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.