* 1671 – Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, French poet ( d. 1741 )

* 1902 – Julien Torma, French writer, playwright and poet ( d. 1933 )

* 1868 – Paul Claudel, French poet ( d. 1955 )

* 1860 – Jules Laforgue, French poet ( d. 1887 )

Alain de Lille ( or Alanus ab Insulis ) ( c. 1116 / 1117 – 1202 / 1203 ), French theologian and poet, was born in Lille, some years before 1128.

Ambroise ( flourished c. 1190 ) was a Norman poet and chronicler of the Third Crusade, author of a work called L ' Estoire de la guerre sainte, which describes in rhyming Old French verse the adventures of Richard Coeur de Lion as a crusader.

* 1951 – Christian Bobin, French author and poet

French poet Paul Verlaine's " Chanson d ' automne " (" Autumn Song ") is likewise characterised by strong, painful feelings of sorrow.

As a poet, Smith is grouped with the West Coast Romantics ( alongside Ambrose Bierce, Joaquin Miller, Sterling, Nora May French, and others ) and remembered as ' The Last of the Great Romantics ' and ' The Bard of Auburn '.

* 1971 – Seyhan Kurt, French / Turkish poet, writer

* 1918 – Edmond Rostand, French poet and dramatist ( b. 1868 )

* 1716 – Jean François de Saint-Lambert, French poet ( d. 1803 )

* 1810 – Alfred de Musset, French poet ( d. 1857 )

Le Ton beau de Marot: In Praise of the Music of Language is a long book devoted to language and translation, especially poetry translation, and one of its leitmotifs is a set of some 88 translations of " Ma Mignonne ", a highly constrained poem by 16th-century French poet Clément Marot.

* 1895 – Paul Eluard, French poet ( d. 1952 )

* 1883 – Victor de Laprade, French poet and critic ( b. 1812 )

The initial 15th edition ( 1974 – 1985 ) was faulted for having reduced or eliminated coverage of children's literature, military decorations, and the French poet Joachim du Bellay ; editorial mistakes were also alleged, such as inconsistent sorting of Japanese biographies.

* 1896 – André Breton, French poet ( d. 1966 )

* 1597 – Vincent Voiture, French poet ( d. 1648 )

* 1903 – Raymond Queneau, French poet and novelist ( d. 1976 )

* 1753 – Évariste de Parny, French poet ( d. 1814 )

* 1764 – Marie-Joseph de Chénier, French poet ( d. 1811 )

* 1803 – Jean François de Saint-Lambert, French poet ( b. 1716 )

German artists and intellectuals, heavily influenced by the French Revolution and by the great German poet and writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832 ), turned to Romanticism after a period of Enlightenment.

* 1842 – François Coppée, French poet and novelist ( d. 1908 )

* 1828 – Edmond François Valentin About, French writer ( d. 1885 )

* 1812 – Edmond Hébert, French geologist ( d. 1890 )

* 1763 – Edmond Charles Genêt, French diplomat ( d. 1834 )

* 1865 – Winnaretta Singer, Princesse Edmond de Polignac, an American patron of French music, and of the arts, sciences, and letters ( d. 1943 )

* 1865 – Edmond François Valentin About, French writer ( b. 1828 )

* 1822 – Edmond de Goncourt, French writer ( d. 1896 )

In 1841, Edmond Albius, a 12-year-old slave who lived on the French island of Réunion in the Indian Ocean, discovered the plant could be hand-pollinated.

* December 2 – Edmond Rostand, French writer ( b. 1868 )

* July 16 – Edmond de Goncourt, French writer and co-founder of the Académie Goncourt ( b. 1822 )

* November 2 – Edmond James de Rothschild, French philanthropist ( b. 1845 )

* May 26 – Edmond de Goncourt, French writer ( d. 1896 )

* August 19 – Edmond James de Rothschild, French philanthropist ( d. 1934 )

* July 14 – Edmond Charles Genêt, French ambassador to the United States during the French Revolution ( b. 1763 )

* January 8 – Edmond Charles Genêt, French ambassador to the United States during the French Revolution ( d. 1834 )

In December 1859, Le Verrier received a letter from a French physician and amateur astronomer called Edmond Modeste Lescarbault, who claimed to have seen a transit of the hypothetical planet earlier in the year.

Edmond Eugène Alexis Rostand (; 1 April 1868 – 2 December 1918 ) was a French poet and dramatist.

In 1897, the French poet Edmond Rostand published a play, Cyrano de Bergerac, on the subject of Cyrano's life.

He reprised the role of Cyrano onstage at the New York City Center under his own direction in 1953, as well as in two films: the 1950 film of Edmond Rostand's play directed by Michael Gordon and the 1964 French film Cyrano et d ' Artagnan directed by Abel Gance.

The French dramatist Edmond Rostand took the legend of Rudel and Hodierna as the basis for his 1895 verse drama La Princesse lointaine, but reassigned the female lead from Hodierna to her jilted daughter Melisende, played by Sarah Bernhardt.

Edmond de Goncourt ( May 26, 1822 – July 16, 1896 ), born Edmond Louis Antoine Huot de Goncourt, was a French writer, literary critic, art critic, book publisher and the founder of the Académie Goncourt.

Cyrano de Bergerac, who is the subject of the classic French play Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand, participated in a siege of Arras in 1640, and not the battle of 1654.