You must be biased against the French, mentioning only Hugo in your list! What about Dumas, Stendhal, Balzac, Zolya, Flaubert, Maupassant, George Sand, Verlain

You must be biased against the French, mentioning only Hugo in your list! What about Dumas, Stendhal, Balzac, Zolya, Flaubert, Maupassant, George Sand, Verlaine, Rimbaud, Valery???! (That's only from a Russian, pretty sure actual French will add dozens more to this list)