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French religious writers

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French Protestant reformer (1509-1564)

French philosopher, writer, and social activist (1909–1943)

Bernard of Clairvaux

Burgundian saint, abbot and theologian (1090-1153)

Thérèse of Lisieux

French Discalced Carmelite nun, Doctor of the Church (1873–1897)

Francis de Sales

French bishop, saint, writer and Doctor of the Church (1567-1622)

185th Pope of the Catholic Church

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

French philosopher, Jesuit priest, and paleontologist

François Fénelon

French archbishop, theologian and writer (1651–1715)

Vincent de Paul

French priest, founder and saint (1581-1660)

Jacques Bénigne Bossuet

French bishop and theologian (1627-1704)

Greek-French writer (1905-1982)

Antoine Arnauld

French theologian, philosopher, mathematician (1612-1694)

Jesuit theologian and cardinal (1896–1991)

Henri Grégoire

French bishop (1750–1831)

Jane Frances de Chantal

French nun and saint (1572-1641)

Guibert of Nogent

Benedictine historian, theologian and author of autobiographies (c. 1055–1124)

Jeanne-Marie Bouvier de La Motte Guyon

French Roman Catholic mystic

Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange

French theologian (1877-1964)

Professor of medicine:Montpellier/Paris/wrote the first great treatise on syphilis/venereal diseases (1684-1766)

French Jansenists

Anacharsis Cloots

Prussian noble (1755-1794)

Guillaume du Vair

French bishop, Magistrate of the Parliament, Keeper of the Seals of France under Louis XIII

Eugénie de Guérin

French women writer (1805-1848)

Fabrice Hadjadj

French writer and philosopher

Antonin Sertillanges

French philosopher (1863–1948)

French writer (1921–1997)

Brother Lawrence

Lorraine Roman Catholic friar

Henri-François-Alphonse Esquiros

French politician, editor (1812-1876)

Marie-Alphonse Ratisbonne

French priest and missionary (1812–1884)

Pierre Claverie

Algerian bishop (1938–1996)

French murderer and Servant of God

Marie Theodor Ratisbonne

Jewish convert and Catholic priest and founder (1802–1884)

French writer (1621-1687)

Menaḥem ben Shelomoh Meʾiri

Catalan rabbi, Talmudist and Maimonidean

Auguste Joseph Alphonse Gratry

French priest and scholar (1805-1872)

Aristide Pierre Maurin

French social activist and writer, co-founder of the Catholic Worker Movement (1877–1949)

Frédéric Manns

French biblical scholar (1942–2021)

Cécile Bruyère

French Roman Catholic abbess

Elisabeth Leseur

French mystic (1866-1914)

Claude-Adrien Nonnotte

French writer (1711-1793)

Claude Pierre Goujet

French historian

French Jesuit spiritual writer

Hippolyte Simon

French Roman Catholic archbishop (1944-2020)

Jean Pierre de Caussade

Roman Catholic theologian

Guerric of Igny

Guy-Toussaint-Julien Carron

French writer and priest (1760-1821)

John of St. Samson

Bernard Bluet d’Arbères

french Jester and writer (1566-1606)

Olympe-Philippe Gerbet

French Catholic bishop (1798-1864)

Jean de Bernieres-Louvigny

French mystic (1602–1659)

Estonian-French writer (1909-1966)

French Roman Catholic mystic and spiritual writer

Odo I of Beauvais

Frankish abbot and bishop (9th century)