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  Armand CARREL

  French journalist and political writer

  1800 - 1836
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  Charles-Augustin SAINTE-BEUVE

  Literary critic of French literature

  1804 - 1869
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  COQUELIN L’AÎNÉ

  French actor

  1841 - 1909
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  Edouard DRUMONT

  French journalist and writer

  1844 - 1917
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  Victor NOIR

  French journalist

  1848 - 1870
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  Nicolas Edme RESTIF DE LA BRETONNE

  French novelist

  1734 - 1806
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  Gustave DORÉ

  French artist, printmaker, illustrator and sculptor

  1832 - 1883
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  Emile LITTRE

  French lexicographer, freemason and philosopher

  1801 - 1883
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  Emile ERCKMANN

  French writer

  1822 - 1899
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  Prosper MERIMEE

  French dramatist, historian, archaeologist, and short story writer

  1803 - 1870
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  Louis HACHETTE

  French publisher

  1800 - 1864
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  Henri ROCHEFORT

  French politician

  1831 - 1913
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  Camille SAINT-SAËNS

  French composer, organist, conductor, and pianist

  1835 - 1921
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  Gustave MOREAU

  French Symbolist painter

  1826 - 1898
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  Auguste BARTHOLDI

  French sculptor who is best known for designing the Statue of Liberty

  1834 - 1904
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  Jules VALLÈS

  French journalist and author

  1832 - 1885
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  Jean Eugène ROBERT-HOUDIN

  French watchmaker, magician and illusionist

  1805 - 1871
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  Alphonse DAUDET

  French novelist

  1840 - 1897
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  STENDHAL

  French writer

  1783 - 1842
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  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