French biographers

French novelist, poet, dramatist and politician (1802–1885)

Marie-Henri Beyle (; 23 January 1783 – 23 March 1842), better known by his pen name Stendhal (, , ), was a French writer. Best known for the novels Le Rouge et le Noir (The Red and the Black, 1830) and La Chartreuse de Parme (The Charterhouse of Parma, 1839), he is highly regarded for the acute analysis of his characters' psychology and considered one of the early and foremost practitioners of realism. A self-proclaimed egotist, the neologism for the same characteristic in his characters was "Beylism".

French author (1873-1935)

French philosopher, mathematician, and political scientist (1743-1794)

French journalist and writer (1867-1942)

French politician and writer (1804-1893)

French physician, psychiatrist, feminist, socialist, editor (1874-1939)

French diplomat, writer (1859-1944)

French writer

French painter (1845–1902)

French comics writer, novelist, and comics studies scholar (born 1956)

French author and journalist

French journalist, historian and author (1921–2015)

French statesman, poet, politician, agronomist and scientist (1750-1828)

French writer (1932-2005)

French politician (1756-1826)

French historian

French writer, journalist and poet (1877–1968)

French musicologist (1924-2017)

French writer (1875–1944)

French writer

French journalist and publisher

French historian (1871-1956)

French writer and director

Swiss-French writer (1818-1882)

French historian (1847-1923)

French historian

French writer

French historian

French journalist, poet and writer (1921–2020)

French journalist, encyclopedist and military figure in the French Air Force

Musician, music teacher (1950–2024)

French physician and writer (1886–1970)

Romanian politician (1832-1925)

French writer and historian (1853-1916)

French politician, lawyer, writer and poet

French socialist politician

French writer and abbot (1615-1654)

French historian (1815-1878)

French writer (1773-1858)

French writer

French musicologist, journalist and radio producer

French musicologist (1877–1952)

French historian (1833-1899)

French troubadour and poet

French biographer

French biographer, sister of Blaise Pascal

French writer, poet and historian (1719–1803)

French historian (1853–1925)

French journalist and author (1931-2018)

French historian (1856–1948)

French writer (1873–1921)

French entrepreneur, industrial, consular magistrate, economist, politician, historian (1881-1961)

French journalist (1858-1930)

French writer

French historian and musicologist

French writer

French writer (1840-1917)

French engraver, historiographer and biographer (1698–1755)

French writer and sister of Arthur Rimbaud