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Also Known As	Louise Revoil
Born	August 15, 1810 • Aix-en-Provence • France
Died	March 9, 1876 (aged 65) • Paris • France

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Louise Colet, lithograph by Grégoire et Deneux

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Vigny, lithograph by Antoine Maurin, 1832

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Scarron, engraving by Georg Friedrich Schmidt after a drawing by Antoine Boizot

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