Un siècle d'écrivains

Un siècle d'écrivains ("a century of writers") was a French series of television documentary films aired on France 3 between 1995 and 2001. A total of 257 documentaries were made, each focusing on a writer active during the 20th century. The series was initiated by France 3's program director Jean-Pierre Cottet in the spring of 1994. Each episode was independently produced by different production companies and directors, restricted to a running time of 52 minutes. The episodes were presented by Bernard Rapp. The series ended with a special episode about Antoine Chuquet, an imaginary writer made up by the producers.

List of episodes
This list is incomplete. It is ordered alphabetically after the author portrayed.


 * Alain-Fournier by Jacques Tréfouël (1995)
 * Jorge Amado by Henri Raillard (1995)
 * Guillaume Apollinaire by Jean-Claude Bringuier (1998)
 * Antonin Artaud by André S. Labarthe (2000)
 * Audiberti, des tonnes de semences by Philippe Condroyer (1998)
 * Marcel Aymé by Sylvain Roumette (1996)
 * Maurice Barrès by Jean-Claude Lamy and Claude Vajda (1995)
 * Hervé Bazin by Jean-Daniel Verhaeghe and Pierre Moustiers (1996)
 * Simone de Beauvoir by Valérie Stroh and Pascale Fautrier (1999)
 * Georges Bernanos by Patrick Zeyen (1995)
 * Karen Blixen by Jean-Noël Cristiani (1995)
 * Antoine Blondin by Jean-François Gire (1995)
 * Borges, l'homme miroir by Alberto Manguel and Philippe Molins (1999)
 * Henri Bosco by Jean-François Jung (2000)
 * Mikhaïl Afanassievitch Boulgakov by Iossif Pasternak (1997)
 * Emmanuel Bove by Hervé Duhamel (1996)
 * René Guy Cadou (commentary by Jean Rouaud)
 * Albert Camus by Calmette Joël and Jean-Daniel Verhaeghe (1999)
 * Roger Caillois by Nicolas Stern and Dominique Rabourdin (1999)
 * Italo Calvino by Edgardo Cozarinsky (1995)
 * Alejo Carpentier : Ici et là-bas by Emilio Pacull (1997)
 * Constantin Cavafis by Elgal Erera (1998)
 * Jean Cayrol, Lazare parmi nous by Jean-Luc Alpigiano and Jacques Loiseleux (2000)
 * Louis-Ferdinand Céline, un diamant noir comme l'enfer by Emmanuel Descombes and Alain Moreau (1998)
 * Blaise Cendrars by Claude-Pierre Cahvanon
 * Jacques Chardonne by Marie-Dominique Montel (2000)
 * Andrée Chedid by Antoine Léonard and Vicky Sommet (1998)
 * Agatha Christie maîtresse du mystère by Jérôme de Missolz (1995)
 * Antoine Chuquet by Alain Wieder (2001)
 * Cioran by Bernard Jourdain and Patrice Bollon (1999)
 * Bernard Clavel by Claude Vajda (1999)
 * Albert Cohen by Glenio Bonder and William Karel (1995)
 * Colette by Jacques Tréfouël (1995)
 * Arthur Conan Doyle by Marie-Dominique Montel (1997)
 * Julio Cortázar by Chantal Rémy (1997)
 * Michel Déon by Pierre Dupouey (1995)
 * John Dos Passos by Daniel Costelle (1995)
 * James Ellroy by Benoît Cohen and François Guérif (1999)
 * Paul Éluard by Isabelle Clarke and Daniel Costelle (1995)
 * William Faulkner by Marc Jampolsky and Michel Abescat (1995)
 * Carlos Fuentes by Valeria Sarmiento and Guy Scarpetta (1998)
 * Anatole France by François Chaye and Olivier Barrot (1995)
 * Romain Gary by Olivier Mille and André Asséo (1999)
 * Jean Genet by Michel Van Zele (1995)
 * Michel de Ghelderode, l'Archange by Patrick Zeyen (1999)
 * Jean Giono by Claude Santelli (1995)
 * Jean Giraudoux by Philippe Piazza and Marcel Jullian (1995)
 * Édouard Glissant by Patrick Chamoiseau, Claude Chonville and Guy Deslauriers (1996)
 * Nadine Gordimer
 * Julien Gracq by Michel Mitrani (1995)
 * Graham Greene by Marie-Dominique Montel (1995)
 * Louis Guilloux by Josiane Maisse (1996)
 * Sacha Guitry by Marcel Jullian and Philippe Piazza (1995)
 * Patricia Highsmith by Philippe Kohly (1995)
 * Chester Himes en noir et blanc by Michel Lebrun and Godwin Djadja (1995)
 * Bohumil Hrabal by Patrick Cazals (1995)
 * Les Derniers jours d'Aldous Huxley by Béatrice Limare (1999)
 * Eugène Ionesco (1909 - 1994) by Philippe Truffault (2000)
 * Max Jacob by Alain Ferrari (1995)


