Léopold Senghor: Quick Facts

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Also Known As	Léopold Sédar Senghor
Born	October 9, 1906 • Senegal
Died	December 20, 2001 (aged 95) • France
Title / Office	president (1960-1980), Senegal
Political Affiliation	socialist party
Movement / Style	Negritude

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Senegalese Pres. Léopold Senghor addressing the United Nations General Assembly, 1961

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Lamartine, detail of an oil painting by François Gérard; in the Musée National de Versailles et des Trianons

Alphonse de Lamartine

French poet, historian, and statesman

Marie-Joseph de Chénier, lithograph by François Le Villain, 19th century.

Marie-Joseph de Chénier

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Lamine Guèye

Senegalese politician

Andrieux, François

François Andrieux

French lawyer and dramatist

Déroulède, Paul

Paul Déroulède

French politician, poet, and dramatist

François-Auguste-René, vicomte de Chateaubriand

François-Auguste-René, vicomte de Chateaubriand

French author and diplomat

Édouard Herriot

Édouard Herriot

French statesman

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Ousmane Socé

Senegalese writer and politician

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Melchior de Polignac

French clergyman and statesman

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Cardinal Richelieu

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Charlest, count de Montalember

French politician and historian

Charles de Gaulle

Charles de Gaulle

president of France

André Malraux

André Malraux

French novelist, art historian, and statesman

François Hollande

François Hollande

president of France

Jacques Chirac

Jacques Chirac

president of France

Louis Faidherbe

Louis Faidherbe

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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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Félix Houphouët-Boigny

Félix Houphouët-Boigny

president of Côte d’Ivoire

Illustrated page from In Flanders Fields featuring the poem's opening lines beside a field of red poppies and two wooden crosses, with a decorative letter I adorned with poppy flowers.

John McCrae

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François de Bassompierre

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

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Undated photograph of Julius Nyerere, the first prime minister of Tanganyika, which eventually became Tanzania.

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Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) only confirmed photograph of Emily Dickinson. 1978 scan of a Daguerreotype. ca. 1847; in the Amherst College Archives. American poet. See Notes:

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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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