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Born December 7, 1862 • Paris • France
Died January 1, 1920 (aged 57) • Paris • France
Notable Works “Chair molle” • “Jeunesse et amours de Manuel Héricourt” • “Le Thé chez Miranda”
Movement / Style Symbolism • naturalism

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Stendhal, oil painting by Pierre-Joseph Dedreux-Dorcy; in the Bibliothèque Municipale de Grenoble, France.
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Jean-Paul Sartre
Jean-Paul Sartre
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François Mauriac
François Mauriac
French author
Simone de Beauvoir
Simone de Beauvoir
French writer
Alain Robbe-Grillet
French author
Larbaud
Valery-Nicolas Larbaud
French author
André Gide, oil painting by P.A. Laurens, 1924; in the National Museum of Modern Art, Paris.
André Gide
French writer
Remy de Gourmont
French author
Gustave Kahn, oil painting by Roger Casse, 1931; in a private collection
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Suzanne Lilar
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Theodor Fontane, from a German postage stamp.
Theodor Fontane
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Albert Memmi
Tunisian novelist
Jean Tharaud
French writer
Jérôme Tharaud
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Charles Baudelaire
Charles Baudelaire
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Victor Hugo
Victor Hugo
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Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
French critic
Marcel Proust
Marcel Proust
French writer
Vigny, lithograph by Antoine Maurin, 1832
Alfred-Victor, count de Vigny
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portrait of Germaine de Staël
Germaine de Staël
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