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Théophile GAUTIER
French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, and literary critic
1811 - 1872 -
Leconte de Lisle
French poet
1818 - 1894 -
Henri de TOULOUSE-LAUTREC
French painter, printmaker, draughtsman, caricaturist, and illustrator
1864 - 1901 -
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
French writer, poet, journalist and aviator
1900 - 1944 -
George SAND
French novelist
1804 - 1876 -
Arthur RIMBAUD
French Poet
1854 - 1891 -
Charles PEGUY
French poet, essayist, and editor
1873 - 1914 -
Marcel PAGNOL
French novelist, playwright, and filmmaker
1895 - 1974 -
Jean-François MILLET
French painter and one of the founders of the Barbizon school
1814 - 1875 -
Guy de MAUPASSANT
French writer and considered one of the fathers of the modern short story
1850 - 1893 -
Pierre de COUBERTIN
French pedagogue and historian, founder of the International Olympic Committee, and considered father of the modern Olympic Games
1863 - 1937 -
Maurice CHEVALIER
French actor, singer, and popular vaudeville entertainer
1888 - 1972 -
Hector BERLIOZ
French Romantic composer
1803 - 1869 -
Charles BAUDELAIRE
French poet, critic, and translator
1821 - 1867 -
Honoré DE BALZAC
French novelist and playwright
1799 - 1850 -
Paul FORT
French poet
1872 - 1960 -
André LHOTE
French Cubist painter of figure subjects, portraits, landscapes and still life
1885 - 1962 -
Virginie DÉJAZET
French actress
1798 - 1875 -
Paul DUKAS
French composer, critic, scholar and teacher
1865 - 1935 -
Henri BARBUSSE
French novelist and a member of the French Communist Party
1873 - 1935