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List of French playwrights






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This is an incomplete list of playwrights from France in chronological order, according to date of birth.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

16th century

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  • Étienne Jodelle (1532–1573)
  • Robert Garnier (1544–1590)
  • Alexandre Hardy (1570–1632)

    • 17th century

    [edit]
  • Pierre du Ryer (1606–1658)
  • Pierre Corneille (1606–1684)
  • Jean Rotrou (1609–1650)
  • Cyrano de Bergerac (1619–1655)
  • Molière (1622–1673)
  • Samuel Chappuzeau (1625–1701)
  • Thomas Corneille (1625–1709)
  • Philippe Quinault (1635–1688)
  • Jean Racine (1639–1699)
  • Jacques Robbe (1643-1721)
  • Charles Rivière Dufresny (1648–1724)
  • Jean Palaprat (1650–1721)
  • Antoine de La Fosse (1653–1708)
  • Madame Ulrich (1665–1707)
  • Antoine Houdar de La Motte (1672–1731)
  • Pierre de Marivaux (1688–1763)
  • Pierre-François Godard de Beauchamps (1689–1761)
  • Voltaire (1694–1778)
  • Françoise de Graffigny (1695–1758)

    • 18th century

    [edit]
  • Louis-François Faur (1746–1829)
  • Olympe de Gouges (1748–1793)
  • Jean-Claude Gorgy (1753-1795)
  • Jean Armand Charlemagne (1753–1838)
  • Étienne Aignan (1773–1824)
  • Victor Henri Joseph Brahain Ducange (1783–1833)
  • Eugène Scribe (1791–1861)
  • Alfred de Vigny (1797–1863)
  • Antoinette Henriette Clémence Robert (1797–1872)
  • Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850)

    • 19th century

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  • Alexandre Dumas, père (1802–1870)
  • Prosper Mérimée (1803–1870)
  • Alfred de Musset (1810–1857)
  • Théophile Gautier (1811–1872)
  • Émile Augier (1820–1889)
  • Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880)
  • Alexandre Dumas, fils (1824–1895)
  • Henri de Bornier (1825–1901)
  • Laetitia Marie Wyse Bonaparte (1831–1902)
  • Victorien Sardou (1831–1908)
  • Henry Becque (1837–1899)
  • Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam (1838–1889)
  • Émile Zola (1840–1902)
  • Brada (1847-1938)
  • Jules Lemaître (1853–1914)
  • François, Vicomte de Curel (1854–1928)
  • Maurice Bouchor (1855–1929)
  • Paul Hervieu (1857–1915)
  • Georges Courteline (1858–1929)
  • Eugène Brieux (1858–1932)
  • Marie Léopold-Lacour (1859-1942)
  • Henri Lavedan (1859–1949)
  • Charles Maurice Donnay (1859–1945)
  • Georges Feydeau (1862–1921)
  • Albert Guinon (1863–1923)
  • Jules Renard (1864–1910)
  • Edmond Rostand (1868–1918)
  • Paul Claudel (1868–1955)
  • Henry Kistemaeckers (1872–1938)
  • Alfred Jarry (1873–1907)
  • Fanny Clar (1875-1944)
  • Guillaume Apollinaire (1880–1918)
  • Jean Giraudoux (1882–1944)
  • Sacha Guitry (1885–1957)
  • Paul Gury (1888-1974)
  • Jean Cocteau (1889–1963)
  • Louis Verneuil (1893–1952)
  • Rose Celli (1895–1982)
  • Antonin Artaud (1896–1948)
  • Marcel Achard (1899–1974)

    • 20th century

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  • Jean-Paul Sartre (1905–1980)
  • Georges Schehadé (1905–1989)
  • Eugène Ionesco (1909–1994)
  • Jean Anouilh (1910–1987)
  • Jean Genet (1910–1986)
  • Albert Camus (1913–1960)
  • Armand Gatti (1924–2017)
  • Bernard-Marie Koltès (1948–1989)
  • Yasmina Reza (born 1959)
  • Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt (born 1960)
  • Pavel Hak (born 1962)
  • Sedef Ecer (born 1965)

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