Isabelle de Charrière: Quick Facts

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Also Known As	Isabella Agneta Elisabeth van Tuyll van Serooskerken • Abbe de La Tour • Zelide • Isabelle-Agnès-Élizabeth de Charrière • Belle van Zuylen
Born	October 20, 1740 • Netherlands
Died	December 27, 1805 (aged 65) • Switzerland
Notable Works	“Caliste; ou lettres écrites de Lausanne” • “Lettres trouvées sous la neige” • “Trois femmes”

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Isabelle de Charrière, detail of an oil painting by Jens Juel; in Kasteel Zuylen, The Netherlands

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Louis-Alexandre Chatrian

French author

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Swiss-born French philosopher

portrait of Germaine de Staël

Germaine de Staël

French-Swiss author

Constant, detail of an oil painting by Hercule des Roches, c. 1830; in the Musée Carnavalet, Paris

Benjamin Constant

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Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz

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Albert Cohen

Greek-born French-Jewish author and diplomat

Cendrars, 1953

Blaise Cendrars

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Édouard Rod

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Jérôme Tharaud

French writer

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Jean Tharaud

French writer

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Laure Conan

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Jules Goncourt

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Edmond Goncourt

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Maurice Druon

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Émile Erckmann

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Life-sized plaster sculpture Seated Voltaire by Jean-Antoine Houdon shows Voltaire draped in a robe, seated with a thoughtful expression and a ribbon crown, against a dark background.

Voltaire

French philosopher and author

Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo

French writer

Stendhal, oil painting by Pierre-Joseph Dedreux-Dorcy; in the Bibliothèque Municipale de Grenoble, France.

Stendhal

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Honoré de Balzac daguerreotype, 1848

Honoré de Balzac

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Samuel Beckett, 1965

Samuel Beckett

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