Poets who have written in the French language: A poet is someone who writes poetry. ... French (français, langue française) is one of the most important Romance languages, outnumbered in speakers only by Spanish and Portuguese. ...

A

• Guillaume Apollinaire
• Louis Aragon
• Agrippa d'Aubigné

Guillaume Apollinaire Guillaume Apollinaire (August 26, 1880 – November 9, 1918) was a poet, writer, and art critic. ... Louis Aragon (October 3, 1897 - December 24, 1982), French historian, poet and novelist. ... Agrippa dAubigné Théodore-Agrippa dAubigné (February 8, 1552 – April 29, 1630) was a French poet, soldier, propagandist and chronicler. ...

B

• Charles Baudelaire
• Jean-Antoine de Baïf
• Béroul
• Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux
• André Breton
• Andrée Brunin

This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Jean Antoine de Baïf (1532 - 1589), French poet and member of the Pléiade, was born at Venice. ... Béroul is a juggler and storyteller of trade (trouvere) Norman of XIIe century. ... Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, commonly called Boileau, (November 1, 1636 - March 13, 1711) was a French poet and critic. ... André Breton (February 18, 1896 – September 28, 1966) was a French writer, poet, and surrealist theorist. ... Andrée Brunin was a French poet (la Madeleine, 1937 - Bavinchove, 1993) Her output includes : Fille du Vent, Poems - Nomad’s land, Paris, 2003. ...

C

• Blaise Cendrars
• Jean Chapelain
• René Char
• Chrétien de Troyes
• Paul Claudel
• Jean Cocteau
• Tristan Corbière
• Octave Crémazie

Frédéric Louis Sauser (September 1, 1887 - January 21, 1961), better known as Blaise Cendrars, was a Swiss novelist and poet. ... Jean Chapelain (December 4, 1595 - February 22, 1674) was a French poet and writer. ... René Char (1907 - 1988) René Char (June 14, 1907 - February 19, 1988) was a 20th century poet. ... Chrétien de Troyes wrote in Champagne, France, during the last half of the twelfth century. ... Cover of Time Magazine(March 21, 1927) Paul Claudel (August 6, 1868 – February 23, 1955) was a French poet, dramatist and diplomat, and the younger brother of the sculptor Camille Claudel. ... Jean Cocteau Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau (July 5, 1889 – October 11, 1963) was a French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager and filmmaker. ... Tristan Corbière (July 18, 1845 – March 1, 1875), born Édouard-Joachim Corbière, a poet from Brittany who wrote in the French language, was born at Coat-Congar, where he lived most of his life and where he died. ... Octave Crémazie (April 16, 1827 – January 16, 1879) was a Canadian poet. ...

D

• René Daumal
• Jean Daurat
• Robert Desnos
• Souéloum Diagho
• Marie de France
• Comte de Lautréamont
• Guillaume de Lorris
• Guillaume de Machaut
• François de Malherbe
• Évariste Desiré de Forges, vicomte de Parny
• Christine de Pizan
• Pierre de Ronsard
• Mellin de Saint-Gelais
• Pontus de Tyard
• Paul Dirmeikis
• Joachim du Bellay

