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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
Chronological list of French language authors (regardless of nationality), by date of birth. For an alphabetical list of writers of French nationality ...
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.
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.
Albert Camus (/ k æ ˈ m uː / [2] ka-MOO; French: [albɛʁ kamy] ⓘ; 7 November 1913 – 4 January 1960) was a French philosopher, author, dramatist, journalist, world federalist, [3] and political activist. He was the recipient of the 1957 Nobel Prize in Literature at the age of 44, the second-youngest recipient in history.
Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust (/ p r uː s t / PROOST; [1] French: [maʁsɛl pʁust]; 10 July 1871 – 18 November 1922) was a French novelist, literary critic, and essayist who wrote the monumental novel À la recherche du temps perdu (in French – translated in English as Remembrance of Things Past and more recently as In Search of Lost Time) which was published in seven ...
Michael Dirda considers Stendhal "the greatest all round French writer – author of two of the top 20 French novels, author of a highly original autobiography (Vie de Henry Brulard), a superb travel writer, and as inimitable a presence on the page as any writer you'll ever meet." [44]
This is a non-diffusing parent category of Category:19th-century French male writers and Category:19th-century French women writers The contents of these subcategories can also be found within this category, or in diffusing subcategories of it.