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Born March 29, 1857 • Switzerland
Died January 29, 1910 (aged 52) • Grasse • France
portrait of Germaine de Staël
Germaine de Staël
French-Swiss author
Jean-Paul Sartre
Jean-Paul Sartre
French philosopher and author
Théophile Gautier
French author
François Mauriac
François Mauriac
French author
Alain Robbe-Grillet
French author
Abdelkebir Khatibi
Moroccan scholar
Kristeva, Julia
Julia Kristeva
French author
Remy de Gourmont
French author
Suzanne Lilar
Belgian author
Jules-Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly, detail of an oil painting by Émile Lévy, 1881; in the National Museum of the Chateau of Versailles, France.
Jules-Amédée Barbey d’Aurevilly
French author and critic
Albert Memmi
Tunisian novelist
Claude Mauriac
French author
Léon Daudet
Léon Daudet
French journalist and author
Bourget, oil painting by Paul Chabas; in a private collection
Paul Bourget
French author
Larbaud
Valery-Nicolas Larbaud
French author
Georges Bataille
French author
Catulle Mendès.
Catulle Mendès
French author
Marmontel, detail of an engraving by Augustin de Saint-Aubin, 1765, after a portrait by C.N. Cochin
Jean-François Marmontel
French author
Chapelain, engraving by Robert Nanteuil, 1655
Jean Chapelain
French author
Eugène Seers
French-Canadian poet