| SARDOU | Victorien, French author of the play La Tosca (6) |
| JEAN | French author whose best-known works are the 1929 novel Les Enfants terribles and the 1934 play La Machine infernale (4,7) |
| COCTEAU | French author whose best-known works are the 1929 novel Les Enfants terribles and the 1934 play La Machine infernale (4,7) |
| VERDI | Giuseppe -; composer who based his opera La Traviata on Alexandre Dumas fils's novel and play La Dame aux Camelias (5) |
| FEDORA | 1882 play by French author Victorien Sardou that gives its name to a type of hat (6) |
| VICTOR | French author of the 1831 novel The Hunchback Of Notre Dame, _ Hugo (6) |
| MARCEL | And 15 French author of the novel A la recherche du temps perdu (6,6) |
| PROUST | Marcel, French author of the novel A la recherche du temps perdu (6) |
| BOULLE | Pierre, French author of The Bridge Over The River Kwai (6) |
| BALZAC | French author of the novel series La Comedie Humaine |
| SARTRE | French writer of the 1939 book of shor t stories Le Mur (6) |
| DUMAS | Alexandre - pere; French author of The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers whose son wrote The Lady of the Camellias (5) |
| MARCELPROUST | French author of the novel A la recherche du temps perdu (6,6) |
| GIRAUDOUX | Jean, French author of the play The Madwoman of Chaillot (9) |
| LATOSCA | Play of 1887 by Victorien Sardou upon which Puccini's almostexactly-the-samenamed opera of 1900 is based: 2 wds. |
| ERTES | The sculptures "Rigoletto" and "La Tosca," e.g. |
| ALBERTCAMUS | French author of The Stranger, The Plague and The Fall |
| VERNE | French author of the novel Around the World in Eighty Days (5,5) |
| PERRAULT | Charles ___, French author of the fairy tales Cinderella and The Sleeping Beauty (8) |
| STENDHAL | French author of The Charterhouse of Parma (8) |
