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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 »

Bayle, Pierre

Bayle, bayl or behl, Pierre (1647-1706), a French philosopher, wrote a well-known dictionary.

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Beauvoir, Simone de

Beauvoir, Simone de, bohv WAHR, see MAWN duh (1908-1986), was a French author.

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Diderot, Denis

Diderot, Denis, DEE duh roh, duh NEE (1713-1784), was a major French philosopher of an intellectual movement called the Enlightenment.

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Flammarion, Camille

Flammarion, flah mah RYAWN, Camille (1842-1925), was one of the most imaginative and colorful writers of science books.

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La Rochefoucauld, Duc de

La Rochefoucauld, la rawsh foo KOH, Duc de (1613-1680), was a French writer famous for his Maxims (1665).

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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