Authors

Francis X. McConville

1 book

Francis X. Wahono

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Franckforter.

1 book

FRANCK PAVLOFF

1 book

Franck Thilliez

2 books

Franck tilliez

1 book

Franco Columbu

3 books

Franco Galli

1 book

François Baudot

2 books

François Blanciak

1 book

François Boucher

French museum curator and writer.

1 book

Francois Chaslin

1 book

Francois Chau

Francois Chau

1 book

Francois Chollet

1 book

François d'Assise Konan N'Dah

1 book

Francois Daulte

1 book

François de Salignac de La Mothe-Fénelon

A French Roman Catholic archbishop, theologian, poet and writer. He today is remembered mostly as the author of <i>The Adventures of Telemachus</i>, first published in 1699 (<a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_F%C3%A9nelon>Wikipedia</a>).

1 book

François duc de La Rochefoucauld

2 books

Francoise Cachin

1 book

Françoise Choay

1 book

Françoise Frenkel

1 book

Françoise Gilot

French painter, art critic, writer and beloved of Pablo Picasso (1921–2023). Françoise Gaime Gilot (26 November 1921 – 6 June 2023). She wrote a bestselling memoirist of the book Life with Picasso.

1 book

Françoise Grellet

1 book

Francoise Grellet

1 book

Françoise Labro

1 book

Françoise Piponnier

1 book

Françoise Sagan

6 books

François Grosjean

1 book

François Guerif

1 book

François Guérif

2 books

François Hacker

1 book

François Lasserre

1 book

François Lelord

1 book

François Mauriac

The French author François Mauriac (1885-1970), a fervent Catholic, is best known for his novels, usually set in Bordeaux or the Landes district of southwestern France, with their central themes of faith, sin, and divine grace. François Mauriac was born in Bordeaux on Nov. 11, 1885, of a prosperous middle-class family. He lost his father in infancy, but the influence of his mother, a stern and puritanical Catholic, pervades his literary works. Educated at a Catholic school and at Bordeaux University, Mauriac moved to Paris in 1906, determined to become a writer. He published his first volume of poems in 1909; more poetry and two novels followed before he was mobilized as an army medical orderly in 1914. He was invalided out 3 years later. From 1920 date Mauriac's most productive years as a novelist, his novels including Le Baiser au lépreux (1922; A Kiss for the Leper), Genitrix (1923; Genitrix), Le Désert de l'amour (1925; The Desert of Love), and Thérèse Desqueyroux (1927; Thérèse ). About 1928 came a religious crisis in Mauriac's life, with a corresponding change of emphasis in his works. Earlier he had been criticized for portraying sinners more attractively than believers in the narrow, provincial, middle-class families of his novels, where, as all sexuality implies sin, love and happiness become impossible. Now he began to stress the possibility of divine grace, even for the hardened atheist and family tyrant who is the hero of Le Noeud de vipères (1932; Vipers' Tangle), the most successful of the later novels. In 1933 Mauriac was elected to the French Academy. Other works of this period include biographies, more poetry, and religious essays. In the late 1930s Mauriac found politics coming to the forefront of his attention: he denounced Gen. Franco's insurrection in Spain and later, after the German defeat of France in 1940, helped the cause of the French Resistance with his pen. After the Liberation he continued to write hard-hitting political articles in several newspapers. More novels, stage plays, volumes of criticism, memoirs, and diaries brought Mauriac's total number of books to over 60. Awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1952, Mauriac became, after De Gaulle's return to power in 1958, one of the President's most passionate supporters. Mauriac died on Sept. 1, 1970. Mauriac's fictional world is that of his childhood and adolescence in the Landes region in the period about 1900, which he evokes with poetic intensity; his primary theme, the clash between sin and the desire for religious salvation. "I try to make the Catholic universe of evil palpable, tangible, odorous." This powerful creation of atmosphere and shrewd psychological insight--if perhaps in a somewhat narrow field--have brought Mauriac an extremely high reputation as a novelist. Source: Encyclopedia of World Biography

1 book

François Place

1 book

François Place

1 book

François Rabelais

1 book

François Rabelais

A major French Renaissance writer, doctor and Renaissance humanist.

4 books

François-Régis Chaumartin

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François-René de Chateaubriand

A French writer, politician and diplomat, considered the founder of Romanticism in French literature.

2 books

Francois Ric

1 book

François Truffaut

François Roland Truffaut (6 February 1932 – 21 October 1984) was a French filmmaker, actor, and critic, widely regarded as one of the founders of the cinematic French New Wave.

1 book

François Villon

Vrai nom: François de Montcorbier.

2 books

Franco Modigliani

2 books

Franco Moretti

1 book

Franco Scardino

1 book

Fran Drescher

2 books

Frane Lessac

2 books

Fran Hodgkins

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