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List of poets who have written in the French language:

## A

Céline Arnauld (1885-1952)
* Louise-Victorine Ackermann (1813–1890)
* Adam de la Halle (v.1250 – v.1285)
* Dominique Aguessy (1937– )
* Pierre Albert-Birot (1876–1967)
* Anne-Marie Albiach (1937–2012)
* Pierre Alféri (1963)
* Marc Alyn (1937)
* Catherine d'Amboise (1475–1550)
* Jean Amrouche (1906–1962)
* Guillaume Apollinaire (1880–1918)
* Louis Aragon (1897–1982)
* Jacques Arnold (1912–1995)
* Hans Arp (1887–1966)
* Antonin Artaud (1896–1948)
* Théodore Agrippa d'Aubigné (1552–1630)
* Jacques Audiberti (1899–1965)
* Pierre Autin-Grenier (1947–2014)

## B

* Jean-Antoine de Baïf (1532–1589)
* Luisa Ballesteros Rosas (born 1957)
* Théodore de Banville (1823–1891)
* Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly (1807–1889)
* Henri Auguste Barbier (1805–1882)
* Natalie Clifford Barney (1876–1972)
* Linda Maria Baros (1981)
* Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas (1544–1590)
* Henry Bataille (1872–1922)
* Henry Bauchau (1913–2012)
* Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)
* Marcel Béalu (1908–1993)
* Philippe Beck (1963)
* Samuel Beckett (1906–1989)
* Joachim du Bellay (1522–1560)
* Rémy Belleau (1528–1577)
* Charles Beltjens (1832–1890)
* Tahar Ben Jelloun (1944)
* Isaac de Benserade (1612–1691)
* Annie Bentoiu (1927–2015)
* Pierre-Jean de Béranger (1780–1857)
* Christian Bernard (1950)
* Béroul (12th century)
* Louky Bersianik (1965)
* Aloysius Bertrand (1807–1841)
* Gérard Bessière (1928)
* Maurice Blanchot (1907–2003)
* Blondel de Nesle (12th–13th centuries)
* Christian Bobin (1951–2022)
* Jean Bodel (1165–1210)
* Étienne de La Boétie (1530–1563)
* Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux (1636–1711)
* Bonaventure Des Périers (1500–1544)
* Yves Bonnefoy (1923–2016)
* Pétrus Borel (1809–1859)
* Bertran de Born (1150–1215 ?)
* Robert de Boron (12th–13th centuries)
* Théodore Botrel (1868–1925)
* André du Bouchet (1924–2001)
* Daniel Boulanger (1922–2014)
* Stéphane Bouquet (1967)
* Joë Bousquet (1897–1950)
* Georges Brassens (1921–1981)
* Jacques Brault (1933–2022)
* André Breton (1896–1966)
* Nicole Brossard (1943)
* Aristide Bruant (1851–1925)
* Gace Brulé (c.1160 – after 1213)
* Andrée Brunin (1937–1993)
* Michel Butor (1926–2016)

## C

* Louis Calaferte (1928–1994)
* Susana Calandrelli (1901–1978)
* Jean-Pierre Calloc'h (1888–1917)
* Émile Cammaerts (1878–1953)
* Côtis-Capel (1915–1986)
* Placide Cappeau (1808–1877)
* Adolphe Joseph Carcassonne (1826–1891)
* Francis Carco (1886–1958)
* Maurice Carême (1899–1978)
* Jean Cayrol (1911–2005)
* Rose Celli (1895–1982)
* Blaise Cendrars (1887–1961)
* Aimé Césaire (1913–2008)
* Jean Chapelain (1595–1674)
* Maurice Chappaz (1916–2009)
* René Char (1907–1988)
* Alain Chartier (1385–1430)
* François-René de Chateaubriand (1768–1848)
* Malcolm de Chazal (1902–1981)
* Andrée Chedid (1920–2011)
* Charles-Julien Lioult de Chênedollé (1769–1833)
* François Cheng (1929)
* André Chénier (1762–1794)
* Jacques Chessex (1934–2009)
* Chrétien de Troyes (c.1135 – c.1183)
* Paul Claudel (1868–1955)
* William Cliff (1940)
* Jean Cocteau (1889–1963)
* Gabrielle de Coignard (1550–1586)
* Louise Colet (1810–1876)
* Danielle Collobert (1940–1978)
* Claude Confortès (1928–2016)
* Conon de Béthune (c.1150 – 1220)
* Benoît Conort (1956)
* François Coppée (1842–1908)
* Tristan Corbière (1845–1875)
* Pierre Corneille (1606–1684)
* Charles Cotin (1604–1681)
* Gaston Couté (1880–1911)
* Watriquet de Couvin (active 1319–1329)
* Octave Crémazie (1827–1879)
* René Crevel (1900–1935)
* Charles Cros (1842–1888)

