Middle ages
Chrétien de Troyes (around 1135 - around 1183)

16th century
Francois Rabelais (around 1483 or 1494 – 1553)
Pierre de Ronsard (1524 – 1585)
Louise Labé (a.1526 - a.1565)

17th century
René Descartes (1596 - 1650)
Pierre Corneille (1606–1684)
Jean de La Fontaine (1621–1695)
Molière (1622–1673)
Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)
Charles Perrault (1628–1703)
Jean Racine (1639–1699)
18th century
Marivaux (1688–1763)
Montesquieu (1689–1755)
Voltaire (1694–1778)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712 - 1778)
Denis Diderot (1713 - 1784)
Beaumarchais (1732 - 1799)

19th century
François-René de Chateaubriand (1768 - 1848)
Honoré de Balzac (1799 - 1850)
Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885)
Alexandre Dumas (1802 - 1870)
Prosper Mérimée (1803 - 1870)
George Sand (1804 - 1876)
Alfred de Musset (1810 - 1857)
Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867)
Gustave Flaubert (1821 - 1880)
Jules Verne (1828 - 1905)
Alphonse Daudet (1840 - 1897)
Emile Zola (1840 - 1902)
Paul Verlaine (1844 - 1896)
Henri Bergson (1859 - 1941)
Edmond Rostand (1868 - 1918)

20th century
Paul Claudel (1868 - 1955)
Marcel Proust (1871 - 1922)
Guillaume Apollinaire (1880 - 1918)
Jean Cocteau (1892 - 1963)
Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1894 - 1961)
Jean Giono (1895 - 1970)
Marcel Pagnol (1895 - 1974)
André Breton (1896 - 1966)
Jacques Prévert (1900 - 1977)
André Malraux (1901 - 1976)
Raymond Queneau (1903 - 1976)
Jean-Paul Sartre (1905 - 1980)
Robert Merle (1908 - 2004)
Nicolas Bouvier (1929 - 1998)
Georges Perec (1936 - 1982)
Antoine Marie Roger de Saint-Exupery (1900 - 1944)
Albert Camus (1913 – 1960)
Colette (1873 - 1954)
Anaïs Nin (1903-1977)
Simone de Beauvoir (1908 - 1986)