Jean Desmarets de Saint-Sorlin: Quick Facts

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Born	1595 • Paris • France
Died	October 28, 1676 (aged 81) • Paris • France
Subjects Of Study	French literature

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Jean Racine

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Pierre Corneille

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François Mauriac

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Gresset, oil painting by Louis Tocqué; in the Château de Versailles

Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset

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Népomucène Lemercier

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Chapelain, engraving by Robert Nanteuil, 1655

Jean Chapelain

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Antonin Artaud

French author and actor

Louis-Sébastien Mercier

French author

Charles de Marguetel de Saint-Denis, seigneur de Saint-Évremond

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Marc-Antoine de Muret

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Théophile de Viau

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Jacques Grévin

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Voltaire

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Victor Hugo

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Vigny, lithograph by Antoine Maurin, 1832

Alfred-Victor, count de Vigny

French author

Pierre Marivaux

French author

Jules Romains

French author

Nicolas Boileau

French author

4:043 Dickinson, Emily: A Life of Letters, This is my letter to the world/That never wrote to me; I'll tell you how the Sun Rose/A Ribbon at a time; Hope is the thing with feathers/That perches in the soul

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Illustration of "The Lamb" from "Songs of Innocence" by William Blake, 1879. poem; poetry

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