Maryse Condé

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11 Egyptian Gods and Goddesses

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Also Known As	Maryse Boucolon
Born	February 11, 1934 • Pointe-à-Pitre • Guadeloupe
Died	April 2, 2024 (aged 90) • France
Notable Works	“Hérémakhonon” • “I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem” • “A Season in Rihata” • “Segu” • “The Children of Segu” • “Tree of Life”

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French author

Laure Conan

Canadian author

Jérôme Tharaud

French writer

Jean Tharaud

French writer

Émile Erckmann

French author

Edmond Goncourt

French author

Jules Goncourt

French author

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Swiss-born French philosopher

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Voltaire

French philosopher and author

Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo

French writer

Stendhal, oil painting by Pierre-Joseph Dedreux-Dorcy; in the Bibliothèque Municipale de Grenoble, France.

Stendhal

French author

Honoré de Balzac

Honoré de Balzac

French author

Samuel Beckett

Samuel Beckett

Irish author

Dimitry Levitzky: portrait of Denis Diderot

Denis Diderot

French philosopher

Émile Zola.

Émile Zola

French author

Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert

French author

Marcel Proust

Marcel Proust

French writer

Guy de Maupassant

Guy de Maupassant

French writer

Vigny, lithograph by Antoine Maurin, 1832

Alfred-Victor, count de Vigny

French author

André Gide, oil painting by P.A. Laurens, 1924; in the National Museum of Modern Art, Paris.

André Gide

French writer

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