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Chronological list of French language authors (regardless of nationality), by date of birth. For an alphabetical list of writers of French nationality (broken down by genre), see French writers category .
French contemporary literature workshop with Marc Avelot, Philippe Binant, Bernard Magné, Claudette Oriol-Boyer, Jean Ricardou, Cerisy (France), 1980. For most of the 20th century, French authors had more Literature Nobel Prizes than those of any other nation. [6] The following French or French language authors have won a Nobel Prize in ...
J.M.G. Le Clézio (born 1940), Nobel Prize in Literature, 2008; Annie Ernaux (born 1940), Nobel Prize in Literature, 2022; Marie-Reine de Jaham (born 1940) Patrick Modiano (born 1945), Nobel Prize in Literature, 2014; Daniel Maximin (born 1947) Raphaël Confiant (born 1951) Carole Achache (1952–2016) Kama Sywor Kamanda(born 1952) Patrick ...
Despite limitations on press freedom, the Restoration was an extraordinary rich period for French literature. Paris editors published the first works of some of France's most famous writers. Honoré de Balzac moved to Paris in 1814, studied at the University of Paris, wrote his first play in 1820, and published his first novel, Les Chouans, in ...
This is a category of writers of French nationality. The main subcategories are Category:French novelists, Category:French dramatists and playwrights, Category:French poets and Category:French non-fiction writers (the latter being itself the parent of a number of sizable categories). If they wrote in French but were not nationals of France then ...
His most famous painting is The Romans in their Decadence (1847), an enormous canvas, almost five meters by eight meters, crowded with scenes of decadence. He was a teacher at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, and, like Gleyre, he taught a number of famous later painters, including Édouard Manet, Henri Fantin-Latour, and Pierre Puvis de Chavannes. In ...
The following is a chronological list of French artists working in visual or plastic media (plus, for some artists of the 20th century, performance art). For alphabetical lists, see the various subcategories of Category:French artists. See other articles for information on French literature, French music, French cinema and French culture.
Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) was a satirist for their cause (in his Lettres provinciales (1656–57)), but his greatest moral and religious work was his unfinished and fragmentary collection of thoughts justifying the Christian religion named Pensées (Thoughts) (the most famous section being his discussion of the "pari" or "wager" on the ...