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Born August 6, 1868 • France
Died February 23, 1955 (aged 86) • Paris • France
Notable Works “The Satin Slipper” • “Tidings brought to Mary”
Movement / Style Symbolism
Notable Family Members sister Camille Claudel

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Jean Moréas.
Jean Moréas
French poet
Émile Verhaeren, drawing by Lucien Wolles, c. 1900; in the Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels.
Émile Verhaeren
Belgian poet
French dramatist Jean Racine
Jean Racine
French dramatist
Victor Hugo
Victor Hugo
French writer
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Pierre Corneille
French poet and dramatist
Vigny, lithograph by Antoine Maurin, 1832
Alfred-Victor, count de Vigny
French author
Alphonse Daudet
Alphonse Daudet
French author
Jean Cocteau, 1939.
Jean Cocteau
French poet and artist
Tahar Ben Jelloun
Tahar Ben Jelloun
Moroccan French author
François Mauriac
François Mauriac
French author
Romains
Jules Romains
French author
Antonin Artaud as Jean Massieu
Antonin Artaud
French author and actor
Scarron, engraving by Georg Friedrich Schmidt after a drawing by Antoine Boizot
Paul Scarron
French author
Gresset, oil painting by Louis Tocqué; in the Château de Versailles
Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset
French author
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Jean de La Taille
French author
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Alfred de Musset
French author
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Charles de Marguetel de Saint-Denis, seigneur de Saint-Évremond
French author
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Népomucène Lemercier
French author
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Charles Vildrac
French author
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Jean Desmarets de Saint-Sorlin
French author

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