Guy Cabanel

(Bézier: 31 March 1926)

José Cabanis

(Toulouse: 24 March 1922 - Balma: 6 October 2000)

Louis Calaferte

Louis CALAFERTE (1928-1994)

Erskine Caldwell

(Moreland, Georgia: 17 December 1903 - Paradise Valley, Arizona: 11 April 1987)

Henri Calet

(Paris: 3 March 1904 - Vence: 14 July 1956)

Maxime Camp du

(Paris: 8 February 1822 - Baden-Baden: 8 February 1894)

Albert Camus

Truman Capote

Truman Streckfus Persons

(New Orleans: September 30, 1924 - Los Angeles: August 25, 1984)

Francis Carco

(Nouméa, New Caledonia: 3 July 1886 - Paris: 26 May 1958)

Jean Carrière

(Nîmes: 6 August 1928 - Nîmes: 8 May 2005)

Raymond Carver

(Clatskanie: 25 May 1938 - Port Angeles: 2 August 1988)

Jules Case

Jules Richard Case

(Meaning: 24 June 1854; Strasbourg: 15 December 1931)

Jean Cassou

(Deusto: 9 July 1897 - Paris: 16 January 1986)

André Cayatte

(Carcassonne : 3 February 1909 - Paris: 6 February 1989)

Louis-Ferdinand Céline

Louis-Ferdinand Destouches

(born May 27, 1894 in Courbevoie and died July 1, 1961 in Meudon)

Blaise Cendrars

Frédéric Louis Sauser, Freddy Sausey, Jack Lee, Diogenes

(born on 1 September 1887 in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland and died on 21 January 1961 in Paris)

Adelbert von Chamisso

(Château de Boncourt in Ante - Châlons-en-Champagne 30 January 1781; Berlin: 21 August 1838)

Félicien Champsaur

(Turriers: 10 January 1858 - Paris: 22 December 1934)

René Char

(L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue: 14 June 1907 - Paris: 19 February 1988)

Jacques Chardonne

Jacques Boutelleau

(Barbezieux: January 2, 1884 - La Frette-sur-Seine: May 29, 1968)

François-René Chateaubriand

(Augustus), Viscount de Chateaubriand...

Born in Saint-Malo on 4 September 1768 and died in Paris on 4 July 1848.

Alphonse de Chateaubriant

(born in Rennes on 25 March 1877 and died in exile in Kitzbühel, Austria, on 2 May 1951)

Alexander Chatrian

Alexander Chatrian (born 18 December 1826 in Soldatenthal and died 3 September 1890 in Villemomble)

Alphonse Chaulan

(? - November 1872)

Malcolm de Chazal

(born in Vacoas, Mauritius, on 12 September 1902 and died in Curepipe on 1 October 1981)

Eugène Chevreul

Michel-Eugène

(Angers: 31 August 1786 - Paris: 9 April 1889)

French chemist known for his work on fatty acids, saponification and the discovery of stearin. This work earned him the Copley Medal in 1857.

Appointed director of the Gobelins factory in 1813, he based his dyeing work on research into colour perception. In his book The law of simultaneous colour contrasts principles that had a lasting influence on painters. He also designed a colour atlas indexed on Fraunhofer lines.

Louis Jules Chouard

Pierre Vernou

(Vernou-sur-Seine: 17 December 1865 - Épineuil: 9 October 1927)

Winston Churchill

Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill

(Blenheim Palace, Woodstock - Oxfordshire - United Kingdom: 30 November 1874; London: 24 January 1965)

Émil Cioran

emil sjɔʁɑ̃ - eˈmil t͡ʃoˈran

(Resinár, Austria-Hungary, currently Rășinari in Romania: 8 April 1911 - Paris: 20 June 1995)

René Clair

René Chomette, known as René Clair

Paris: 11 November 1898 -Neuilly-sur-Seine: 15 March 1981)

French director, screenwriter and writer.

Clément Clamant

(La Force Dordogne: 17 February 1851 - Paris: 20 March 1925)

Jean Clamorgan

Jean Clamorgan (1480-1566)

Born in 1480, in Saane, in the diocese of Coutances. Died in 1566, in St Pierre l'Eglise, Manche.

Paul Claudel

(Villeneuve-sur-Fère: 6 August 1868 - Paris: 23 February 1955)

Noël Clément-Janin

(Dijon: 25 November 1862 - Paris: 6 May 1947)

Jean Cocteau

Born on 5 July 1889 in Maisons-Laffitte and died on 11 October 1963 in his house in Milly-la-Forêt. French poet, graphic designer, draftsman, playwright and filmmaker, member of the Académie française from 1955.

Louis Codet

(Perpignan: 8 October 1876 - Le Havre: 27 December 1914)

Albert Cohen

(Corfu: 16 August 1865 - Geneva: 17 October 1981)

Aimée Coigny de

Anne-Françoise-Aimée de Franquetot de Coigny

(Paris: 12 October 1769 - 17 January 1820)

French woman of the world and salonnière. The muse of André Chénier, who immortalised her as La Jeune Captive, she left a remarkable diary.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

(Ottery St Mary, Devon: 21 October 1772, Highgate: 25 July 1834)

Gabrielle-Sidonie Colette

Born on 28 January 1873 in Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye (Yonne) - died on 3 August 1954 in Paris. Mime, actress and journalist, a French woman of letters known above all as a novelist, Colette was after Judith Gautier in 1910, the second woman elected member of the Goncourt academy in 1945, of which she became president between 1949 and 1954.

Paul Colin

(Meaning: February 10, 1920; Clamart: March 20, 2018)

Prix Goncourt in 1950 for The Wild Games.

Joseph Conrad

Teodor Józef Konrad Korzeniowski herb. Nałęcz

(born on 3 December 1857 in Berditchev - Ukraine - Russian Empire and died on 3 August 1924 in Bishopsbourne - Kent - England )

Pierre Corneille

the Great Crow, Cornelius the Elder...

(born 6 June 1606 in Rouen and died 1 October 1684 in Paris)

Anna Corrêa

Julio Cortázar

Julio Florencio Cortázar Descotte

(Argentina: 26 August 1914 - Paris: 12 February 1984)

Albert Cossery

(Cairo, Egypt: 3 November 1913 - Paris: 22 June 2008)

Dieudonné Costes

(Septfonds: 14 November 1892 - Paris: 18 May 1973)

Alain Coulange

(Marseille: 23 February 1950)

Philipe-Emmanuel Marquis de Coulanges

Philippe-Emmanuel de Coulanges known as the Marquis de Coulanges

(Paris: August 23, 1633 - January 31, 1716)

Pierre Courtade

(Bagnères-de-Bigorre: 3 January 1915 - Paris: 14 May 1963)

Georges Courteline

Georges Moinaux or Sparrow

(born June 25, 1858 in Tours, died June 25, 1929 in Paris)

Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon

(Dijon: 13 January 1674 - Paris: 17 June 1762)

René Crevel

(born on August 10, 1900 in Paris 10 and died on June 18, 1935 in Paris)

Ramón de la Cruz

Ramón de la Cruz Cano y Olmedilla

(Madrid: 28 March 1731 - 5 March 1794)

James Curwood

James Oliver "Jim" Curwood

(June 12, 1878 - August 13, 1927)