20th-century French male writers

French philosopher, author, and journalist (1913–1960)

French existentialist philosopher (1905–1980)

Swiss-French architect, designer, urbanist, and writer (1886–1965)

French writer and aviator (1900–1944)

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

French philosopher (1859–1941)

French mathematician, physicist and engineer (1854–1912)

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

French philosopher (1926–1984)

French writer and filmmaker (1889–1963)

French writer (1885-1970)

French-Polish filmmaker (born 1933)

French poet (1880–1918)

French writer (1881–1958)

French philosopher (1930–2004)

French anthropologist and ethnologist (1908–2009)

French novelist, art theorist, and statesman (1901–1976)

French film director (1932–1984)

French and Swiss film director (1930–2022)

French writer (1894–1961)

French poet, essayist, and philosopher (1871–1945)

French poet and diplomat (1887–1975)

Argentine writer (1914–1984)

French painter, sculptor, and chess player (1887–1968)

French writer and poet, co-founder of Surrealism (1896–1966)

French author (1873-1935)

French philosopher (1925–1995)

French poet (1897–1982)

French philosopher and essayist

Russian-French chess player (1892–1946)

French writer

Romanian-French poet (1896–1963)

French poet and screenwriter (1900-1977)

French poet (1895–1952)

French actor and theatre director (1913-1998)

French author (1885–1967)

French playwright (1910–1987)

French Marxist philosopher (1918–1990)

French-Occitanian poet, playwright, actor and theatre director (1896-1948)

French author (1864-1910)

French philosopher, Jesuit priest, and paleontologist

Francophone Lebanese writer based in Frances

French intellectual and literary figure (1897–1962)

French playwright and filmmaker (1885-1957)

French writer and musician (1920–1959)

French historian and leader of the Annales School

novelist, playwright and filmmaker from France (1895-1974)

French writer and diplomat (1914–1980)

French philosopher (1924–1998)

French novelist, essayist, diplomat and playwright (1882–1944)

French writer (1888–1948)

French astronomer and author (1842–1925)

French philosopher, sociologist, journalist, and political scientist (1905–1983)

French novelist, playwright, poet and political activist (1910-1986)

French comic book artist and author (1926-1977)

French philosopher, playwright, music critic and leading Christian existentialist (1889-1973)

French historian (1886–1944)

French writer and philosopher (1884-1962)

French-Romanian poet and translator (1920–1970)

French novelist and poet (1903–1976)