Paul Lafargue (15 January 1842 – 25 November 1911) was a French revolutionary Marxist socialist journalist, literary critic, political writer and activist, he was Karl Marx's son-in-law having married his second daughter, Laura. His best known work is The Right to Be Lazy. Born in Cuba to French and...

Historian, novelist and lecturer. Pierre Chardon is the pseudonym of Rachel Legras then of Rachel Stefani after her marriage with Jules Stefani. Pierre Chardon collaborated with L'Action française. Pierre Chardon was the mistress of Charles Maurras from 1910 until his marriage to Jules Stefani.

Elzéar Bonnier-Ortolan, (born November 25, 1849 in Paris and died in 1916), known as Pierre Elzéar, is a French poet and playwright. His father, Edouard Bonnier (1808-1877), taught at the Paris Law School, as did his maternal grandfather Joseph Ortolan. His mother, Elzéarine dite Zari, wrote several...

Pierre Maël is the collective pseudonym of two French authors of adventure and sentimental novels for young people: Charles Causse (1862-1904) and Charles Vincent (1851-1920). A great success in bookshops at the beginning of the 20th century, the author's novels fell into disuse after the Second Wor...

Plato (428/427– 348/347 BC) was an Athenian philosopher during the Classical period in Ancient Greece, founder of the Platonist school of thought, and the Academy, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world.He is widely considered the pivotal figure in the history of Ancient Greek...

Pons Augustin Alletz (born 1703 in Montpellier, died 7 March 1785 in Paris) was a French agronomist.Alletz spent some years living in a catholic community belonging to the Oratory of Saint Philip Neri before working as a lawyer in Montpellier. He quickly abandoned law, however, and moved to Paris to...

Raymond Auzias-Turenne was born in Grenoble (Isère) on 23-11-1861, died in Montreal (Canada) on 20-09-1940, he is a diplomat, banker and publicist. He is not in the current of mass immigration. Coming from a Grenoble family of legitimist and catholic lawyers, he decides, in 1885, at the age of 24, t...

René Bazin (26 December 1853 – 20 July 1932) was a French novelist.Born at Angers, he studied law in Paris, and on his return to Angers became Professor of Law in the Catholic university. In 1876, Bazin married Aline Bricard. The couple had two sons and six daughters. He contributed to Parisian jour...

René Boylesve (14 April 1867 in La Haye-Descartes – 14 January 1926 in Paris), born René Marie Auguste Tardiveau, was a French writer and a literary critic. Boylesve was orphaned early and went to school in Poitiers and Tours. In 1895 he began to publish articles in various journals. He is considere...

Robert Louis Stevenson (born Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson, 13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet and travel writer, most noted for Treasure Island, Kidnapped, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and A Child's Garden of Verses.Born and educated in Edinburgh, Stevenson...