List of translators into French

This is a list of translators who have translated literature or non-fiction works into the French language.

Translators

Étienne Aignan Jacques Amyot – produced a famous version of Plutarch's Parallel Lives, later rendered into English by Sir Thomas North E. S. Ariel – translator of the Kural Charles Baudelaire – produced a famous and influential translation of the works of Edgar Allan Poe Louise Swanton Belloc – translator of English literature and memoirs Yves Bonnefoy – noted contemporary translator, particularly of English poetry Rose Celli – translated English works including Not So Quiet by Evadne Price Chateaubriand – translator of Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost into French prose Joséphine Colomb – translator of works from Italian Marguerite de Cambis – translator of works from Italian Marie De Cotteblanche (c. 1520 – c. 1584) – translator of works from Spanish Anne-Charlotte de Crussol de Florensac – translator of works by Alexander Pope and James Macpherson Anne Dacier – translator of classical Greek works Alain Daniélou – translator of the Kural, Silappathikaram, Manimekalai and other works Augustine De Rothmaler – translator of Johannes V. Jensen's Histoires du Himmerland Gnanou Diagou – translator of the Kural Adélaïde Dufrénoy – translator of classical poets Virgil and Horace from Latin John Durel – translator of the 1662 Book of Common Prayer Jean-Baptiste Benoît Eyriès – translator of travel and geography works, and Fantasmagoriana Antoine Galland – translator of the first European edition of the Arabian Nights François Gros – translator of the Paripatal (part of the Eight Anthologies) Antonine de Gérando – translator of Les Fils de l'homme au Cœur de Pierre, by Mór Jókai Jean Hyppolite – translator of Hegel who popularized his work Louis Jacolliot – translator of the Kural Georges Jean-Aubry Pierre-Eugène Lamairesse – translator of the Kural, Kamasutra and other Indian works Marie Léra – translator of Brewster's Millions by George Barr McCutcheon Leconte de Lisle – translator of classical Greek authors Jean Baptiste Lefebvre de Villebrune – translator of medical and philological works Stéphane Mallarmé – translator of the poetry of Edgar Allen Poe J. C. Mardrus – translator of the Arabian Nights Lucie Paul-Margueritte – translator of Dracula by Bram Stoker Nadine Ribault – translator of The Lagoon and Other Stories by Janet Frame William Woodville Rockhill – translator of the Tibetan version of the Udanavarga by the Sarvāstivādins Madeleine Rolland, translator of Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy Danica Seleskovitch – conference translator; founder of the Interpretive Theory of Translation Boris Vian – translator of The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler, The Lady in the Lake by Raymond Chandler and The World of Null-A by A. E. van Vogt Martina Wachendorff – translator from German and Hungarian

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