| COCTEAU | Jean -, French author |
| GENET | Catlike mammal; Jean -, French author |
| GIRAUDOUX | Jean, French author of the play The Madwoman of Chaillot (9) |
| ANOUILH | Jean -, French author of the stage plays Antigone and Becket (7) |
| RACINE | Jean --, French dramatist, author of 'Andromaque' (6) |
| GROLIER | Jean, French bibliophile (1479-1565) |
| RENOIR | Jean --, French film director (1894-1979) (6) |
| GROS | Antoine-Jean, French painter who committed suicide in 1835 (4) |
| INGRES | Jean, French classical painter who died in 1867 (6) |
| FRESNEL | Augustin-Jean ---, French physicist after whom a type of lens and a unit of frequency were named (7) |
| ALESI | Jean ....., French driver who competed in F1 from 1989 to 2001 (5) |
| ISABEY | Jean, French portrait painter and miniaturist who was a court painter to Napoleon (6) |
| ARP | Jean, French artist whose works include Sculpture to be Lost in the Forest (3) |
| DUBUFFET | Jean -, French painter whose works include 1961's Bonne Mine (8) |
| COROT | Jean, French landscape and portrait painter who died in 1875 (5) |
| ETERNITY | Jean-Paul ___, French author |
| SARTRE | Jean-Paul -, French author |
| GIRONDE | Boy gripped by French author in French department |
| POISONCAMUS | Bump off a French author? |
| EMILEGORGONZOLA | Cheesy French author? |