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Jean Cocteau
French writer and filmmaker (1889–1963)

Paul Valéry
French poet, essayist, and philosopher (1871–1945)
Michel Houellebecq
French writer

Chrétien de Troyes
12th century French poet and trouvère
Serge Gainsbourg
French singer, songwriter, composer, writer, actor and director (1928–1991)
François Fénelon
French archbishop, theologian and writer (1651–1715)
Clément Marot
French poet (1495-1544)
Remy de Gourmont
French writer (1858–1915)
Francis Jammes
French poet (1868-1938)

Robert Desnos
French writer

Jules Laforgue
Franco-Uruguayan poet (1860–1887)
La Pléiade
group of French Renaissance poets

Jean Chapelain
French poet and critic

Eustache Deschamps
French poet
Louis Pergaud
French writer (1882–1915)
Abbé Delille
French priest and poet (1738-1813)

Gustave Kahn
French Symbolist poet and art critic (1859–1936)
Paul-Jean Toulet
French poet (1867-1920)
William II of Villehardouin
Prince of Achaea from 1246 to 1278
Oscar Milosz
French-Lithuanian poet and representative of Lithuania at the League of Nations (1877-1939)
Judith Gautier
French poet and historical novelist (1845-1917)
Jacques Pelletier du Mans
Humanist, Poet, Mathematician
Mathurin Régnier
French writer
Arthur Cravan
Swiss writer, poet, artist and boxer (1887–1918)
Blondel de Nesle
French trouvère
Paul Déroulède
French author and politician (1846-1914)
Michel Bampély
French poet, singer

Vincent-Marie Viénot, Count of Vaublanc
French count (1756–1845)
Pontus de Tyard
French poet and bishop
Léon Dierx
French poet (1838-1912)
Felix Gras
French poet, notary and magistrate (1844–1901)
Antoine Girard de Saint-Amant
French poet (1594-1661)
Pierre Antonine Dupont
French general (1765-1840)
Jacqueline Pascal
French poet (1625-1661)
Germain Nouveau
French poet of the symbolist movement (1851–1920)
Jean Daurat
French writer and scholar (1508-1588)
Marin le Roy de Gomberville
French writer
Nicolas Joseph Laurent Gilbert
French writer
Adenes Le Roi
French poet
Nicolas Louis François de Neufchâteau
French statesman, poet, politician, agronomist and scientist (1750-1828)
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French political scientist and historian (1934–2025)
Jean Reboul
French poet
Jean-Baptiste de Santeul
French writer (1630-1697)
Mellin de Saint-Gelais
French poet
Jean Molinet
medieval French writer
Georges Chastellain
Burgundian writer and historian
Serge Venturini
French poet
Gace Brulé
French trouvère
Jean Regnault de Segrais
French poet and novelist (1624-1701)
Edmond Haraucourt
French writer (1856–1941)
Camille Mauclair
French writer (1872-1945)
Ange-François Fariau
French poet
Jean Schlumberger
French writer, journalist and poet (1877–1968)
Henri Ghéon
French writer (1875–1944)
Louis-Xavier de Ricard
French poet, author and journalist (1843-1911)
Jeanne Lapauze
French poet and novelist
Claude-Carloman de Rulhière
French poet, historian
Louis-Marcelin de Fontanes
French writer and politician (1757-1821)
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Franc-Nohain
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Maurice Étienne Legrand, who published under the pseudonym Franc-Nohain (; 25 October 187218 October 1934), was a French librettist and poet. He is best known for his libretti for Maurice Ravel's opera ''L'heure espagnole'' and for numerous operettas by Claude Terrasse.

Gédéon Tallemant des Réaux
French writer