| OHNET | Georges ___, French author of 1881 novel Serge Panine (5) |
| DUHAMEL | Georges ___, French author of 1918 novel Civilisation (7) |
| TWAIN | Mark ___, US author of 1881 novel The Prince and the Pauper (5) |
| SPYRI | Johanna ___, Swiss author of 1881 children's book Heidi (5) |
| JAMES | Henry -; author of The Wings of the Dove whose 1881 novel The Portrait of a Lady was adapted to screen by Jane Campion (5) |
| VERNE | Jules ___, French author of 1873 novel Around the World in Eighty Days (5) |
| BIZET | Georges ___, French composer of the operas Carmen and Djamileh (5) |
| AURIC | Georges ___, French composer of 1925 ballet Les Matelots (5) |
| STAEL | Madame de ___; French author of Delphine, Corinne and De l'Allemagne (5) |
| MANET | Legion of Honor recipient of 1881 |
| HEIDI | Orphan in an 1881 novel by Johanna Spyri (5) |
| SOREL | Georges ___, French philosopher (5) |
| ABRAM | White House middle name of 1881 |
| MERIMEE | Prosper ___, French author of 1845 novel Carmen (7) |
| LOTI | Pierre ___ (French author of 1886 novel An Iceland Fisherman) |
| GIDE | Andre __, French author of one of the essays in The God that Failed (4) |
| FLAUBERT | Gustave ___, French author of the 1857 novel Madame Bovary (8) |
| HUGO | Victor _: French author of 'The Hunchback of Notre Dame'? |
| BRAQUE | Georges ___, French artist who contributed to the development of Cubism (6) |
| BARBUSSE | Henri ___, French author of works including the Prix Goncourt-winning wartime novel Le Feu (Under Fire, 1916) (8) |
