Authors

Authors

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Jean de La Bruyère

(born in Paris on 16 August 16451 and died in Versailles on 11 May 1696)

Jean de La Fontaine

(Château-Thierry: 8 July 1621 - Paris: 13 April 1695)

Antoine La Motte de

Antoine Houdar de La Motte

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Patrice La Tour du Pin de

(Paris: 16 March 1911 - 28 October 1975)

Eugene Labiche

(born May 6, 1815 in Paris where he died January 22, 1888). He was elected member of the Académie française in 1880.

Jacques Lacan

(Paris: 13 April 1901 - 9 September 1981)

Paul Lacroix

P.L. Jacob, Bibliophile Jacob

Jules Laforgue

(Born in Montevideo on 16 August 1860 and died in the 7th arrondissement of Paris on 20 August 1887)

Robert Lagarde

(Béziers: 1928)

Alphonse Lamartine

Alphonse Marie Louis de Prat de Lamartine,

(Mâcon: October 21, 1790 ; Paris: February 28, 1869)
French poet, novelist, playwright, politician who participated in the Revolution of February 1848 and proclaimed the Second Republic. He is one of the great figures of Romanticism in France.

Étienne Lamy

(Cize: June 1845 - Paris: 9 January 1919)

French lawyer, journalist and politician, perpetual secretary of the Académie française.

Xavier Langlais de

(Sarzeau (Morbihan): 27 April 1906 - Rennes: 14 June 1975)

Antoine Laporte

(Meymac: 4 April 1835 - Auteuil: 30 March 1900)

Valery Larbaud

A.-O. Barnabooth, L. Hagiosy, X. M. Tourmier de Zamble

(Vichy: 29 August 1881 - 2 February 1957). He also wrote under the pseudonyms

Antoine de Latour

(Saint-Yrieix: 30 August 1808; Seals: 27 August 1881)

Son of the publisher and bibliophile Jean-Baptiste Tenant de Latour (1779-1862), Antoine Tenant de Latour became, after studies at the École Normale (1826), tutor to the Duke of Montpensier (1832) and then his first secretary in 1843.

A man of letters and a poet, he publishes extensively. In love with Spain and its literature, he made many Spanish authors known through his essays and translations of Calderón de la Barca, Fernán Caballero, Juan de Mariana, Juan Díaz de Solís, Juan Eugenio Hartzenbusch, Ramón de la Cruz.

He was received on 9 May 1858 at the Real Academia de Buenas Letras in Seville.

Henri Lavedan

(Orleans: April 9, 1859; Écaquelon: September 4, 1940 )

Collaborator at theEcho of Parisat the Figaroat the Gil-Blas Henri Lavedan had great success in the theater: One familyThe four-act comedy, performed in 1890 at the Théâtre-Français, earned him the Prix Toirac at the Académie; he then gave Lhe Prince d'Aurec in Vaudeville (1892), Catherine, The Marquis de Priola, at the Théâtre-Français (1903) Le Nouveau Jeu, Le Vieux Marcheur, Varennesetc.

Henri Lavedan was elected to the Académie française on December 8, 1898, replacing Henri Meilhac, and was received on December 28, 1899 by Charles Costa de Beauregard.

Thomas Edward Lawrence

(Tremadoc, Wales: 16 August 1888 - Wareham: 19 May 1935)

David Herbert Lawrence

John Le Carré

Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio

(Nice: April 13, 1940)

Le Corbusier

Charles-Édouard Jeanneret

(Born on 6 October 1887 in La Chaux-de-Fonds, in the canton of Neuchâtel, Switzerland, and died on 27 August 1965 in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin)

Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris, better known under the pseudonym "Le Corbusier", is an architect, urban planner, decorator, painter, sculptor and man of letters, Swiss by birth and naturalized French in 1930.

