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Madame de Sévigné

1626-1696 •

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Saint-Simon

1675-1755 •

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François Villon

1431-1463 •

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François Rabelais

1483-1553 •

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Pierre de Ronsard

1524-1585 •

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Michel de Montaigne

1533-1592 •

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Pierre Corneille

1606-1684 •

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François de la Rochefoucauld

1613-1680 •

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Jean de La Fontaine

1621-1695 •

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Molière

1622-1673 •

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Blaise Pascal

1623-1662 •

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Jean Racine

1639-1699 •

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Montesquieu

1689-1755 •

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1694-1778

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

1712-1778 •

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Denis Diderot

1713-1784 •

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Beaumarchais

1732-1799 •

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Choderlos de Laclos

1741-1803 •

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Chateaubriand

1768-1848 •

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Stendhal

1783-1842 •

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1802-1885

Alexandre Dumas

1802-1870 •

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George Sand

1804-1876 •

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Gustave Flaubert

1821-1880

Charles Baudelaire

1821-1867 •

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Jules Verne

1828-1905 •

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Émile Zola

1840-1902 •

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Paul Verlaine

1844-1896 •

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Lautréamont

1846-1870 •

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Guy de Maupassant

1850-1893 •

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Arthur Rimbaud

1854-1891 •

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Paul Claudel

1868-1955 •

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André Gide

1869-1951 •

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Marcel Proust

1871-1922 •

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Paul Valéry

1871-1945 •

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Guillaume Apollinaire

1873-1914 •

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François Mauriac

1885-1970 •

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Louis-Ferdinand Céline

1894-1961 •

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Jean Giono

1895-1970 •

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Louis Aragon

1897-1982 •

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Joseph Kessel

1898-1979 •

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Henri Michaux

1899-1984 •

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Marcel Aymé

1902-1967 •

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Raymond Queneau

1903-1987 •

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Marguerite Yourcenar

1903-1987 •

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Georges Simenon

1903-1989 •

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Jean Anouilh

1910-1987 •

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René Barjavel

1911-1985 •

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Albert Camus

1913-1960 •

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Claude Simon

1913-2005 •

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Marguerite Duras

1914-1996 •

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Le Clézio

1940-… •

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Patrick Modiano

1945-… •

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