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Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift
Anglo-Irish author and clergyman
Jean de La Fontaine, oil painting by François De Troy; in the Bibliothèque Publique et Universitaire, Geneva
Jean de La Fontaine
French poet
Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier, sieur de
Bernard Le Bovier, sieur de Fontenelle
French author and scientist
Nicolas Boileau.
Nicolas Boileau
French author
Jean de La Bruyère, detail of an engraving by Pierre Drevet from Saint-Jean's frontispiece of a 1697 edition of Les Caractères de Théophraste traduits du grec avec Les Caractères ou les moeurs de ce siècle.
Jean de La Bruyère
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Perrault, Charles
Charles Perrault
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Jean Desmarets de Saint-Sorlin
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Anne Dacier
French scholar and translator