 * Alfred Jarry by Jean-Christophe Averty (1995)
 * Pierre Jean Jouve by Olivier Mille and Robert Kopp
 * James Joyce by Antoine Gallien (1995)
 * Ernst Jünger by Gero von Boehm (1996)
 * Kafka by Karel Procop (1995)
 * Kipling ou le syndrome de Lahore (1865 - 1936) by Francis Guillery (1999)
 * Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa by Dominique Gros and Jean-Claude Navarro (1997)
 * Valery Larbaud by François Chayé (1995)
 * Thomas Edward Lawrence by Marie-Dominique Montel (1996)
 * Paul Léautaud by Patrick Zeyen (1997)
 * Michel Leiris ou l'homme sans honneur by Christophe Barreyre (1995)
 * Gaston Leroux by Jean-François Jung (1995)
 * Primo Levi
 * Jack London, enfant rebelle du rêve californien by Michel Viotte (1995)
 * Toute marche mystérieuse vers un destin, le cas Lovecraft by Pierre Trividic, Patrick Mario Bernard and Anne-Louise Trividic (1998)
 * Carson McCullers by Fabrice Cazeneuve (1995)
 * Vladimir Maiakovski
 * Curzio Malaparte by Jean-Paul Fargier (1998)
 * François Mauriac by Olivier Guiton and Jérôme Prieur (1995)
 * Henri Michaux by Alain Jaubert (1995)
 * Yukio Mishima by Jean-Claude Lubtchansky (1995)
 * Alberto Moravia, l'homme qui regarde by Nico Di Biase (1998)
 * Henry Miller by Robert Mugnerot (1995)
 * Patrick Modiano by Paule Zajdermann and Antoine de Gaudemar (1996)
 * Robert Musil by Alain Jaubert (1996)
 * Pablo Neruda by Amalia Escriva (1998)
 * Jean Paulhan, le don d'ubiquité by Jérôme Prieur (1998)
 * Cesare Pavese by Alain Bergala (1995)
 * Charles Péguy by Jean-Paul Fargier (1995)
 * Georges Perros by Jérôme Garcin and Paul André Picton (1999)
 * Jacques Prévert le cancre magnifique by Gilles Nadeau (1995)
 * Fernando Pessoa le voyageur immobile by Isabel Calpe (1995)
 * Marcel Proust by Pierre Dumayet (1995)
 * André Pieyre de Mandiargues, l'amateur d'imprudence by Evelyne Clavaud (2000)
 * Raymond Queneau by Robert Bobert (1995)
 * Les Deux vies du chat Radiguet by Jean-Christophe Averty and Pierre Trividic (2000)
 * Alain Robbe Grillet by Frédéric Compain (1999)
 * Salman Rushdie by Elisa Mantin (1999)
 * Ernesto Sábato by Gonzalo Arijon (1995)
 * Françoise Sagan by Mona Makki and Dominique Gallet (1996)
 * Antoine de Saint-Exupéry by Jacques Tréfouël (1996)
 * Jérôme David Salinger by Benoît Jacquot (1996)
 * Jean-Paul Sartre l'écriture by Dominique Masson (1995)
 * Nathalie Sarraute by Jacques Doillon (1995)
 * Leonardo Sciascia, une vérité née en Sicile by Françoise Gallo (1995)
 * Victor Segalen un poète aventurier dans l'empire du ciel by Olivier Horn (1995)
 * David Shahar by Elgal Erera (1999)
 * Georges Simenon by Francis Lacassin (1997)
 * Alexandre Soljenitsyne by Françoise Wolff and Michel Parfenoff (1999)
 * Philippe Soupault by Antoine Gallien (2000)
 * Portrait incomplet de Gertrude Stein by Arnaud des Pallières (1999)
 * John Steinbeck ou l'esprit des lieux by Alain Gallet and Michel Le Bris (1995)
 * André Suarès, l'insurgé by Françoise Gallo and Robert Parienté (1998)
 * Rabindranath Tagore by Sylvain Roumette (1995)
 * Paul Valéry by Pierre Dumayet and Robert Bober (1997)
 * Marguerite Yourcenar by Dominique Gros (1995)
 * Lu Xun by Henry Lange (1999)