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  2. Victor Hugo - Wikipedia

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    Victor-Marie Hugo, vicomte Hugo[1] (French: [viktɔʁ maʁi yɡo] ⓘ; 26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885) was a French Romantic writer and politician. During a literary career that spanned more than sixty years, he wrote in a variety of genres and forms. His most famous works are the novels The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (1831) and Les Misérables ...

  3. Marcel Proust - Wikipedia

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    Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust (/ p r uː s t / PROOST; [1] French: [maʁsɛl pʁust]; 10 July 1871 – 18 November 1922) was a French novelist, literary critic, and essayist who wrote the monumental novel À la recherche du temps perdu (in French – translated in English as Remembrance of Things Past and more recently as In Search of Lost Time) which was published in seven ...

  4. Romanticism in France - Wikipedia

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    Romanticism (Romantisme in French) was a literary and artistic movement that appeared in France in the late 18th century, largely in reaction against the formality and strict rules of the official style of neo-classicism. It reached its peak in the first part of the 19th century, in the writing of François-René de Chateaubriand and Victor ...

  5. Romanticism - Wikipedia

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    Eugène Delacroix, Death of Sardanapalus, 1827, taking its Orientalist subject from a play by Lord Byron. Philipp Otto Runge, The Morning, 1808. Romanticism (also known as the Romantic movement or Romantic era) was an artistic and intellectual movement that originated in Europe towards the end of the 18th century.

  6. List of French novelists - Wikipedia

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    Françoise de Graffigny (1695–1758), author of Lettres d'une Péruvienne. Abbé Prévost (1697–1763), author of Manon Lescaut. Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon (1707–1777) Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778), philosophe, author of Julie, or the New Heloise. Denis Diderot (1713–1784), philosophe, author of Rameau's Nephew.

  7. List of avant-garde artists - Wikipedia

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    Ernst Jandl (Austrian writer, poet, and translator) Alfred Jarry (writer) James Joyce (writer) Franz Kafka (writer) Tadeusz Kantor (director) Lajos Kassák (1887–1967, Hungarian avant-garde poet and painter) Srečko Kosovel (Slovene poet) Peter Laugesen (Danish poet) Jackson Mac Low, American poet.

  8. Guy de Maupassant - Wikipedia

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    Grave at Montparnasse, Paris. Henri-René-Albert-Guy de Maupassant was born on 5 August 1850 at the late 16th-century Château de Miromesnil (near Dieppe in the Seine-Inférieure (now Seine-Maritime) Department, France), the elder son of Gustave de Maupassant (1821–99) and Laure Le Poittevin, [6] whose family hailed from the prosperous ...

  9. French literature - Wikipedia

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    t. e. French literature (French: littérature française) generally speaking, is literature written in the French language, particularly by citizens of France; it may also refer to literature written by people living in France who speak traditional languages of France other than French. Literature written in the French language by citizens of ...