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Born 1802 or 1805 • Vlissingen • Netherlands
Died December 13, 1892 • Paris • France
James Thurber, 1955.
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American writer and cartoonist
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American cartoonist
O.V. Vijayan
Indian cartoonist and writer
Thomas Aloysius Dorgan
American journalist and cartoonist
Georges Clemenceau.
Georges Clemenceau
prime minister of France
Honoré Daumier
Honoré Daumier
French artist
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
French philosopher
Albert Camus
Albert Camus
French author
Jean-Paul Marat
Jean-Paul Marat
French politician, physician, and journalist
Adolphe Thiers
Adolphe Thiers
French statesman and historian
Bernard-Henri Lévy
Bernard-Henri Lévy
French philosopher, journalist, filmmaker, and public intellectual
Ève Curie, c. 1945.
Ève Curie
French and American pianist, journalist, and diplomat
Marivaux, Pierre
Pierre Marivaux
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Desmoulins, Camille
Camille Desmoulins
French journalist
Jacques-René Hébert
Jacques Hébert
French political journalist
Charlest, count de Montalember
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François-Noël Babeuf, engraving by an unknown artist, 18th century.
François-Noël Babeuf
French political journalist
Nougayrède, Natalie
Natalie Nougayrède
French journalist
Simon-Nicolas-Henri Linguet
French journalist and lawyer
André de Chénier, oil painting by François Thomise, 1784; in Béziers Museum, France
André de Chénier
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