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Born October 18, 1534 • Troyes • France
Died September 14, 1602 (aged 67) • Paris • France

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Passerat, detail of a portrait
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French write and Nobel laureate André Gide
André Gide
French writer
Beranger, detail of a lithograph by Metzmacher, 1835
Pierre-Jean de Béranger
French author
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Rutebeuf
French poet
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Florent Chrestien
French author
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Jean Vauquelin de La Fresnaye, sieur des Yveteaux
French magistrate, poet, and moralist
Vigny, lithograph by Antoine Maurin, 1832
Alfred-Victor, count de Vigny
French author
Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, engraving by Georg Friedrich Schmidt after a painting by Jacques-André-Joseph Aved
Jean-Baptiste Rousseau
French author
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Mathurin Régnier
French poet
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Eustache Deschamps
French writer
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
Charles Baudelaire
Charles Baudelaire
French author
Victor Hugo
Victor Hugo
French writer
François Rabelais
François Rabelais
French author
Rimbaud, detail from “Un Coin de table,” oil painting by Henri Fantin-Latour, 1872; in the Louvre, Paris
Arthur Rimbaud
French poet
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Pierre Corneille
French poet and dramatist
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Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
French critic
Jean de La Fontaine, oil painting by François De Troy; in the Bibliothèque Publique et Universitaire, Geneva
Jean de La Fontaine
French poet
François Villon
François Villon
French poet

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