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Born April 28, 1947 (age 77) • Paris • France
Subjects Of Study Egyptology
Voltaire
Voltaire
French philosopher and author
Victor Hugo
Victor Hugo
French writer
Vigny, lithograph by Antoine Maurin, 1832
Alfred-Victor, count de Vigny
French author
Tahar Ben Jelloun
Tahar Ben Jelloun
Moroccan author
Alexandre Dumas.
Alexandre Dumas, père
French author [1802–1870]
Kristeva, Julia
Julia Kristeva
French author
Michel Butor
French author
Marguerite Yourcenar
French author
Marie-Madeleine de La Fayette; detail of an engraving by E.-J. Desroches
Marie-Madeleine, comtesse de La Fayette
French author
Adam, Paul
Paul Adam
French author
Marcel Prévost.
Marcel Prévost
French novelist
Abdelkebir Khatibi
Moroccan scholar
Ramón Amaya Amador
Honduran author
John Richardson
Canadian writer
Ćosić, Dobrica
Dobrica Ćosić
Serbian novelist, essayist, and politician
Antoine Gérin-Lajoie
Canadian author
Gaspé, engraving, 1871
Philippe Aubert de Gaspé
French-Canadian author
Winston Graham
British author
Bryher
British author
George MacDonald Fraser
British writer