French male biographers

French writer and dramatist (1802–1870)

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 author and film director

French diplomat, writer (1859-1944)

French writer, translator and painter (1905-2001)

French writer (1914–1995)

French author and journalist

French writer (1927–2012)

French writer

French politician (1756-1826)

French writer (1932-2005)

French writer, journalist and poet (1877–1968)

French writer and director

French journalist and writer (1948-2017)

French writer

French writer (1887-1959)

French biographer and novelist (1920–2007)

French writer and abbot (1615-1654)

French politician, lawyer, writer and poet

French historian (1815-1878)

French photographer and actor

French writer (1873–1921)

French writer, poet and historian (1719–1803)

French writer (1840-1917)

Romanian historian (1928-1978)