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Théodore-Agrippa d’ Aubigné: Quick Facts

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Facts

Born February 8, 1552 • France
Died April 29, 1630 (aged 78) • Geneva • Switzerland
Notable Works “Adventures du baron de Faeneste” • “Confession catholique du sieur de Sancy” • “Histoire universelle” • “Printemps” • “Tragiques”
Role In Wars of Religion

Photos

Aubigné, detail of an oil painting by Bartholomaus Sarburgh, 1622; in the Öffentliche Kunstsammlung, Basel, Switz.
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Henry IV, undated copperplate engraving.
Henry IV
king of France
Lamartine, detail of an oil painting by François Gérard; in the Musée National de Versailles et des Trianons
Alphonse de Lamartine
French poet, historian, and statesman
Gaspard II de Coligny
Gaspard II de Coligny, seigneur de Châtillon
French admiral and Huguenot leader
Quinet, oil painting by Sebastien-Melchior Cornu, 1833; in the Musee Carnavalet, Paris
Edgar Quinet
French historian and poet
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Louis I de Bourbon, prince de Condé
French military leader
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
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Henri I de Bourbon, 2 prince de Condé
French prince
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François de La Noue
Huguenot leader
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François de Bonne, duke de Lesdiguières
French constable
Déroulède, Paul
Paul Déroulède
French politician, poet, and dramatist
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Charles de Bourbon, count de Soissons
French count and soldier
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Jean-François Sarasin
French author
French dramatist Jean Racine
Jean Racine
French dramatist
Charles Baudelaire
Charles Baudelaire
French author
Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault
French philosopher and historian
Victor Hugo
Victor Hugo
French writer
Rimbaud, detail from “Un Coin de table,” oil painting by Henri Fantin-Latour, 1872; in the Louvre, Paris
Arthur Rimbaud
French poet
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Pierre Corneille
French poet and dramatist
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Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
French critic
Vigny, lithograph by Antoine Maurin, 1832
Alfred-Victor, count de Vigny
French author

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