French/Appendices/List of authors

Middle ages Chrétien de Troyes (around 1135 - around 1183) 16th century Francois Rabelais (around 1483 or 1494–1553) Pierre de Ronsard (1524–1585) Louise Labé (a.1526 - a.1565) 17th century 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 Marivaux (1688–1763) Montesquieu (1689–1755) Voltaire (1694–1778) Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778) Denis Diderot (1713–1784) Beaumarchais (1732–1799) 19th century 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 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) Links List of French authors in the French Wikipedia.