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Featured Article: Montaigne, Michel Eyquem de
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem de, mon TAYN, mee SHEHL eh KEHM duh (1533-1592), a French writer, is considered by many the creator of the personal essay. See more »
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Bayle, Pierre
Bayle, bayl or behl, Pierre (1647-1706), a French philosopher, wrote a well-known dictionary.
See more »Beauvoir, Simone de
Beauvoir, Simone de, bohv WAHR, see MAWN duh (1908-1986), was a French author.
See more »Diderot, Denis
Diderot, Denis, DEE duh roh, duh NEE (1713-1784), was a major French philosopher of an intellectual movement called the Enlightenment.
See more »Flammarion, Camille
Flammarion, flah mah RYAWN, Camille (1842-1925), was one of the most imaginative and colorful writers of science books.
See more »La Rochefoucauld, Duc de
La Rochefoucauld, la rawsh foo KOH, Duc de (1613-1680), was a French writer famous for his Maxims (1665).
See more »Montaigne, Michel Eyquem de
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem de, mon TAYN, mee SHEHL eh KEHM duh (1533-1592), a French writer, is considered by many the creator of the personal essay.
See more »Perrault, Charles
Perrault, peh ROH, Charles (1628-1703), a French writer, is best known for a book of fairy tales he collected, Tales of Mother Goose.
See more »Sainte-Beuve, Charles Augustin
Sainte-Beuve, Charles Augustin, sant BUHV, shahrl oh goo STAN (1804-1869), a French critic, was the greatest exponent of the biographical method of literary criticism.
See more »Taine, Hippolyte Adolphe
Taine, Hippolyte Adolphe, tayn or tehn, ee paw LEET a DAWLF (1828-1893), was a French intellectual and critic.
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