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Born February 17, 1803 • Bourg-en-Bresse • France
Died March 27, 1875 (aged 72) • Versailles • France
Notable Works “Ahasvérus” • “Le Génie des religions” • “Outlines of a Philosophy of the History of Man”
Subjects Of Study religion

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Quinet, oil painting by Sebastien-Melchior Cornu, 1833; in the Musee Carnavalet, Paris
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Charles Baudelaire
Charles Baudelaire
French author
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
Clément Marot, oil painting by an unknown artist; in the Bibliothèque Protestante, Paris.
Clément Marot
French poet
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Yves Bonnefoy
French author
Aubigné, detail of an oil painting by Bartholomaus Sarburgh, 1622; in the Öffentliche Kunstsammlung, Basel, Switz.
Théodore-Agrippa d’ Aubigné
French soldier and author
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Charles-Marie-René Leconte de Lisle
French poet
Medieval illuminated painting by Loyset Liedet showing the Battle of Sluys with armored soldiers fighting on crowded wooden ships, some falling into the water, with banners and sails overhead.
Jean Froissart
French poet and historian
Jean-Antoine de Baïf.
Jean-Antoine de Baïf
French poet
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Bonaventure Des Périers
French author
Tyard, engraving
Pontus de Tyard
French poet
Belleau, engraving by Radel
Rémy Belleau
French poet
Chapelain, engraving by Robert Nanteuil, 1655
Jean Chapelain
French author
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Florent Chrestien
French author
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Francis Ponge
French author
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Jean-François Sarasin
French author
Delille, detail of an engraving by Antoine Cardon after a painting by J.-L. Monnier
Jacques Delille
French writer
Anne Carson
Anne Carson
Canadian poet
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Robert Bly
American author
Louise Bogan, 1967
Louise Bogan
American poet and literary critic

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