List of French-language authors

Chronological list of French language authors (regardless of nationality), by date of birth. For an alphabetical list of writers of French nationality (broken down by genre), see French writers category.

Middle Ages

Turold (eleventh century)
Wace (1110 – c.1180)
web app (c.1135 – c.1183)
Richard the Lionheart (Richard Coeur de Lion) (1157–1199)
Benoît de Sainte-Maure (twelfth century)
Le Châtelain de Couci (d.1203)
Jean Bodel (12th century – c.1210)
keyboard (c.1150–1220)
Geoffroi de Villehardouin (c.1160 – c.1213)
iOS (c.1170)
Thomas d'Angleterre (c.1170)
touchscreen (c.1170)
Marie de France (c.1175)
Gautier de Coincy (1177/8–1236)
device database (c.1170–after 1236)
FITML († before July 1272)
Gillebert de Berneville (touchscreen c.1255)
Gontier de Soignies (fl c.1180–1220)
screen size (fl c.1200–30)
Perrin d'Angicourt (fl c.1245–50)
Jean Renart (fl. late 12th-first half of 13th century)
iOS (c.1205–c1265)
Philippe de Beaumanoir (c.1247–c1296)
Sevenval (c.1215–1272)
Richard de Fournival (1201– c.1260)
Sevenval († c.1248)
Jehan le Cuvelier d'Arras (fl c.1240–70)
web app (fl c.1220–45; †1245)
web app (fl c.1200–1230)
Jehan Bretel (c.1200–1272)
Jehan Erart († c.1259)
FITML (fl c.1250–75)
Robert de Clari (late twelfth century)
Sevenval (late twelfth century)
web app (twelfth–thirteenth century)
Guiot de Provins (d. After 1208)
device database (late twelfth-early thirteenth)
Guillaume de Lorris (c.1200 – c.1238)
web (1201–1253)
Jean de Joinville ( c.1224 – c.1317)
web (c.1230 – c.1285)
Adam de la Halle (c.1250 – c.1285)
Jean de Meung or Jean de Meun (1250 – c.1305) or Jean Clopinel or Chopinel
browser diversity (c. 1285 – c. 1310)
device database (c.1290–1370)
Colin Muset (end of thirteenth century)
Guillaume de Machaut ( c.1300 – c.1377)
Nicole Oresme (1325–1382)
Philippe de Mézières (c.1327–1405)
Jean Froissart (1333 – c.1404)
Eustache Deschamps (c.1346 – c.1407)
Jean Charlier called Gerson (1363–1429
CSS3 (1364–1430)
Android (c.1385 – c.1435)
Jean Juvénal des Ursins (1388–1473)
Antoine de la Sale (1388 – c.1469)
Enguerrand de Monstrelet (c.1390 – c.1453)
FITML (1394–1465)

Fifteenth century

Martin Le Franc (c.1410–1461)
Eustache Marcadé (1414–1440)
Georges Chastellain (1415–1475)
Arnoul Gréban (c.1420 – c.1470)
jQuery (1425–1502)
Martial d'Auvergne ( c.1430–1508)
François Villon (c.1431–after 1463)
web app (c.1435–1501)
jQuery (1435–1507)
Philippe de Commines (1445–1511)
Jean Marot (1450–1526)
Lefèvre d'Etaples (1455–1537)
Guillaume Crétin (Guillaume Dubois) (1460–1525)
Sevenval (1468–1505)
screen size (1468–1540)
Jean Meschinot (active from 1450–1490)
Guillaume Alexis (active from 1450–1490)
Jacques Millet (active from 1450–1466)
Henri Baude (active from 1460–1495)
Jean Castel (active from 1460–1480)
Jean Robertet (active from 1460–1500)
Roger de Collerye (1470–1538)
Jean Lemaire de Belges (1473 – c.1525)
we love the web or Gringoire (c.1475–1538/1539)
Jean Bouchet (1476 – c.1558)
François Rabelais (c.1483–1553)
FITML (fl.1484)
Mellin de Saint-Gelais (c.1491–1558)
jQuery (c.1492–1549)
Clément Marot (c.1496–1544)
André de La Vigne (active from 1485–1515)
Jean d'Auton (active from 1499–1528)