Guillaume Le Gentil de La Galaisière

Guillaume-Hyacinthe-Joseph-Jean-Baptiste

(Coutances, 12 September 1725 - Paris, 22 October 1792)

Leaving in 1760 to observe the transit of Venus on June 6, 1761, Guillaume Le Gentil de la Galaisiere arrived in front of Pondicherry, a French trading post in the Indies then occupied by the English.
Unable to disembark, he remains at sea without being able to observe the transit of 6 June. He then decided to stay on site after the town was returned to France in 1763 to observe the next transit, scheduled for June 1769. He built an observatory, installed excellent instruments, learned the language of the country and Indian astronomy and the local flora.
But on June 3, 1769, the day of the transit of Venus, bad weather prevented him from observing the phenomenon.

On his way back to France, his boat was forced to turn back due to a storm at the Cape of Good Hope and dropped him off at Reunion Island. He had to wait for a Spanish boat to agree to take him back to Europe.
Finally, when he returned to Paris in 1771, he found that he was legally declared dead and that his property was in the process of being distributed to his heirs. His seat at the Academy of Sciences was occupied and his wife remarried.

He will eventually regain his rights after two trials and the intervention of the king.

Gustave Le Rouge

(Valognes: 22 July 1867 - Paris 24 February 1938)

Paul Léautaud

(Paris: 18 January 1872 - Châtenay-Malabry: 22 February 1956)

Maurice Leblanc

(Rouen: 11 December 1864 - Perpignan: 6 November 1941)

Charles Marie René Leconte de Lisle

(born October 22, 1818 in Saint-Paul on Reunion Island 1 and died July 17, 1894 in Voisins - Yvelines)

Pierre Lecuire

(born 18 May 1922, died 2 June 2013)
Poet and publisher.

Violette Leduc

(Arras: 7 April 1907 - Faucon: 28 May 1972)

 

Gérard Legrand

(born in Paris in 1927 and died in 1999)

Michel Leiris

(Paris: 20 April 1901 - Saint-Hilaire in the Essonne: 30 September 1990)

Maurice Lemaitre

Bismuth_Moïse Maurice

Jacques Lemarchand

( –)

French writer, editor at Gallimard and drama critic.

Camille Lemonnier

(Ixelles, Belgium: 23 March 1844 - Brussels: 13 June 1913)

Vladimir,Ilyich Lenin

Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov

(Simbirsk: 10 April 1870 - Vishnie Gorki: 21 January 1924)

 

Gaston Leroux

(Paris: 6 May 1868 - Nice: 15 April 1927)

Jean Lescure

- Paris: 

Jean Liébault

Jean Liébault (born around 1535 in Dijon - died 21 June 1596 in Paris), French physician, editor and translator of several books on medicine and agronomy.

Paul Lintier

(Mayenne: 13 May 1893- Jeandelaincourt: 15 March 1916 )

Franz Liszt

Liszt Ferenc

( Doborján: 22 October 1811 - Bayreuth: 31 July 1886) Hungarian composer, transcriber and virtuoso pianist.

Albert London

(Vichy: 1 November 1884 - Gulf of Aden, off the Protectorate of Aden (now Yemen), Indian Ocean: 16 May 1932)

Since 1933, the Albert-London Prize has been awarded to the best French-speaking journalists.

Longus

(Birth 2nd or 3rd century)

Felix Lope de Vega

Félix Lope de Vega y Carpio

(Madrid: 25 November 1562 - 27 August 1635)

Jacques Lorcey

(Valenciennes: 6 May 1938 - Courbevoie: 17 September 2019)

André De Lordes

(Toulouse: 11 July 1869 - Antibes: 6 September 1942)

Jean Lorrain

Paul Alexandre Martin Duval

(Haute-Normandie, Fécamp: 9 August 1855- Paris: 30 June 1906)

Pierre Loti

(Rochefort: 14 January 1850 - Hendaye: 10 June 1923)

Louis I of Bavaria

Louis Charles Auguste de Wittelsbach

(Strasbourg: 25 August 1786 - Nice: 29 February 1868)

Louis XVI

Louis-Auguste de France

(Versailles: 23 August 1754 - Paris: 21 January 1793)

Pierre Louÿs

Pierre Félix Louis

(born in Ghent (Belgium) on 10 December 1870 and died in Paris 16th on 4 June 1925)