François Le Métel, seigneur de Boisrobert

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Born	1589 • Caen • France
Died	March 30, 1662 (aged 73) • Paris • France
Subjects Of Study	Louis-François-Armand du Plessis, duc de Richelieu • Louis XIII

Catulle Mendès

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Voltaire

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Victor Hugo

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Vigny, lithograph by Antoine Maurin, 1832

Alfred-Victor, count de Vigny

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François Mauriac

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Pierre Marivaux

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Jules Romains

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Henry de Montherlant

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Julien Green

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Eugène-Marin Labiche

French dramatist

Ludovic Halévy

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Alexandre Dumas, fils

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Marmontel, detail of an engraving by Augustin de Saint-Aubin, 1765, after a portrait by C.N. Cochin

Jean-François Marmontel

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Jean Chapelain

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Jean Richepin

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Jean Aicard

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Paul Hervieu

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Assia Djebar

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Denis Diderot

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