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Jean-Paul Sartre

French philosopher and author

Germaine de Staël

French-Swiss author

Théophile Gautier

French author

François Mauriac

French author

Alain Robbe-Grillet

French author

Julia Kristeva

French author

Remy de Gourmont

French author

Jules-Amédée Barbey d’Aurevilly

French author and critic

Claude Mauriac

French author

Léon Daudet

French journalist and author

Paul Bourget

French author

Valery-Nicolas Larbaud

French author

Catulle Mendès

French author

Jean-François Marmontel

French author

Jean Chapelain

French author

Paul Adam

French author

Abdelkebir Khatibi

Moroccan scholar

Suzanne Lilar

Belgian author

Albert Memmi

Tunisian novelist

Eugène Seers

French-Canadian poet