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Born August 19, 1780 • Paris • France
Died July 16, 1857 (aged 76) • Paris • France

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Beranger, detail of a lithograph by Metzmacher, 1835
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André Gide, oil painting by P.A. Laurens, 1924; in the National Museum of Modern Art, Paris.
André Gide
French writer
Guillaume de Machaut, detail of a miniature from Oeuvres de Guillaume de Machaut, c. 1370–80; in the Bibliothèque Nationale (Ms. Fr. 1584).
Guillaume de Machaut
French poet and musician
Rutebeuf
French poet
Philippe Fabre d'Églantine, detail from an oil painting by Jean-Baptiste Greuze; in the Louvre, Paris.
Philippe Fabre d’Églantine
French dramatist
Florent Chrestien
French author
Jean Vauquelin de La Fresnaye, sieur des Yveteaux
French magistrate, poet, and moralist
Marie-Joseph de Chénier, lithograph by François Le Villain, 19th century.
Marie-Joseph de Chénier
French author
Passerat, detail of a portrait
Jean Passerat
French poet
Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, engraving by Georg Friedrich Schmidt after a painting by Jacques-André-Joseph Aved
Jean-Baptiste Rousseau
French author
Mathurin Régnier
French poet
Eustache Deschamps
French writer
John Gay, oil painting by William Aikman; in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh.
John Gay
British author
Tucholsky, Kurt
Kurt Tucholsky
German writer
Molière
Molière
French dramatist
Voltaire
Voltaire
French philosopher and author
Jean Racine
Jean Racine
French dramatist
Charles Baudelaire
Charles Baudelaire
French author
Victor Hugo
Victor Hugo
French writer
François Rabelais
François Rabelais
French author
Rimbaud, detail from “Un Coin de table,” oil painting by Henri Fantin-Latour, 1872; in the Louvre, Paris
Arthur Rimbaud
French poet

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