| DUHAMEL | Georges ___, French author of 1918 novel Civilisation (7) |
| OHNET | Georges ___, French author of 1881 novel Serge Panine (5) |
| MERIMEE | Prosper ___, French author of 1845 novel Carmen (7) |
| ANOUILH | Jean ___, French author of the stage plays Antigone and Becket (7) |
| BOURGET | Paul ___, French author of novels The Disciple and Cosmopolis (7) |
| COCTEAU | Jean ___, French writer of Les Enfants Terribles (7) |
| TARKINGTON | Booth ___, author of 1918 novel The Magnificent Ambersons (10) |
| FEYDEAU | Georges ___, French dramatist whose farces include La Dame de chez Maxim (7) |
| ROUAULT | Georges ___, French painter whose works include 1891 oil The Way to Calvary (7) |
| VERNE | Jules ___, French author of 1873 novel Around the World in Eighty Days (5) |
| LOTI | Pierre ___ (French author of 1886 novel An Iceland Fisherman) |
| HUGO | Victor _: French author of 'The Hunchback of Notre Dame'? |
| FLAUBERT | Gustave ___, French author of the 1857 novel Madame Bovary (8) |
| GIDE | Andre __, French author of one of the essays in The God that Failed (4) |
| BARBUSSE | Henri ___, French author of works including the Prix Goncourt-winning wartime novel Le Feu (Under Fire, 1916) (8) |
| ZOLA | Emile ___, French author of the novels Germinal and Therese Raquin (4) |
| PERRAULT | Charles ___, French author of fairy tales Cinderella and The Sleeping Beauty (8) |
| STAEL | Madame de ___; French author of Delphine, Corinne and De l'Allemagne (5) |
| PROUST | Marcel _, French author of A La Recherche Du Temps Perdu (6) |
| BALZAC | Honore de ___, French author of La Comedie humaine |