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Born July 11, 1846 • Périgueux • France
Died November 2, 1917 (aged 71) • France
Notable Works “The Desperate Man” • “The Woman Who Was Poor”
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François Mauriac
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Edmond Goncourt
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Jules Goncourt
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Bernanos
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Stendhal, oil painting by Pierre-Joseph Dedreux-Dorcy; in the Bibliothèque Municipale de Grenoble, France.
Stendhal
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Marcel Proust
Marcel Proust
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André Gide, oil painting by P.A. Laurens, 1924; in the National Museum of Modern Art, Paris.
André Gide
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Jean-Paul Sartre
Jean-Paul Sartre
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André Malraux, 1967.
André Malraux
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François-Auguste-René, vicomte de Chateaubriand
François-Auguste-René, vicomte de Chateaubriand
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Rolland
Romain Rolland
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Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio
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Simone de Beauvoir
Simone de Beauvoir
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Constant, detail of an oil painting by Hercule des Roches, c. 1830; in the Musée Carnavalet, Paris
Benjamin Constant
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George Sand
George Sand
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Georges Perec
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Jean Genet
Jean Genet
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Alain Robbe-Grillet
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Marguerite Duras
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Nathalie Sarraute
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