List of French playwrights

rdf:langString List of French playwrights

rdf:langString This is an incomplete list of playwrights from France in chronological order, according to date of birth. * Theodore Beza (1519–1605) * Étienne Jodelle (1532–1573) * Robert Garnier (1544–1590) * Alexandre Hardy (1570–1632) * Jean Mairet (1604–1686) * 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) * Charles Rivière Dufresny (1648–1724) * Jean Palaprat (1650–1721) * Antoine de La Fosse (1653–1708) * 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) * Pierre Beaumarchais (1732–1799) * Louis-François Faur (1746–1829) * Olympe de Gouges (1748–1793) * 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) * Victor Hugo (1802–1885) * 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) * Guillaume Apollinaire (1880–1918) * Jean Giraudoux (1882–1944) * Sacha Guitry (1885–1957) * Paul Gury (1888-1974) * Jean Cocteau (1889–1963) * Louis Verneuil (1893–1952) * Antonin Artaud (1896–1948) * Marcel Achard (1899–1974) * Jean Tardieu (1903–1995) * 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)