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Alfred de Musset
Alfred de Musset (1810–1857) was a French Romantic poet and playwright known for Les Nuits and Lorenzaccio, and elected to the Académie française in 1852.
Anna de Noailles
Anna de Noailles (1876–1933), born Anna-Élisabeth Bibesco-Brancovan, was a French-language poet and salonnière, the first woman Commander of the Legion of Honour and first woman member of the Belgian Royal Academy.
Armand Godoy
Armand Godoy (1880–1964) was a Cuban-born French-language Symbolist poet who settled in Paris in 1919, wrote Catholic verse, and assembled a major Baudelaire manuscript collection.
Comte de Lautréamont
Comte de Lautréamont was the pseudonym of Isidore Ducasse (1846–1870), a French-language poet whose prose epic Les Chants de Maldoror became a foundational text for the Surrealists.
Émile Verhaeren
Émile Verhaeren was a Belgian poet writing in French, the foremost figure among the Belgian Symbolists, who published more than 30 poetry collections before dying at Rouen station in 1916.
Francis Jammes
Francis Jammes (1868–1938) was a French poet, novelist, and chronicler who lived in Béarn and the Basque country, writing plain rural Catholic verse that broke with Symbolism.
François Coppée
François Coppée (1842–1908) was a French poet, dramatist, and novelist called "the poet of the humble" for verse on ordinary Parisian lives, elected to the Académie française in 1884.
Frédéric Mistral
Frédéric Mistral was a Provençal poet and lexicographer who founded Le Félibrige, compiled a major Occitan dictionary, and shared the 1904 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Georges Schehadé
Georges Schehadé (جورج شحادة), born in 1905 or 1907, was a Lebanese poet and playwright who wrote in French, and his play L'Émigré de Brisbane entered the Comédie-Française repertoire in 1967.
Gérard de Nerval
Gérard de Nerval, pen name of Gérard Labrunie, was a French writer (1808–1855) whose late works, including Sylvie, Les Chimères, and Aurélia, explore the boundary between dream and reality.
Henriette Charasson
Henriette Charasson (1884-1972) was a French poet, playwright, and literary critic who wrote for L'Action française under the pseudonym Orion and won eleven Académie française prizes.
Iwan Gilkin
Iwan Gilkin (1858–1924) was a Belgian French-language Symbolist poet, dramatist, and critic, author of La Nuit, a founder of La Jeune Belgique, and a member of Belgium's royal academy of French language and literature.
Jacques Prévert
Jacques Prévert (1900–1977) was a French poet and screenwriter whose collection Paroles (1946) made him one of the most widely read French poets of the twentieth century.
Jean Fanchette
Jean Fanchette (1932–1992) was a Mauritian-born French-language poet, psychoanalyst, and editor who founded the Paris review Two Cities and won the Académie française's prix de la Langue française in 1976.
Jules Supervielle
Jules Supervielle (1884–1960) was a Franco-Uruguayan poet, novelist, playwright, and translator, born in Montevideo and counted among the major French poets of the twentieth century.
Louis Aragon
Louis Aragon (1897–1982) was a French poet, novelist, and editor, a founder of Surrealism who co-founded the review Littérature in 1919 and joined the Communist Party in 1927.
Marie Noël
Marie Noël was the pen name of Marie Mélanie Rouget (1883–1967), a French poet of Auxerre known for Catholic lyric poetry rooted in popular song.
Maurice Magre
Maurice Magre (1877–1941) was a French poet, dramatist, librettist, novelist, and occultist from Toulouse who moved from lyric poetry to esoteric fiction and travel writing on Indian religion, winning two Académie française prizes.
Paul Claudel
Paul Claudel was a French poet, playwright, and diplomat who spent forty-five years in the foreign service, serving as ambassador to Japan, the United States, and Belgium.
Paul Éluard
Paul Éluard (1895–1952), born Eugène Émile Paul Grindel, was a French poet and founder of surrealism, known for his surrealist love poetry and Resistance poem "Liberté".
Pierre Emmanuel
Pierre Emmanuel, pen name of Noël-Jean Mathieu (1916–1984), was a French poet of Christian inspiration whose Resistance verse was learned by heart; he joined the Académie française in 1968.
Pierre Jean Jouve
Pierre Jean Jouve (1887–1976) was a French poet, novelist, and critic who renounced his early pacifist work around 1924 and rebuilt his writing on psychoanalysis and Christian mysticism.
René Char
René Char (1907–1988) was a French poet and Resistance leader from L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue in Provence who commanded Maquis units as Capitaine Alexandre and published his best-known work, Feuillets d'Hypnos, in 1946.
Saint-John Perse
Saint-John Perse, pen name of Alexis Saint-Léger Léger, was a French poet and diplomat, secretary-general of the Quai d'Orsay, who won the 1960 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Sully Prudhomme
Sully Prudhomme, pen name of René François Armand Prudhomme (1839–1907), was a French poet trained in science who won the first Nobel Prize in Literature in 1901.
Théophile Gautier
Théophile Gautier (Pierre Jules Théophile Gautier; 1811–1872) was a French poet, novelist, and leading art critic known for art for art's sake, Mademoiselle de Maupin, and Émaux et Camées.
Yves Bonnefoy
Yves Bonnefoy (1923–2016) was a French poet, essayist, critic, and translator, one of the poets who marked French poetry from the 1950s, and a celebrated translator of Shakespeare into French.