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Born	c.1190 • Beauvais • France
Died	1264 • Paris • France

Johann Jakob Herzog

German theologian

Victor Hugo

French writer

William Smellie

Scottish publisher and scientist

David L. Sills

American sociologist

Warren E. Preece

American editor

Frank Moore Colby

American writer and editor

Thomas Stewart Traill

Scottish editor

Denis Diderot

French philosopher

Guy de Maupassant

French writer

Jean Le Rond d’Alembert

French mathematician and philosopher

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

Jean-Paul Marat

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Georges Duby

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Lucien Paul Victor Febvre

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Théophile Gautier

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Joseph Liouville

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Simone de Beauvoir

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Theodore Beza

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André Breton

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Jules Laforgue

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