List of French novelists

• Honoré de Balzac, (1799-1850), author of La Comedie Humaine[?], a series of novels presenting a full picture of France in the early 19th century
• Henri Bordeaux, (1870-1963)
• Pierre Boulle, (1912-1994), author of The Bridge on the River Kwai and Planet of the Apes.
• Albert Camus, (1913-1960)
• Louis Ferdinand Céline, (1894-1961), Death on the Installment Plan[?] or Mort á Credit[?].
• Gilbert Cesbron, (1913-1979)
• Emilie du Chatelet, (1706-1749)
• Colette, (1873-1954), best known for "Gigi" and "Cheri[?]"
• Alphonse Daudet, (1840-1897)
• Régine Deforges
• Denis Diderot, (1713-1784)
• Alexandre Dumas, (1802-1870), perhaps more movies have been made from his novels than any other; The Count of Monte Cristo has been filmed on an average of once every 18 months since films were first made.
• C. J. Everon, (born 1971), (See also Canada)
• Timothy Findley , (1930-2002), (See also Canada)
• Mavis Gallant, (born 1922), (See also Canada)
• Judith Godrèche, (born 1972), actress/author
• Nancy Huston, (born 1953), (See also Canada)
• André Gide, (1869-1951)
  • Michel Houellebecq, Impact award winner
  • Joris-Karl Huysmans, (1848-1907), novelist of the perverse
• Gustave Flaubert, (1821-1880)
• Victor Hugo, (1802-1885), author of The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Les Miserables
• Alain-René Le Sage, (1668-1747)
• Alfred Jarry, (1873-1907), satirist, inventor of Pataphysics
• Choderlos de Laclos[?]
• Andre Malraux, (1901-1976)
• Alma Marceau[?]
• Georges Perec, (1936-1982)
• Abbé Prévost[?]
• Marcel Proust, (1871-1922)
• François Rabelais, (ca. 1493-1553)
• Pauline Réage
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau, (1712-1778)
• Marquis de Sade, (1740-1814), Mr. Eponym
• Françoise Sagan[?]
• Georges Sand
• Jean-Paul Sartre, (1905-1980), existentialist
• Gertrude Stein, (1874-1946), (See also: United States)
• Stendhal, (1783-1842), author of The Red and the Black[?], considered by some to be the first modern novel
• Jules Verne, (1828-1905), writer of techno-thrillers, and founding father of science fiction.
• Boris Vian, (1920-1959)
• Voltaire, (1694-1778), satirist
• Emile Zola, (1840-1902), realist

See also: List of novelists, list of people by occupation, list of French people, list of people by nationality