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Born January 12, 1628 • Paris • France
Died May 15, 1703 or May 16, 1703 • Paris • France
Notable Works “Little Red Riding Hood” • “Tales of Mother Goose”
Subjects Of Study Neoclassical art

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Jean de La Fontaine, oil painting by François De Troy; in the Bibliothèque Publique et Universitaire, Geneva
Jean de La Fontaine
French poet
Nicolas Boileau.
Nicolas Boileau
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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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Jean Desmarets de Saint-Sorlin
French author
Maynard, François
François Maynard
French poet
François de Malherbe, engraving after an oil painting by Adrien Dumoutier.
François de Malherbe
French poet
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Jean de La Taille
French author
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Charles Vildrac
French author
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Anne Dacier
French scholar and translator
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Jacques Peletier
French poet
French dramatist Jean Racine
Jean Racine
French dramatist
Victor Hugo
Victor Hugo
French writer
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Pierre Corneille
French poet and dramatist
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Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
French critic
Vigny, lithograph by Antoine Maurin, 1832
Alfred-Victor, count de Vigny
French author
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
Paul Valéry.
Paul Valéry
French critic and poet
François Mauriac
François Mauriac
French author
Romains
Jules Romains
French author
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Charles Maurras
French writer and political theorist

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