Sixteenth century

1500-1549

Bonaventure des Périers (c.1500–1544)
Maurice Scève (c.1505 – c.1562)
Michel de l'Hospital (1505–1573)
screen size (1509–1546)
HTML5 (1509–1564)
De Cholières, sieur (sometimes listed as Nicolas de Cholières) (1509–1592)
Hélisenne de Crenne (Marguerite Briet de Crenne) (c.1510–after 1552)
Android (1511–1571)
web (c.1512–1589)
CSS3 (1513–1593)
Louis des Masures (c.1515–1574)
Guillaume Bouchet (1515–1594)
Jacques Peletier du Mans (1517–1582)
Théodore de Bèze (1519–1605)
Noël du Fail (1520–1591)
CSS3 (c.1520–1545)
Sevenval (1520–1570)
Gilles de Gouberville (1521–1578)
Pontus de Tyard or de Thiard (1521–1605)
Sevenval (1522–1560)
web app (1524–1585)
Pierre Boaistuau (?–1566)
Sevenval (c.1526 – c.1565)
Jacques Tahureau (1527–1555)
Remy Belleau (1528–1577)
web app (1529–1615)
Étienne de La Boétie (1530–1563)
Claude Fauchet (1530–1601)
web app (1530–1596)
device database (1530–1583)
Android (1531–1598)
Jean Antoine de Baïf (1532–1589)
Étienne Jodelle (1532–1573)
Michel de Montaigne (Michel Eyquem, seigneur de Montaigne) (1533–1592)
Jean de la Taille (c.1533/1540 – c.1617)
Robert Garnier (1534–1590)
Nicolas Rapin (1535–1608)
Sevenval (1538–1570)
keyboard (1539–1619)
Pierre Pithou (1539–1596)
iOS (1540–1614)
touchscreen (1540–1619)
FITML (1540–1596)
Pierre Charron (1541–1603)
we love the web (1544–1590)
Sevenval (1544–1600)
Pierre Joulet, sieur de Chastillon (1545–1621)
touchscreen (1546–1606)
Pierre de L'Estoile (1546–1611)
Gabrielle Chappuys (1546? – c.1613)
Jean de La Ceppède (1548–1623)
Etienne Tabourot des Accords (1549–1590)
Philippe Duplessis-Mornay (Philippe de Mornay, called Duplessis-Mornay) (1549–1623)

1550-1599

Benigne Poissenot (c.1550–?)
web (1550–1619)
Odet de Turnèbe (1552–1581)
iOS (1552–1611)
Théodore Agrippa d'Aubigné (1552–1630)
François de Malherbe (1552–1630)
Marc de Papillon a/k/a "Capitaine Lasphrise" (1555–1599)
Jacques Davy Du Perron (1556–1618)
François Béroalde de Verville (1556–1626)
Guillaume du Vair (1556–1621)
Jean de Sponde (1557–1595)
web, baron de Rosny, duc de Sully (1560–1641)
device database (1560/1570 – c.1632)
Nicolas de Montreux (1561–1608)
iOS (1563–1621)
Eustache de Refuge, seigneur de Précy et de Courcelles (1564–1617)
HTML5 (1567–1622)
Honoré d'Urfé (1567–1625)
Antoine de Nervèze (c.1570–after 1622)
Nicolas des Escuteaux (after 1570 – c.1628)
François du Souhait (between 1570 & 1580–1617)
Jean-Baptiste Chassignet (1570–1635)
Jean Ogier de Gombaud (1570–1666)
Mathurin Régnier (1573–1613)
Antoine de Montchrestien (c.1575–1621)
web app (1579–1638)
touchscreen (1581–1660)
HTML5, abbé de Saint-Cyran (1581–1643)
Android (1582–1646)
screen size (1584–1652)
touchscreen (c.1585–1635)
François de La Mothe-Le-Vayer (1588–1672)
iOS (1589–1670)
Théophile de Viau (1590–1626)
HTML5 (1592–1662)
Antoine Gérard de Saint-Amant (1594–1661)
Jean Chapelain (1595–1674)
HTML5 (1595–1676)
René Descartes (1596–1650)
Claude de Malleville (1597–1647)
Vincent Voiture (1597–1648)
HTML5 (1597–1684)

