18th-century French male writers

François-Marie Arouet (; 21 November 169430 May 1778), known by his pen name Voltaire (, ; ), was a French Enlightenment writer, philosopher (philosophe), satirist, and historian. Famous for his wit and his criticism of Christianity (especially of the Catholic Church) and of slavery, Voltaire was an advocate of freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and separation of church and state.

Charles Louis de Secondat, baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu (18 January 168910 February 1755), generally referred to as simply Montesquieu, was a French judge, intellectual, historian, and political philosopher.

French Enlightenment philosopher writer and encyclopædist (1713–1784)

French revolutionary lawyer and politician (1758–1794)

French nobleman and chemist (1743–1794)

French mathematician, mechanician, physicist, philosopher and music theorist (1717-1783)

French naturalist (1744-1829)

French nobleman, revolutionary politician, philosopher and writer of erotic works

French writer, politician and historian (1768–1848)

French playwright, diplomat and polymath (1732–1799)

French natural historian (1707-1788)

French poet and critic (1636–1711)

German-born French philosopher (1723–1789)

French philosopher; (1715-1771)

French army officer (1760-1836)

French philosopher, mathematician, and political scientist (1743-1794)

French writer, orator and statesman (1749-1791)

French-Swiss politician, writer on politics and religion (1767-1830)

French journalist and moralistic author

French poet

French writer and philosopher of the enlightenment (1657–1757)

French physician and philosopher

French economist

French economist and statesman (1727–1781)

French philosopher

French novelist and dramatist (1688-1763)

French mathematician, philosopher and man of letters

writer and botanist from France (1737-1814)

French composer and chess player (1726-1795)

French academic

French naturalist who established the principle of "unity of composition" (1772-1844)

French writer (1668-1747)

French anatomist and pathologist (1771–1802)

French journalist and politician

French author (1780–1844)

French revolutionary (1754–1793)

17th–18th century French priest and atheist (1664–1729)

French philosopher (1754-1840)

French scientist

French zoologist and natural philosopher

French historian and writer, a member of the Encyclopediste movement (1723-1799)

French writer (1753-1801)

French orientalist, numismatist and translator (1646–1715)

French writer (1734–1806)

French sculptor (1716–1791)

French writer (1675-1755)

French philosopher, historian, orientalist, and politician (1757-1820)

French writer (1755–1794)

French scientist, political advisor and sailor (1733-1799)

French dancer (1727-1810)

French linguist and orientalist (1758–1838)

French Benedictine monk, medievist, paleographer, diplomatics and theologian (1632-1707)

French writer (1763-1852)

French writer (1655-1709)

French politician and writer (1613-1703)

French poet (1674-1762)

French dramatist and writer (1740-1814)

French writer (1704-1772)

French poet

French writer