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Also Known As Pierre-François-Marie-Louis Boulle
Born February 20, 1912 • Avignon • France
Died January 30, 1994 (aged 81) • Paris • France
Notable Works “E=mc2” • “Planet of the Apes” • “The Bridge on the River Kwai”
Colette
Colette
French writer
Alexandre Dumas.
Alexandre Dumas, père
French author [1802–1870]
Drieu La Rochelle, 1934
Pierre Drieu La Rochelle
French writer
Léon Daudet
Léon Daudet
French journalist and author
Vercors
French author
Du Camp
Maxime Du Camp
French writer and photographer
Marmontel, detail of an engraving by Augustin de Saint-Aubin, 1765, after a portrait by C.N. Cochin
Jean-François Marmontel
French author
Maurice Charles Louis Genevoix
French writer
Albert Cohen
Greek-born French-Jewish author and diplomat
Alain Mabanckou
Alain Mabanckou
Congolese author
Gaspé, engraving, 1871
Philippe Aubert de Gaspé
French-Canadian author
Eugène Demolder
Belgian author
Louis-Alexandre Chatrian
French author
Jules Goncourt
French author
Edmond Goncourt
French author
Émile Erckmann
French author
Jérôme Tharaud
French writer
Jean Tharaud
French writer
Voltaire
Voltaire
French philosopher and author
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Swiss-born French philosopher