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Also Known As Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux
Born November 1, 1636 • Paris • France
Died March 13, 1711 (aged 74) • Paris • France
Notable Works “L’Art poétique”
Subjects Of Study Neoclassical art • poetry • prosody

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Nicolas Boileau.
Boileau, oil painting after Hyacinthe Rigaud; in the Musee National de Versailles et des Trianons, France
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Charles Maurras
French writer and political theorist
Jean de La Fontaine, oil painting by François De Troy; in the Bibliothèque Publique et Universitaire, Geneva
Jean de La Fontaine
French poet
Perrault, Charles
Charles Perrault
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François de Malherbe, engraving after an oil painting by Adrien Dumoutier.
François de Malherbe
French poet
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Jean de La Taille
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Jacques Peletier
French poet
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Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
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François Mauriac
François Mauriac
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Jean de La Bruyère, detail of an engraving by Pierre Drevet from Saint-Jean's frontispiece of a 1697 edition of Les Caractères de Théophraste traduits du grec avec Les Caractères ou les moeurs de ce siècle.
Jean de La Bruyère
French author
Gresset, oil painting by Louis Tocqué; in the Château de Versailles
Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset
French author
Marmontel, detail of an engraving by Augustin de Saint-Aubin, 1765, after a portrait by C.N. Cochin
Jean-François Marmontel
French author
Maynard, François
François Maynard
French poet
Chapelain, engraving by Robert Nanteuil, 1655
Jean Chapelain
French author
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Johann Christoph Gottsched
German literary critic
Charles Baudelaire
Charles Baudelaire
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Théophile Gautier
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Yves Bonnefoy
French author
Antonin Artaud as Jean Massieu
Antonin Artaud
French author and actor
André Breton
André Breton
French poet

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