Claude Mauriac

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Born	April 25, 1914 • Paris • France
Died	March 22, 1996 (aged 81) • Paris • France
Notable Works	“Le Temps immobile”
Subjects Of Study	French literature • New Novel

Alain Robbe-Grillet

French author

Jean Cayrol

French author

Remy de Gourmont

French author

Nathalie Sarraute

French author

Michel Butor

French author

Valery-Nicolas Larbaud

French author

Ernesto Sábato

Argentine writer

Suzanne Lilar

Belgian author

Albert Memmi

Tunisian novelist

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Swiss-born French philosopher

Charles Baudelaire

French author

Denis Diderot

French philosopher

Émile Zola

French author

Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

French critic

Marcel Proust

French writer

Jean-Paul Sartre

French philosopher and author

Germaine de Staël

French-Swiss author

Albert Camus

French author

François-Auguste-René, vicomte de Chateaubriand

French author

Annie Ernaux

French author

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