French dramatists and playwrights

Antoine-Vincent Arnault (1 January 1766 – 16 September 1834) was a French playwright.

Antoine Fabre d'Olivet (December 8, 1767, Ganges, Hérault – March 25, 1825, Paris) was a French author, poet and composer whose Biblical and philosophical hermeneutics influenced many occultists, such as Eliphas Lévi, Gerard Encausse and Édouard Schuré.

Edmond Gondinet (7 March 1828 – 19 November 1888) was a French playwright and librettist.

Henri Meilhac (21 February 1831 – 6 July 1897), was a French dramatist and opera librettist.

Jean-Luc Lagarce (14 February 1957 – 30 September 1995) was a French actor, theatre director and playwright.

Rutebeuf (or Rustebuef) (fl. 1245 – 1285), a trouvère, was born in the first half of the 13th century, possibly in Champagne (he describes conflicts in Troyes in 1249); he was evidently of humble birth, and he was a Parisian by education and residence.

François Bégaudeau (French pronunciation: ​[fʁɑ̃swa beɡodo]; born 27 April 1971) is a French writer, journalist and actor.

William Bertrand Busnach (7 March 1832, Paris – 20 January 1907, Paris) was a French dramatist.

Édouard Cadol (11 February 1831 – 1 June 1898) was an 19th-century French playwright and novelist.

Henry Marie Joseph Frédéric Expedite Millon de Montherlant (French: [mɔ̃tɛʁlɑ̃]; 20 April 1895 – 21 September 1972) was a French essayist, novelist, and dramatist.

Jules-Édouard Alboize de Pujol (1805, Montpellier – 9 April 1854, Paris) was a French historian and playwright.

Jean-François Collin d'Harleville (30 May 1755 – 24 February 1806) was a French dramatist.

Étienne Morel de Chedeville (10 October 1751 - 13 July 1814) was a 19th-century French playwright and librettist.

Olivier Cadiot (born 1956) is a French writer, poet, dramatist and translator.

Hector-Jonathan Crémieux (10 November 1828 – 30 September 1892) was a French librettist and playwright.

Paul Milliet (14 February 1848 - 21 November 1924) was a French playwright and librettist of the Parisian Belle Époque.

Jacques Grévin (c. 1539 – November 1570) was a French playwright.

Michel Vinaver (born Michel Grinberg; 13 January 1927) is a French writer and dramatist.

Paul Ferrier (29 March 1843 - September 1920) was a French dramatist, who also provided libretti for several composers, especially Varney and Serpette.

François-Antoine Jolly (25 December 1662 in Paris – 30 July 1753) was an 18th-century French playwright and librettist.

Baron Anne-Honoré-Joseph Duveyrier, surnamed Mélesville (13 December 1787 in Paris - 7 November 1865 in Marly-le-Roi), pen-name Mélesville, was a French dramatist.

Valentine de Saint-Point (born Anna Jeanne Valentine Marianne Glans de Cessiat-Vercell; 16 February 1875, Lyon - died 28 March 1953, Cairo), was a woman of letters and a French artist.

Adrien-Michel-Hyacinthe Blin de Sainmore (15 February 1733, Paris – 26 September 1807, Paris aged 74) was an 18th–century French poet, playwright and historian.

Georges Schehadé (2 November 1905 – 17 January 1989) was a Lebanese playwright and poet writing in French.

Théodore Barrière (1823 – 16 October 1877), French dramatist, was born in Paris.

Raymond Deslandes, called Raimond Deslandes, (12 July 1825 – 23 March 1890) was a 19th-century French journalist, playwright and theater manager.

Victor Koning (4 April 1842 – 1 October 1894) was a French playwright and librettist.

Jean-Henri Gourgaud (15 November 1746 – 19 October 1809) was a French actor under the stage name Dugazon, the son of Pierre-Antoine Gourgaud, the director of military hospitals there and also an actor.

Pierre Michel Delaporte (5 September 1806 – 30 Septembre 1872) was a 19th-century French playwright, painter, lithographer and political caricaturist.

Barthélemy-Christophe Fagan, also known under the pen name Fagan de Lugny, (31 March 1702 – 28 April 1755) was an 18th-century French playwright.

Marie-Joseph Blaise de Chénier (11 February 1764 – 10 January 1811) was a French poet, dramatist and politician of French and Greek origin.

Alexis Piron (July 9, 1689 – January 21, 1773) was a French epigrammatist and dramatist.

Alain Badiou (French: [alɛ̃ badju] ; born 17 January 1937) is a French philosopher, formerly chair of Philosophy at the École Normale Supérieure (ENS) and founder of the faculty of Philosophy of the Université de Paris VIII with Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault and Jean-François Lyotard.

Louis Hurtaut Dancourt (1725 – 29 July 1801) was a French librettist, dramatist, and actor.

Pierre-René Lemonnier (1731, Paris – 8 January 1796, Metz) was an 18th-century French playwright and librettist.

Adam de la Halle, also known as Adam le Bossu (Adam the Hunchback) (1245–50 – ?1285–88, or after 1306) was a French-born trouvère, poet and musician.

Paul Henry de Kock, better known as Paul Henry de Kock, (25 April 1819 – 14 April 1892) was an 19th-century French playwright, novelist, and chansonnier, famous for his salacious novels.

Andrée Chedid (Arabic: أندريه شديد‎‎) (20 March 1920 – 6 February 2011) was a French poet and novelist of Lebanese descent.

Jean Armand Charlemagne (born Bourget (Seine) 30 November 1753 – died Paris 6 March 1838) was a French dramatic author.

Édouard Schneider (1880-1960) was a French author.

Émile Ripert (1882-1948) was a French academic, poet, novelist and playwright.

Arnoul Gréban (Le Mans before 1420 – Florence ca. 1485), a French organist at the Cathedrale Notre Dame de Paris, authored a Mystère de la Passion and with his brother Simon Gréban the Mystère des Actes des Apôtres.