| MERIMEE | French author who wrote "Carmen," on which the opera is based |
| SEVILLE | City in which the opera Carmen is set (7) |
| PARIS | City where "Phantom of the Opera" is set |
| LEROUX | Gaston _, French author who wrote 1910 novel The Phantom Of The Opera (6) |
| ZOLA | French author who wrote, "Truth is on the march, and nothing will stop it" |
| GIDE | Andre -; Nobel Prize-winning French author who wrote The Immoralist and The Counterfeiters (4) |
| ALEXANDREDUMAS | French author who wrote the adventure novel The Count Of Monte Cristo (9,5) |
| HUGO | Victor _, French author who wrote the 1831 novel The Hunchback Of NotreDame (4) |
| SARDOU | Victorien who wrote "La Tosca," on which the Puccini opera is based |
| VERNE | French author who wrote the Voyages Extraordinaires books including Around the World in Eighty DaysA (5) |
| DUMAS | French author who wrote a number of adventure novels including The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers and Twenty Years After (5) |
| RABELAIS | Francois -; French author who wrote the stories about giants Gargantua and Pantagruel (8) |
| PROUST | French author who wrote the seven-volume novel In Search Of Lost Time, Marcel _ (6) |
| SAGAN | Francoise ___ (1935-2004), French author who wrote Bonjour Tristesse (1954) (5) |
| GUSTAVEFLAUBERT | 19th Century French author who wrote Madame Bovary (7,8) |
| BIZET | Composer who wrote Carmen (5) |
| HERNANI | 1830 Hugo play on which a similarly named Verdi opera is based |
| LATOSCA | 1887 Victorien Sardou play on which an opera is based |
| BOHEME | "Scenes de la Vie de ___" (novel on which a Puccini opera is based) |
| ROYER | Alphonse, French author who co-wrote the libretto for Donizetti's La favorite (5) |
