Alexis de Tocqueville
French aristocrat, diplomat, political scientist, political philosopher and historian
french male non-fiction writers
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.
Michel de Montaigne
One of the most significant philosophers of the French Renaissance
Amin Maalouf
Lebanese-born French author who has lived in France since 1976. Although his native language is Arabic, he writes in French, and his works have been translated into over 40 languages
Milan Kundera
Czech writer who went into exile in France in 1975, becoming a naturalised French citizen in 1981. Kundera’s Czechoslovak citizenship was revoked in 1979; he received his Czech citizenship in 2019. He “sees himself as a French writer and insists his work should be studied as French literature and classified as such in book stores”.Kundera’s best-known work is The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Julio Cortazar
Argentine-French novelist, short story writer, essayist, and translator
Fernand Braudel
French historian and a leader of the Annales School
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
French lawyer and politician, who, as the author of The Physiology of Taste , gained fame as an epicure and gastronome: “Grimod and Brillat-Savarin
Gaston Bachelard
French philosopher