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Also Known As Théophile de Viaud • Théophile
Born 1590 • France
Died September 25, 1626 (aged 36) • Paris • France
Notable Works “Pyrame et Thisbé”
Claudel
Paul Claudel
French author
French dramatist Jean Racine
Jean Racine
French dramatist
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Pierre Corneille
French poet and dramatist
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Jean de La Taille
French author
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Népomucène Lemercier
French author
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Jean Desmarets de Saint-Sorlin
French author
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Marc-Antoine de Muret
French author
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Jacques Grévin
French author
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
Vigny, lithograph by Antoine Maurin, 1832
Alfred-Victor, count de Vigny
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
François Mauriac
François Mauriac
French author
Marivaux, Pierre
Pierre Marivaux
French author
Romains
Jules Romains
French author
Antonin Artaud as Jean Massieu
Antonin Artaud
French author and actor
Scarron, engraving by Georg Friedrich Schmidt after a drawing by Antoine Boizot
Paul Scarron
French author
Gresset, oil painting by Louis Tocqué; in the Château de Versailles
Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset
French author

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