Simone Weil
French philosopher, mystic, and political activist
20th-century french philosophers
Jean-Paul Sartre
French philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary critic
Marcel Proust
French novelist, critic, and essayist who wrote the monumental novel In Search of Lost Time , originally published in French in seven volumes between 1913 and 1927. He is considered by critics and writers to be one of the most influential authors of the 20th century.
Claude Levi-Strauss
French anthropologist and ethnologist whose work was key in the development of the theories of structuralism and structural anthropology
Albert Camus
French philosopher, author, and journalist
Simone de Beauvoir
French writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, political activist, feminist, socialist, and social theorist
Gaston Bachelard
French philosopher