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Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac: Quick Facts

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Facts

Born March 6, 1619 • Paris • France
Died July 28, 1655 (aged 36) • France
Notable Works “A Voyage to the Moon: with some account of the Solar World” • “Histoire comique des états et empires de la lune” • “Histoire comique des états et empires du soleil” • “La Mort d’Agrippine” • “Le Pédant joué”

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French satirist Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac
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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
Marivaux, Pierre
Pierre Marivaux
French author
Lesage, engraving by J.-B. Guelard, 18th century
Alain-René Lesage
French author
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Charles de Marguetel de Saint-Denis, seigneur de Saint-Évremond
French author
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Octave Mirbeau
French author
Philippe Fabre d'Églantine, detail from an oil painting by Jean-Baptiste Greuze; in the Louvre, Paris.
Philippe Fabre d’Églantine
French dramatist
Jean-Jacques Bernard, 1963
Jean-Jacques Bernard
French dramatist
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Marc-Antoine de Muret
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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Édouard Bourdet
French dramatist
Émile Fabre, 1914
Émile Fabre
French dramatist
Hébert, Anne
Anne Hébert
Canadian poet and novelist
George Gascoigne
George Gascoigne
English poet
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Paul Willems
Belgian author
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Richard Savage
English writer
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James Crerar Reaney
Canadian writer
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Félix-Antoine Savard
Canadian author
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José de Cadalso y Vázquez
Spanish writer
Caragiale, Ion Luca
Ion Luca Caragiale
Romanian author

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