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Born July 11, 1846 ‱ PĂ©rigueux ‱ France
Died November 2, 1917 (aged 71) ‱ France
Notable Works “The Desperate Man” ‱ “The Woman Who Was Poor”
François Mauriac
François Mauriac
French author
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Jules Goncourt
French author
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Edmond Goncourt
French author
Stendhal, oil painting by Pierre-Joseph Dedreux-Dorcy; in the BibliothĂšque Municipale de Grenoble, France.
Stendhal
French author
Portrait of French author Marcel Proust, seated with his hand resting thoughtfully against his chin, wearing a dark suit and looking directly at the camera.
Marcel Proust
French writer
French write and Nobel laureate André Gide
André Gide
French writer
Jean-Paul Sartre
Jean-Paul Sartre
French philosopher and author
André Malraux
André Malraux
French novelist, art historian, and statesman
François-Auguste-René, vicomte de Chateaubriand
François-Auguste-René, vicomte de Chateaubriand
French author and diplomat
Rolland
Romain Rolland
French writer
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Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio
French author
Simone de Beauvoir
Simone de Beauvoir
French writer
Constant, detail of an oil painting by Hercule des Roches, c. 1830; in the Musée Carnavalet, Paris
Benjamin Constant
French author
George Sand
George Sand
French novelist
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Georges Perec
French author
Jean Genet
Jean Genet
French writer
Bernanos
Georges Bernanos
French author
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Alain Robbe-Grillet
French author
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Marguerite Duras
French author
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Nathalie Sarraute
French author