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Born February 16, 1850 • France
Died February 16, 1917 (aged 67) • Paris • France

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French philosopher and author
Vigny, lithograph by Antoine Maurin, 1832
Alfred-Victor, count de Vigny
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Albert Camus
Albert Camus
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Alphonse Daudet
Alphonse Daudet
French author
Mérimée, detail of an engraving after a drawing by A. Devéria, c. 1832
Prosper Mérimée
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Marivaux, Pierre
Pierre Marivaux
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Aymé, 1967
Marcel Aymé
French author
Roger Martin du Gard
French author
Lesage, engraving by J.-B. Guelard, 18th century
Alain-René Lesage
French author
Marmontel, detail of an engraving by Augustin de Saint-Aubin, 1765, after a portrait by C.N. Cochin
Jean-François Marmontel
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Hervieu, Paul
Paul Hervieu
French author
Jules Supervielle
French author
Samuel Beckett, 1965
Samuel Beckett
Irish author
Nikolay Gogol
Nikolay Gogol
Ukrainian-born writer
August Strindberg
August Strindberg
Swedish dramatist
Yevgeny Zamyatin
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Bulgakov, c. 1932
Mikhail Bulgakov
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Behan
Brendan Behan
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Paul Willems
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Mikhail Yevgrafovich, Count Saltykov
Russian author