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Originally Posted by AlphaFrog
I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that you have a thing for French authors...
Although you left off Victor Hugo and Gaston Leroux.
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Hugo is more associated with the 19th century and while I am a fan of his "Les Misérables" I believe his efforts to champion republicanism went unherald when compared to other writers/thinkers of his time, despite being hailed the greatest French poet. I left him off the list because he is a mirror image of François-René de Chateaubriand and I find countless flaws in the idea of a Republic.
I left Leroux off the list because, aside from writing The Phantom of the Opera, he did little to nothing to change (or influence) free thinking.
You are right. They were both great french authors.
Why did you pick those two out in particular?
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