![Jacqueline Roque Jacqueline Roque](http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/jacqueline-roque.jpg)
![Jacqueline Roque Jacqueline Roque](http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/jacqueline-roque.jpg)
![Joris-Karl Huysmans Joris-Karl Huysmans](http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/joris-karl-huysmans-8591-1.jpg)
![George Steiner George Steiner](http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/george-steiner-18506-1.jpg)
![Adolphe Adam Adolphe Adam](http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/adolphe-adam-17815-1.jpg)
Adolphe Adam was a French music critic, teacher, and composer. Best remembered for his ballets, Le corsaire and Giselle, Adam was a prolific composer for the theatre. Adolphe Adam is credited with developing the French form of opera along with his teacher Adrien Boieldieu and his older contemporary Daniel Auber.
![Louis Aragon Louis Aragon](http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/louis-aragon-16521-1.jpg)
Best known for his masterpiece The Sorcerer's Apprentice, French composer Paul Dukas was admired by both conservative and progressive French musicians. Born to a pianist mother, Dukas had begun composing while recovering from an ailment at age 14. Shortly before his death, he destroyed most of his manuscripts.
![Jean Metzinger Jean Metzinger](http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/jean-metzinger-1.jpg)
![Max Jacob Max Jacob](http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/max-jacob-25195-1.jpg)
![Henry Gauthier-Villars Henry Gauthier-Villars](http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/henry-gauthier-villars-1.jpg)
![François Mauriac François Mauriac](http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/franois-mauriac-16762-1.jpg)
![Maurice Blanchot Maurice Blanchot](http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/maurice-blanchot-17128-1.jpg)
![Gabriel Marcel Gabriel Marcel](http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/gabriel-marcel-18032-1.jpg)
![Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr](http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/jean-baptiste-alphonse-karr-19286-1.jpg)
![Paul Le Flem Paul Le Flem](http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/paul-le-flem-1.jpg)
![Maryse Condé Maryse Condé](http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/maryse-cond-54846-1.jpg)
![Frederic Beigbeder Frederic Beigbeder](http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/frederic-beigbeder-24822-1.jpg)
![Édouard Glissant Édouard Glissant](http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/douard-glissant-55494-1.jpg)
![Hippolyte Taine Hippolyte Taine](http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/hippolyte-taine-1.jpg)
Hippolyte Taine was a French critic and historian who was the chief theoretical influence of French naturalism. One of the first practitioners of historicist criticism, he was also a major proponent of sociological positivism and made attempts to provide a scientific account of literature. He had a special relationship with novelist Émile Zola and corresponded with the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche.
![Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux](http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/nicolas-boileau-despraux-1.jpg)
![Octave Mirbeau Octave Mirbeau](http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/octave-mirbeau-1.jpg)
![Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve](http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/charles-augustin-sainte-beuve-1.jpg)
![Joachim du Bellay Joachim du Bellay](http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/joachim-du-bellay-1.jpg)
![Léon Werth Léon Werth](http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/lon-werth-93399-1.jpg)
![Ambroise Vollard Ambroise Vollard](http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/ambroise-vollard-57278-1.jpg)
![Philippe Sollers Philippe Sollers](http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/philippe-sollers-1.jpg)
![Isidore Isou Isidore Isou](http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/isidore-isou-1.jpg)
Isidore Isou was a Romanian-born French novelist, dramaturge, poet, visual artist, film director, and economist. He is credited with founding an art and literary movement called Lettrism, which owed inspiration to Surrealism and Dadaism. Isidore Isou is best remembered for his revolutionary 1951 movie, Traité de Bave et d'Eternité.
![Nicolas Bourriaud Nicolas Bourriaud](http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/nicolas-bourriaud-1.jpg)
![René Daumal René Daumal](http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/ren-daumal-1.jpg)
![Julien Benda Julien Benda](http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/no-profile-img.jpg)
![Edmond de Goncourt Edmond de Goncourt](http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/edmond-de-goncourt-61807-1.jpg)
Edmond de Goncourt was a French writer, book publisher, art critic, and literary critic. He is credited with founding the popular French literary organization, the Goncourt Literary Society. Between 1856 and 1875, he published essays on 18th-century art, which helped revive appreciation for the Late Baroque.
![Paul Bourget Paul Bourget](http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/paul-charles-joseph-bourget-2520-1.jpg)
![Maurice Bardèche Maurice Bardèche](http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/maurice-bardche-1.jpg)
![Louis Leroy Louis Leroy](http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/louis-leroy-1.jpg)
![Pierre Reverdy Pierre Reverdy](http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/pierre-reverdy-59928-1.jpg)
![Michel Butor Michel Butor](http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/michel-butor-1.jpg)
![Benjamin Fondane Benjamin Fondane](http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/benjamin-fondane-19837-1.jpg)
Romanian and French poet, philosopher, and critic Benjamin Fondane was primarily associated with surrealism and symbolism. He was also a major figure of Jewish existentialism and neoromanticism, and penned a few avant-garde plays, too. Deported from France by the Nazis and sent to Auschwitz, he died in a gas chamber at age 45.
![Maxime Du Camp Maxime Du Camp](http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/maxime-du-camp-60314-1.jpg)
![Philippe Soupault Philippe Soupault](http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/philippe-soupault-59992-1.jpg)
![Remy de Gourmont Remy de Gourmont](http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/remy-de-gourmont-60041-1.jpg)
![Félix Fénéon Félix Fénéon](http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/flix-fnon-1.jpg)
![François de Malherbe François de Malherbe](http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/franois-de-malherbe-60651-1.jpg)
![Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe](http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/philippe-lacoue-labarthe-120756-1.jpg)
![Champfleury Champfleury](http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/champfleury-63214-1.jpg)
![Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens](http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/jean-baptiste-de-boyer-marquis-dargens-1.jpg)
![Jules de Goncourt Jules de Goncourt](http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/jules-de-goncourt-63932-1.jpg)
![Charles de Saint-Évremond Charles de Saint-Évremond](http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/charles-de-saint-vremond-74726-1.jpg)
![Gustave Kahn Gustave Kahn](http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/gustave-kahn-64447-1.jpg)
![Émile Faguet Émile Faguet](http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/mile-faguet-63483-1.jpg)
![Michael Riffaterre Michael Riffaterre](http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/thumbs/michael-riffaterre-1.jpg)