Gabriele D'Annunzio

(Pescara: 12 March 1863 - Gardone Riviera: 1 March 1938)

Eugène Dabit

(Mers-les-Bains: 21 September 1898 - Sebastopol: 21 August 1936)

Hubert Damisch

Hubert Damisch (1928) is a French philosopher specialising in aesthetics and art history, and a professor at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris.

Maurice G Dantec

Dantec_Maurice Georges

(Grenoble : 13 June 1959 - Montréal : 25 June 2016)

Georges Darien

(born Georges Hippolyte Adrien, 6 April 1862 - died 19 August 1921, in Paris)

Léon Daudet

(Paris: 16 November 1867 - Saint-Rémy-de-Provence: 2 July 1942)

Alphonse Daudet

(born on 13 May 1840 in Nîmes in the Gard department and died on 16 December 1897 in Paris)

Léopold Dauphin

Charles De Gaulle

General de Gaulle

(born on 22 November 1890 in Lille - died on 9 November 1970 in Colombey-les-Deux-Églises)

Alfred de Musset

(Paris: 11 December 1810 - 2 May 1857)

Girardin,Delphine de

(Aachen: 24 January 1804 - Paris: 29 June 1855)

Jacques Debû-Bridel

(Mézières-en-Drouais, Eure-et-Loir: 22 August 1902 - Paris: 20 October 1993)

Writer, French politician, Resistance fighter (member of the National Council of Resistance), Gaullist senator (RPF) (1948-1958), news director of Radio Monte-Carlo (1960-1967), one of the leaders of left-wing Gaullism (Democratic Labour Union).

Léon Deffoux

(10 August 1881 – 15 February 1945)

Régine Deforges

(Montmorillon: August 15, 1935 - Paris: April 3, 2014)

Eugène Defrance

(1874-19?)

Lise Deharme

Lise Anne-Marie Hirtz

(Paris 8e: 5 May 1898 - Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine: 19 January 1980)

Lucie Delarue-Mardrus

(Honfleur: 3 November 1874 - Château-Gontier: 26 April 1945)

Casimir Delavigne

(Le Havre: April 4, 1793; Lyon: December 11, 1843)

Yanette Delétang-Tardif

(Roubaix: 18 June 1902 - Paris: at November 4, 1976)

Jacques Delfau

Joseph Delteil

(Villar-en-Val, Aude: 20 April 1894 - Grabels, Hérault 12 April 1978)

Albert Delvallé

Alidor Delzant

(Condé-sur-Escaut: 1848; Astaffort: 1905)

Michel Déon

(Paris 4 August 1919 - Galway 28 December 2016)

Paul Dermée

Camille Zéphirin Janssen

(born 13 April 1886 in Liège, died 27 December 1951 in Paris)

Antoinette Des Houlières

Antoinette de Lafon de Boisguérin des Houlières; Antoinette du Ligier de la Garde

(Paris: 1^er January 1638 - Paris: 17 February 1694)

Antoinette-Thérèse Des Houlières

(Rocroi: 31 May 1959 - Paris: 8 August 1718)

Marceline Desbordes-Valmore

Antoni Deschamps

(Paris: 12 March 1800 - Paris: 28 October 1869)

Jacques-Marie Deschamps

(Paris: circa 1750 - 1826)

Paul Desjardins

Louis Paul Abel Desjardins

(Paris: 22 November 1859 - Pontigny: 13 March 1940)

Jean DESMARETS de SAINT-SORLIN

(Paris: 1595 - 28 October 1676)

Robert Desnos

(Paris: 4 July 1900 - Theresienstadt: 8 June 1945)

Luc Dietrich

(Dijon: 17 March 1913 - Paris: 12 August 1944)

Olivier DIRAISON-SEYLOR

Jean Donneau de Visé

(Paris, 3 or 4 December 1638 - 8 July 1710)

Roland Dorgelès

Rolland Maurice Lecavelé

(Amiens: 15 June 1885 - Paris: 18 March 1973)

Tankred Dorst

( Sonneberg (Thuringia) : 19 December 1925 - Berlin : 1^er June 2017)

