Gabriel Bonnot de Mably

(Grenoble : 14 March 1709 - Paris: 2 April 1785)

Louis de Machault

Robert Machiels from

(Paris: 10 July 1880 - Kremlin-Bicêtre : 4 November 1965)

awning of Maintenon

Françoise d'Aubigné or d'Aubigny

(Niort: 27 November 1635 - Saint-Cyr-l'École: 15 April 1719)

Joseph de Maistre

(Chambéry, 1 April 1753 - Turin, 26 February 1821),

Bernard Malamud

(Brooklyn, New York, United States: April 26, 1914;
Manhattan, New York, United States: March 18, 1986)

Stéphane Mallarmé

Étienne Mallarmé, known as Stéphane Mallarmé (born in Paris on 18 March 1842 and died on 9 September 1898, in Valvins - commune of Vulaines-sur-Seine, Seine-et-Marne)

André Malraux

(born on 3 November 1901 in the 18th arrondissement of Paris and died on 23 November 1976 in Créteil, Val-de-Marne)

David Mamet

(Chicago, Illinois: November 30, 1947)

Jean Benjamin Maneval

(1923-1986)

Joyce Mansour

Joyce Patricia Adès

(Born in Bowden, England on July 25, 1928 and died in Paris on August 27, 1986)

Jean Marais

Jean Alfred Villain-Marais

(11 December 1913 Cherbourg - 8 November 1998 Cannes).

Félicien Marceau

Louis Carette

(Cortenbergh, Belgium: 16 September 1913 - Paris: 7 March 2012)

Robert Margerit

(Brive-la-Gaillarde: 25 January 1910 - Limoges: 27 June 1988)

Jacques Maritain

(born November 18, 1882 in Paris and died April 28, 1973 in Toulouse)

Eugenia Markowa

(Konin: 1895 - Paris: 1973)

Samuil Marshak

Самуи́л Я́ковлевич Марша́к

(3 November 1887, Voronezh, Russian Empire
- 4 July 1964, Moscow, Russian SFSR)

Loys Masson

(31 December 1915: Beau-Bassin Rose-Hill ;
24 October 1969: Paris)

Mauritian poet and novelist.

Henry Mathieu

Peter Matthiessen

(New York: 22 May 1927 - Sagaponack: 5 April 2014)

Guy de Maupassant

Henry-René-Albert-Guy de Maupassant

(born August 5, 1850 at the Château de Miromesnil in Tourville-sur-Arques, Seine-Inférieure, and died July 6, 1893 in Paris)

François Mauriac

François Mauriac, born October 11, 1885 in Bordeaux and died September 1, 1970 in Paris, is a French writer. Winner of the Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française in 1926, he was elected a member of the Académie française au fauteuil no 22 in 1933. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1952.

Charles Maurras

(born on 20 April 1868 in Martigues, Bouches-du-Rhône and died on 16 November 19521 in Saint-Symphorien-lès-Tours, Indre-et-Loire)

Cormac McCarthy

Charles McCarthy

(Providence: 20 July 1933)

Golda Meir

גּוֹלְדָּה מֵאִיר - Golda Meirson - Golda Mabovitch

(Kiev: 3 May 1898 - Jerusalem 8 December 1978). She took part in the creation of the State of Israel, was Minister of Foreign Affairs and the fourth Prime Minister of Israel from 17 March 1969 to 11 April 1974.

Élisa Mercoeur

(Saint-Sébastien-sur-Loire: 24 June 1809 - Paris: 7 January 1835)

Prosper Mérimée

(Paris: September 28, 1803 - Cannes: September 23, 1870)

Robert Merle

(Tébessa, Algeria : 29 August 1908 - Grosrouvre, Yvelines : 27 March 2004)

Maurice Merleau-Ponty

(Rochefort-sur-Mer: 14 March 1908 - Paris: 3 May 1961)

Aimé Merlo

Marius-Ary Leblond

(Reunion Island: 30 July 1877 - Paris: 7 April 1958)

Jean Mermoz

Born in Aubenton (Aisne) on 9 December 1901 and disappeared in the Atlantic Ocean on 7 December 1936.

