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Also Known As Jules-François-Félix Husson
Born September 17, 1821 • Laon • France
Died December 6, 1889 (aged 68) • Sèvres • France
Notable Works “Le Réalisme”
Subjects Of Study painting • realism • Gustave Courbet
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Edmond Goncourt
French author
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Jules Goncourt
French author
Honoré de Balzac daguerreotype, 1848
Honoré de Balzac
French author
Gustave Flaubert
Gustave Flaubert
French author
Jean Cocteau, 1939.
Jean Cocteau
French poet and artist
Joris-Karl Huysmans, detail of an oil painting by Jean-Louis Forain.
Joris-Karl Huysmans
French author
Fromentin, Eugène
Eugène Fromentin
French painter and author
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Louis-Alexandre Chatrian
French author
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Jean Tharaud
French writer
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Jérôme Tharaud
French writer
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Émile Erckmann
French author
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Maurice Druon
French author
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Swiss-born French philosopher
Life-sized plaster sculpture Seated Voltaire by Jean-Antoine Houdon shows Voltaire draped in a robe, seated with a thoughtful expression and a ribbon crown, against a dark background.
Voltaire
French philosopher and author
Victor Hugo
Victor Hugo
French writer
Stendhal, oil painting by Pierre-Joseph Dedreux-Dorcy; in the Bibliothèque Municipale de Grenoble, France.
Stendhal
French author
Honoré Daumier
Honoré Daumier
French artist
Dimitry Levitzky: portrait of Denis Diderot
Denis Diderot
French philosopher
Black and white portrait of French novelist Emile Zola with glasses, a full beard, and mustache, wearing a suit and looking to the side.
Émile Zola
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