| 100% | DANTE | 5 | "De Vulgare Eloquentia" author |
| 67% | DANTE | 5 | "De Vulgari Eloquentia" author |
| 58% | DANTE | 5 | Author of "De vulgari eloquentia" |
| 52% | STAEL | 5 | Author Madame de ___ |
| 52% | SIMONE | 6 | Author de Beauvoir |
| 50% | RENE | 4 | Author François-___ de Chateaubriand |
| 50% | EDMONDROSTAND | 13 | ''Cyrano de Bergerac'' author |
| 47% | ROSTAND | 7 | "Cyrano de Bergerac" author |
| 47% | STAEL | 5 | "Delphine" author Madame de ___ |
| 45% | SIMONE | 6 | "The Second Sex" author ___ de Beauvoir |
| 45% | HONORE | 6 | The Human Comedy author ___ de Balzac |
| 45% | HONORE | 6 | “La Comédie Humaine” author ___ de Balzac |
| 44% | STAEL | 5 | Delphine author, Madame de ___ (anagram of LEAST) |
| 42% | ANTOINE | 7 | ___ de Saint-Exupéry, author of "The Little Prince" |
| 42% | UGARTE | 6 | Manuel ___, author of “El destino de un continente” |
| 42% | BRUNHOFF | 8 | Jean de __, author of Babar the Elephant series |
| 41% | ALAIN | 5 | Author ___ de Botton who wrote "Essays in Love" (anagram of "nalai") |
| 41% | ALAIN | 5 | Bestselling author of "The Architecture of Happiness" ___ de Botton |
| 41% | OCONNOR | 7 | Des —, entertainer who authored 2001 autobiography Bananas Can't Fly! |
| 40% | LITTRE | 6 | Emile —, 19th-century author of Dictionnaire de la langue francaise |
| 40% | STACPOOLE | 9 | Henry De Vere —, author of 1908 novel The Blue Lagoon |
| 39% | ALEXIS | 6 | ___ de Tocqueville, author of "Democracy in America" |
| 39% | HUGO | 4 | "Notre-Dame de Paris" author |
| 38% | ROSTAND | 7 | Edmond —, French playwright; author of 1897 verse drama Cyrano de Bergerac |
| 38% | SUE | 3 | Eugene —, 19th-century author of serial novel Les Mysteres de Paris |
| 38% | DAUDET | 6 | Alphonse —, author of 1869 short story collection Lettres de Mon Moulin |
| 38% | FOUQUE | 6 | Friedrich de la Motte —, author of 1811 novella Undine |
| 38% | NOM | 3 | ___ de plume (an author's pen-name) |
| 37% | LACLOS | 6 | Pierre Choderlos de —, French author of four-volume novel Les Liaisons Dangereuses |
| 36% | NOM | 3 | ___ de plume (author's alias) |