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Born c.1150 • Languedoc • France
Died c.November 27, 1207 • Saint-Denis • France
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Luís de Sousa
Portuguese historian
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Bana
Indian writer
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Hesychius Of Miletus
Byzantine historian
Stendhal, oil painting by Pierre-Joseph Dedreux-Dorcy; in the Bibliothèque Municipale de Grenoble, France.
Stendhal
French author
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Roger Martin du Gard
French author
Bosio, Jean-Baptiste-François: Portrait of Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet
Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet
French philosopher and humanist
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
Ève Curie, c. 1945.
Ève Curie
French and American pianist, journalist, and diplomat
Rolland
Romain Rolland
French writer
Robida illustration
Albert Robida
French illustrator
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Charles Maurras
French writer and political theorist
Joinville, Jean, sire de: Histoire de Saint-Louis
Jean, sire de Joinville
French author
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Françoise Mallet-Joris
Belgian author
Pasquier, Étienne
Étienne Pasquier
French author and lawyer
Medieval illuminated painting by Loyset Liedet showing the Battle of Sluys with armored soldiers fighting on crowded wooden ships, some falling into the water, with banners and sails overhead.
Jean Froissart
French poet and historian
Anaïs Nin
Anaïs Nin
French author
Amyot, Jacques
Jacques Amyot
French scholar