Alice Paalen

Alice Rahon

(Chenecey-Buillon (Doubs): 8 June 1904 - Mexico City: 27 September 1987)

French surrealist poet and painter.

Claude Paradin

(born in Cuiseaux Saône around 1510 - died in Lyon around 1510. 1573)

Claude Paradin Chanoine de Beaujeu, genealogist and heraldic writer, brother of Guillaume Paradin.

Frances Partridge

(London: 15 March 1900 - London: 5 February 2004)

Claude Pascal

Co-founder with Arman (1928-2005) and Yves Klein (1928-1962) of the Triangle group.

André Passeron

(Algiers: 4 September 1926 - Bobigny : 12 August 1994)

Jean Paulhan

(Nîmes, Gard: 2 December 1884 - Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine: 9 October 1968)

Cesare Pavese

(Santo Stefano Belbo: 9 September 1908 - Turin: 27 August 1950)

Charles Péguy

(born on 7 January 1873 in Orléans and died on 5 September 1914 in Villeroy - Seine-et-Marne)

Jacques Peletier from Le Mans

(born in Le Mans on 25 July 1517, died in Paris in 1582 or 1583)

Daniel Pennac

(Casablanca : 1^er December 1944)

Valentine Penrose

(Boué in Mont-de-Marsan: 1 January 1898 - Chiddingly, East Sussex, England: 7 August 1978)

Georges Perec

(Paris: 7 March 1936 - Ivry-sur-Seine: 3 March 1982)

Benjamin Peret

Satyremont, Peralda and Peralta

(Rezé: 4 July 1899 - Paris: 18 September 1959)

Louis Pergaud

(Belmont, Doubs: 22 January 1882 - Fresnes-en-Woëvre, Meuse: 8 April 1915).
From Goupil to MargotGoncourt Prize 1910
Died for France.

Jacques Perret

(Trappes: 8 September 1901 - Paris: 10 December 1992)

Joseph de Pesquidoux

(Savigny-lès-Beaune: 13 December 1869 - Houga: 17 March 1946)

Henri Pichette

(Châteauroux: the 26 January 1924 - Paris: the 30 October 2000)

André Pieyre de Mandiargues

Edmond Pilon

(Paris: 19 November 1874 - 20 January 1945)

Robert Pinget

(Geneva, Switzerland: 19 July 1919 - Tours, France: 25 August 1997)

Luigi Pirandello

(born on June 28, 1867 in Agrigento, Sicily, at the place called "Caos", between Agrigento and Porto Empedocle, during a cholera epidemic, and died in Rome on December 10, 1936).

Plautus

Titus Maccius Plautus

Plautus, in Latin Titus Maccius Plautus, born around 254 BC in Sarsina in ancient Umbria, now located in Emilia-Romagna and died in 184 BC in Rome.

Paul Poiret

(Paris: 20 April 1879 - 30 April 1944)

Francis Ponge

(born in Montpellier on 27 March 1899 and died in Bar-sur-Loup, Alpes-Maritimes, on 6 August 1988).

Arthur Ponroy

(Issoudun: 1816 - Vourneuil-sur-Vienne: 1876)

René Pons

(Castelnau-le-Lez : 21 June 1932)

Alexandre Pothey

(1820 - 1897)

Henry Poulaille

(Paris: 5 December 1896 – 30 March 1980)

Jean-Joseph-Étienne Poutet

(born in Rouquevaire - Bouches- du-Rhône, December 28, 1779 and died in 1858)

Chemist member of the Academy of Marseille, correspondent of the Medical Academy of Paris and of several learned societies.

Jacques Prevert

(Neuilly-sur-Seine: 4 February 1900 - Omonville-la-Petite: 11 April 1977)

Marcel Proust

Marcel Proust, born in Paris on July 10, 1871 and died in Paris on November 18, 1922.

Ernest Psichari

(Paris: 27 September 1883 - Rossignol: 22 August 1914)

Thomas Pynchon