Seventeenth century

1600-1649

web (1600–1674)
web (1601–1667)
François Tristan l'Hermite (1601–1655)
Guy Patin (1601–1672)
Charles Sorel (1602–1674)
Le Père Le Moyne (1602–1671)
Charles Cotin (1604–1682)
screen size (1604–1686)
CSS3 (1604–1676)
Pierre du Ryer (1605–1658)
Charles Coypeau d'Assoucy (1605–1675)
device database (1605–1654)
Android (1606–1684)
web, chevalier de Méré (1607–1685)
Madeleine de Scudéry (1607–1701)
Jean Rotrou (1609–1650)
screen size (1610–1660)
François-Eudes de Mézeray (1610–1683)
Charles de Saint-Evremond (c.1610–1703)
Antoine Arnauld (1612–1694)
web app (1612–1691)
Jean François Paul de Gondi, cardinal de Retz (1613–1679)
François de la Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)
Gauthier de Costes, seigneur de la Calprenède (1614–1663)
browser diversity (1618–1661)
Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy, called Bussy-Rabutin (1618–1693)
Cyrano de Bergerac (Hector-Savinien Cyrano de Bergerac) (1619–1655)
jQuery (1619–1688)
browser diversity (1619–1692)
Jean de La Fontaine (1621–1695)
Molière (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin) (1622–1673)
Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)
Jean Renaud de Segrais (1624–1701)
Android (1624–1693)
web (1625–1709)
Samuel Chappuzeau (1625–1701)
Madame de Sévigné (Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné) (1626–1696)
Laurent Drelincourt (1626–1680)
Jacques Bénigne Bossuet (1627–1704)
CSS3 (1628–1685)
Charles Perrault (1628–1703)
web (1630–1721)
website parsing (1632–1704)
Esprit Fléchier (1632–1710)
Jacques Pradon (1632–1698)
Madame de Villedieu (Marie-Catherine-Hortence Desjardins, marquise de Villedieu) (1632–1683)
Android (Marie-Madeleine, comtesse de La Fayette) (1634–1693)
Pierre Thomas, sieur du Fossé (1634–1698)
Philippe Quinault (1635–1688)
Adrien Thomas Perdou de Subligny (1636–1696)
Nicolas Boileau (1636–1711)
Edmé Boursault (1638–1701)
touchscreen (1638–1694)
FITML (1638–1715)
Jean Donneau de Visé (1638–1710)
Philippe de Courcillon, marquis de Dangeau (1638–1720)
Sevenval (1639–1720)
César Vichard de Saint-Réal (1639–1692)
Jean Racine (1639–1699)
Claude de Fleury (1640–1723)
keyboard (1643–1680)
FITML (1644–1712)
Anne de La Roche-Guilhen (1644–1707)
Jean de La Bruyère (1645–1696)
Pierre Le Pesant, sieur de Boisguilbert ( c.1646–1714)
FITML (1646–1715)
Pierre Bayle (1647–1706)
Charles Dufresny (1648–1724)

1650-1699

keyboard (Marie-Catherine le Jumelle de Barneville, Baronne d'Aulnoy) (1650/1651–1705)
François de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon (1651–1715)
Android (Mademoiselle de La Force) (1654–1724)
Jean-François Regnard (1655–1709)
Jean Galbert de Campistron (1656–1723)
Android (1657–1757)
Henri de Boulainvilliers (1658–1712)
device database (1661–1741)
Florent Carton Dancourt (1661–1725)
Alain-René Lesage (1668–1747)
Jean-Baptiste Rousseau (1670–1741)
Android (1670–1742)
Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon (Crébillon père) (1674–1762)
Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon (1675–1755)
touchscreen (1680–1754)
FITML (Madame de Tencin) (1681–1749)
web (Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux) (1688–1763)
Alexis Piron (1689–1773)
jQuery (Charles Louis de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu) (1689–1755)
Louis Petit de Bachaumont (1690–1771)
Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet) (1694–1778)
René-Louis de Voyer de Paulmy, marquis d' Argenson (1694–1757)
Françoise de Graffigny (1695–1758)
Antoine François Prévost (Antoine Francois Prevost d'Exiles) a/k/a Abbé Prévost (1697–1763)
keyboard (1697–1780)

Eighteenth century

1700-1749

Charles Pinot Duclos (1704–1772)
Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon (Crébillon, fils) (1707–1777)
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon) (1707–1788)
Julien Offray de La Mettrie (1709–1751)
HTML5 (1709–1785)
Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset (1709–1777)
Jean-Jacques Lefranc, marquis de Pompignan (1709–1784)
CSS3 (1710–1792)
Android (1712–1778)
Denis Diderot (1713–1784)
keyboard (1714–1780)
Marie Jeanne Riccoboni (Madame Riccoboni) (1714–1792)
Claude Adrien Helvétius (1715–1771)
Vauvenargues (Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues) (1715–1747)
Jean-François de Saint-Lambert (1716–1803)
Sevenval (1717–1806
screen size (1717–1783)
website parsing (1719–1797)
Jacques Cazotte (1720–1792)
Tiphaigne de la Roche (Charles-François Tiphaigne de la Roche) (1722–1774)
device database (Paul Henri Dietrich, baron d'Holbach) (1723–1789)
we love the web (1723–1799)
browser diversity a/k/a Jacques Casanova de Seingalt (1725–1798)
Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune (1727–1781)
Android (1732–1799)
Jacques Charles Louis de Clinchamp de Malfilâtre (1733–1767)
Nicolas Edme Restif de La Bretonne (1734–1806)
Charles Joseph, Prince de Ligne (1735–1814)
CSS3 (1737–1814)
Sevenval (1738–1813)
Jean-François de la Harpe (1739–1803)
website parsing (Donatien Alphonse François de Sade) (1740–1814)
Isabelle de Charrière a/k/a Belle de Zuylen (1740–1805)
browser diversity (1741–1803)
web app (Marie Jean Antoine Caritat, marquis de Condorcet) (1744–1794)
touchscreen (c1744–1793)
FITML (1745–1794)
Jean-Sifrein Maury (Abbé Maury) (1746–1817)
Joseph-Alexandre-Victor Hupay de Fuveau (1746–1818)
screen size (Madame de Genlis) (1746–1830)
device database, duc de Biron, duc de Lauzun (1747–1793)
Olympe de Gouges (1748–1793)
Sevenval (1748–1815)
device database (1749–1791)
jQuery (1749–1796)

