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Also Known As Charles-Marie-Photius Maurras
Born April 20, 1868 • Martigues • France
Died November 16, 1952 (aged 84) • Tours • France • (Anniversary in 3 days)
Founder Action Française • “L’Action française”
Movement / Style école romane
Marmontel, detail of an engraving by Augustin de Saint-Aubin, 1765, after a portrait by C.N. Cochin
Jean-François Marmontel
French author
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V.S. Pritchett
British writer
Stendhal, oil painting by Pierre-Joseph Dedreux-Dorcy; in the Bibliothèque Municipale de Grenoble, France.
Stendhal
French author
Colette
Colette
French writer
Nerval, Gérard de
Gérard de Nerval
French poet
Antonin Artaud as Jean Massieu
Antonin Artaud
French author and actor
Léon Daudet
Léon Daudet
French journalist and author
Du Camp
Maxime Du Camp
French writer and photographer
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Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
French critic
Vigny, lithograph by Antoine Maurin, 1832
Alfred-Victor, count de Vigny
French author
François Mauriac
François Mauriac
French author
Nicolas Boileau.
Nicolas Boileau
French author
Gresset, oil painting by Louis Tocqué; in the Château de Versailles
Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset
French author
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Marguerite Yourcenar
French author
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Jean Desmarets de Saint-Sorlin
French author
Chapelain, engraving by Robert Nanteuil, 1655
Jean Chapelain
French author
Painting of Samuel Johnson showing Johnson seated at a desk with a quill in hand and papers before him, wearing a brown coat and white wig.
Samuel Johnson
English author
D.H. Lawrence
D.H. Lawrence
English writer
Graham Greene, 1982
Graham Greene
British author
Wyndham Lewis
Wyndham Lewis
British artist and writer

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