Marie Dorval

Marie Amélie Thomase Delaunay

(Lorient: 7 January 1798 - Paris 7th: 20 May 1849)

Fyodor Dostoewski

(Moscow: 30 October 1821 - St Petersburg: 28 January 1881)

Pierre Drieu la Rochelle

(born on January 3, 1893 in the 10th arrondissement of Paris and died in the 17th arrondissement of Paris on March 15, 1945)

Marcel Droüet

(Sedan: 19 August 1888 - Consenvoye: 4 January 1915)

Born in Sedan, Marcel Drouet contributed to several magazines: Le Divan, Les Guêpes, and the Revue critique des Idées et des Livres. In 1911, he became secretary general of the Marches de l'Est. This review was founded in 1909 by a handful of writers mobilized against the threatening pangermanist. Close to Georges Ducrocq, Maurice Barrès, Paul Drouot, he published two works in 1912: Quelques Feuillets du livre Juvénile and L'Ombre qui tourne. 

Paul Drouot

(Vouziers: 21 May 1886 - Aix-Noulette: 9 June 1915)

Born in Vouziers, he studied in Paris, participated in the creation of the review Psyché and published three volumes of verse. He joined the 131st RI then the 3rd battalion of foot soldiers. On the 8th June 1915, he was hit by shrapnel in front of Notre-Dame-de-Lorette. 

Maurice Druon

(Paris: 23 April 1918 - 14 April 2009)

Georges Duhamel

(Paris: 30 June 18841 - Valmondois, Seine-et-Oise: 13 April 1966)

Civilization: Goncourt Prize 1918
Member of the Académie Française from 1935.

Édouard Dujardin

Édouard Émile Louis Dujardin

(Saint-Gervais-la-Forêt: 10 November 1861 - Paris: 31 October 1949)

Odette Dulac

(1865-1939) is the artist name of Jeanne Latrilhe, French singer, painter, sculptor and writer from the Southwest. After receiving a solid education, she enchants theaters and cabarets of the Belle Epoque with her soprano voice and impeccable diction. But in 1904, she abandoned the stage of the Butte Montmartre to devote herself to painting, sculpture and writing. Her first novel, Le Droit au plaisir [The Right to Pleasure], exploring female desire, was published in 1908. Then, Le Silence des Femmes [The Silence of Women], La houille rouge [The Red Coal], Les enfants de la violence [The Children of Violence], L'Enferno d'une embrace [The Inferno of an Embrace], in which the themes of love were expressed to the feminist activist, defending women's right to vote, the creation of maternity and nurseries, the development of childcare. In addition to her novels, from 1917 she published in various chronicles, stories and short stories. She became a member of the Société des gens de lettres in 1922 under the patronage of Aristide Bruant.

Alexandre Dumas (son)

(born on 22 July 1824 in Paris and died on 27 November 1895 in Marly-le-Roi)

Alexandre Dumas (father)

(born on 24 July 1802 in Villers-Cotterêts in the Aisne and died on 5 December 1870 in Puys, near Dieppe in Seine-Maritime).

René-Louis DUMAS

Poet, son of the famous composer Louis Dumas, he was awarded the Paul Hervieu Prize of the French Academy in 1952 for his work In the gardens of Ronsard.

Raymond Duncan

(San Francisco: November 1, 1874 - Cavalaire-sur-Mer: August 14, 1966)

Jacques Dupin

(born March 4, 1927 in Privas and died October 27, 2012 in Paris)

Claire de Duras

Claire Louisa Rose Bonne, Duchess of Duras, Coëtnempren de Kersaint

(born in 1777 or 1778 in Brest and died on 16 January 1828 in Nice)

Marguerite Duras

(born April 4, 1914 in Gia Định (near Saigon), then in French Indochina and died March 3, 1996 in Paris)

Lawrence Durrell

Born on 27 February 1912 in Jalandhar in the British Indies - died on 7 November 1990 in Sommières in France.

Jean Dutourd

(Paris: 14 January 1920 - Paris: 17 January 2011)