## D

* Jean Daive (1941)
* Léon-Gontran Damas (1914–1978)
* René Daumal (1908–1944)
* François David (1870–1939)
* Anne-Marie de Backer (1908–1987)
* Lise Deharme (1898–1979)
* Lucie Delarue-Mardrus (1880–1945)
* Yanette Delétang-Tardif (1902–1976)
* Jacques Delille (1738–1813)
* René Depestre (1926)
* Tristan Derème (1889–1941)
* Paul Déroulède (1846–1914)
* Maryline Desbiolles (1959)
* Marceline Desbordes-Valmore (1786–1859)
* Émile Deschamps (1791–1871)
* Eustache Deschamps (1346–1406)
* Robert Desnos (1900–1945)
* Philippe Desportes (1546–1606)
* Jean-Pierre Desthuilliers (1939–2013)
* Bruno Destrée (1867–1919)
* Léon Deubel (1879–1913)
* Souéloum Diagho
* Mohammed Dib (1920–2003)
* David Diop (1927–1960)
* Charles Dobzynski (1929–2014)
* Jean Dorat (1508–1588)
* Hélène Dorion (1958)
* Christian Dotremont (1922–1979)
* Minou Drouet (1947)
* Caroline Dubois (1960)
* Bernard Dubourg (1945–1992)
* Georges Duhamel (1884–1966)
* Jacques Dupin (1927–2012)
* Jean-Pierre Duprey (1930–1959)
* Marie Dauguet (1860–1942)

## E

* Paul Éluard (1895–1952)
* Claude Esteban (1935–2006)

## F

* Nabile Farès (1940–2016)
* Léon-Paul Fargue (1876–1947)
* Jean-Pierre Faye (1925)
* Léo Ferré (1916–1993)
* Jean Follain (1903–1971)
* Xavier Forneret (1809–1884)
* Paul Fort (1872–1960)
* Marie de France (1154–1189)
* Martin Le Franc (1410–1461)
* Frankétienne (1936)
* Pauline Fréchette (1889–1943)
* André Frédérique (1915–1957)
* Jean Froissart (v.1337-v.1410)

## G

* Pierre Gabriel (1926–1994)
* Serge Gainsbourg (1928–1991)
* Augièr Galhard (16th-century)
* Pierre Gamarra (1919–2009)
* Joachim Gasquet (1873–1921)
* Armand Gatti (1924–2017)
* Théophile Gautier (1811–1872)
* Jean Genet (1910–1986)
* Amélie Gex (1835–1883)
* Henri Ghéon (1875–1644)
* Roger Gilbert-Lecomte (1907–1943)
* Iwan Gilkin (1858–1924)
* Roger Giroux (1925–1974)
* Edouard Glissant (1928–2011)
* Guy Goffette (1947)
* Claire Goll (1890–1977)
* Yvan Goll (1891–1950)
* Jean Ogier de Gombauld (1576–1666)
* Remy de Gourmont (1858–1915)
* Xavier Grall (1930–1981)
* Benoît Gréan
* Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset (1709–1777)
* Jacques Grévin (1538–1570)
* Jean Grosjean (1912–2006)
* Maurice de Guérin (1810–1839)
* Georges Guillain (1876–1961)
* Guillaume de Lorris (c.1200 – c.1238)
* Pernette du Guillet (1520–1545)
* Eugène Guillevic (1907–1997)

## H

* Adam de la Halle (1237–1288)
* Anne Hébert (1916–2000)
* Markus Hediger (1959)
* Bernard Heidsieck (1928–2014)
* Georges Henein (1914–1973)
* José-Maria de Heredia (1842–1905)
* Antoine Héroet (d. 1567)
* Michel Houellebecq (1958)
* Victor Hugo (1802–1885)
* Marie Huot (1965)

## I

* Jacques Izoard (1936–2008)

## J

* Edmond Jabès (1912–1991)
* Philippe Jaccottet (1925–2021)
* Max Jacob (1876–1944)
* Francis Jammes (1868–1938)
* Amadis Jamyn (1538–1592)
* Alfred Jarry (1873–1907)
* Sandra Jayat (c.1939)
* Georges Jean (1920–2011)
* Jean de Meung (1250 – c.1305)
* Étienne Jodelle (1532–1573)
* Jean Joubert (1928–2015)
* Jacques Jouet (1947)
* Alain Jouffroy (1928–2015)
* Pierre Jean Jouve (1887–1976)
* Charles Juliet (1934)

## K

* Gustave Kahn (1859–1936)
* Kama Sywor Kamanda (1952)
* Abdelkebir Khatibi (1938–2009)
* Vénus Khoury-Ghata (1937)
* Tristan Klingsor (1874–1966)
* Anise Koltz (1928–2023)
* Petr Kral (1941–2020)
* Seyhan Kurt (1971)