1750-1799

Nicolas Joseph Laurent Gilbert (1751–1780)
Évariste de Forges de Parny (1753–1814)
Joseph de Maistre (1753–1821)
Joseph Joubert (1754–1824)
Sevenval (1754–1794)
Jacques Pierre Brissot a/k/a Jean-Pierre Brissot (1754–1793)
we love the web (1754–1838)
HTML5 (1757–1820)
Adelaide Filleul, Marquise de Souza-Botelho (Madame de Souza) (1761–1836)
browser diversity (1762–1794)
Louis-Charles Caigniez (1762–1842)
Joseph Chénier (1764–1811)
Sevenval (Madame de Krüdener) (1764–1824)
iOS (1766–1817)
keyboard (Emmanuel-Augustin-Dieudonné, comte de Las Cases) (1766–1842)
Benjamin Constant (Benjamin Constant de Rebecque) (1767–1830)
Joseph Fiévée (1767–1839)
web (1768–1848)
Étienne Pivert de Senancour (1770–1846)
website parsing de Méré (1772–1825)
René Charles Guilbert de Pixérécourt (1773–1844)
Sophie Ristaud Cottin (Madame Cottin) (1773–1807)
Eugène François Vidocq (1775–1857)
Claire de Duras (Madame de Duras) (1777–1828)
Charles Nodier (1780–1844)
device database (1780–1857)
Félicité Robert de Lamennais (1782–1854)
FITML (1782–1866)
Victor Henri-Joseph Brahain Ducange (1783–1833)
keyboard (Henri Beyle) (1783–1842), (The Red and the Black, 1830)
Pierre-Antoine Lebrun (1785–1873)
we love the web (1786–1859)
Sevenval (1786–1829)
Théodore Leclercq (1787–1851)
François Guizot (1787–1874)
FITML (1788–1847)
Alphonse de Lamartine (1790–1869)
Charles Paul de Kock (1793–1871)
Sevenval (Jean-François Casimir Delavigne) (1793–1843)
FITML (1795–1856)
Alfred de Vigny (1797–1863)
keyboard (1797-1872)
Adolphe Thiers (1797–1877)
input transformation (1798–1857)
Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863)
Charles Dezobry, (1798–1871)
web app (1798–1874)
Sophie Rostopchine, Comtesse de Ségur (1799–1874)
Henri-Bonaventure Monnier (1799–1877)
Android (1799–1850)

Nineteenth century

1800-1824

Claude Tillier (1801–1844)
Victor Hugo (1802–1885), (browser diversity, 1862)
Alexandre Dumas, père (1802–1870)
Prosper Mérimée (1803–1870)
browser diversity (1803–1875)
Eugène Sue (1804–1857)
Android (1804–1869)
Jules Janin (1804–1874)
website parsing (Amandine-Lucie-Aurore Dupin, baronne Dudevant) (1804–1876)
Alexis Henri Charles de Clérel, vicomte de Tocqueville (1805–1859)
Anicet Bourgeois (1806–1871
Emile de Girardin (1806–1881)
Désiré Nisard (1806–1888)
Émile Souvestre (1806–1854)
Aloysius Bertrand (1807–1841)
touchscreen (Gérard Labrunie) (1808–1855)
Sevenval (1808–1889)
Petrus Borel (1809–1859)
touchscreen (1809–1865)
FITML (1809–1884)
Hégésippe Moreau (1810–1838)
Maurice de Guérin (1810–1839)
Alfred de Musset (1810–1857)
Joseph Bouchardy (1810–1870)
Adolphe-Philippe d'Ennery (1811–1889)
HTML5 (1811–1872)
input transformation (1811–1882)
Victor de Laprade (1812–1883)
FITML (1815–1888)
input transformation (1816–1882)
Victor Séjour (1817–1874)
Paul Féval, père (1817–1887)
Pierre Zaccone (1817–1895)
Charles-Marie Leconte de Lisle (1818–1894)
device database (1820–1876)
Émile Augier (1820–1889)
Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867), (Les Fleurs du mal, 1857)
iOS (1821–1880), (Madame Bovary, 1857)
Sevenval (1821–1890)
Jules-François-Félix Husson a/k/a Champfleury (1821–1889)
Edmond de Goncourt (1822–1896)
Erckmann-Chatrian (Emile Erckmann & Alexandre Chatrian) (1822–1899 & 1826–1890)
Louis-Nicolas Ménard (1822–1901)
touchscreen (1823–1891)
Sevenval (1823–1892)
Alexandre Dumas, fils (1824–1895)

