1.   A journalist was complaining to the French novelist, essayist, and playwright Marcel Ayme that the modern world hinders the free development of the human being.

2.   Can French novelists, playwrights and movie directors learn to tell stories instead of just philosophizing?

3.   Franck, a French novelist and screenwriter, is too minimalist an author to be seen as a major embodiment of this French association of isolation and love.

4.   He does not regard it as a Gypsy film because it was adapted from a story by the French novelist J.M.G. Le Clezio.

5.   In France, Julia Kristeva is best known as the wife of Philippe Sollers, a high-profile French novelist.

6.   It seems Hollywood was unimpressed by arty French novelists, but then, it still is.

7.   Like certain French novelists and theorists who were active at the same time, Handke believed that the novelist had to enact the radical subjectivity of perception.

8.   Nineteenth-century French novelist Gustave Flaubert loathed that newfangled contraption, the steam locomotive.

9.   She said her role model is the French novelist Colette, and quotes Octavio Paz and Homer in her books.

10.   The movie stars Jeanne Moreau as an internationally celebrated French novelist.