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Poets who have written in the French language:- Guillaume Apollinaire
- Charles-Pierre Baudelaire
- Octave Crémazie
- Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
- Jean Chapelain
- René Char
- Chrétien de Troyes
- Paul Claudel
- Jean Cocteau
- Jean Daurat
- Évariste Desiré de Forges, vicomte de Parny
- Christine de Pisan
- Pontus de Tyard
- Paul DirmeikisDirmeikis Paul Dirmeikis (b. 1954, Chicago, Illinois, USA) is a poet, composer, performer and painter. Writings : LIMBES CREUSEES (1975) LA PEUR (1978) LE SOUFFLE DU TEMPS (Quodlibet pour Karlheinz Stockhausen (1999). This latter is a conversation book wi
- Joachim du BellayJoachim du Bellay (c. 1522 January 1, 1560) was a French poet, critic, and a member of the Pleiade. He was born at the chateau of La Turmeliere, not far from Lire, near Angers, being the son of Jean du Bellay, seigneur de Gonnor, cousin-german of the card
- Antoine HéroetAntoine Heroet surnamed La Maison-Neuve (d. 1568), French poet, was born in Paris of a family connected with the famous chancellor, Francois Olivier. His poetry belongs to his early years, for after he had taken orders he ceased to write profane poetry, n
- Louise LabéLouise Charlin Perrin Lab (c. 1525 April 25, 1566), French poet, called La Belle Cordiere was born at Lyons about 1525, the daughter of a rich ropemaker, named Charley or Charlin. At the siege of Perpignan she is said to have fought on horseback in the ra
- Félix LeclercFelix Leclerc ( August 2 1914- August 8 1988) was a Quebec folk singer, poet, writer and actor. He was born in La Tuque, Quebec in 1914, sixth in a family of eleven children. He began his studies at the University of Ottawa but was forced to stop due to t
- Gherasim LucaGherasim Luca (or Gherashim Luca) ( July 23, 1913 February 9, 1994) was a surrealist theorist and Romanian poet, frequently cited in the works of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. Luca was born in Bucharest, the son of a Jewish tailor. He spoke Yiddish,
- François de MalherbeFrancois de Malherbe ( 1555 October 16, 1628) was a French poet, critic and translator. Biography Born in Caen, his family was of some position, though it seems not to have been able to establish to the satisfaction of heralds the claims which it made to
- Stéphane MallarméStephane Mallarm ( March 18, 1842 September 9, 1898) was a French poet and writer. Mallarme was a major French symbolist poet and rightly famed for his salons occasional gatherings of intellectuals at his house for discussions of poetry, art, philosophy.
- Clément Marot
- Henri Michaux
- Charles, duc d'Orléans
- Jacques Prévert
- Raymond Queneau
- Pierre de Ronsard
- Victor Hugo
- Melin de Saint-Gelais
- Saint-Denys Garneau
- Maurice Scève
- Léopold Senghor
- François Villon
- Vincent Voiture
- Robert Wace
Surrealist Poets
Symbolist Poets
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