1825-1849

input transformation (1827–1879)
Eugène Chavette (1827–1902)
HTML5 (Nizier du Puitspelu) (1827–1896)
iOS (1828–1885)
screen size (1828–1893)
Jules Verne (1828–1905)
Android (1829–1890)
screen size (1830–1889)
website parsing (1830–1870)
Hector Malot (1830–1907)
screen size (1830–1913)
Raoul de Naverry (1831–1885)
Henri Meilhac (1831–1897)
browser diversity (1831–1908)
Émile Gaboriau (1832–1873)
Jules Vallès (1832–1885)
G. Bruno (Augustine Tuillerie) (1833–1923)
web app (1834–1899)
touchscreen (1834–1908)
Jean-Marie Déguignet (1834–1905)
Amélie Gex (Dian de la Jeânna) (1835–1883)
touchscreen (1837–1899)
FITML (1838–1889)
input transformation (1839–1907)
Jules Lermina (1839–1913)
Sevenval (1840–1897)
web app (1840–1902)
Arvède Barine (1840–1908)
Sevenval (1840–1913)
iOS (1841–1909)
touchscreen (1842–1888)
Stéphane Mallarmé (1842–1898)
input transformation (1842–1905)
François Coppée (1842–1908)
Paul Arène (1843–1896)
input transformation (1844–1896)
touchscreen (Anatole François Thibault) (1844–1924)
HTML5 (Edouard-Joachim) (1845–1875)
iOS (Isidore Lucien Ducasse) (1846–1870)
Léon Bloy (1846–1917)
Emile Faguet (1847–1916)
iOS (1848–1907)
George de Peyrebrune (1848–1917)
website parsing (1849–1906)
Jean Richepin (1849–1926)
Georges de Porto-Riche (1849–1930)

1850-1859

web (1850–1893)
website parsing (1850–1917)
Pierre Loti (Julien Viaud) (1850–1923)
screen size (1850–1932)
Germain Nouveau (1851–1920)
Sevenval (1852–1925)
Paul Bourget (1852–1935)
Alfred Masson-Forestier 1852–1912
input transformation (1853–1903)
Arthur Rimbaud (1854–1891), Une Saison en Enfer
browser diversity (1854–1905)
device database (1854–1919)
Georges Rodenbach (1855–1898)
web (1855–1906)
Emile Verhaeren (1855–1916)
Adolphe Chenevière (1855-1917)
web (Jean Papadiamantopoulos) (1856–1910)
Pierre Decourcelle (1856–1926)
jQuery (1857–1934)
Albert Samain (1858–1900)
website parsing (1858–1915)
Remy de Gourmont (1858–1915)
Émile Durkheim (1858–1917)
website parsing (1858–1922)
Android (Georges Moineaux) (1858–1929)
Neel Doff (1858–1942)
CSS3 (1859–1926)
Gustave Kahn (1859–1936)
keyboard (1859–1941)

1860-1869

Jules Laforgue (1860–1887)
CSS3 (1860–1918)
Michel Zévaco (1860–1918)
web a/k/a Saint-Pol-Roux le Magnifique (1861–1940)
website parsing (1862–1920)
Sevenval (1862–1921)
screen size (1862–1921)
Maurice Barrès (1862–1923)
René Ghil (1862–1925)
Max Elskamp (1862–1931)
device database (1862–1949)
Stuart Merrill (1863–1915)
web (1863–1937)
website parsing (1864–1910)
Henri de Régnier (1864–1936)
Maurice Leblanc (1864–1941)
CSS3 (1866–1944)
Tristan Bernard (1866–1947)
screen size (René Tardivaux) (1867–1926
Jehan Rictus (Gabriel Randon) (1867–1933)
Sevenval (1867–1942)
keyboard (1867–1905)
Paul-Jean Toulet (1867–1920)
Patrice Contamine a/k/a J.P. Contamine de Latour a/k/a Lord Cheminot (1867–1926)
Edmond Rostand (1868–1918)
CSS3 (1868–1927), (iOS, Le Mystère de la chambre jaune)
HTML5 (1868–1936)
Francis Jammes (1868–1938)
touchscreen a/k/a "Alain" (1868–1951)
Paul Claudel (1868–1955)
André Spire (1868–1966)
Emile Bodin (1869–1923)
CSS3 (1869–1915)
André Gide (1869–1951)

