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Born April 6, 1671 • Paris • France
Died March 17, 1741 (aged 69) • Brussels • Belgium

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Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, engraving by Georg Friedrich Schmidt after a painting by Jacques-André-Joseph Aved
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Karl Kraus
Austrian writer
Wessel, Johan Herman
Johan Herman Wessel
Danish author
Portrait painting of French dramatist Moliere, shown with long curly hair, a mustache, and wearing a richly detailed robe, by Jean-Baptiste Mauzaisse after Pierre Mignard.
Molière
French dramatist
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
French dramatist Jean Racine
Jean Racine
French dramatist
Victor Hugo
Victor Hugo
French writer
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Pierre Corneille
French poet and dramatist
Vigny, lithograph by Antoine Maurin, 1832
Alfred-Victor, count de Vigny
French author
Alphonse Daudet
Alphonse Daudet
French author
Jean Cocteau, 1939.
Jean Cocteau
French poet and artist
Tahar Ben Jelloun
Tahar Ben Jelloun
Moroccan French author
Claudel
Paul Claudel
French author
François Mauriac
François Mauriac
French author
Marivaux, Pierre
Pierre Marivaux
French author
Romains
Jules Romains
French author
French satirist Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac
Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac
French author
Antonin Artaud as Jean Massieu
Antonin Artaud
French author and actor
Scarron, engraving by Georg Friedrich Schmidt after a drawing by Antoine Boizot
Paul Scarron
French author
Gresset, oil painting by Louis Tocqué; in the Château de Versailles
Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset
French author
Lesage, engraving by J.-B. Guelard, 18th century
Alain-René Lesage
French author

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