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Born November 29, 1890 • France
Died September 8, 1980 (aged 89) • Spain
Awards And Honors Prix Goncourt (1925)
Marmontel, detail of an engraving by Augustin de Saint-Aubin, 1765, after a portrait by C.N. Cochin
Jean-François Marmontel
French author
Jérôme Tharaud
French writer
Jean Tharaud
French writer
Duhamel
Georges Duhamel
French author
Marcel Arland
French writer
Colette
Colette
French writer
Alexandre Dumas.
Alexandre Dumas, père
French author [1802–1870]
Pierre Boulle
French author
Drieu La Rochelle, 1934
Pierre Drieu La Rochelle
French writer
Léon Daudet
Léon Daudet
French journalist and author
Vercors
French author
Du Camp
Maxime Du Camp
French writer and photographer
Albert Cohen
Greek-born French-Jewish author and diplomat
Voltaire
Voltaire
French philosopher and author
Victor Hugo
Victor Hugo
French writer
Marcel Proust
Marcel Proust
French writer
Vigny, lithograph by Antoine Maurin, 1832
Alfred-Victor, count de Vigny
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André Malraux, 1967.
André Malraux
French writer and statesman
François-Auguste-René, vicomte de Chateaubriand
François-Auguste-René, vicomte de Chateaubriand
French author
Michel Houellebecq
Michel Houellebecq
French author