* October 23 – Théophile Gautier, French writer ( b. 1811 )

* August 31 – Théophile Gautier, French writer ( d. 1872 )

In Peter Whiffle by Carl Van Vechten, the main character Peter Whiffle cites Gautier as a great influence and writer, among others.

His friend, the writer Théophile Gautier, became chairman, with the painter Aimé Millet acting as deputy chairman.

* No. 8 poet Théophile Gautier and writer Alphonse Daudet

Théophile Gautier questioned how it could be that, " an author without poetry, lyricism, style, philosophy, truth or naturalism could be the most successful writer of his epoch, despite the opposition of literature and the critics?

* Théophile Gautier ( 1811 – 1872 ), writer

In 1867, he asked Théophile Gautier for the hand of his daughter Estelle, but Gautier — who had turned his back on the Bohemian world of his youth and would not let his child marry a writer with few prospects — turned him down.

François Gautier, born 1959 in Paris, is a writer and journalist based in India.

* 1715 – Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues, French writer ( d. 1747 )

* Zapata: El sueño de un héroe ( 2004 ) director, writer

* Chido Guan, el tacos de oro ( 1986 ) director, writer

* 1579 – Luis Vélez de Guevara, Spanish writer ( d. 1644 )

* 1645 – Jean de La Bruyère, French writer ( d. 1696 )

* 1900 – Gontran de Poncins, French writer and adventurer ( d. 1962 )

This episode was taken up by the modern Turkish writer Nedim Gürsel and made into the setting of his 2001 novel Le voyage de Candide à Istanbul.

* Donatien Alphonse Francois de Sade, French aristocrat, revolutionary politician, philosopher, and writer famous for his libertine sexuality and lifestyle.

* 1986 – Simone de Beauvoir, French writer ( b. 1908 )

* According to culinary writer Giuliano Bugialli, the term comes from the Italian bagno maria, named after Maria de ' Cleofa, who developed the technique in Florence in the sixteenth century.

The tragic tale of the Mexican colony on Clipperton Island has been the subject of several novels, including Ivo Mansmann's Clipperton, Schicksale auf einer vergessenen Insel (" Clipperton, Destinies on a Forgotten Island "); ISBN 3-354-00709-5 ( in German, no English translation available ) and Colombian writer Laura Restrepo's La Isla de la Pasión in the Spanish language.

The traveling Dominican clergyman and writer Bartolomé de las Casas estimated that the neo-Taino population of Cuba had reached 350, 000 by the end of the 15th century.

The first influential writer to propose such an idea explicitly was Julien Offray de La Mettrie, in his book Man a Machine ( L ' homme machine ).

Charles Farrar Browne ( April 26, 1834 – March 6, 1867 ) was a United States humor writer, better known under his nom de plume, Artemus Ward.

Diderot had affairs with the writer Madeleine de Puisieux and with Sophie Volland ( 1716-1784 ).

* 1716 – Louis-Jules Mancini-Mazarini, Duc de Nivernais, French diplomat and writer ( d. 1798 )

* António José da Silva – writer of Vida do Grande Dom Quixote de la Mancha e do Gordo Sancho Pança ( 1733 )

* 1814 – Marquis de Sade, French writer ( b. 1740 )

Édouard Alexandre de Pomiane, sometimes Édouard Pozerski ( 20 April 1875 – 26 January 1964 ) was a French scientist, radio broadcaster and food writer.

The evidence is found in two early maps, one made by the Portuguese cartographer Pedro Reinel in about 1522, the very first map to show the Falklands, the other a French copy of a Portuguese map bought in Lisbon by André Thévet ( 1516-1590 ), a Franciscan friar and prolific writer on many subjects ; this copy is now in the manuscript of a large unpublished work by Thevet in the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris.

* 1692 – Pierre-Claude Nivelle de La Chaussée, French writer ( d. 1754 )

* 1722 – Tiphaigne de la Roche, French writer ( d. 1774 )

* 1534 – Giovanni de ' Bardi, Italian writer ( d. 1612 )

* 1533 – Michel de Montaigne, French writer ( d. 1592 )

* December 14 or 21 – Michel de Nostredame, called Nostradamus, French physician and writer of Les Propheties ( 1555 ) ( d. 1566 )

Les Brown, a writer for Variety, saw in Sesame Street " a hope for a more substantial future " for television.

