| DUMAS | Alexandre ___ (1802 - 70), French author who wrote The Three Musketeers (5) |
| BOUCHER | Francois --, 1703-70, French painter and decorative artist (7) |
| ALEXANDREDUMAS | French novelist who wrote The Three Musketeers: 2 wds. |
| DUMASPERE | How the author of The Count of Monte Cristo (1802-70) is also known |
| ALEXANDRE | _ Dumas (1802-70) |
| VERNE | French author who wrote the Voyages Extraordinaires books including Around the World in Eighty DaysA (5) |
| SAGAN | Francoise ___ (1935-2004), French author who wrote Bonjour Tristesse (1954) (5) |
| ROYER | Alphonse, French author who co-wrote the libretto for Donizetti's La favorite (5) |
| CAMUS | Albert ___ (1913 - 60), French author who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1957 (5) |
| EMILE | ***** Zola, French writer who came to army captain Alfred Dreyfus' defence (5) |
| JULES | French writer who pioneered the science-fiction genre, ... Verne |
| GIDE | Andre -; Nobel Prize-winning French author who wrote The Immoralist and The Counterfeiters (4) |
| LEROUX | Gaston _, French author who wrote 1910 novel The Phantom Of The Opera (6) |
| HUGO | Victor _, French author who wrote the 1831 novel The Hunchback Of NotreDame (4) |
| MATTHEWCONDON | Who wrote the three-part biography of the former disgraced Queensland Police Commissioner Terry Lewis, Three Crooked Kings (2013) |
| STAEL | Author of 1802 novel Delphine, Madame de ___ (b.1766 - d.1817) |
| ZOLA | Emile ___;A French author who wrote the Rougon-Macquart cycle of 20 novels (4) |
| RABELAIS | Francois -; French author who wrote the stories about giants Gargantua and Pantagruel (8) |
| MERIMEE | French author who wrote "Carmen," on which the opera is based |
| PROUST | French author who wrote the seven-volume novel In Search Of Lost Time, Marcel _ (6) |