Marcel Aymé
Romancier et auteur dramatique fantaisiste et satyrique, auteur de La Jument verte.
Etienne Aymonier
Linguist and colonial administrator, specialist in Khmer culture, first director of the Colonial School.
Pierre Hyacinthe Azaïs
Philosopher, author of the theory of compensations.
Jacques Bainville
Monarchist and nationalist journalist and historian, close to Charles Maurras, member of the French Academy.
Honoré de Balzac
One of the great novelists of the 19th century, author of more than ninety novels and short stories published from 1829 to 1855, collected under the title La Comédie humaine.
Théodore Banville (of)
A poet and friend of Baudelaire, Hugo and Gautier, he discovered the talent of Arthur Rimbaud, whom he hosted for a time.