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MOLIERE
French playwright and actor
1622 - 1673 -
Jean-Jacques ROUSSEAU
Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer of the 18th-century Enlightenment
1712 - 1778 -
Virginie DÉJAZET
French actress
1798 - 1875 -
Laurent MOURGUET
French puppeteer, creator of the famous puppet Guignol
1769 - 1844 -
Sophie DE CONDORCET
French prominent salon hostess
1764 - 1822 -
Armand CARREL
French journalist and political writer
1800 - 1836 -
Paul DELAROCHE
French painter
1797 - 1856 -
Nicolas Edme RESTIF DE LA BRETONNE
French novelist
1734 - 1806 -
Horace VERNET
French painter
1789 - 1863 -
Louis HACHETTE
French publisher
1800 - 1864 -
Miguel de CERVANTES
Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright
1547 - 1616 -
Madame DE LA FAYETTE
French writer, the author of La Princesse de Clèves, France's first historical novel and one of the earliest novels in literature
1634 - 1693 -
Olympe DE GOUGES
French playwright and political activist
1748 - 1793 -
Antoine LAVOISIER
French nobleman prominent in the histories of chemistry and biology
1743 - 1794 -
Nicolas DE CONDORCET
French philosopher, mathematician, and early political scientist
1743 - 1794 -
Claude Joseph ROUGET de LISLE
French Army officer of the Revolutionary Wars known for writing the words and music of La Marseillaise that become the French national anthem
1760 - 1836 -
Johann Sebastian BACH
German composer, organist, violist, and violinist
1685 - 1750 -
Pierre CORNEILLE
French tragedian
1606 - 1684 -
STENDHAL
French writer
1783 - 1842 -
VOLTAIRE
French Enlightenment writer, essayist, and philosopher
1694 - 1778