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Born August 15, 1750 • Paris • France
Died January 18, 1803 (aged 52) • Montrouge • France
Stendhal, oil painting by Pierre-Joseph Dedreux-Dorcy; in the Bibliothèque Municipale de Grenoble, France.
Stendhal
French author
portrait of Germaine de Staël
Germaine de Staël
French-Swiss author
Paul Verlaine, detail from Un Coin de table, oil painting by Henri Fantin-Latour, 1872; in the Louvre, Paris.
Paul Verlaine
French poet
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Georges Duby
French scholar
French writer Michel Houellebecq in 2014, wearing a dark jacket over a blue shirt, standing in front of a blue backdrop with white text and logos.
Michel Houellebecq
French author
God of Carnage
Yasmina Reza
French dramatist, novelist, and actress
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Romain Rolland
French writer
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Charles Maurras
French writer and political theorist
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Françoise Mallet-Joris
Belgian author
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Roger Martin du Gard
French author
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Paul Morand
French author and diplomat
Maurois
André Maurois
French author
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Antoine Court de Gébelin
French scholar and writer
Amiot, Jean-Joseph-Marie
Jean-Joseph-Marie Amiot
Jesuit missionary
Sarah Josepha Hale.
Sarah Josepha Hale
American author
Christine de Pisan
Christine de Pisan
French writer
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Dominique Rolin
Belgian author
Thomas Fuller, lithograph by C. Kell, 1874, after a portrait by an unknown artist, 1648
Thomas Fuller
English scholar, preacher, and author
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Sir Leslie Stephen
British critic
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George Smith
British publisher

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