List of French playwrights
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This is an incomplete list of playwrights from France in chronological order, according to date of birth.
- Pierre Corneille (1606-1684)
- Cyrano de Bergerac (1619-1655)
- Molière (1622-1673)
- Jean Racine (1639-1699)
- Pierre de Marivaux (1688-1763)
- Abbé Leonor-Jean-Christine Soulas d'Allainval (1700-1753)
- Pierre Beaumarchais (1732-1799)
- Olympe de Gouges (1748-1793)
- Étienne Aignan (1773-1824)
- Victor Hugo (1802-1885)
- Alexandre Dumas, père (1802-1870)
- Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880)
- Alexandre Dumas, fils (1824-1895)
- Georges Courteline (1858-1929)
- Georges Feydeau (1862-1921)
- Albert Guinon (1863-1923)
- Edmond Rostand (1868-1918)
- Alfred Jarry (1873-1907)
- Jean Giraudoux (1882-1944)
- Sacha Guitry (1885-1957)
- Jean Cocteau (1889-1963)
- Louis Verneuil (1893-1952)
- Antonin Artaud (1896-1948)
- Marcel Achard (1899-1974)
- Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
- Eugène Ionesco (1909-1994)
- Jean Anouilh (1910-1987)
- Jean Genet (1910-1986)