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| 1908 |
| | | Anatole France casts a satirical eye on human society in his novel L'Île des pingouins ("Penguin Island") | |
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| 1909 |
| | | André Gide publishes La Porte étroite ('Strait is the Gate') | |
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| 1913 |
| | | Alain-Fournier completes his semi-autobiographical novel Le Grand Meaulnes | |
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| 1913 |
| | | Marcel Proust publishes at his own expense Swann's Way, the first volume of Remembrance of Things Past | |
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| 1916 |
| | | The author H.H. Munro ('Saki') is killed by a sniper's bullet on a battlefield in France | |
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| 1917 |
| | | Wounded at the front on the Somme, the poet Wilfred Owen is invalided home to Britain | |
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| 1917 |
| | | Paul Valéry wins praise for his long symbolic poem La Jeune Parque | |
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| 1920 |
| | | After several less successful novels, the French writer Colette makes her reputation with Chéri | |
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| 1922 |
| | | James Joyce's novel Ulysses is published in Paris, by Sylvia Beach, because of censorship problems elsewhere | |
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| 1922 |
| | | Valéry's collection Charmes includes probably his best-known poem, 'Le Cimetière marin' | |
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