Jean Roudaut (born 1 June 1929) is a French writer and professor of French literature who taught in the universities of Thessaloniki, Pisa, and Fribourg. He was born in Morlaix on 1 June 1929.
Count Jean Bruno Wladimir François-de-Paule Lefèvre d'Ormesson was a French writer and novelist. He authored forty books, was the director of Le Figaro from 1974 to 1977, as well as the dean of the Académie Française, to which he was elected in 1973, until his death, in addition to his service as president of the International Council for Philosophy and Humanistic Studies within UNESCO (1992–1997).
Michel Butor was a French poet, novelist, teacher, essayist, art critic and translator.
Jean-Denis Bredin was a French attorney and founding partner of the firm Bredin Prat. He was widely admired as an author-commentator, both for his novels and for his non-fiction works, with a particular focus on recent and contemporary history. On 15 June 1989, he was elected to membership of the Académie Française, becoming the twentieth occupant of seat 3, which had been vacated through the death of Marguerite Yourcenar. His daughter, Frédérique Bredin, served between 2013 and 2019 as President of the French National Center of Cinematography and the moving image.
Marc Fumaroli was a French historian and essayist who was widely respected as an advocate for French literature and culture. While born in Marseille, Fumaroli grew up in the Moroccan city of Fez, and served in the French army during the Algerian War.
Michel Mohrt was an editor, essayist, novelist and historian of French literature.
Marie Delcourt was a Belgian classical philologist. She studied at the University of Liège (ULg), and obtained a PhD in classical philology in 1919. Under the German occupation of Belgium during World War I she was active in the Dame Blanche resistance network. She was the first female part-time lecturer at the ULg.
Jean Tordeur was a Belgian writer writing in French. He was the cultural critic of the daily newspaper Le Soir (Brussels). Tordeur was a member of the Académie royale de langue et de littérature françaises de Belgique.
Michel Droit was a French novelist and journalist. He was the father of the photographer Éric Droit (1954–2007).
José Cabanis was a French novelist, essayist, historian and magistrate. He was elected mainteneur of the Académie des Jeux floraux in 1965 and a member of the Académie française in 1990.
Théophile de Bordeu was a French physician.
Geneviève Hasenohr is a French philologist and prolific scholar of medieval and Renaissance French literature. She has authored or contributed to more than forty books, written at least fifty academic articles and reviews, and prepared numerous scholarly editions.
Denise Desautels is a québécoise poet and writer.
Étienne-Gabriel Peignot was a 19th-century French bibliographer.
Isabelle Jarry is a French writer and essayist.
Jean-Loup Trassard is a French writer and photographer.
Thierry Laget is a French novelist, essayist, literary critic and translator.
François Bott was a French author who after a long career as a journalist and literary critic became a writer of novels, one of which, Une minute d’absence (2001), won the Académie Française's Prix de la Nouvelle. He continued as a literary critic, writing essays focused on other writers, especially Roger Vailland.
Michel Orcel is a contemporary French writer, publisher and psychoanalyst.
Michel Zink is a French writer, medievalist, philologist, and professor of French literature, particularly that of the Middle Ages. He is the Permanent Secretary of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, a title he has held since 2011, and was elected to the Académie française in 2017. In addition to his academic work, he has also written historical crime novels, one of which continues the story of Arsène Lupin.
The Prix Bordin is a series of prizes awarded annually by each of the five institutions making up the Institut Français since 1835.