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Born December 16, 1805 • Paris • France
Died November 10, 1861 (aged 55) • Paris • France
Notable Works “Histoire générale et particulière des anomalies de l’organisation chez l’homme et les animaux”
Subjects Of Study malformation
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Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
French naturalist
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
Georges Cuvier
Georges Cuvier
French zoologist
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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
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Étienne de La Ville-sur-Illon, comte de Lacépède
French naturalist and politician
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Yves Delage
French zoologist
Gédéon Tallemant des Réaux, engraving.
Gédéon Tallemant des Réaux
French author
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Pierre-Sylvain Maréchal
French poet
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Paul Morand
French author and diplomat

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