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Théodore-Agrippa d’ Aubigné
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Born February 8, 1552 • France
Died April 29, 1630 (aged 78) • Geneva • Switzerland
Notable Works “Adventures du baron de Faeneste” • “Confession catholique du sieur de Sancy” • “Histoire universelle” • “Printemps” • “Tragiques”
Role In Wars of Religion

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Henry IV, undated copperplate engraving.
Henry IV
king of France
Lamartine, detail of an oil painting by François Gérard; in the Musée National de Versailles et des Trianons
Alphonse de Lamartine
French poet, historian, and statesman
Gaspard II de Coligny
Gaspard II de Coligny, seigneur de Châtillon
French admiral and Huguenot leader
Quinet, oil painting by Sebastien-Melchior Cornu, 1833; in the Musee Carnavalet, Paris
Edgar Quinet
French historian and poet
Louis I de Bourbon, prince de Condé
French military leader
Battle of Sluis during the Hundred Years' War
Jean Froissart
French poet and historian
Henri I de Bourbon, 2 prince de Condé
French prince
François de La Noue
Huguenot leader
François de Bonne, duke de Lesdiguières
French constable
Déroulède, Paul
Paul Déroulède
French politician, poet, and dramatist
Charles de Bourbon, count de Soissons
French count and soldier
Jean-François Sarasin
French author
Jean Racine
Jean Racine
French dramatist
Charles Baudelaire
Charles Baudelaire
French author
Victor Hugo
Victor Hugo
French writer
Rimbaud, detail from “Un Coin de table,” oil painting by Henri Fantin-Latour, 1872; in the Louvre, Paris
Arthur Rimbaud
French poet
Pierre Corneille
French poet and dramatist
Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
French critic
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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