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Died 1048
Stendhal, oil painting by Pierre-Joseph Dedreux-Dorcy; in the Bibliothèque Municipale de Grenoble, France.
Stendhal
French author
Bosio, Jean-Baptiste-François: Portrait of Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet
Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet
French philosopher and humanist
Paul Verlaine, detail from Un Coin de table, oil painting by Henri Fantin-Latour, 1872; in the Louvre, Paris.
Paul Verlaine
French poet
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Georges Duby
French scholar
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
French author
God of Carnage
Yasmina Reza
French dramatist, novelist, and actress
Ève Curie, c. 1945.
Ève Curie
French and American pianist, journalist, and diplomat
Rolland
Romain Rolland
French writer
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Charles Maurras
French writer and political theorist
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Françoise Mallet-Joris
Belgian author
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Roger Martin du Gard
French author
Anaïs Nin
Anaïs Nin
French author
Amyot, Jacques
Jacques Amyot
French scholar
Gédéon Tallemant des Réaux, engraving.
Gédéon Tallemant des Réaux
French author
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Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
French zoologist
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Pierre-Sylvain Maréchal
French poet
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Paul Morand
French author and diplomat
Maurois
André Maurois
French author
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Rigord
French historian
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Gennadius Of Marseilles
French theologian