List of French playwrights
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This is an incomplete list of playwrights from France in chronological order, according to date of birth.
- Theodore Beza (1519–1605)
- Étienne Jodelle (1532–1573)
- Robert Garnier (1544–1590)
- Alexandre Hardy (1570–1632)
17th century
- Jean Mairet (1604–1686)
- Pierre du Ryer (1606–1658)
- Pierre Corneille (1606–1684)
- Jean Rotrou (1609–1650)
- Cyrano de Bergerac (1619–1655)
- Molière (1622–1673)
- Samuel Chappuzeau (1625–1701)
- Thomas Corneille (1625–1709)
- Philippe Quinault (1635–1688)
- Jean Racine (1639–1699)
- Jacques Robbe (1643-1721)
- Charles Rivière Dufresny (1648–1724)
- Jean Palaprat (1650–1721)
- Antoine de La Fosse (1653–1708)
- Madame Ulrich (1665–1707)
- Antoine Houdar de La Motte (1672–1731)
- Pierre de Marivaux (1688–1763)
- Pierre-François Godard de Beauchamps (1689–1761)
- Voltaire (1694–1778)
- Françoise de Graffigny (1695–1758)