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Annie Saumont. Ann Scott (French novelist) Olivier Séchan. Philippe Soupault. George Steiner. Jules Supervielle.
Grave at Montparnasse, Paris. Henri-René-Albert-Guy de Maupassant was born on 5 August 1850 at the late 16th-century Château de Miromesnil (near Dieppe in the Seine-Inférieure (now Seine-Maritime) Department, France), the elder son of Gustave de Maupassant (1821–99) and Laure Le Poittevin, [6] whose family hailed from the prosperous ...
Jules Verne. Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam. Categories: 19th-century short story writers by nationality. 19th-century French writers. French short story writers. Hidden category: Automatic category TOC generates no TOC.
Julio Florencio Cortázar[1] (26 August 1914 – 12 February 1984; Latin American Spanish: [ˈxuljo koɾˈtasaɾ] ⓘ) was an Argentine and naturalised French novelist, short story writer, poet, essayist, and translator. Known as one of the founders of the Latin American Boom, Cortázar influenced an entire generation of Spanish-speaking ...
Victor-Marie Hugo, vicomte Hugo[1] (French: [viktɔʁ maʁi yɡo] ⓘ; 26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885) was a French Romantic writer and politician. During a literary career that spanned more than sixty years, he wrote in a variety of genres and forms. His most famous works are the novels The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (1831) and Les Misérables ...
Alphonse Daudet. Alphonse Daudet (French: [dodɛ]; 13 May 1840 – 16 December 1897) was a French novelist. He was the husband of Julia Daudet and father of Edmée, Léon and Lucien Daudet.
Gustave Flaubert. Gustave Flaubert (UK: / ˈfloʊbɛər / FLOH-bair, US: / floʊˈbɛər / floh-BAIR; [1][2] French: [ɡystav flobɛʁ]; 12 December 1821 – 8 May 1880) was a French novelist. He has been considered the leading exponent of literary realism in his country and abroad. According to the literary theorist Kornelije Kvas, "in ...
Marie-Henri Beyle (French: [maʁi ɑ̃ʁi bɛl]; 23 January 1783 – 23 March 1842), better known by his pen name Stendhal (UK: / ˈstɒ̃dɑːl /, US: / stɛnˈdɑːl, stænˈ -/, [1][2][3] French: [stɛ̃dal, stɑ̃dal]), [a] was a French writer. Best known for the novels Le Rouge et le Noir (The Red and the Black, 1830) and La Chartreuse de ...