René Daumal (16 March, 1908 - 21 May, 1944) was a French writer, philosopher and poet. ... Jean Daurat (or Dorat) (Latin, Auratus), (1508 - November 1, 1588) was a French poet and scholar, a member of the Pléiade. ... Robert Desnos (July 4, 1900 - June 8, 1945) was a French surrealist poet. ... Souéloum Diagho, the contemporary Tuareg poet, comes from Tessalit in the North of Mali. ... Marie de France (Mary of France) was a poet evidently born in France and living in England during the late 12th century. ... Lautréamont Comte de Lautréamont was the pen name of Isidore Lucien Ducasse (Montevideo, Uruguay, April 4, 1846 - Paris, November 24, 1870), a French poet whose only work Les Chants de Maldoror had major influence on modern literature, and in particular on the Surrealist movement. ... Guillaume de Lorris (born 12XX) was a French epic poet, and was the author of the first section of the Romance of the Rose. ... Guillaume de Machaut (around 1300 – 1377), was a French composer and poet of the late Medieval era. ... François de Malherbe François de Malherbe (1555 - October 16, 1628) was a French poet, critic and translator. ... Évariste Desiré de Forges, vicomte de Parny (February 6, 1753 - December 5, 1814), was born in the Isle of Bourbon. ... Christine de Pizan, showing the interior of an apartment at the end of the 14th or commencement of the 15th century Christine de Pizan (also seen as de Pisan) (1364–1430) was a medieval writer, rhetorician, and critic, who strongly challenged misogyny in the male-dominated realm of the arts. ... Pierre de Ronsard, commonly referred to as Ronsard (September 11, 1524 – December, 1585), was a French poet and prince of poets (as his own generation in France called him). ... Mellin (or Melin) de Saint-Gelais (or Gelays) (ca. ... Pontus de Tyard (c. ... Categories: Wikipedia cleanup | 1954 births | Living classical composers | 20th century classical composers | American composers | Composers stubs ... Joachim du Bellay (c. ...

G

• Guiot de Provins
• Jean Genet
• Ivan O. Godfroid

Guiot de Provins (d. ... Jean Genet (December 19, 1910 - April 15, 1986), was a prominent, sometimes infamous, French writer and later political activist. ... Ivan O. Godfroid is a writer and a psychiatrist, born in Boussu (Belgium) on May 26th, 1971. ...

H

• Antoine Héroet
• Victor Hugo

Antoine Héroet, surnamed La Maison-Neuve (d. ... Victor-Marie Hugo (pronounced in French) (26 February 1802 — May 1885) was a French poet, novelist, playwright, essayist, visual artist, statesman and human rights campaigner, perhaps the most influential exponent of the Romantic movement in France. ...

J

• Max Jacob

In 1915, Max Jacob and Pablo Picasso Max Jacob (July 12, 1876 – March 5, 1944) was a French poet, painter, writer, and critic. ...

K

• Gustave Kahn

• Kama Sywor Kamanda

Gustave Kahn (December 21, 1859 - September 5, 1936) was a French Symbolist poet and art critic. ... Kama Sywor KAMANDA Kama Sywor KAMANDA was born in 1952 in Luebo, Congo, to a family of Bantu- Egyptian origin. ...

L

• Louise Labé
• Pierre Labrie
• Jules Laforgue
• Alphonse de Lamartine
• Félix Leclerc
• Martin le Franc (1410–1461)
• Gherasim Luca

Louise Labé. Engraving by Pierre Woeiriot, 1555 Louise Labé, (c. ... Pierre Labrie (23 April 1972— ) is a Quebecois poet, born at Mont-Joli, Quebec. ... Jules Laforgue (August 16, 1860–August 20, 1887) was a French poet born in Montevideo, Uruguay. ... Portrait of Alphonse de Lamartine Lamartine in front of the Hôtel de Ville de Paris, on the 25 February 1848, by Philippoteaux Alphonse Marie Louise Prat de Lamartine (Alphonse-Marie-Louis de Prat de Lamartine) (October 21, 1790 - February 28, 1869) was a French writer, poet and politician, born... 1999 Canada Post stamp Félix Leclerc (August 2, 1914-August 8, 1988) was a Québécois folk singer, poet, writer, actor and political activist. ... Martin le Franc c. ... Gherasim Luca (or Gherashim Luca) (July 23, 1913 - February 9, 1994) was a surrealist theorist and Romanian poet, frequently cited in the works of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. ...

N

• Émile Nelligan

// Biography Émile Nelligan (December 24, 1879 - November 18, 1941) was a French language poet from Quebec, Canada. ...

