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Vicomte Victor Marie Hugo Vicomte Victor Marie Hugo
Victor Marie Hugo, Vicomte , 1802-85, French poet, dramatist, and novelist, b. Besançon. His father was a general under Napoleon. As a child he was taken to Italy and Spain and at a very early age had published his first book of poems, resolving "to be Chateaubriand or nothing." The... Read more
Eugene Ionesco Eugene Ionesco
Eugène Ionesco , 1912-94, French playwright, b. Romania. Settling in France in 1938, he contributed to Cahiers du Sud and began writing avant-garde plays. His works stress the absurdity both of bourgeois values and of the way of life that they dictate. They express the futility of human... Read more
Pierre Simon marquis de Laplace Pierre Simon marquis de Laplace
Pierre Simon Laplace, marquis de , 1749-1827, French astronomer and mathematician. At 18 he went to Paris, proved his gift for mathematical analysis to Jean le Rond d'Alembert, and was made professor of mathematics in the École militaire of Paris. He had a seat in the senate (1799) and became... Read more
Abbe Guillaume Thomas Francois Raynal Abbe Guillaume Thomas Francois Raynal
Raynal, Guillaume Thomas FrançOis (1713–96), French author, usually called Abbé Raynal because as a young man he received orders as a Jesuit. He is best known as the author of L'Histoire philosophique et politique des établissements et du commerce des Européens dans les... Read more
Marcel Proust Marcel Proust
Marcel Proust , 1871-1922, French novelist, b. Paris. He is one of the great literary figures of the modern age. Born to wealthy bourgeois parents, he suffered delicate health as a child and was carefully ministered to by his mother. As a young man he ambitiously mingled in high Parisian society and... Read more
Gerard de Nerval Gerard de Nerval
Gérard de Nerval , 1808-55, French writer, an early romantic. His real name was Gérard Labrunie. His writings include translations of Faust (1828) and other German works; short stories, notably in Les Filles du feu (1854, partial tr. Daughters of Fire, 1922); travel sketches; and... Read more
Joachim Du Bellay Joachim Du Bellay
Joachim Du Bellay , 1522?-1560, French poet of the Pléiade (see under Pleiad ). He wrote their manifesto, La Deffence et illustration de la langue francoyse (1549), which urges the study and emulation of the classics and the use of French as the literary language. His poetic works, broadly... Read more
Roger de Piles Roger de Piles
Piles, Roger de (b Clamecy, 7 Oct. 1635; d Paris, 5 Apr. 1709). French writer on art, amateur painter, and diplomat. De Piles was employed by Louis XIV on various confidential missions (he was imprisoned as a spy in Holland, 1692–7) and his travels enabled him to study the arts at first... Read more
Pierre Gringore Pierre Gringore
Pierre Gringore , c.1475-c.1539, French dramatist and poet. He produced ceremonial pageants and mystery plays and wrote the Jeu du prince des sots (1512), a dramatic tetralogy on contemporary politics, as well as a number of political and moral poems.... Read more

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