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Simone de Beauvoir
French philosopher, social theorist and activist (1908–1986)
Annie Ernaux
French writer (born 1940)
Jean-François Lyotard
French philosopher (1924–1998)
Monique Wittig
French writer (1935-2003)
Héloïse d’Argenteuil
Héloïse (c. 1101 – 16 May 1164), variously Héloïse d'Argenteuil or Héloïse du Paraclet, was a French nun, philosopher, writer, scholar, and abbess.
Flora Tristan
French writer and suffragist (1803-1844)
Marie de Gournay
French writer
Françoise d'Eaubonne
French feminist (1920–2005)
Gisèle Halimi
French-Tunisian lawyer, feminist and politician (1927–2020)
Élisabeth Badinter
French author, historian, and professor
Christine Delphy
French sociologist
Maria Deraismes
French writer and feminist (1828–1894)
Zineb El Rhazoui
French journalist
Marie Jeanne Riccoboni
French novelist (1713–1792)
Rokhaya Diallo
French journalist
Christiane Rochefort
French writer (1917–1998)
Caroline Fourest
French journalist, editor, essayist and antifascist activist
Joseph Déjacque
French writer (1821–1864)
Bracha L. Ettinger
Israeli artist, painter, photographer, theorist and psychoanalyst (born 1948)
Jenny d'Héricourt
French writer and feminist activist (1809-1875)
Élisabeth de Gramont
20th-century French writer
Madeleine de Puisieux
French writer
Claire Démar
French feminist writer (1799–1833)
Susanna Kubelka
Austrian writer (1942–2024)
Hortense Allart
French-Italian writer and feminist
Marie Huot
French writer and activist (1848–1930)
Louise Hervieu
French artist and writer (1878-1954)
Adèle Esquiros
French journalist, editor (1819–1886)
Marie-Louise Gagneur
French feminist writer (1832-1902)
Pauline Harmange
French writer and feminist
Agnès Desarthe
French writer
Gabrielle Suchon
French philosopher
Georges de Peyrebrune
French writer
Marie-Jo Bonnet
French art historian
Gabrielle Soumet
French poet
Christine Bard
French historian
Chantal Montellier
French painter
Léonie Rouzade
French women's rights activist and writer
Titiou Lecoq
French writer and feminist (born 1980)
Marie-Reine Guindorf
French journalist, editor
Lauren Bastide
French journalist and activist
Angélique Arnaud
French novelist and feminist writer (1797-1884)
Marie-Anne de Roumier-Robert
French writer
Stella Blandy
French writer, feminist (1836-1925)
Florence Hervé
French writer
Antoinette de Saliès
French writer
Fanny Raoul
French journalist, essayist, women's rights activist (1771-1833)
Jeanne Bouvier
French feminism and trade unionist (1865-1964)
Olivia Cattan
French journalist and writer
Colette Reynaud
French journalist and feminist
Anne Zelensky
French feminist author and activist (born 1935)
Thérèse Kuoh-Moukoury
French lawyer & writer
Évelyne Sullerot
French feminist sociologist, journalist and writer (1924–2017)
Estelle Faye
science fiction and fantasy writer
Virginie Griess-Traut
French feminist and peace activist (1814–1898)
Louise Koppe
French feminist writer, founder of France's first maternity home, editor
Grace Ly
French writer and podcaster
Catherine Vidal
French neurobiologist
Manon Cormier
French jurist and lawyer (1896-1945)