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Molière

French dramatist

Voltaire

French philosopher and author

Pierre Corneille

French poet and dramatist

Pierre Marivaux

French author

Jules Romains

French author

Jean de La Taille

French author

Eugène-Marin Labiche

French dramatist

Ludovic Halévy

French author

Florent Carton Dancourt

French author

Népomucène Lemercier

French author

Étienne Jodelle

French author

Philippe Fabre d’Églantine

French dramatist

Jacques Grévin

French author

Émile Augier

French dramatist

Bellecour

French playwright

Adam De La Halle

French poet

Édouard Bourdet

French dramatist

Pierre de Larivey

French dramatist

Guillaume Oyono-Mbia

Cameroonian dramatist and writer

Jean Racine

French dramatist