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The penname "Alberto Savinio" was an "Italianization" of Albert Savine, a minor French writer and translator of Oscar Wilde and Thomas De Quincey.
June 2 – Guillaume Bigot (born 1502), French writer, doctor, humanist and poet in French and Latin
July 13 — Marie de Gournay, also known as Marie le Jars, demoiselle de Gournay (born c. 1566), French writer, author of feminist tracts and poet; a close associate of Michel de Montaigne; buried in the Saint-Eustache Church in Paris
The name Hugo, proposed by Jean Meeus, was received in honour of the French writer Victor Hugo.
99 Francs is a 2000 novel by French writer Frédéric Beigbeder.
The mountain is named in memory of Antoine de Saint Exupéry, the French writer and aviator who was director of the Aeroposta Argentina airline and pioneered postal flights in the Patagonia region between 1929 and 1931.
With the French writer and feminist Monique Wittig, Josiane Chanel and many others, Fouque was active since 1968 in one of the early women's groups which gathered together in 1970 to form the French Mouvement de Libération des Femmes (MLF), a movement consisting of multiple groups throughout France without any formal leadership.
Thérèse Bentzon (Marie Thérèse Blanc), a French writer (1840-1907).
Boris Schreiber (May 29, 1923 Berlin - February 11, 2008 Neuilly) was a French writer.
He might be best known for being an accompanist to Sidney Bechet when he was in Paris, but he also worked with Barney Bigard and French writer and musician Boris Vian.
Count Renaud de la Frégeolière (29 April 1886 - 16 April 1981) was a French author who became the first president of the Fédération Internationale de Bobsleigh et de Tobogganing (FIBT - International Bobsleigh and Tobogganing Federation), serving from 1923 to 1960.
Pierre Edmond Teisserenc de Bort (born September 17, 1814 at Châteauroux; died July 29, 1892 in Paris), French writer and politician
Pierre Martin Désiré Eugène Mouton (12 April 1823, Marseille, - 8 June 1902, Paris) was a French writer of comic, adventure, and fantastical literature, and is considered an early writer of science fiction.
Fermina Márquez is a short novel in twenty chapters written by French writer Valery Larbaud.
François Leperlier (born 1949) is a French writer, essayist, poet, philosopher and art historian, known especially for his work on the surrealist writer and photographer Claude Cahun.
The style is very influenced by the French writer Céline but is also full of French slang and new words coined by the author himself (to the point of publishing a specific San-Antonio Dictionnary), which makes it quite difficult for non-native speakers.
Frédéric Dard (Frédéric Charles Antoine Dard, June 29, 1921 in Bourgoin-Jallieu, Isère - June 6, 2000 in Switzerland) was a French writer and author of the San-Antonio series.
Gabriel Benoist (11 July 1891 – 27 October 1964) was a French writer in the Cauchois dialect of the Norman language.
Georges Bataille's Story of the Eye is a 2004 experimental film adaptation of the 1928 novel Story of the Eye by the French writer Georges Bataille.
Henri Deberly, born in 1882 in Amiens (France) and died in 1947, was a French writer, winner of the Prix Goncourt in 1926.
Hippolyte Castille (November 8, 1820, Montreuil-sur-Mer – September 26, 1886, Luc-sur-Mer) was a French writer and polemicist.
The title of the book is a reference to a sentence by French writer François Rabelais, who famously wrote in Pantagruel: "one half of the world does not know how the other half lives" ("la moitié du monde ne sait pas comment l'autre vit").
The name honored the French writer, poet and politician Alphonse de Lamartine, who was instrumental in the foundation of the French Second Republic.
It includes a fine portrait and evaluation of French writer Jacques Cazotte, author of The devil in love, who inspired E. T. A. Hoffmann and Charles Nodier, and who was unjustly guillotined during the French revolution in his 70s.
Simon Louis Pierre, marquis de Cubières, brother of Michel de Cubières (1747, Roquemaure, Gard – 1821) was a French writer.
The name Louvet appearing on its own usually refers to Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvrai, French writer during the Revolution.
French writer Victor Hugo poetized in Toilers of the Sea admiring the scenery after a visit in 1866 that the Lysefjord was the most terrifying of the ocean reefs.
Marc Elder (Marcel Tendron) 31 October 1884 Nantes - 16 August 1933 Saint-Fiacre-sur-Maine) was a French writer, winner of the Prix Goncourt for The People of the Sea.
After various publications, including the cover of the British magazine Yearbook by Laurent Humbert, he was chosen for the jury for the French film festival Chéries-Chéris together with Spanish actress Rossy de Palma and French writer and screen writer Philippe Besson.
Claude Mauriac (1914–1996), French writer and journalist, son of François
François Mauriac (1885–1970), French writer, Nobel Prize in Literature in 1952
Olivier Rolin (born 14 May 1947 in Boulogne-Billancourt) is a French writer.
Pascal Quignard (born April 23, 1948) is a French writer born in Verneuil-sur-Avre, Eure.
Heiberg also translated a publication by the French writer Jean-Charles Laveaux, which was highly critical towards the upper class, this was likely the reason why Heiberg chose to publish the translated version anonymously.
Vladimir Solomonovich Pozner (1905-1992), French writer and translator of Russian descent
Kamen is a frequent collaborator of French writer, director and producer Luc Besson—his co-creator on The Fifth Element, The Transporter, and Taken.
Countess of Ségur (née Countess Sofiya Fyodorovna Rostopchina; 1799-1874), French writer of Russian birth, daughter of Fyodor
These included the astronomers Nicolas-Louis de La Caille, Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon and the French writer Bernardin de Saint-Pierre.
The French writer Marguerite Duras lived in Sa Đéc during a three- to four-year period between 1928 and 1932.
Victor Hugo, French writer, In exile in St-Peter Port from 1855 to 1870.
The monastery is a museum today, consisting of the main church which is still in use, the old pharmacy, various cells and rooms of the prior and the monks, the former library, dining room, garden, as well as the cells No. 2 and No. 4 of the Polish composer Frédéric Chopin in 1838 to 1839, and the French writer George Sand.
Jules Vallès (1832-1885), French writer and political activist
François de La Mothe Le Vayer (1588–1672), French writer who was known to use the pseudonym Orosius Tubero
The French writer Alexandre Dumas take inspiration from his life for the novel “Pascal Bruno”.
For the French writer, see Voltaire
In Etō's view, Kurahashi's novel simply imitated the earlier novel Change by the French writer Michel Butor.