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Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre (1737–1814), author of Paul et Virginie; Marquis de Sade (1740–1814), author of "Dialogue Between a Priest and a Dying Man", Justine, The 120 Days of Sodom, Philosophy in the Bedroom, and Juliette; Choderlos de Laclos (1741–1803), author of Les Liaisons dangereuses; Anne Louise Germaine de Staël ...
Chronological list of French language authors (regardless of nationality), by date of birth. For an alphabetical list of writers of French nationality ...
Véronique Delphine Delamare (born Couturier; 17 February 1822 – 8 March 1848) [1] was a French housewife who took numerous lovers and later committed suicide. She was said to have been the inspiration for Gustave Flaubert's 1857 novel Madame Bovary.
Marijane Minaberri (1926–2017), children's author, poet, and short-story writer; Jane Misme (1865–1935), journalist and feminist; Ursule Molinaro (1916–2000), French-American novelist, playwright, and translator, who wrote in French and English; Kenizé Mourad (born 1939), journalist, non-fiction writer, and novelist
Viña is quoted in a 1931 book of author biographies that she was "born in the winter of 1905." [4] She was actually born January 29, 1903, per her New York birth certificate (Certificate No. 3137). The 1903 date of her birth is confirmed by the 1910 Census record of the "Charles" Croter family.
His travel books were among the first to be illustrated with photographs. Du Camp, the most famous traveller of his time, was the dedicatee of the final poem, Le Voyage, written in 1859, from Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal. Du Camp's 1855 poetry collection, Les Chants Modernes, includes a poem titled Le Voyageur.
Few of the writers of Paris were actually born in Paris; they were attracted to the city first because of its university, then because it was the center of the French publishing industry, home of the major French newspapers and journals, of its important literary salons, and the company of the other writers, poets, and artists.
The 100 Books of the Century (French: Les cent livres du siècle) is a list of the hundred most memorable books of the 20th century, regardless of language, according to a poll performed during the spring of 1999 by the French retailer Fnac and the Paris newspaper Le Monde.