Fine examples include

• The writings of Michel de Montaigne, "inventor" of the essay form.
• The Fables[?] of La Fontaine.
• The Red And The Black[?] by Stendhal.
• Gargantua[?] and Pantagruel[?] by Francois Rabelais.
• Pere Goriot[?] by Honore de Balzac.
• Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert.
• Germinal[?] by Emile Zola.
• Stephane Mallarme
• André Malraux
• Denis Diderot
• Jean Racine
• Pierre Loti

Literary criticism

• Roland Barthes
• Jacques Derrida
• Jean-Francois Lyotard / Jean-François Lyotard
• Julia Kristeva
• Jaques Lacan

Poetry

See List of French language poets