Beaumarchais (1732–1799)

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1. Molière

   Author of The Bourgeois Gentleman, The Miser and Other Plays, L'Ecole des femmes

2. Pierre Corneille

   Author of Le Cid, L'Illusion comique, Corneille : Oeuvres complètes, tome 1

3. Racine

   Author of Phedre, Andromaque, Bérénice

4. Beaumarchais

   Author of Le mariage de Figaro, The Barber of Seville

5. Victor Hugo

   Author of Hernani, Ruy Blas, Les Contemplations

6. George Bernard Shaw

   Author of Man and Superman, Major Barbara, Heartbreak House

7. Eugene Ionesco

   Author of Four Plays: The Bald Soprano; The Lesson; Jack, or the Submission; The Chairs, La Cantatrice chauve : Anti-Piece / La Lecon : Drame comique, Le Roi se meurt

8. Denis Diderot

   Author of Rameau's Nephew and D'Alembert's Dream (Penguin Classics), Oeuvres philosophiques, Oeuvres (Bibliothèque de la Pléiade)

9. Jean-Paul Sartre

   Author of No Exit & The Flies, Dirty Hands

10. Jean Giraudoux

    Author of Tiger at the Gates, Electre

11. Sir Walter Scott

    Author of Waverley, The Heart of Midlothian

12. Honoré de Balzac

    Author of The Wild Ass's Skin, The Lily of the Valley

13. Charles de Secondat Montesquieu

    Author of Persian Letters, Oeuvres complètes

14. Marivaux

    Author of Le Jeu de l'amour et du hasard

15. Jean de La Bruyère

    Author of The characters, or, The manners of the age, Theophrastus' characters & The characters, or, the manners of the age

16. Jules Vallès

    Author of The Child

17. Guy de Maupassant

    Author of The Horla

18. Christopher Marlowe

    Author of The Complete Plays

19. Pierre de Ronsard

    Author of Les Amours

20. Alphonse Daudet

    Author of Letters From My Windmill