The term android was used in a more modern sense by the French author Auguste Villiers de l ' Isle-Adam in his work Tomorrow's Eve ( 1886 ).

Émile Zola was a prominent French author of the 19th century.

* 1977 – Damien Saez, French singer-songwriter and author

* 1926 – René Goscinny, French comic-strip author ( d. 1977 )

* 1925 – Laurent de Brunhoff, French author and illustrator

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.

French author Louis Charpentier claimed that the Ark was taken to Chartres Cathedral by the Knights Templar.

* 1961 – David Servan-Schreiber, French physician, neuroscientist, and author ( d. 2011 )

* 1951 – Christian Bobin, French author and poet

* 1947 – Michèle Torr, French singer and author

* 2003 – Cecile de Brunhoff, French author ( b. 1903 )

* French author Jacques Lusseyran, who was visually impaired at the age of 7 when he injured his eyes on the sharp corner of a teacher's desk, became part of the French resistance during World War II.

** based on the novel of the same name by French author Victor Hugo.

The Claudine books are a series of four early novels by the French author Colette published from 1900-1904.

Caligula, by French author Albert Camus, is a play in which Caligula returns after deserting the palace for three days and three nights following the death of his beloved sister, Drusilla.

Piron is the author of a book in French, Le bonheur clés en main ( The Keys to Happiness ), which distinguishes among pleasure, happiness and joy.

* 1899 – Jean de Brunhoff, French author ( d. 1937 )

* 1956 – Jean-Pierre Thiollet, French author

This statement was likely picked up by the author of the Estoire Merlin, or Vulgate Merlin, where the author ( who was fond of fanciful folk etymologies ) asserts that Escalibor " is a Hebrew name which means in French ' cuts iron, steel, and wood '" (" c ' est non Ebrieu qui dist en franchois trenche fer & achier et fust "; note that the word for " steel " here, achier, also means " blade " or " sword " and comes from medieval Latin aciarium, a derivative of acies " sharp ", so there is no direct connection with Latin chalybs in this etymology ).

According to Louis Diat, the creator of vichyssoise and the author of the classic Gourmet's Basic French Cookbook: " There is a story that explains why the most important basic brown sauce in French cuisine is called sauce espagnole, or Spanish sauce.

As author of works such as Cvisinier françois, he is credited with publishing the first true French cookbook.

* 1864 – Jules Renard, French author ( d. 1910 )

The Renaissance writer François Rabelais ( b. 1494 ) helped to shape French as a literary language, Rabelais ' French is characterised by the re-introduction of Greek and Latin words.

Colonna's work was a great influence on the Franciscan monk François Rabelais, who in the 16th century, used Thélème, the French form of the word, as the name of a fictional Abbey in his novels, Gargantua and Pantagruel.

François Rabelais gives tarau as the name of one of the games played by Gargantua in his Gargantua and Pantagruel ; this is likely the earliest attestation of the French form of the name.

The 16th century French satirical writer François Rabelais, in Chapter XIII of Book 1 of his novel-sequence Gargantua and Pantagruel, has his character Gargantua investigate a great number of ways of cleansing oneself after defecating.

* April 9 – François Rabelais, French writer

* April 9 – François Rabelais, French Renaissance writer ( d. 1553 )

Impressed by Proudhon's corrections of one of his Latin manuscripts, Fallot sought out his friendship, and the two were soon regularly spending their evenings together discussing French literature by Montaigne, Rabelais, Rousseau, Voltaire, Diderot, and many other authors to whom Proudhon had not been exposed during his years of theological readings.

French satirist François Rabelais wrote in Gargantua and Pantagruel that a swan's neck was the best toilet paper he had encountered.

* François Rabelais, ( c. 1493-1553 ), was a major French Renaissance writer, doctor and humanist

François Rabelais (; c. 1494 – 9 April 1553 ) was a major French Renaissance writer, doctor, Renaissance humanist, monk and Greek scholar.

However, after the king's death, Rabelais was frowned upon by the academic elite, and the French Parliament suspended the sale of his fourth book.

Rabelais is arguably one of the authors who has enriched the French language in the most significant way.

* In Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio's 2008 Nobel Prize lecture, Le Clézio referred to Rabelais as ".... the greatest writer in the French language ".

* Rabelais et la Renaissance, sur le Portail de la Renaissance française ( French )

* François Rabelais Museum on the Internet ( French )

* Henry Émile Chevalier, Rabelais and his editors, 1868 ( French ).

* Laurent Gerbier, " Un chien sans maître " ( A Dog Without His Master ), Lucien Febvre and the Athism of Rabelais ( French )

* Nasier. net, Liste de discussion Rabelais, / A French website about Rabelais

The catholicity of his literary appreciation, was soon displayed by the works which proceeded from his press: ancient and modern, sacred and secular, from the New Testament in Latin to Rabelais in French.

The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel ( in French, La vie de Gargantua et de Pantagruel ) is a connected series of five novels written in the 16th century by François Rabelais.

According to Rabelais, the philosophy of his giant Pantagruel, " Pantagruelism ", is rooted in " a certain gaiety of mind pickled in the scorn of fortuitous things " ( French: " une certaine gaîté d ' esprit confite dans le mépris des choses fortuites ").