O

• Charles, duc d'Orléans

Charles of Valois, Duc dOrléans (November 24, 1394 – January 5, 1465) became Duke of Orléans in 1407, following the murder of his father, Louis of Valois on the orders of Duke John-the-Fearless of Burgundy. ...

P

• Louis Pergaud
• Francis Ponge
• Jacques Prévert
• St John Perse

Louis Pergaud (January 22, 1882 - April 8, 1915) was a French writer and soldier, whose principal works were known as Animal Stories due to their rooting in the flora and fauna of the Franche-Comté. His most famous work was the humourous yet powerful novel La Guerre des boutons (War... Francis Jean Gaston Alfred Ponge (March 27, 1899 - August 6, 1988) was a French essayist and poet. ... Jacques Prévert was a French poet and screenwriter who was born on February 4, 1900 in Neuilly-sur-Seine and died on April 11, 1977 in Omonville-la-Petite. ...

Q

• Raymond Queneau

Raymond Queneau (February 21, 1903 – October 25, 1976) was a French poet and novelist. ...

R

• Pierre Reverdy
• Arthur Rimbaud
• Robert Rius
• Armand Robin
• Robert de Boron
• Jaufré Rudel
• Gaston de Ruyter

Pierre Reverdy (13 September 1889 - 17 June 1960) is a French poet associated with surrealism and cubism. ... Rimbaud redirects here. ... Robert de Boron (also spelled in the manuscripts Bouron, Beron) was a French poet of the late 12th and early 13th centuries, originally from the village of Boron, in the arrondissement of Montbéliard. ... Jaufre Rudel dies in the arms of Hodierna of Tripoli (MS of troubadour songs, 13C North Italian, ) Jaufré Rudel, Lord of Blaye, was a troubadour probably living in the mid-12th century. ...

S

• Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau
• André Salmon
• Cécile Sauvage
• Maurice Scève
• Léopold Senghor
• Philippe Soupault

Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau (June 13, 1912 – October 24, 1943) was a French Canadian poet. ... André Salmon (October 4, 1881, Paris - March 12, 1969, Sanary-sur-Mer in Provence), French poet, art critic and writer. ... Maurice Scève (c. ... Léopold Sédar Senghor (October 9, 1906–December 20, 2001) was an Seneglese poet and politician who served as the first president of Senegal (1960–1980). ... Philippe Soupault (August 2, 1897 – March 12, 1990) was a French writer and poet, novelist, critic, and political activist. ...

T

• Taillefer
• Thomas of Britain
• Khal Torabully
• Julien Torma
• Roland Michel Tremblay
• Tristan Tzara

Taillefer was the surname of a Norman bard, whose exact name and place of birth are unknown. ... Thomas of Britain is an Anglo-Norman poet of the 12th century. ... Khal Torabully, a Mauritian and French poet, is closely associated to his concept of coolitude. ... Julien Torma (* Cambrai, France, April 6, 1902 - † Tyrol, February 17, 1933) is a French writer, playwright and poet. ... Roland Michel Tremblay (born October 15, 1972, in Quebec City, Canada) is a French-Canadian author, poet, scriptwriter, development producer and sci-fi consultant. ... Tristan Tzara (April 16, 1896 – December 25, 1963) is the assumed name of Sami Rosenstock, born in MoineÅŸti, Bacău, Romania, a poet and essayist who lived for the majority of his life in France. ...

V

• Paul Valéry
• Paul Verlaine
• François Villon
• Vincent Voiture

For other people of the same name, see Valery. ... Paul Verlaine illustrated in the frontispiece of , 1902 Paul Marie Verlaine (March 30, 1844 – January 8, 1896) is considered one of the greatest and most popular of French poets. ... François Villon (ca. ... Vincent Voiture (February 24, 1597 - May 26, 1648), French poet, was the son of a rich merchant of Amiens. ...

See also

• French literature
• Francophone literature
• List of French language authors
• List of French novelists
• List of French people
• List of Canadians