Curated category
French male dramatists and playwrights
- VoltaireFrançois-Marie Arouet was born in Paris on the 21st of November 1694. He entered the world as the youngest child of a minor treasury official and a woman…
- Jules VerneJules Gabriel Verne was born on the 8th of February 1828 on Île Feydeau in Nantes. This small artificial island sat within the river Loire before it was…
- Gustave FlaubertGustave Flaubert entered the world on the 12th of December 1821 within a hospital in Rouen. His father Achille-Cléophas Flaubert served as the senior surgeon…
- Jean-Paul SartreJean-Paul Sartre was born on the 21st of June 1905 in Paris as the only child of Jean-Baptiste Sartre and Anne-Marie Schweitzer.
- Victor HugoVictor-Marie Hugo was born on the 26th of February 1802 in Besançon, a city in eastern France. His father Joseph Léopold Sigisbert Hugo served as a general…
- Alexandre DumasAlexandre Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie entered the world on the 24th of July 1802 in Villers-Cotterêts, France. His father was Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, a…
- Hector BerliozOn the 11th of December 1803, Louis-Hector Berlioz was born in the commune of La Côte-Saint-André. His father, a physician named Louis Berlioz, expected his…