Category
page 1French women essayists

Fatou Diome
French-Senegalese writer

Marie de Gournay
French writer
Gisèle Halimi
French-Tunisian lawyer, feminist and politician (1927–2020)
Sarah Kofman
philosopher from France
Madeleine Pelletier
French physician, psychiatrist, feminist, socialist, editor (1874-1939)
Nelly Kaplan
French filmmaker and writer (1931–2020)
Catherine Clément
French writer and philosopher (born 1939)
Sylvie Germain
French writer (born 1954)
Mademoiselle Aïssé
French letter writer
Laure Adler
French journalist and publisher
Marthe Robert
French literary critic (1914–1996)
Suzanne Césaire
Martiniquan writer (1915–1966)
Louise de Broglie, comtesse d'Haussonville
Swiss-French writer (1818-1882)

Viviane Forrester
French writer (1925–2013)
Sabine Huynh
French poet
Élisabeth de Fontenay
French specialist in literature and university teacher

Elisa Mercœur
French writer (1809–1835)
Huguette Bouchardeau
French socialist politician
Agnès Poirier
French anglophile journalist
Raïssa Maritain
Russian poet and philosopher (1883-1960)
Gabriële Buffet-Picabia
French Dada personality and spouse of artist Francis Picabia (1881–1985)
Lucie Faure-Goyau
French writer and poet (1866-1913)
Sophie Doin
French novelist and essayist
Marianne Durano
French essayist and philosopher
Hélène Parmelin
French journalist (1915–1998)
Marie-Claire Bancquart
French poet, novelist and literary critic (1932–2019)
Catherine Gonnard
French art historian, activist, writer (born 1958)

Jeanne Scelles-Millie
French engineer and architect (1900–1993)
Jacqueline Risset
French poet (1936–2014)
Françoise-Albine Benoist
French writer
Dominique Barbéris
French writer
Christiane Singer
French writer (1943–2007)

Gabrielle Réval
French author (1869-1938)