Fernando Arrabal Terán is a Spanish playwright, screenwriter, film director, novelist, and poet. He was born in Melilla and settled in France in 1955. Regarding his nationality, Arrabal describes himself as "desterrado", or "half-expatriate, half-exiled".
Marie-José Benhalassa, known professionally as Marie-José Nat, was a French actress. Among her notable works in cinema were the sequel films Anatomy of a Marriage: My Days with Jean-Marc and Anatomy of a Marriage: My Days with Françoise (1963), directed by André Cayatte. In 1974, she received a Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress for her performance in the film Violins at the Ball.
Jean Duvignaud was a French novelist, sociologist and anthropologist. He was born in La Rochelle, Charente-Maritime, on February 22, 1921.
Laurent Gaudé is a French writer.
Marcel Moreau was a Belgian writer. He was born in Boussu, a town in the mining region of Borinage in Hainaut Province, into a working-class environment. He described it as "a pure cultural void" with "a total absence of any cultural reference point". He lost his father at the age of 15, and abandoned his studies a short time later. He worked in various trades before becoming an accountant's assistant in Brussels for the newspaper Le Peuple. In 1955 he became a proof-reader for the daily Le Soir.
Sébastien Lapaque is a French writer.
Gérard de Cortanze is a French writer, essayist, translator and literary critic. He won the Prix Renaudot in 2002 for his historical novel Assam. He was made a chevalier of the Legion of Honor in 2009.
Lyonel Trouillot is a novelist and poet in French and Haitian Creole, a journalist and a professor of French and Creole literature in Port-au-Prince.
Barthélemy Imbert was an 18th-century French playwright, poet and novelist.
Marie-Dominique Lelièvre is a French writer and journalist.
Jean-Pierre Milovanoff is a French writer, laureate of several literary prizes
Christian Gailly was a French writer.
Hélène Frappat is a French writer, translator and critic of cinema.
Dominique Sigaud is a French journalist, essayist and novelist.
Raphaël Jerusalmy is a French writer.
Frédéric Jacques Temple was a French poet and writer. His work includes poems, novels, travel stories and essays.
Timothée Picard is a French academic and music critic.
Jean-Yves Clément is a French essayist, poet and organizer of festivals.
Régine Detambel is a French writer. She was born in 1963. She published her first book in 1990, and has written prolifically ever since. Her works have been published primarily by Julliard, Le Seuil and Gallimard. She has won the Prix Anna de Noailles, the Alain Fournier Prize, and the Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres.
The Martyrdom of Saint Maurice and his Comrades is an illuminated manuscript commissioned as a diplomatic gift to Giovanni Cossa by the Venetian general Jacopo Antonio Marcello (1399–1464). The smallest miniatures are attributed to an unknown Lombard artist in the International Gothic style and the larger ones to Jacopo Bellini or Giovanni Bellini. It passed through several owners before in 1785 being acquired by the collection now known as the Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal in Paris.