The first recorded modern usage of the term can be traced to a 1699 book entitled Les Aventures de Telemaque, by the French writer François Fénelon In the book the lead character is that of Mentor.

As described by Barcan, this period saw the emergence of mainstream talents like poets Les Murray and Geoffrey Lehmann, journalists David Solomon, Mungo MacCallum ( Jnr ) and Laurie Oakes, Oz magazine satirists Richard Neville, Richard Walsh and Martin Sharp, and maverick writer Bob Ellis.

The 120 Days of Sodom, or the School of Libertinism ( Les 120 journées de Sodome or l ' école du libertinage ) is a novel by the French writer and nobleman Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade, written in 1785.

With Emil Szittya, an anarchist writer, he started the journal Les hommes nouveaux, also the name of the press where he published Les Pâques à New York and Séquences.

His first published writings appeared in 1905 and attracted the attention of Valery Bryusov, who invited him to contribute to his influential literary magazine Vesy ( The Balance ), the center of the Symbolist movement, where in 1906 he published his verse cycle " Alexandrian Songs " ( modeled on Les Chansons de Bilitis, by Pierre Louÿs ) and the first Russian novel with a homosexual theme, Wings, which instantly achieved notoriety and made him a widely popular writer.

* Les Charles, writer and producer for Cheers

These included a full week of stories by an American writer, ( Edgar Allan Poe in 1975, Mark Twain in 1976 ); week-long adaptations of classic novels ( The Last Days of Pompeii in 1980, Les Miserables in 1982 ); and original dramas about historical figures ( Nefertiti in 1979, Alexander the Great in 1981 ).

Les Éditions de Minuit was founded by writer and illustrator Jean Bruller and writer Pierre de Lescure ( 1891-1963 ) in 1941 in Paris, during the German occupation of northern France ( by November 1942, German forces occupied all of France ).

Les Rougon-Macquart is the collective title given to a cycle of twenty novels by French writer Émile Zola.

An account of Cem's captivity — and of the political machinations that kept him captive — forms the basis of the historical novel, Francesca: Les Jeux du Sort ( 1872 ), written by the Haitian writer and political exile, Demesvar Delorme.

Literary influences include Lautreamont's Les Chants de Maldoror, the Bible, The Poetic Eddas, Hildegard von Bingen, John Dee, Heptarchia Mystica, The Thunder, Perfect Mind, William Blake, Louis Wain, writer Thomas Ligotti, occult British author Arthur Machen ( originator of the title " The Inmost Light "), M. R.

* Jacques Cazotte, who had started as a writer of Fairy Tales, such as La Patte du Chat (" Cat's Paw "; 1741 ) and Les Mille et Une Fadaises (" A Thousand and One Silly Stories "; 1742 ), soon tired of it and ended up writing darker tales.

Véronneau, together with writer Christiane Desjardins, wrote Lynda Véronneau: Dans L ' Ombre de Karla, published in 2005 by Les Éditions Voix Parallèles.

Les amitiés particulières is a 1943 novel by French writer Roger Peyrefitte, probably his best known work today, which won the coveted prix Renaudot.

He became the main story writer for Dupuis, with major series like Sammy with Berck, Les Tuniques Bleues with Lambil, and later Cédric with Laudec and Agent 212 with Daniel Kox, among many others.

François-Vincent Toussaint ( 21 December 1715-22 June 1772 ) was a French writer most famous for Les Mœurs ( The Manners ).

Jean Marcel Bruller ( 26 February 1902 – 10 June 1991 ) was a French writer and illustrator who co-founded Les Éditions de Minuit with Pierre de Lescure and Yvonne Paraf.

Wirtz and Hannaman divorced in 1969, at which time Wirtz teamed up with poetry writer Maria Feltham to record Wirtz's concept album, Philwit and Pegasus, for composer Les Reed's Chapter One label.

In 1979, signed by Russ Regan to Interworld Music / CBS Records as writer and producer, Wirtz returned to the studio to produce his third solo album, Lost Pets, sequentially joined by ace guitarists Richard Bennett and John Beland, keyboard players Alan Lindgren and Tom Hensley, drummers Billy Thomas and Denny Seiwell, and bassists David Hungate and Les Hurdle.

She is the only female writer included in the famous Les poètes maudits anthology published by Paul Verlaine in 1884.