Le Robert des Grands Écrivains de Langue Française.Edited by Philipe Hamon and Denis Robert Vasselin.
Paris: Dictionnaires Le Robert, 2000.
Look here for entries containing a range of key information on established French writers (eg. Montaigne and Prevert): biographies, introductory essays, lists of works, selected critical quotations, plot summaries and bibliographies. The entries are organized alphabetically (eg. Camus comes before Rousseau). Some entries include a separate "Audio & Video" bibliography. Since the focus is on great French writers, contemporary authors, as one might expect, get short shrift.