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Born c.1500 • France?
Died c.1544 • Lyon • France
Notable Works “Cymbalum Mundi: Four Very Ancient Joyous and Facetious Dialogues” • “Lysis” • “Novel Pastimes and Merry Tales”
Charles Baudelaire
Charles Baudelaire
French author
Portrait of French author Marcel Proust, seated with his hand resting thoughtfully against his chin, wearing a dark suit and looking directly at the camera.
Marcel Proust
French writer
Vigny, lithograph by Antoine Maurin, 1832
Alfred-Victor, count de Vigny
French author
Alphonse Daudet
Alphonse Daudet
French author
Colette
Colette
French writer
Clément Marot, oil painting by an unknown artist; in the Bibliothèque Protestante, Paris.
Clément Marot
French poet
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Charles Maurras
French writer and political theorist
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Yves Bonnefoy
French author
Quinet, oil painting by Sebastien-Melchior Cornu, 1833; in the Musee Carnavalet, Paris
Edgar Quinet
French historian and poet
Nerval, Gérard de
Gérard de Nerval
French poet
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Charles-Marie-René Leconte de Lisle
French poet
Jules Laforgue
Jules Laforgue
French poet
Jean-Antoine de Baïf.
Jean-Antoine de Baïf
French poet
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Marguerite Yourcenar
French author
Tyard, engraving
Pontus de Tyard
French poet
Belleau, engraving by Radel
Rémy Belleau
French poet
Jean Dorat, detail of a drawing by an unknown artist; in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris.
Jean Dorat
French humanist
Chapelain, engraving by Robert Nanteuil, 1655
Jean Chapelain
French author
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Florent Chrestien
French author
Petrus Borel, detail of an engraving after a portrait by C.-F. Nanteuil-Leboeuf, 1839
Petrus Borel
French author

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