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Born 1555 • near Caen • Caen • France
Died October 16, 1628 (aged 73) • Paris • France

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Nicolas Boileau.
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Jean de La Taille
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Jacques Peletier
French poet
Johann Christoph Gottsched
German literary critic
Charles Baudelaire
Charles Baudelaire
French author
Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
French critic
Théophile Gautier
French author
François Mauriac
François Mauriac
French author
Charles Maurras
French writer and political theorist
Yves Bonnefoy
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Antonin Artaud as Jean Massieu
Antonin Artaud
French author and actor
André Breton
André Breton
French poet
Gresset, oil painting by Louis Tocqué; in the Château de Versailles
Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset
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Joachim du Bellay, pencil drawing, 16th century; in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris.
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Jean-Antoine de Baïf.
Jean-Antoine de Baïf
French poet
Charles de Marguetel de Saint-Denis, seigneur de Saint-Évremond
French author
Jean Desmarets de Saint-Sorlin
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Catulle Mendès.
Catulle Mendès
French author
Chapelain, engraving by Robert Nanteuil, 1655
Jean Chapelain
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Gustave Kahn, oil painting by Roger Casse, 1931; in a private collection
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