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Facts

Born August 19, 1780 • Paris • France
Died July 16, 1857 (aged 76) • Paris • France

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Beranger, detail of a lithograph by Metzmacher, 1835
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French write and Nobel laureate André Gide
André Gide
French writer
Guillaume de Machaut, detail of a miniature from Oeuvres de Guillaume de Machaut, c. 1370–80; in the Bibliothèque Nationale (Ms. Fr. 1584).
Guillaume de Machaut
French poet and musician
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Rutebeuf
French poet
Philippe Fabre d'Églantine, detail from an oil painting by Jean-Baptiste Greuze; in the Louvre, Paris.
Philippe Fabre d’Églantine
French dramatist
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Florent Chrestien
French author
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Jean Vauquelin de La Fresnaye, sieur des Yveteaux
French magistrate, poet, and moralist
Passerat, detail of a portrait
Jean Passerat
French poet
Marie-Joseph de Chénier, lithograph by François Le Villain, 19th century.
Marie-Joseph de Chénier
French author
Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, engraving by Georg Friedrich Schmidt after a painting by Jacques-André-Joseph Aved
Jean-Baptiste Rousseau
French author
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Mathurin Régnier
French poet
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Eustache Deschamps
French writer
John Gay, oil painting by William Aikman; in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh.
John Gay
British author
Tucholsky, Kurt
Kurt Tucholsky
German writer
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Maurice Druon
French author
Portrait painting of French dramatist Moliere, shown with long curly hair, a mustache, and wearing a richly detailed robe, by Jean-Baptiste Mauzaisse after Pierre Mignard.
Molière
French dramatist
Life-sized plaster sculpture Seated Voltaire by Jean-Antoine Houdon shows Voltaire draped in a robe, seated with a thoughtful expression and a ribbon crown, against a dark background.
Voltaire
French philosopher and author
French dramatist Jean Racine
Jean Racine
French dramatist
Charles Baudelaire
Charles Baudelaire
French author
Victor Hugo
Victor Hugo
French writer
François Rabelais
François Rabelais
French author

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