French Authors in Chronological Order

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Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)

Cyrano de Bergerac (1619 - 1655)

Jean de La Fontaine (1621 - 1695)

Jean Baptiste Molière (1622 - 1673)

Jean-Baptiste Racine (1639 - 1699)

Voltaire (1694 - 1778)

Abbé Prévost (1697 - 1763)

Beaumarchais (1732 - 1799)

Pierre Choderlos de Laclos (1741 - 1803)

Chateaubriand (1768 - 1848)

Stendhal (1783 - 1842)

Honoré de Balzac (1799 - 1850)

Alexandre Dumas Père (1802 - 1870)

Victor. Hugo (1802 - 1885)

George Sand (1804 - 1876)

Alfred de Musset (1810 - 1857)

Charles Baudelaire (1821 -1867)

Gustave Flaubert (1821 - 1880)

Alexandre Dumas Fils (1824 - 1895)

Jules Verne (1828 - 1905)

Frédéric Mistral (1830 - 1914)  Nobel Prize in Literature, 1904

Sully Prudhomme (1839 - 1907)  First Nobel Prize in Literature, 1901

Alphonse Daudet (1840 - 1897)

Emil Zola (1840 - 1902)

Paul ( - Marie) Verlaine (1844 - 1896)

Anatole France (1844 - 1924)  Nobel Prize in Literature, 1921

Guy de Maupassant (1850 - 1893)

Arthur Rimbaud (1854 - 1891)

Henri Bergson (1859 - 1941)  Nobel Prize in Literature, 1927

Romain Rolland (1866 - 1944)  Nobel Prize in Literature, 1915

Edmond Rostand (1868 - 1918)

André Paul Guillaume Gide (1869 - 1951)  Nobel Prize in Literature, 1947

Marcel Proust (1871 - 1922)

Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette (1873 - 1954)

Roger Martin du Gard (1881 - 1958)  Nobel Prize in Literature, 1937

François Mauriac (1885 - 1970)  Nobel Prize in Literature, 1952

Saint-John Perse (1887 - 1975)  Nobel Prize in Literature, 1960

Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1894 - 1961)

Marcel Pagnol (1895 - 1974)

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900 - 1944)

Jacques Prévert (1900)

André Malraux (1901 - 1976)

Marcel Aymé (1902 - 1967)

Jean Paul Sartre (1905 - 1980)  Nobel Prize in Literature, 1964

Simone de Beauvoir (1908 - 1986)

Albert Camus (1913 - 1960)  Nobel Prize in Literature, 1957

Simon Claude (1913)  Nobel Prize in Literature, 1985