| DORE | Paul Gustave ?, 19th-century French illustrator of works by Rabelais |
| FLAUBERT | Gustave - - -, 19th Century French writer best known for his first published novel, Madame Bovary (8) |
| GARGANTUA | Giant in 16th-century work by Rabelais (9) |
| BRAILLE | Louis ?, 19th-century French inventor of a system of raised writing for the blind (7) |
| VERLAINE | Paul ?, 19th-century French poet whose volumes include Poemes saturniens |
| FEUILLET | Octave ?, 19th-century French author of novels Dalila and La Petite Comtesse |
| MALLARME | Stephane ?, 19th-century French poet whose works include L'Apres-midi d'un faune |
| DELESSEPS | Ferdinand ?, 19th-century French diplomat and developer of the Suez Canal |
| CHARPENTIER | Gustave ?, French composer of 1900 opera Louise (11) |
| PANTAGRUEL | 'The Life of Gargantua and --', satire by Rabelais (10) |
| FOUCAULT | Leon ?, 19th-century French physicist credited with naming the gyroscope (8) |
| RAYNAUD | Maurice ?, 19th-century French physician after whom a condition affecting blood supply is named (7) |
| RIMBAUD | Arthur ?, 19th-century French poet whose volumes include A Season in Hell |
| PASTEUR | Louis ?, 19th-century French chemist and microbiologist who created vaccines for rabies and anthrax |
| BLONDIN | Charles ?, 19th-century French acrobat born Jean-Francois Gravelet |
| DEPLORE | Sorrow over English place captured by French illustrator |
| EIFFEL | Gustave ?, French civil engineer after whom a tower in Paris is named (6) |
| COURBET | Gustave ?, painter whose works include 1866's Woman with a Parrot |
| GARGANTUAN | Adjective meaning 'enormous' based on a giant king created by Rabelais (10) |
| AERODROME | French illustrator turning up in a city's airport |