## L

* Abdellatif Laâbi (1942)
* Louise Labé (1524–1566)
* Pierre Labrie (1972)
* Jacques Lacarrière (1925–2005)
* Jean de La Fontaine (1621–1695)
* Jules Laforgue (1860–1887)
* Jean Lahor (1840–1909)
* Alphonse de Lamartine (1790–1869)
* Bernard de La Monnoye (1641–1728)
* Jane de La Vaudère (1857–1908)
* Valery Larbaud (1881–1957)
* Josaphat-Robert Large (1942–2017)
* Rina Lasnier (1910–1997)
* Isidore Ducasse, comte de Lautréamont (1846–1870)
* Pierre-Antoine Lebrun (1785–1873)
* Félix Leclerc (1914–1988)
* Leconte de Lisle (1818–1894)
* Michel Leiris (1901–1990)
* Jean Lemaire de Belges (1473–1520)
* Charles Le Quintrec (1926–2008)
* Jean-François Leriget de La Faye (1674–1731)
* Alain Le Roux (c. 1040 – 1093)
* Hervé Le Tellier (1957)
* Henry Jean-Marie Levet (1874–1906)
* Tristan L'Hermite (1601–1655)
* Liska (1956–2011)
* Guillaume de Lorris (1200–1240)
* Pierre Louÿs (1870–1925)
* Mary Stanley Low (1912–2007)
* Ghérasim Luca (1913–1994)
* Jean-Pierre Luminet (1951)

## M

* Guillaume de Machaut (1300–1377)
* Maurice Maeterlinck (1862–1949)
* François de Malherbe (1555–1628)
* Stéphane Mallarmé (1842–1898)
* Pierre de Marbeuf (1595–1645)
* Clément Marot (1495–1544)
* Jean Marot (1450–1526)
* Anne de Marquets (1533–1588)
* Fabien Marsaud (born 1977)
* Charles Maurras (1868–1952)
* Catulle Mendès (1841–1909)
* Élisa Mercœur (1809–1835)
* Thierry Metz (1956–1997)
* Jean de Meun (1240–1304)
* Henri Michaux (1899–1984)
* Jean Michel (c. 1435–1501)
* Jean Moréas (1856–1910)
* Hégésippe Moreau (1810–1838)
* Camille de Morel
* Colin Muset
* Alfred de Musset (1810–1857)

## N

* Marguerite de Navarre (1492–1549)
* Émile Nelligan (1879–1941)
* Gérard de Nerval (1808–1855)

## O

* René de Obaldia (1918–2022)
* Charles, duc d'Orléans (1394–1465)

## P

* Évariste de Parny (1753–1814)
* Charles Péguy (1873–1914)
* Benjamin Péret (1899–1959)
* Louis Pergaud (1882–1915)
* Saint-John Perse (1887–1975)
* Christine de Pizan (1364–c. 1430)
* Francis Ponge (1899–1988)
* Jacques Prévert (1900–1977)
* Guiot de Provins
* Sully Prudhomme (1839–1907)

## Q

* Raymond Queneau (1903–1976)

## R

* Nicolas Rapin (1535–1608)
* Henri de Régnier (1864–1936)
* Pierre Reverdy (1889–1960)
* Arthur Rimbaud (1854–1891)
* Jules Romains (1885–1972)
* Pierre de Ronsard (1524–1585)
* Jaufré Rudel (1113–1170)
* Rutebeuf (1245–1285)

## S

* Janou Saint-Denis (1930–2000)
* Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau (1912–1943)
* Mellin de Saint-Gelais (1491–1558)
* Jean François de Saint-Lambert (1716–1803)
* Benoît de Sainte-Maure
* André Salmon (1881–1969)
* Albert Samain (1858–1900)
* Henriette Sauret (1890–1976)
* Paul Scarron (1610–1660)
* Maurice Scève (1501–1564)
* Georges Schehadé (1907–1989)
* Pierre Seghers (1906–1987)
* Léopold Senghor (1906–2001)
* Louisa Siefert (1845–1877)
* Dominique Sorrente (born 1953)
* Gabrielle Soumet (1814–1886)
* Philippe Soupault (1897–1990)
* André Spire (1868–1966)
* Jules Supervielle (1884–1960)

## T

* Taillefer (1001–1066)
* Jean de La Taille (1535–1608)
* Jean Tardieu (1903–1995)
* Thomas of Britain
* Khal Torabully (born 1956)
* Julien Torma (1902–1933)
* Paul-Jean Toulet (1867–1920)
* Roland Michel Tremblay (born 1972)
* Chrétien de Troyes
* Doete de Troyes (1220-1265)
* Pontus de Tyard (1521–1605)
* Tristan Tzara (1896–1963)

## V

* Paul Valéry (1871–1945)
* Jean-Pierre Vallotton (born 1955)
* Léonise Valois (1868–1936)
* Jean Venturini (1919–1940)
* Serge Venturini (born 1955)
* Emile Verhaeren (1855–1916)
* Paul Verlaine (1844–1896)
* Francis Viélé-Griffin (1864–1937)
* Boris Vian (1920–1959)
* Claude Vigée (1921–2020)
* Alfred de Vigny (1797–1863)
* François Villon (1431–1463)
* Roger Vitrac (1899–1952)
* Vincent Voiture (1597–1648)
* Voltaire (1694–1778)