List of French language authors

• François Rabelais (ca. 1493 - April 9, 1553)
• René Descartes (March 31, 1596 - February 11, 1650)
• Cyrano de Bergerac (March 6, 1619 - 1655)
• Pierre-Jean de Béranger[?] (1780 - 1857)
• Alphonse de Lamartine (1790 - 1869)
• Alexandre Dumas (1802 - 1870)
• George Sand (July 1, 1804 - June 8, 1876), the woman who dressed like a man
• Emile de Girardin[?] (1806 - 1881)
• Theophile Gautier (August 31, 1811 - December 23, 1872)
• Charles-Pierre Baudelaire (April 9, 1821 - August 31, 1867), author of Les Fleurs Du Mal[?]
• Arthur Rimbaud (1854 - 1891), Une Saison en Enfer[?]
• Andre Breton (February 18, 1896 - 1966)
• Jean Cocteau (July 5, 1889 - October 11, 1963)
• Antonin Artaud (1896 - 1948)
• Jean-Paul Sartre (June 21, 1905 - April 15, 1980)
• Simone de Beauvoir (1908 - 1986)
• Boris Vian (1920 - 1959)
• Georges Brassens[?] (October 22 1921 - October 29 1981)

See also: French literature, list of French language poets, list of novelists, list of French people.