Louis-Marie Ernest Daudet (31 May 1837 – 21 August 1921) was a French journalist, novelist and historian. Prolific in several genres, Daudet began his career writing for magazines and provincial newspapers all over France. His younger brother was Alphonse Daudet. Ernest Daudet was born in Nîmes, an ...

Ernest Valeton de Boissière (1811-1894), owner of the Domaine de Certes in Audenge (Gironde, France), who emigrated to the United States and founded in 1870 the Cooperative Farm of Silkville (Co Franklin, Kansas, USA). A humanist and Fourierist refractory to Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte, Valeton de BOis...

Belonging to the Laurent de la Barre family, he is the son of Alexandre-Marie-François du Laurens de la Barre (born October 21, 1783 in Landévennec, controller then lieutenant of customs in Lorient (Morbihan) and Marie-Anne -Louise (known as Nancy) Guegot de Traoulen (born April 23, 1791 in Champtoc...

Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann (commonly abbreviated as E. T. A. Hoffmann, born Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann( 24 January 1776 – 25 June 1822) was a German Romantic author of fantasy and Gothic horror, a jurist, composer, music critic and artist. His stories form the basis of Jacques Offenbach's op...

Eugene Dabit (21 September 1898 in Mers-les-Bains – 21 August 1936 in Sevastopol) was a French socialist writer.He was part of the group "proletarian literature" and had a great success for his novel L'Hôtel du Nord which won the du Prix du roman populiste and was filmed in 1938 by Marcel Carné. He ...

Eugénie Foa (Bordeaux, 1796 - Paris, 1852) was a French writer, at times using the nom de plume "Maria Fitzclarence."Eugénie Foa (born Esther-Eugénie Rodrigues-Henriques) was by descent a Sephardi Jew, her mother being a member of the Gradis family, and both parents being members of the Bordeaux Jew...

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Fiodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky 30 October 1821 – 28 January 1881), sometimes transliterated Dostoyevsky, was a Russian novelist, philosopher, short story writer, essayist, and journalist. Dostoevsky's literary works explore human psychology in the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmosphere...

Fortuné Hippolyte Auguste Abraham-Dubois (11 September 1821 – 26 February 1891), under the nom de plume Fortuné du Boisgobey, was a French novelist. Fortuné du Boisgobey was born at Granville (Manche), and graduated from the Lycée Saint-Louis. He served as paymaster to the Army of Africa through sev...

Louis-Charles Fougeret de Monbron (also spelled Montbron), born on December 19, 1706 in Péronne and died on September 16, 1760 in Paris, was a French man of letters and was the second son of Jean Fougeret, a financier from Peron, receiver of the Fermes, and Marie Parvillers. A great traveller, Fouge...