Editing List of French people (section)

===P–Z===
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*[[Marcel Pagnol]]
*[[Gisela Pankow]], psychoanalyst
*[[Ève Paul-Margueritte]], novelist
*[[Lucie Paul-Margueritte]], writer and translator
*[[Charles Péguy]], 20th-century poet
*[[Charles Perrault]], ''Mother Goose Tales''
*[[Georges Perec]]
*[[Saint-John Perse]]
*[[Roger Peyrefitte]]
*[[Jean Piaget]], psychologist
*[[Jean Piat]]
*[[Gisèle Pineau]]
*[[Christine de Pizan]], historian, poet, philosopher
*[[Jacques Prévert]], 20th-century poet
*[[Abbé Prévost]]
*[[Marcel Prévost]]
*[[Marcel Proust]], novelist
*[[Raymond Queneau]]
*[[François Rabelais]], Renaissance writer
*[[Raymond Radiguet]]
*[[Jean Racine]], [[classicism|classicist]] playwright
*[[Pauline Réage]], novelist
*[[Gabrielle Réval]], novelist and essayist
*[[Arthur Rimbaud]], [[Symbolism (arts)|symbolist]] poet
*[[Alain Robbe-Grillet]]
*[[Pierre de Ronsard]]
*[[Edmond Rostand]], [[neo-romantic]] playwright
*[[Raymond Roussel]]
*[[Maximilien Rubel]]
*[[Marquis de Sade]], erotic and philosophic author
*[[Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve]]
*[[George Sand]], [[feminist]] author
*[[Jean-Paul Sartre]], 20th-century existentialist philosopher
*[[Nathalie Sarraute]]
*[[André Schwarz-Bart]]
*[[Simone Schwarz-Bart]]
*[[Pierre Seel]], homosexual survivor of the concentration camps, activist, author
*[[Victor Segalen]]
*[[Madame de Sévigné]]
*[[Audrey Spiry]]
*[[Germaine de Staël|Madame de Staël]]
*[[Antoine de Saint-Exupéry|Antoine de Saint-Exupery]], author and aviator
*[[Claude Simon]]
*[[Stendhal]], novelist (born Henry Beyle)
*[[Alain Tasso]], poet, painter, essayist, art critic, literary critic
*[[Raphaël Tardon]]
*[[Guy Tirolien]]
*[[François Truffaut]], 20th-century filmmaker
*[[Paul Valéry]], 20th-century poet
*[[Jean Bruller|Vercors]], pseudonym of Jean Bruller
*[[Paul Verlaine]], [[Symbolism (arts)|symbolist]] poet
*[[Jules Verne]], novelist
*[[Boris Vian]], 20th-century author
*[[Alfred de Vigny]], 19th-century poet
*[[Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam]]
*[[François Villon]]
*[[Voltaire]]
*[[Myriam Warner-Vieyra]]
*[[Marguerite Yourcenar]]
*[[Joseph Zobel]]
*[[Émile Zola]], [[natural history|naturalist]] author
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