Olivier Messiean

(Avignon: 10 December 1908 - Clichy: 27 April 1992)

Paul Meurice

François Paul Meurice

(Paris: February 5, 18181 - December 11, 1905)

Henri Michaux

(Namur: 24 May 1899 - Paris: 19 October 1984)

Jules Michelet

(Paris: 21 August 1798 - Hyères: 9 February 1874)

Darius Milhaud

(Marseille: 4 September 1892 - Geneva: 22 June 1974)

Henry Miller

(New York: 26 December 1891 - Pacific Palisades: 7 June 1980)

John Milton

(London: 9 December 1608 - 8 November 1674)

Francis de Miomandre

Francis Durand

(Tours: 22 May 1880 - Saint-Brieuc: 1ᵉʳ August 1959)

Octave Mirbeau

(Trévières: 16 February 1848 - Paris: 16 February 1917)

Yukio Mishima

三島 由紀夫-Kimitake Hiraoka-平岡 公威

(Tokyo: 4 January 1925 - 25 November 1970)

Adrien Mithouard

(born on 18 July 1864 in Paris 7th and died on 28 March 1919)

François Mitterrand

(born on 26 October 1916 in Jarnac - Charente and died on 8 January 1996 in Paris 7e)

French statesman, President of the Republic from 21 May 1981 to 17 May 1995.

Patrick Modiano

Jean Patrick Modiano

(Boulogne-Billancourt: July 30, 1945)

Molière

Jean-Baptiste Poquelin

(Baptized January 15, 1622 in Paris and died February 17, 1673 in Paris)

Henry de Monfreid

(La Franqui: 14 November 1879 - Ingrandes: 13 December 1974)

Adrien de Monluc

(1571-1646)

Henry Monnier

Joseph Prudhomme

(Paris: 7 June 1799 - Paris: 3 January 1877) 

Amans Alexis MONTEIL

(Rodez: 7 June 1769 - Cély: 20 February 1850)

Montesquieu

Charles Louis de Secondat, Baron of La Brède and Montesquieu

(La Brède: 18 January 1689 - Paris: 10 February 1755)

Robert de Montesquiou

(Paris: 19 March 1855 - Menton: 11 December 1921)

Henry Montherlant de

(Paris: 20 April 1895 - 21 September 1972)

Isabelle de Montolieu

Elisabeth Jeanne Pauline - known as Isabelle - Polier de Bottens

(born on 7 May 1751 in Lausanne and died on 29 December 1832 in her house in Vennes)

Ancient moralists

Collection of old moralists

La Collection of ancient moralists (in French; "Collection de vieux moralistes") is one of the French kings of the time - d. H. Louis XVI (1754-1793), the last king of the Ancien Régime - a series of old french books moralists ("dedicated to the king"), published in Paris from 1782 to 1795 ( Didot l'aîné, et De Bure l'aîné"), initially from 1782 to 1785. In the years 1794-1795 - the king had meanwhile been executed - four further volumes were published. In all, eighteen volumes of the series were published.

The series includes Epictetus , Confucius miscellaneous Chinese authors , Isocrates , Seneca , Cicero , Theophrast , Ménandre , Socrates (after Xenophon ), Theognis , Phokylides , Pythagoras Greek sage, Jesus - Christ and apostles , Apophthegma de the Lacedemonians (from Plutarch), Plutarch Life and Apophthegm of Greek philosophers .

The collaborating translators were Jacques-André Naigeon (1738-1810), Pierre-Charles Levesque (1736-1812) and Athanase Auger (1734-1792).

The translations do not always come directly from the original ancient languages. For example, Pierre-Charles Levesque translates from Latin and Russian in the volume on the various Chinese authors ( Moral thoughts from various Chinese authors ) .

Paul Morand

Paul Morand  (Paris, 13 March 1888 - 23 July 1976)

Pierre Morhange

(Paris: 22 June 1901-1972).

Charles Morice

(born in Saint-Etienne on 15 May 1860, died in Menton on 18 March 1919)

Edgar Morin

(born July 8, 1921 in Paris)

Toni Morrison

Chloe Ardelia Wofford

(Lorain: 18 February 1931 - New York: 5 August 2019)

Ivan Mosjukin

Иван Ильич Мозжухин

(September 26, 1889: Penza, Russia; Neuilly-sur-Seine: January 17, 1939)

Russian actor and director naturalized French in the 1920s.

Charles Müller

(Elbeuf : 6 May 1877 - Amiens : 1^er october 1914)

Shikibu Murasaki

(c. 973-v. 1014 or 1025)

Court lady of the middle Heian period (x^e–xi^e century),

Paul Musset de

(Paris: 7 November 1804 - 14 May 1880)

Álvaro Mutis

Álvaro Mutis Jaramillo

(Bogota: 25 August 1923 - Mexico City: 22 September 2013)