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Also Known As Anne Lefèbvre
Born 1654 • France
Died August 17, 1720 (aged 66) • Paris • France
Notable Family Members spouse André Dacier
Portrait of poet Alexander Pope
Alexander Pope
English author
Andrew Lang
British scholar
Adamántios Koraïs
Greek scholar
Opitz, Martin
Martin Opitz
German poet
Coornhert, Dirck Volckertszoon
Dirck Volckertszoon Coornhert
Dutch author
Johann Heinrich Voss, lithograph.
Johann Heinrich Voss
German poet
Samuel Putnam
American editor and author
Richmond Lattimore
American poet and translator
Thomas Tickell
English writer
Charles Baudelaire
Charles Baudelaire
French author
Théophile Gautier
French author
Amyot, Jacques
Jacques Amyot
French scholar
Tyard, engraving
Pontus de Tyard
French poet
Florent Chrestien
French author
Jacques Borel
French author
Delille, detail of an engraving by Antoine Cardon after a painting by J.-L. Monnier
Jacques Delille
French writer
Jean de La Fontaine, oil painting by François De Troy; in the Bibliothèque Publique et Universitaire, Geneva
Jean de La Fontaine
French poet
Nicolas Boileau.
Nicolas Boileau
French author
Jean de La Bruyère, detail of an engraving by Pierre Drevet from Saint-Jean's frontispiece of a 1697 edition of Les Caractères de Théophraste traduits du grec avec Les Caractères ou les moeurs de ce siècle.
Jean de La Bruyère
French author
Perrault, Charles
Charles Perrault
French author