
Dominique Bona is a French writer.

Ghislain de Diesbach de Belleroche is a French writer and biographer.
Jean-Paul Goujon is a French university professor and writer.

David Haziot is a French writer. Holder of a Master of Philosophy at the Sorbonne on the cinema of Sergei Eisenstein, he then turned to fiction, biography, and essay. He obtained a prize of the Académie française for his biography of Vincent Van Gogh and the Prix Goncourt de la biographie for his latest work about the Rouart family.

Odette Joyeux was a French actress, playwright and novelist. She was born in Paris, where she studied dance at the Paris Opera Ballet before taking the stage. Joyeux started her film career in 1931. Her first notable film was Marc Allégret's Entrée des artistes (1938). During the 1940s she established herself as one of France's most popular cinema actresses; however, she made few film appearances after the 1950s.

Jean Lacouture was a journalist, historian and author. He was particularly famous for his biographies.

Jean-Claude Lamy (3 August 1941, Valence in the Drôme department, is a French journalist, writer and publisher.

Jean Lebrun is a French journalist. A professor agrégé of history, he soon preferred journalism to the Éducation nationale. After he collaborated with Combat, La Croix and Esprit, he became a producer for the radio stations France Culture then France Inter.

Pascal Mérigeau is a French journalist and film critic.

Michel Winock is a French historian, specializing in the history of the French Republic, intellectual movements, antisemitism, nationalism and the far right movements of France. He is a professeur des universités in contemporary history at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences-Po) and member of L'Histoire magazine's editing board. Winock has also worked as a reporter for Le Monde.