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Also Known As François Mainard
Born 1582 or 1583 • Toulouse • France
Died December 28, 1646
Notable Works “Prologue d’une révolution”
Subjects Of Study French literature

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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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Perrault, Charles
Charles Perrault
French author
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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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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Charles-Marie-René Leconte de Lisle
French poet
Gresset, oil painting by Louis Tocqué; in the Château de Versailles
Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset
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Marguerite Yourcenar
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Alfred de Musset
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