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Madame de Lafayette (1634–1693), author of La Princesse de Clèves; Alain-René Le Sage (1668–1747) Pierre de Marivaux (1688–1763) Voltaire (1694–1778), philosophe, satirist, playwright, author of Candide; Françoise de Graffigny (1695–1758), author of Lettres d'une Péruvienne; Abbé Prévost (1697–1763), author of Manon Lescaut
Alexandre Dumas [a] (born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie, [b] 24 July 1802 – 5 December 1870), [1] [2] also known as Alexandre Dumas père, [c] was a French novelist and playwright. His works have been translated into many languages and he is one of the most widely read French authors.
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 .
In October 1868, at the age of 18, he saved the famous poet Algernon Swinburne from drowning off the coast of Étretat. [15] The Franco-Prussian War broke out soon after his graduation from college in 1870 and Maupassant volunteered to serve in the French Army without attending military academy as aspirant.
Victor-Marie Hugo, vicomte Hugo [1] (French: [viktɔʁ maʁi yɡo] ⓘ; 26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885) was a French Romantic author, poet, essayist, playwright, and politician. During a literary career that spanned more than sixty years, he wrote in a variety of genres and forms.
Pages in category "19th-century French novelists" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 300 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
François Rabelais (UK: / ˈ r æ b ə l eɪ / RAB-ə-lay, US: / ˌ r æ b ə ˈ l eɪ /- LAY; [2] [3] French: [fʁɑ̃swa ʁablɛ]; born between 1483 and 1494; died 1553) was a French writer who has been called the first great French prose author. [4]
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 ...