Who is the most famous French author?

Answer 1

Napoléon Bonaparte

Jean-Michel Jarre: Music producer and composer, son of Maurice Jarre, famous movie theme composer. Composed Oxygèneand Equinoxe (New Age synthesizer) to name a few. Look him up on Wikipedia.

Coco Chanel: Fashion designer in the 1910s.

William the Conqueror (Guillaume le Conquérant)

Inspector Jacques Clouseau: Fictional detective and star of the Pink Panther movies.

Louis Vuitton
The country of France has famous people in the arts, sports, and science, as well as other areas. Some examples are, Andre the giant, Jessica Fox, and Alexander Levy.

Answer 2

There are loads of poems in French. Some that most French know of, (or ought to):

Heureux, qui comme Ulysse... (Joachim du Bellay, les regrets)

Mignonne, allons voir si la rose... (Ronsard)

le loup et l'agneau (Jean de la Fontaine, fables)

demain, dès l'aube... (Victor Hugo, les contemplations)

le bateau ivre (Arthur Rimbaud)

le pont Mirabeau (Apollinaire, alcools)

les iles fortunées (Raymond Queneau, fendre les flots)

Answer 3

Hugo

Flaubert

Dumas, pere et fils

Zola

Rostand (playwright)

Moliere "

Racine "

Balzac

de Maupassant

St. Exupery

Pagnol- playwright

Claudel "

Sartre "

Giraudoux ""

Collette

Stendahl

Lesage

Anatole France

Voltaire

Rabelais

Bossuet

-- these are not in any particular order- just some names I remember from French class

poets: Ronsard, Lemartine

Answer 4

sartre de beauvoir simenon camus robbe grillet Gide malraux celan foucault derrida Hugo voltaire pascal proust

Answer 5

Jean-Paul Sartre, Victor Hugo, Alexandre Dumas, Marguerite Duras, Albert Camus (French-Algerian), Émile Zola, Voltaire.

Answer 6

• Jules Vern
• Balzac
• Alexander Dumont

Answer 7

Probably Victor Hugo (author of 'Hunchback of Notre Dame') or Honoré de Balzac.

Answer 8

My favorite is Victor Hugo.

Answer 9

Victor Hugo