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French women dramatists and playwrights

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French novelist and memoirist (1804–1876)

Françoise Sagan

French writer (1935-2004)

Olympe de Gouges

French playwright and political activist (1748–1793)

Marguerite Duras

French writer and film director (1914-1996)

Margaret of Valois-Angoulême

queen consort of Navarre (1492–1549)

Nathalie Sarraute

French lawyer and writer

French actor and writer

Brigitte Fontaine

French poet and artist

Régine Deforges

French film director and writer (1935–2014)

French actress, film director and writer

Virginie Ancelot

French writer and painter (1792-1875)

French writer (1941–2025)

Rachilde () was the pen name and preferred identity of novelist and playwright Marguerite Vallette-Eymery (11 February 1860 – 4 April 1953). Born near Périgueux, Dordogne, Aquitaine, France during the Second French Empire, Rachilde went on to become a Symbolist author and one of the most prominent women in literature associated with the Decadent movement of fin de siècle France.

French filmmaker and writer (1931–2020)

Antoinette du Ligier de la Garde Deshoulières

French writer, poet, salonnière (1638–1694)

Françoise de Graffigny

French writer (1695-1758)

Christine Angot

French writer, novelist, playwright (born 1959)

Rosemonde Gérard

French poet and playwright (1866–1953)

Marie-Catherine de Villedieu

Catherine de Parthenay

French noblewoman (1554–1631)

Composer and playwright

Madame de Montesson

French noblewoman (1738-1806)

French opera singer

Céleste Mogador

French dancer, playwright and novelist (1824-1909)

Hélène van Zuylen

French socialite, author, auto racing pioneer (1863–1947)

Fanny de Beauharnais

French poet and mother of the politician Claude de Beauharnais

Anne-Marie du Boccage

Simone Le Bargy

French actor and writer (1877–1985)

Catherine Bernard

French playwright, diarist and writer (1875-1918)

Catherine Paysan

French writer (1926–2020)

Amélie-Julie Candeille

French actor and musician (1767-1834)

Françoise Dorin

Madeleine Angélique Poisson Gomez

French novelist and playwright (1684-1770)

French screenwriter, writer and playwright

Marie Anne Barbier

French playwright and librettist (1664/1670?-1742)

Simone Benmussa

French author (1931–2001)

Gabrielle Soumet

Véronique Olmi

Hermine Lecomte du Nouÿ

French writer (1854-1915)

Françoise Chandernagor

Françoise Pascal

French painter (1632-1698)

French actress, playwright, film director and screenwriter

French film actress, director and screenwriter

Martinican playwright

Marya Chéliga-Loevy

Germaine Acremant

French writer (1889-1986)

Antoinette Henriette Clémence Robert

19th century French writer

Adèle Daminois

French playwright (1789-1876)

French writer (1894-1958)

Juliette Figuier

French writer (1827-1879)

French writer (1847-1938)

Anne-Hyacinthe de Colleville

Françoise-Albine Benoist

Élisabeth Guibert

French playwright (1725-1788)

Barbe D'Ernecourt Saint-Balmon

French writer (1606-1660)

Évelyne Grandjean

Caroline Amiguet

French actress, writer, and public speaker