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Also Known As Marie-Paul-Hyacinthe Meyer
Born January 17, 1840 • Paris • France
Died September 7, 1917 (aged 77) • Paris • France
Subjects Of Study Provençal literature • Occitan language • Old French language
Théophile Gautier
French author
André Breton
André Breton
French poet
Remy de Gourmont
French author
Catulle Mendès.
Catulle Mendès
French author
Gustave Kahn, oil painting by Roger Casse, 1931; in a private collection
Gustave Kahn
French poet
Paris, Gaston
Gaston Paris
French philologist
Schlegel, Friedrich von
Friedrich von Schlegel
German writer
F.W. Ritschl, engraving
F.W. Ritschl
German scholar
Menéndez Pidal, Ramón
Ramón Menéndez Pidal
Spanish scholar
Aristophanes Of Byzantium
Greek critic and grammarian
Manuel Moschopoulos
Byzantine grammarian
Peider Lansel
Romansh poet
Charles Baudelaire
Charles Baudelaire
French author
Victor Hugo
Victor Hugo
French writer
Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
French critic
Guy de Maupassant
Guy de Maupassant
French writer
Jean-Paul Sartre
Jean-Paul Sartre
French philosopher and author
portrait of Germaine de Staël
Germaine de Staël
French-Swiss author
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
Georges Duby
French scholar