French male novelists

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

François-Marie Arouet (; 21 November 169430 May 1778), known by his pen name Voltaire (, ; ), was a French Enlightenment writer, philosopher (philosophe), satirist, and historian. Famous for his wit and his criticism of Christianity (especially of the Catholic Church) and of slavery, Voltaire was an advocate of freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and separation of church and state.

French writer (1828–1905)

French novelist and playwright (1799–1850)

French writer and dramatist (1802–1870)

French novelist, journalist, playwright, and poet (1840–1902)

French writer (1844–1924)

French novelist (1821–1880)

Charles Louis de Secondat, baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu (18 January 168910 February 1755), generally referred to as simply Montesquieu, was a French judge, intellectual, historian, and political philosopher.

French Enlightenment philosopher writer and encyclopædist (1713–1784)

French poet, fabulist and writer (1621–1695)

French author and Nobel laureate (1869–1951)

French author (1866-1944)

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".

16th-century French writer and humanist (1494–1553)

French writer (1885-1970)

Franco-Czechoslovak poet and novelist (1929—2023)

French writer and dramatist (1824–1895)

French novelist, playwright, and poet (1840–1897)

French nobleman, revolutionary politician, philosopher and writer of erotic works

French writer and Nobel Prize winner (born 1940)

French writer

French writer (1881–1958)

French writer (1810–1857)

French novelist, art theorist, and statesman (1901–1976)

French writer (1894–1961)

French writer, politician and historian (1768–1848)

Argentine writer (1914–1984)

French writer (1913–2005)

French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, and art and literary critic (1811–1872)

French author (1873-1935)

French poet (1897–1982)

French author (1885–1967)

French poet, playwright, and novelist (1797–1863)

French author (1864-1910)

Francophone Lebanese writer based in Frances

French novelist and dramatist (1619–1655)

French-Swiss politician, writer on politics and religion (1767-1830)

French archbishop, theologian and writer (1651–1715)

novelist, playwright and filmmaker from France (1895-1974)

French writer and diplomat (1914–1980)

French literary critic (1804–1869)

French astronomer and author (1842–1925)

French novelist, essayist, diplomat and playwright (1882–1944)

French writer (1888–1948)

French novelist (1697–1763)

French novelist and poet (1903–1976)

French writer, playwright and critic (1852–1935)

French novelist and dramatist (1688-1763)

French novelist and art critic (1848–1907)

French diplomat and writer known for racial theories (1816–1882)

French novelist, official and army general (1741–1803)

writer and botanist from France (1737-1814)

French film director and philosopher

French novelist

French writer (1850-1923)

French writer and philosopher

French writer (1895–1970)

French writer and literary critic (born 1965)

French novelist, filmmaker, documentalist, and essayist (1936–1982)