Gérard Chaliand is a French expert in geopolitics who has published widely on irregular warfare and military strategy. Chaliand analyses of insurgencies in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East, mostly based on his field experience with insurgent forces, have appeared in more than 20 books and in numerous newspaper articles. He has worked autonomously throughout his career, unconstrained by the perspectives of national governments and policy institutes. As a result, his work provides an independent perspective on many of the major conflicts characterized the 20th and 21st centuries. He is also a published poet.
Marcel Béalu was born in Selles-sur-Cher on 30 October 1908, and raised in impoverished circumstances in Saumur. He died on 19 June 1993.
Patrick Besson is a French writer and journalist.
Vénus Khoury-Ghata is a French-Lebanese writer. In 1959, she was Miss Beirut. She married French researcher Jean Ghata. She collaborated on Europe magazine, directed by Louis Aragon, translating it into Arabic with other poets. She has lived in Paris since 1972 and has published several novels and collections of poems.
Anne Cuneo was a Swiss journalist, novelist, theatre and film director and screenwriter.
Catherine Clément is a French philosopher, novelist, feminist, and literary critic, born in Boulogne-Billancourt. She received a degree in philosophy from the prestigious École Normale Supérieure, and studied under such luminaries as Claude Lévi-Strauss and Jacques Lacan, working in the fields of anthropology and psychoanalysis. A member of the school of French feminism and écriture féminine, she has published books with Hélène Cixous and Julia Kristeva.
Jacques Izoard was a Belgian poet and essayist. He was born Jacques Delmotte at Liège.
Marc Alyn, is a French poet.
Georges Pillement was a French writer, translator and photographer. He was born in Mayet in the Loire region. He won the Prix des Deux Magots for his novel Plaisir d'amour in 1937.
Laurence de Cambronne is a French journalist, novelist and humanitarian.
Francine Saillant is a Canadian anthropologist and intellectual.
Joseph de La Porte, was an 18th-century French priest, literary critic, poet and playwright.
Anne Plantagenet (1972, Joigny is a French novelist and translator from Spanish.
Pierre Bourgeade was a French man of letters, playwright, poet, writer, director, journalist, literary critic and photographer. A descendant of Jean Racine, he was also the brother-in-law of the writer Paule Constant.
Gilles Pudlowski is a French journalist, writer, literary and gastronomic critic. He writes the blog les Pieds dans le Plat, writes for Saveurs, Cuisine et Vins de France and Les Dernières Nouvelles d'Alsace. He is also the author of the Pudlo guides.
Frédéric Jacques Temple is a French poet and writer.
Jean Giono was a French author who wrote works of fiction mostly set in Manosque in the Provence region of France.
Sébastien Balibar is a French physicist and a member of the Académie des Sciences.
Gérard Gefen was a French musicologist and writer. He was also a journalist and music critic, translator, radio and classical record producer.
Angela Behelle, is the pen name of Sylvie Barret, a French Francophone novelist.
