Gisèle Pelicot: Quick Facts

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Also Known As	Gisèle Guillou
Born	December 7, 1952 (age 73) • West Germany
Notable Works	“A Hymn to Life: Shame Has to Change Sides”

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Colette

Colette

French writer

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Charles Maurras

French writer and political theorist

Alexandre Dumas.

Alexandre Dumas, père

French author [1802–1870]

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Jean-François-Paul de Gondi, cardinal de Retz

French priest

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Pierre Boulle

French author

Brantôme, Pierre de

Pierre de Brantôme

French author

Drieu La Rochelle, 1934

Pierre Drieu La Rochelle

French writer

Duke de Saint-Simon, engraving by Louis-François Mariage after a portrait by Van Loo

Louis de Rouvroy, duke de Saint-Simon

French author

Léon Daudet

Léon Daudet

French journalist and author

Madame d'Agoult, detail of a portrait by Henri Lehmann; in a private collection

Marie de Flavigny, countess d’Agoult

French author

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Vercors

French author

Du Camp

Maxime Du Camp

French writer and photographer

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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Maurice Charles Louis Genevoix

French writer

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Albert Cohen

Greek-born French-Jewish author and diplomat

Senegalese Pres. Léopold Senghor addressing the United Nations General Assembly, 1961

Léopold Senghor

president of Senegal

Alain Mabanckou

Alain Mabanckou

Congolese author

Gaspé, engraving, 1871

Philippe Aubert de Gaspé

French-Canadian author

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Eugène Demolder

Belgian author

Charles-Joseph, prince de Ligne, detail of a painting by Leclercq; in the collection of the Prince de Ligne, Beloeil, Belgium.

Charles-Joseph, prince de Ligne

Belgian military officer and author