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Also Known As Marie-Françoise-Sophie Nichault de Lavalette Gay
Born July 1, 1776 • Paris • France
Died March 5, 1852 (aged 75) • Paris • France
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
Victor Hugo
Victor Hugo
French writer
Dimitry Levitzky: portrait of Denis Diderot
Denis Diderot
French philosopher
Vigny, lithograph by Antoine Maurin, 1832
Alfred-Victor, count de Vigny
French author
Jean-Paul Sartre
Jean-Paul Sartre
French philosopher and author
portrait of Germaine de Staël
Germaine de Staël
French-Swiss author
Albert Camus
Albert Camus
French author
Alphonse Daudet
Alphonse Daudet
French author
Jean Cocteau, 1939.
Jean Cocteau
French poet and artist
Tahar Ben Jelloun
Tahar Ben Jelloun
Moroccan French author
God of Carnage
Yasmina Reza
French dramatist, novelist, and actress
Mérimée, detail of an engraving after a drawing by A. Devéria, c. 1832
Prosper Mérimée
French author
François Mauriac
François Mauriac
French author
Rolland
Romain Rolland
French writer
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Jean Giraudoux
French author
Marivaux, Pierre
Pierre Marivaux
French author
Romains
Jules Romains
French author
Alexandre Dumas.
Alexandre Dumas, père
French author [1802–1870]
Jean Genet
Jean Genet
French writer
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Marcel Paul Pagnol
French author and director