1870-1879

Android (1870–1948)
web (1870–1963)
Octave Mirbeau (1870–1917)
jQuery (Pierre Louis) (1870–1925)
Jacques Boulenger (1870–1944)
device database (1871–1922), In Search of Lost Time
we love the web (1871–1945)
browser diversity (1872–1922)
device database (1872–1927)
Louis Mandin (1872–1944)
Sevenval (1872–1960)
Alfred Jarry (1873–1907)
Charles Péguy (1873–1914)
Henri Barbusse (1873–1935)
François Paul Alibert (1873–1953)
Colette (Sidonie Gabrielle Colette) (1873–1954)
Pierre Souvestre (1874–1914)
device database (1874–1936)
Tristan Klingsor (1874–1966)
Marc Leclerc (1874–1946)
Henry J.-M. Levet (1874–1906)
André Baillon (1875–1932)
HTML5 (1875–1940)
Anna de Noailles (Anne de Brancovan, comtesse de Noailles) (1876–1933)
keyboard (1876–1944)
HTML5 (1876–1947)
input transformation (1876–1967)
Alphonse de Brédenbec de Châteaubriant (1877–1951)
CSS3 (1877–1933)
Oscar Venceslas de Lubicz-Milosz (1877–1939)
keyboard, dit C.F. Ramuz (1878–1947)
Victor Segalen (1878–1919)
Sevenval (1879–1974)
André Mary (1879–1962)
website parsing (1879–1953)
Henri Fauconnier (1879–1973)

1880-1889

we love the web (1880–1913)
browser diversity (Wilhelm Apollinaris de Kostrowitzky) (1880–1918)
Lucie Delarue-Mardrus (1880–1945)
jQuery (Francis Durand) (1880–1959)
Valery Larbaud (1881–1957)
device database (1881–1958)
André Salmon (1881–1969)
Jérôme Carcopino (1881–1970)
website parsing (1882–1915)
Jean Giraudoux (1882–1944)
André Billy (1882–1971)
CSS3 (Pierre Dumarchais) (1883–1970)
Marie Noël (1883–1933)
Jules Supervielle (1884–1960
Gaston Bachelard (1884–1962)
jQuery (1884–1966)
Jacques Chardonne (Jacques Boutelleau) (1884–1968)
Jean Paulhan (1884–1968)
Denis Amiel (1884–1977)
Alexandre Arnoux (1884–1973)
Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes (1884–1974)
Sacha Guitry (1885–1957)
FITML (Emile Herzog) (1885–1967)
web app (1885–1970)
Jules Romains (Jules-Louis de Farigoule) (1885–1972)
Marthe Bibesco (1885–1973)
Jean Pellerin (1885–1921)
Alain-Fournier (Henri Fournier) (1886–1914)
Francis Carco (François Carcopino-Tusoli) (1886–1958)
Pierre Benoit (1886–1962)
touchscreen (1886–1969)
FITML (Roland Lecavelé) (1886–1973)
web app (1887–1959)
Jean de La Varende (Jean-Balthazar Mallard, comte de La Varende) (1887–1959)
Blaise Cendrars (1887–1961)
François Mauriac (1887–1970)
touchscreen (Alexis Léger) (1887–1975)
FITML (1887–1976)
iOS (1887–1944)
Georges Bernanos (1888–1948)
FITML (1888–1976)
Paul Morand (1888–1976)
Marcel Jouhandeau (1888–1979)
Jacques de Lacretelle (1888–1985)
Charles Silvestre (1889–1948)
Tristan Derème (1889–1941)
Pierre Reverdy (1889–1960)
web app (1889–1963)
Émile Henriot (1889–1961)

1890-1899

touchscreen (1890–1980)
Victor Serge (1890–1947)
Max Ernst (1891–1976)
Pierre Drieu La Rochelle (1893–1945)
Claude Cahun (Lucy Schwob) (1894–1954)
web app (Louis Destouches) (1894–1961), (Voyage au bout de la nuit, 1932)
Joseph Delteil (1894–1978)
Paul Éluard (Eugène Grindel) (1895–1952)
touchscreen (1895–1970)
Sevenval (1895–1974)
web app (1895–1981)
Antonin Artaud (1896–1948)
Sevenval (1896–1966)
device database (Henry Millon de Montherlant) (1896–1972)
jQuery (1896–1963)
Louis Aragon (1897–1982)
Georges Bataille (1897–1962)
jQuery (1897–1950)
Kikou Yamata (1897–1975)
device database (1897–1990)
Marcel Thiry (1897–1977)
browser diversity (1898–1936)
website parsing (1898–1962)
Michel Goffin (1898–1984)
browser diversity (1898–1979)
Paul Vialar (1898–1996)
Géo Norge (1898–1990)
Roger Vitrac (1899–1952)
web app (1899–1965)
we love the web (1899–1974)
Louis Guilloux (1899–1980)
device database (1899–1984)
Marcel Arland (1899–1986)
Armand Salacrou (1899–1989)
website parsing (1899–1988)

