20th-century French non-fiction writers

French philosopher, writer, and social activist (1909–1943)

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

French philosopher (1925–1995)

Belgian Francophone writer (born 1966)

French writer, playwright and critic (1852–1935)

French entomologist and author (1823-1915)

French author, politician, poet, and critic (1868–1952)

French philosopher (1882–1973)

French philologist (1898-1986)

French philosopher (1868–1951)

Belgian-born French feminist, philosopher, linguist, psycholinguist, psychoanalyst and cultural theorist (born 1930)

Polish and French chess player (1887–1956)

writer, journalist and pianist, younger daughter of Marie and Pierre Curie (1904–2007)

French sociologist, technology critic, and Christian anarchist

French literary critic (1847–1916)

Jesuit theologian and cardinal (1896–1991)

French writer, translator, and university teacher (born 1972)

French pediatrician & psychoanalyst (1908–1988)

French artist (1894–1954)

French medievalist and writer (1839-1903)

French actress, television director, writer and screenwriter (1928–2010)

French philosopher (1932–2018)

French-German poet, key figure in German Expressionism and French Surrealism (1891-1950)

Umm-El-Banine Assadoulaeff (Ummulbanu Asadullayeva; 18 December 1905 – 23 October 1992) was a French writer of Azerbaijani descent who wrote under the penname of Banine.

Cameroonian writer

French painter (1886-1966)

French businesswoman, billionaire

French philosopher

French writer

French writer

French writer, film director and screenwriter

French writer (1915–1995)

French theologian (1877-1964)

French novelist (1853–1932)

French actress, film director and writer

Greek-French writer

French political scientist and Arabist (born 1955)

French philosopher and theologian (1901-1999)

French actress, screenwriter, director (1953–1996)

French painter (1861-1942)

French film director, actor and novelist (1938-2010)

French author (1867–1926)

French writer (1923-2010)

French novelist (1898–1945)

alpine skier, sports director and French businessman (1933–2017)

French linguist

French philosopher (1924–2010)

French comics writer, novelist, and comics studies scholar (born 1956)

French writer of Belgian origin (1914–2008)

French individualist anarchist philosopher, activist, and novelist (1861-1938)

French psychoanalyst, author & editor (1924–2012)

French writer (1907–1986)

French critic and man of letters (1860-1937)

French writer (1937–1967)

veteran of the French resistance, neurosurgeon, aviator, first female General Officer

French sociologist (1872–1927)

French resistance member (1901–1944)

French anthropologist and geographer (1922–2024)

French actress

French writer (1917–1999)