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Born 1364 • Venice • Italy
Died c.1430
Notable Works “L’Avision de Christine” • “Le Ditié de Jehanne d’Arc” • “Le Livre des fais et bonnes meurs du sage roy Charles V” • “The Book of the City of Ladies”
Movement / Style rhétoriqueurs

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French writer Michel Houellebecq in 2014, wearing a dark jacket over a blue shirt, standing in front of a blue backdrop with white text and logos.
Michel Houellebecq
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Alain Chartier
French author
Giovanni Boccaccio
Giovanni Boccaccio
Italian poet and scholar
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Pamphile Lemay
Canadian author
Paul Verlaine, detail from Un Coin de table, oil painting by Henri Fantin-Latour, 1872; in the Louvre, Paris.
Paul Verlaine
French poet
Southey, detail of a pencil and watercolour portrait by R. Hancock, 1796; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Robert Southey
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Théophile Gautier
French author
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Charles Maurras
French writer and political theorist
Hébert, Anne
Anne Hébert
Canadian poet and novelist
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Pierre-Jean Jouve
French author
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Donald Hall
American poet, essayist and critic
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Richard Savage
English writer
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Eavan Boland
Irish poet and literary critic
Tyard, engraving
Pontus de Tyard
French poet
Louis-Honoré Fréchette.
Louis-Honoré Fréchette
Canadian poet
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Charles de Marguetel de Saint-Denis, seigneur de Saint-Évremond
French author
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Muriel Rukeyser
American poet
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Marc-Antoine de Muret
French author
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Michel Bibaud
French-Canadian author
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Félix-Antoine Savard
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