Bergerac, Cyrano de (Paris)
Long-nosed literary hero
Famous Writers from France
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de Saint Exupéry, Antoine (Lyon)
Author of The Little Prince -
Diderot, Denis (Langres)
Enlightenment editor of Encyclopédie -
Dumas, Alexandre (the Elder) (Villers-Cotterets)
The author of The Three Musketeers -
Flaubert, Gustave (Rouen)
The author of Madame Bovary -
Hugo, Victor (Besançon)
The author of Les Misérables -
Maugham, W. Somerset (Paris)
The author of Of Human Bondage -
Nin, Anais (Neuilly)
Diarist and lover of Henry Miller -
Poincaré, Henri (Nancy)
The French mathematician who wrote Science and Hypothesis -
Proust, Marcel (Auteuil)
Author of Remembrance of Things Past -
Robbe-Grillet, Alain (Brest)
The "anti-novel" guy who wrote the film Last Year at Marienbad -
Sand, George (Paris)
The unconventional 19th century French author of 1 July 1804 -
See, Lisa (Paris)
Author of Snow Flower and the Secret Fan -
Verne, Jules (Nantes)
Author of Around the World in Eighty Days -
Voltaire (Paris)
Witty playwright and author of Candide -
Werber, Bernard (Toulouse)
Author of Empire of the Ants -
Zola, Emile (Paris)
The author of "J'Accuse"