19th-century French male writers

French novelist, poet, dramatist and politician (1802–1885)

French poet and critic (1821–1867)

French novelist and playwright (1799–1850)

French writer and dramatist (1802–1870)

French novelist, journalist, playwright, and poet (1840–1902)

French writer (1844–1924)

French novelist (1821–1880)

French writer (1850-1893)

French poet (1854-1891)

Marie-Henri Beyle (; 23 January 1783 – 23 March 1842), better known by his pen name Stendhal (, , ), was a French writer. Best known for the novels Le Rouge et le Noir (The Red and the Black, 1830) and La Chartreuse de Parme (The Charterhouse of Parma, 1839), he is highly regarded for the acute analysis of his characters' psychology and considered one of the early and foremost practitioners of realism. A self-proclaimed egotist, the neologism for the same characteristic in his characters was "Beylism".

French composer and conductor (1803–1869)

French mathematician, physicist and engineer (1854–1912)

French philosopher, mathematician and sociologist (1798–1857)

Provençal writer, poet, lexicographer and founder of Le Félibrige (1830–1914)

French poet, Nobel prize for literature winner 1901 (1839–1907)

French-German physician, theologian, musician, and philosopher (1875-1965)

French poet (1844-1896)

French political thinker and historian, minister of Foreign Affairs (1805-1859)

French writer and dramatist (1824–1895)

French naturalist (1744-1829)

French novelist, playwright, and poet (1840–1897)

French author, poet and statesman (1790-1869)

French politician, philosopher, anarchist and socialist (1809-1865)

French writer (1810–1857)

French writer, archaeologist and historian (1803–1870)

French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, and art and literary critic (1811–1872)

French Symbolist poet (1842–1898)

French classical scholar (1790-1832)

President of France from 1871 to 1873 (1797-1877)

French / Occitan Socialist leader (1859-1914)

French early socialist theorist (1760-1825)

French poet, playwright, and novelist (1797–1863)

French author (1864-1910)

French historian; popularized the historical concept of the Renaissance

French writer, poet, essayist and translator (1808–1855)

French classical liberal theorist, political economist, and member of the French assembly (1801-1850)

French economist and businessman (1767–1832)

French literary critic (1804–1869)

French astronomer and author (1842–1925)

French diplomat and writer known for racial theories (1816–1882)

French poet and chansonnier (1780-1857)

French poet (1818–1894)

French writer, playwright and critic (1852–1935)

Uruguayan born French poet, Isidore Ducasse (1846-1870)

French writer (1850-1923)

writer and botanist from France (1737-1814)

French politician (1816-1887)

systematizer of Spiritism (1804–1869)

French philosopher and sociologist

French writer and critic (1822–1896)

French entomologist and author (1823-1915)

French sociologist and anthropologist (1872-1950)

French writer (1858–1915)

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

French painter (1868-1941)

French writer (1823-1891)

French writer (1808-1889)

French writer (1804-1857)

French-English writer (1870–1953)

French writer and poet (1870–1925)