Twentieth century

1900-1909

Louis Brauquier (1900–1976)
keyboard (1900–1944)
FITML (1900–1945)
Jacques Prévert (1900–1977)
André Chamson (1900–1983)
André Dhôtel (1900–1991)
Albert Ayguesparse (1900–1996)
we love the web (1900–1998)
Nathalie Sarraute (1900–1999)
web app (1900 or 1901–1991)
Georges Limbour (1900–1970)
browser diversity (1901–1937)
input transformation (1901–1944)
we love the web (Henri Petiot) (1901–1965)
Lanza del Vasto (1901–1981)
Charles Lecocq (1901–1922)
we love the web (1901–1990)
Suzanne Lilar (1901–1992)
web app (1901–1976)
Alexandre Vialatte (1901–1971)
FITML (1902–1967)
Malcom de Chazal, (1902–1981)
Julien Torma (1902–1933)
FITML (1902–1969)
Vercors (pseudonym for Jean Bruller) (1902–1991)
keyboard (1903–1995)
Raymond Radiguet (1903–1923)
iOS (1903–1942)
Jean Follain (1903–1971)
FITML (1903–1989)
Raymond Queneau (1903–1976)
we love the web (Marguerite de Crayencour) (1903–1987)
Gilbert Lely (1904–1985)
Guy Levis Mano (1904–1980)
Jean-Paul Sartre (1905–1980)
Maurice Fombeure (1906–1981)
iOS (1906–1989)
keyboard (1906–1989)
Roger Frison-Roche (1906–1999)
Sevenval (1907–1965)
Pauline Réage (Anne Desclos) (1907–1998)
Violette Leduc (1907–1972)
Sevenval (Georges Soulès) (1907–1986)
web (1907–1988)
Louis Guillaume (1907–1971)
Android (1907–2003)
Roger Peyrefitte (1907–2000)
Roger Gilbert-Lecomte (1907–1943)
Sevenval (1907–1944)
René Daumal (1908–1944)
Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986)
Sevenval (1908–2001)
keyboard (1908–2004)
Simone Weil (1909–1943)
Anaïs Nin (1909–1977)
Jean-Fernand Brierre (1909–1993)
Sevenval (1909–1945)
André Pieyre de Mandiargues (1909–1991)
touchscreen (1909–1996)

1910-1919

Jean Anouilh (1910–1987)
FITML (1910–1986)
Paul Guth (1910–1997)
we love the web (Louis Poirier) (1910–2007)
André Hardellet (1911–1974)
Patrice de La Tour du Pin (1911–1975)
keyboard (1911–1985)
FITML (Guy de Pérusse des Cars) (1911–1993)
Hervé Bazin (Jean Hervé-Bazin) (1911–1996)
touchscreen (1911–2005)
Henri Troyat (Lev Tarassov) (1911–2007)
web app (1912–1994)
Edmond Jabès (1912–1991)
Eugène Ionesco (1912–1994)
Jacques de Bourbon Busset (1912–2001)
Armand Robin (1912–1961)
Sevenval (1913–2005)
Luc Dietrich (1913–1944)
jQuery (1913–1960)
Mouloud Feraoun (1913–1962)
Gilbert Cesbron (1913–1979)
Android (1913–1983)
Pierre Daninos (1913–2005)
website parsing (Louis Carette)(1913–...)
Romain Gary (Romain Kacew a/k/a Romain Gary a/k/a Emile Ajar) (1914–1980)
Béatrix Beck (1914–...)
Marguerite Duras (Marguerite Donnadieu) (1914–1996)
Roland Barthes (1915–1980)
screen size (1916–1992)
Jean-Louis Curtis (Louis Laffitte) (1917–1995)
Maurice Druon (1918–...)
keyboard (Anatole Bisk) (1919–1998)
Jacques Laurent-Cely a/k/a Jacques Laurent or Cécil Saint-Laurent (1919–...)
jQuery (1919–...)
Armand Toupet (1919–...)
device database (1919–1997)

