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Born March 28, 1863 • Paris • France
Died October 30, 1935 (aged 72) • Paris • France
Subjects Of Study literature • Asia • religion
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Émile Durkheim
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Vigny, lithograph by Antoine Maurin, 1832
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André Gide, oil painting by P.A. Laurens, 1924; in the National Museum of Modern Art, Paris.
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Claude Bernard, detail of a lithograph by A. Laemlein, 1858
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portrait of Germaine de Staël
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Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
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Albert Camus
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Buffon, engraving by C. Baron after Drouais, 1761.
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Frédéric Mistral, etching, 1864
Frédéric Mistral
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Rolland
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François Mauriac
François Mauriac
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Anatole France
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