Writers Born in France
- Bergerac, Cyrano de (Paris)
- de Saint Exupéry, Antoine (Lyon)
- Diderot, Denis (Langres)
- Dumas, Alexandre (the Elder) (Villers-Cotterets)
- Hugo, Victor (Besancon)
- Maugham, W. Somerset (Paris)
- Nin, Anais (Neuilly)
- Proust, Marcel (Auteuil)
- Robbe-Grillet, Alain (Brest)
- Sarte, Jean-Paul (Paris)
- See, Lisa (Paris)
- Verne, Jules (Nantes)
- Voltaire (Paris)
- Werber, Bernard (Toulouse)
- Zola, Emile (Paris)
