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Agathon-Jean-François, Baron Fain: Quick Facts

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Facts

Born January 11, 1778 • Paris • France
Died September 16, 1837 (aged 59) • Paris • France

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Baron Fain, lithograph by Lemercier, after a portrait by Henri Grévedon
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Commynes, portrait drawing by Jacques Le Bouco, 16th century; in the Municipal Library Arras, Fr.
Philippe de Commynes
French statesman
Las Cases, Emmanuel, count de
Emmanuel, count de las Cases
French historian
Gourgaud, lithograph by C. Chasselat, 1821
Gaspard Gourgaud
French historian
Edward Gibbon
Edward Gibbon
British historian
Ibram X. Kendi in 2020, wearing a patterned white shirt and purple jacket, looking at the camera with a neutral expression.
Ibram X. Kendi
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Adams, Hannah
Hannah Adams
American historian
John VI Cantacuzenus, detail from an illuminated manuscript, 14th century; in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris (Ms. Gr. 1242).
John VI Cantacuzenus
Byzantine emperor
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Andrey Alekseyevich Amalrik
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François Furet
French historian
Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault
French philosopher and historian
Hector Berlioz
Hector Berlioz
French composer
Alexis de Tocqueville
Alexis de Tocqueville
French historian and political writer
Taine, portrait by Léon Bonnat, 1889
Hippolyte Taine
French critic and historian
Lamartine, detail of an oil painting by François Gérard; in the Musée National de Versailles et des Trianons
Alphonse de Lamartine
French poet, historian, and statesman
François Hollande
François Hollande
president of France
Peter Abelard, with Héloïse, miniature portrait by Jean de Meun, 14th century; in the Musee Conde, Chantilly, France.
Peter Abelard
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“Gisèle, the women thank you”
Gisèle Pelicot
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Fernand Braudel
French historian and educator
Colette
Colette
French writer
The elevation of Marc Bloch to the Pantheon
Marc Bloch
French historian

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