] (1947–...)
* Jean-Pierre Poccioni (1948–...)
* [[André Rouillé]] (1948–...)
* [[Bertrand Le Gendre]] (1948–...)
* [[Jean-Paul Goux]] (1948–...)
* [[Serge Duigou]] (1948–...)
* [[François Leperlier]] (1949–...)
* [[Amin Maalouf]] (1949–...)
* [[Didier Daeninckx]] (1949–...)
* [[Pierre Bergounioux]] (1949–...)
* [[Boualem Sansal]] (1949–...)

===1950–present===

* [[Bernard Bonnejean]] (1950–...)
* [[Yolande Cohen]] (1950–...)
* [[Jean-Paul Dubois]] (1950–...)
* [[Moussa Konaté (writer)|Moussa Konaté]] (1951–2013)
* [[Salim Jay]]  (1951–...)
* [[Bernard Cottret]] (1951–2020)
* [[Jean-Didier Urbain]] (1951–...)
* [[Raphaël Confiant]] (1951–...)
* [[Carole Achache]] (1952–2016)
* [[Pierre-Henri Bunel]] (1952–...)
* [[Dan Franck]] (1952–...)
* [[Dany Laferrière]] (1953–...)
* [[Françoise Bettencourt Meyers]] (1953–...)
* [[Nancy Huston]] (1953–...)
* [[Patrick Chamoiseau]] (1953–...)
* [[François Bon]] (1953–...)
* [[Martina Wachendorff]] (1953–...)
* [[Édouard Brasey]] (1954–...)
* [[Paul Dirmeikis]] (1954–...)
* [[Tahar Djaout]] (1954–1993)
* [[Margaret Maruani]] (1954–2022)
* [[Dai Sijie]] (1954–...)
* [[Pascale Roze]] (1954–...)
* [[Adelina Yzac]] (1954–...)
* [[Jean-Pierre Vallotton]] (1955–...)
* [[Alexandra Lapierre]] (1955–...)
* [[Caroline Lamarche]] (1955–...)
* [[Bertrand Renard]] (1955–...)
* [[Joël Henry (journalist)|Joël Henry]] (journalist) (1955–...)
* [[Renaud Girard]] (1955–...)
* [[Yasmina Khadra]] (1955-...)
* [[Annie Pietri]] (1956–...)
* [[Charles Mopsik]] (1956–2003)
* [[Gisèle Pineau]] (1956–...)
* [[Jean-Pierre Thiollet]] (1956–...)
* [[Khal Torabully]] (1956–...)
* [[Fred Vargas]] (1957-...)
* [[Hervé Le Tellier]] (1957–...)
* [[Youssef Rzouga]] (1957–...)
* [[Jean-Philippe Toussaint]] (1957–...)
* [[Azouz Begag]] (1957–...)
* [[Didier Ottinger]] (1957–...)
* [[Olivier Da Lage]] (1957–...)
* [[Simon Basinger]] (1957–...)
* [[Michel Houellebecq]] (1958–...)
* [[Pierre Leroux (author)|Pierre Leroux]] (1958-...)
* [[Marc-Édouard Nabe]] (1958–...)
* [[Olivier Weber]] (1958–...)
* [[Denis Robert]] (1958–...)
* [[Benjamin Sehene]] (1959–...)
* [[Christine Angot]] (1959–...)
* [[Frédéric-Yves Jeannet]] (1959–...)
* [[Jean-Luc Bitton]] (1959–...)
* [[Malek Belarbi]] (1959–...)
* [[Nicolas Fiévé]] (1959–...)
* [[Bruno Laurioux]] (1959–...)
* [[Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt]] (1960–...)
* [[Simonetta Greggio]] (1961–...)
* [[Bernard Werber]] (1961–...)
* [[Charles Dantzig]] (1961–...)
* [[Philippe Buc]] (1961–...)
* [[Valérie Grumelin-Halimi]] (1961–...)
* [[Philippe Claudel]] (1962–...)
* [[Virginie Caillé-Bastide]] (1962–...)
* [[Catherine Cusset]] (1963–...)
* [[Beatrice Hammer]] (1963–...)
* [[Kevin Bokeili]] (1963–2014)
* [[Alexis Jenni]] (1963–...)
* [[Bill Pallot]] (1964–...)
* [[Nadine Ribault]] (1964–2021)
* [[Pierre Cormon]] (1965–...)
* [[Ann Scott (French novelist)|Ann Scott]] (1965–...)
* [[Stéphane Laurent]] (1966–...)
* [[Odile Benyahia-Kouider]] (1966–...)
* [[Marie Jaffredo]] (1966–...)
* [[Alain Mabanckou]] (1966–...)
* [[Delphine Gardey]] (1967–...)
* [[Mouna Hachim]] (1967–...)
* [[Paul-Louis Roubert]] (1967–...)
* [[Jonathan Littell]] (1967–...)
* [[Amélie Nothomb]] (1967–...)
* [[Basile Panurgias]] (1967–...)
* [[Johanna Schipper]] (1967–...)
* [[Fréderic Neyrat]] (1968–...)
* [[Norbert-Bertrand Barbe]] (1968–...)
* [[Kim Thúy]] (1968–...)
* [[Virginie Despentes]] (1969–...)
* [[Louis Emond]] (1969–...)
* [[Antoine Bello]] (1970–...)
* [[Christophe Honoré]] (1970–...)
* [[Fabienne Kanor]] (1970–...)
* [[Édouard Tétreau]] (1970–...)
* [[Philippe Boisnard]] (1971–...)
* [[Yannick Mireur]] (1971–...)
* [[Angela Behelle]] (1971–...)
* [[Nicolas Ancion]] (1971–...)
* [[Luis de Miranda]] (1971–...)
* [[Nicolas Bouyssi]] (1972–...)
* [[Cristina Rodríguez (journalist)|Cristina Rodríguez]] (1972–...)
* [[Kilien Stengel]] (1972–...)
* [[Roland Michel Tremblay]] (1972–...)
* [[Romain Sardou]] (1974–...)
* [[Guillaume Musso]] (1974–...)
* [[Olivier Adam]] (1974–...)
* [[Harold Cobert]] (1974–...)
* [[Juliette Rennes]] (1976–...)
* [[Lisa Mandel]] (1977–...)
* [[Benoît Bringer]] (1979–...)
* [[Agnès Martin-Lugand]] (1979–...)
* [[Diane Mazloum]] (1980–...)
* [[Nahema Hanafi]] (1983–...)
* [[Jérémy Marie]] (1984–...)
* [[Benjamin Hoffmann]] (1985–...)
* [[Oriane Lassus]] (1987–...)
* [[Charles Luylier]] (1989–...)
* [[Mélissa Da Costa]] (1990-...)
* [[Blandine Rinkel]] (1991-...)
* [[Soraya Nini]] (1993–...)
* [[Chloé Wary]] (1995–...)
* [[Estelle Beauchamp]] (novelist since 1995)

==See also==

* [[List of French women writers]]
* [[French literature]]
* [[Francophone literature]]
* Lists of [[list of French-language poets|French-language poets]], [[List of French novelists|French novelists]], [[list of French people|French people]], [[Lists of authors|authors]]
* [[Literature of Quebec|Quebec literature]]
* [[List of Quebec authors]]
* [[List of Belgian women writers]]

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