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Born August 4, 1926 • Paris • France
Died November 5, 1977 (aged 51) • Paris • France
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Edmond Goncourt
French author
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Émile Erckmann
French author
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Maurice Druon
French author
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Louis-Alexandre Chatrian
French author
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Jérôme Tharaud
French writer
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Jean Tharaud
French writer
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Jules Goncourt
French author
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Swiss-born French philosopher
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
Gabriel Marcel
Gabriel Marcel
French philosopher and author
Engraved portrait of Michel de Montaigne wearing a ruffled collar and ornate Renaissance clothing, facing forward with a neutral expression.
Michel de Montaigne
French writer and philosopher
Charles Baudelaire
Charles Baudelaire
French author
Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault
French philosopher and historian
Victor Hugo
Victor Hugo
French writer
François Rabelais
François Rabelais
French author
Oval portrait print of Montesquieu by Pierre Michel Alix after Jean Francois Garnerey, showing Montesquieu with long curly white hair and a fur-trimmed robe, facing forward.
Montesquieu
French political philosopher
Rimbaud, detail from “Un Coin de table,” oil painting by Henri Fantin-Latour, 1872; in the Louvre, Paris
Arthur Rimbaud
French poet
French philosopher Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal
French philosopher and scientist

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