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Gao Xingjian
Chinese novelist and playwright (1940- )
Julio Cortázar
Argentine writer (1914–1984)
Yasmina Reza
French actor and writer
Linda Maria Baros
Romanian writer
Matthieu Ricard
French writer and Buddhist monk
Abbé Delille
French priest and poet (1738-1813)
Jérôme Ferrari
French writer and translator
François Cheng
Chinese-born French writer, poet and calligrapher
Étienne Dolet
French translator and scholar (1509-1546)
Alice Milliat
pioneer of women's sport (1884–1957)
Charles Estienne
French anatomist, printer, agronomist (1504-1564)
Pierre Antonine Dupont
French general (1765-1840)
Serge Venturini
French poet
Antoine-Léonard de Chézy
French orientalist
Pierre Bersuire
French historian
Joseph-Anne-Marie de Moyriac de Mailla
French Jesuit (1669-1748) who served as a missionary to China
Bernard Noël
French writer and poet (1930–2021)
Jean-Louis Burnouf
French philologist and translator (1775-1844)
Kalonymus ben Kalonymus
French poet
William McGuckin de Slane
Irish orientalist (1801–1878)
Louis-Mathieu Langlès
French academic, philologist, linguist, translator, author, librarian and orientalist
Émile Senart
French indologist
Jean-Pierre Mahé
French historian, armenologist and philologist
Frédéric Macler
French Armenologist (1869-1938)
Moses ibn Tibbon
Jewish translator and writer
Émile Masson
French writer (1869–1923)
Sabine Huynh
French poet
François Noël
French humanist and diplomat (1756-1841)
Pierre François Tissot
French writer
Denis-Luc Frayssinous
French writer (1765-1841)
Paul-Louis Couchoud
French writer and philosopher (1879–1959)
Judith Dupont
French psychoanalyst and translator
Hédi Kaddour
French poet and writer
Marc Cholodenko
French writer (born 1950)
Cécile Wajsbrot
French writer, novelist, essayist, translator and journalist
Léon Robin
French philosopher (1866-1947)
Itxaro Borda
Basque writer
Antoine Le Métel d'Ouville
French poet
François Gacon
French writer (1667-1725)
Jean-Baptiste-Henri de Valincour
French classical scholar (1653-1730)
Michel de Marolles
French translator and churchman (1600–1681)
Lazare de Baïf
French diplomat and humanist
Marie Madeleine de Rochechouart de Mortemart
French Abbess (1645-1704)
Berechiah ha-Nakdan
Jewish poet and philosopher
Jeanne de Flandreysy
French and Provencal writer (1874–1959)
Wendy Delorme
French actor and choreographer
François Noe͏̈l
Flemish Christian missionary to China (1651–1729)
Anne de Graville
French poet
Andrée Viollis
French writer and journalist (1871–1951)
Philippe Di Folco
French writer, teacher and scriptwriter
Victorine Chastenay
French writer (1771-1855)
François Catrou
French historian and Jesuit priest
Hélène Cardona
French-American poet, linguist, literary translator, and actress
César Oudin
French Hispanist, translator, paremiologist, grammarian and lexicographer
Guyart des Moulins
author of the first Bible translation in French, known as the Bible Historiale (1251–1322)
Marie Holzman
French sinologist
Pierre Antoine La Place
French writer
Charles Louis Fleury Panckoucke
French publisher
Marguerite Harl
French scholar (1919–2020)
Marianne Lederer
French translator