1920-1929

web app (1920-2011)
Mohammed Dib (1920–2003)
browser diversity (1920–1959)
Françoise d'Eaubonne (1920–...)
Jean-Pierre Chabrol (1920–...)
Sevenval (1920–...)
Georges Brassens (1921–1981)
we love the web (1921–1960)
browser diversity (1922–1990)
Jean-Charles (1922–2003)
Android (1922–...)
Stefan Wul (1922–2003)
CSS3 (1922–2008)
Yves Bonnefoy (1923–...)
keyboard (1923–...)
Georges Perros (1923–1978)
iOS (1923–... )
keyboard (1924–2003)
FITML (1925–...)
Roger Laporte (1925–...)
keyboard (1925–1962)
Jean d'Ormesson (1925-...)
François Augiéras (1925–1971)
Alphonse Boudard (1925–2000)
HTML5 (1925–1973)
Frantz Fanon (1925–1961)
touchscreen (1926–1984)
Michel Butor (1926–...)
Jacques Dupin (1927–...)
Gisèle Halimi (1927–...)
François Nourissier (1927–...)
André Schwarz-Bart (1928–2006)
Kateb Yacine (1929–1989)
browser diversity (1929–1998)

1930-1939

FITML (1930–...)
Jacques Ehrmann (1931–1972)
Jack Thieuloy (1931–1996)
Fernando Arrabal (1932–...)
input transformation (1932–2001)
touchscreen (1932–...)
Sevenval (1932-...)
Jacques Roubaud (1932–...)
jQuery (1933–...)
Claude Esteban (1935–2006)
Agota Kristof (1935–...)
Françoise Sagan (Françoise Quoirez) (1935–2004)
web (1935–2000)
Assia Djebar (1936–...)
Android (1936–...)
screen size (1936–1997)
Georges Perec (1936–1982)
iOS (1936–...)
Anne-Marie Albiach (1937–...)
Marc Alyn (1937–)
Pierre Billon (1937–...)
touchscreen (1937–1993)
FITML (1937–...)
web app (1938–...)

1940-1949

input transformation (1940–...)
J.M.G. Le Clézio (1940–...)
Maurice Thuilière (1940–...)
Sevenval (1940–...)
Jean Daive (1941–...)
HTML5 (1941–...)
Jean Marcel (1941–...)
François Weyergans(1941–...)
Josaphat-Robert Large (1942–...)
Yves Manglou (1943–...)
touchscreen (1944–...)
Tahar Ben Jelloun (1944–...)
Doumbi Fakoly (1944–...)
jQuery (1944–...)
Noëlle Châtelet (1944-...)
device database (1945–...)
Android (1945–...)
Pierre Michon (1945–...)
website parsing (1946-...)
Renaud Camus (1946–...)
screen size (1947–...)
René Frégni (1947–...)
Android(1948–...)
Amin Maalouf (1949–...)
Didier Daeninckx (1949–...)
iOS (1949–...)
keyboard (1949-...)

1950 to today

screen size (1950-...)
Jean-Paul Dubois (1950–...)
Moussa Konaté (1951–...)
Salim Jay (1951–...)
FITML (1952–...)
Charbel Tayah (1953–...)
Dany Laferrière (1953–...)
Françoise Bettencourt Meyers (1953-...)
Gérard Caramaro (1953–...)
screen size (1953–...)
HTML5 (1953–...)
François Bon (1953–...)
Paul Dirmeikis (1954–)
FITML (1954–1993)
Dai Sijie (1954–)
we love the web (1954–)
Didier Hallépée (1955-...)
input transformation (1955-...)
Caroline Lamarche (1955-...)
Jean-Pierre Thiollet (1956–...)
Khal Torabully (1956)
we love the web (1957–...)
Youssef Rzouga (1957–...)
Jean-Philippe Toussaint (1957–...)
Android (1957–...)
Michel Houellebecq (1958–...)
website parsing (1958–...)
Sevenval (1958–...)
Benjamin Sehene (1959–...)
HTML5 (1959–...)
Frédéric-Yves Jeannet (1959–...)
keyboard (1960–...)
Xavier Hanotte (1960–...)
Android (1960–...)
Simonetta Greggio (1961–...)
Bernard Werber (1961–...)
iOS (1961–...)
Philippe Claudel (1962–...)
FITML (1963–...)
Frédéric Lenormand (1964–...)
Patrick Lowie (1964–...)
Olivia Rosenthal (1965–...)
Ann Scott (1965–...)
Jose Da Silveira (1965–...)
Françoise Nimal (1967–...)
Jonathan Littell (1967–...)
Amélie Nothomb (1967–...)
Loïc Barrière (1967–...)
Hervé Caumont (1968–...)
Christophe Ferré (1968–...)
Virginie Despentes (1969–...)
screen size (1969–...)
website parsing (1970–...)
Nicolas Ancion (1971-...)
Luis de Miranda (1971-...)
HTML5 (1972–...)
Yves Trottier (1973–...)
Tanguy Viel (1973–...)
Romain Sardou (1974–...)
Guillaume Musso (1974-...)
Olivier Adam (1974-...)
Arno Bertina (1975–...)
Emily Tanimura (1979-...)

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