Jean Edmond Cyrus Rostand was a French biologist and philosopher.
Joseph Méry was a French writer, journalist, novelist, poet, playwright and librettist.
Louis Bertrand was a French novelist, historian and essayist. He was the third member elected to occupy seat 4 of the Académie française in 1925.
Francis Jammes was a French & Europeanpoet. He spent most of his life in his native region of Béarn and the Basque Country and his poems are known for their lyricism and for singing the pleasures of a humble country life. His later poetry remained lyrical, but also included a strong religious element brought on by his (re)conversion to Catholicism in 1905.
Pierre-Eugène Veber was a French playwright and writer.
Claude Delvincourt was a French pianist and composer of classical music.
Armand Camille Salacrou was a French dramatist.
Francis de Miomandre was a French novelist and well-known translator from Spanish into French.
Émile Drain (1890–1966) was a French actor and comedian.
Léonce-Henri Burel was a French cinematographer whose career extended from the silent era until the early 1970s. He was the director of photography on more than 120 films, working almost exclusively in black-and-white.
François Porché was a French dramatist, poet and literary critic. The French Academy awarded him the Grand Prix de Literature in 1923. Les Butors et la Finette, a "symbolical and allegorical drama" premiered in 1917, Sam Abramovitch in 1927 and Un roi, deux dames et un valet in 1934. He published a war poem L' Arret sur la Marne in 1916 and a poetry collection called Charles Baudelaire in memory of the poet.
Amédée Ferdinand René Pujol was a French screenwriter, film director, and librettist.
The Théâtre Fémina or Salle Fémina was an entertainment venue located at 90 avenue des Champs-Élysées in the 8th arrondissement of Paris. It was inside the Hôtel Fémina, designed by the architect Henri Petit.
Pierre Zaccone was a popular 19th-century French novelist.
Paul Henry de Kock, better known as Henry de Kock, was a 19th-century French playwright, novelist, and chansonnier, famous for his salacious novels.
Maurice Gaudefroy-Demombynes was a French Arabist, a specialist in Islam and the history of religions.
The prix Broquette-Gonin was a former prize awarded by the Académie française.
Charles Derennes was a French novelist, essayist and poet, the winner of the Prix Femina in 1924.
Raymond Escholier, real name Raymond-Antoine-Marie-Emmanuel Escolier, was a French journalist, novelist and art critic. He was curator of the Maison de Victor Hugo and of the Petit Palais.
Clément Vautel, pen name of Clément-Henri Vaulet was a journalist, novelist and playwright of Belgian origin, naturalized French (1897).
