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Honore de Balzac
Honoré de Balzac , 1799-1850, French novelist, b. Tours. Balzac ranks among the great masters of the novel. Of a bourgeois family, he himself later added the "de" to his name. Neglected in childhood, he was sent to a grammar school at Tours and later to a boarding school at Vendôme,... Read more |
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Paul Vidal de la Blache
Paul Vidal de la Blache , French geographer, 1845-1918, the father of French human geography. He was educated at the École Normale Supérieure, Paris, and had an avid interest in history and geography. He taught geography in Nancy and Paris and was a member (1898-1905) of the... Read more |
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Joseph Arthur comte de Gobineau
Joseph Arthur Gobineau, comte de , 1816-82, French diplomat and man of letters. The chief early French proponent of the theory of Nordic supremacy, he was antidemocratic and anti-Semitic. His major work was Essai sur l'inégalité des races humaines (1853-55, tr. The Inequality of... Read more |
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Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas Caritat marquis de Condorcet
Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas Caritat Condorcet, marquis de , 1743-94, French mathematician, philosopher, and political leader, educated at Reims and Paris. He became a member of the Academy of Sciences in 1769 and of the French Academy in 1782. His work on the theory of probability (1785) was a... Read more |
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Henri Breuil
Henri Breuil , known as Abbé Breuil , 1877-1961, French archaeologist, paleontologist, and cleric. He taught at the Institut de paléontologie humaine, Paris, after 1910. During much of his lifetime, Breuil was considered the foremost authority on Paleolithic cave art. He copied and... Read more |
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Andre Malraux
André Malraux , 1901-76, French man of letters and political figure. An intellectual with a broad knowledge of archaeology, art history, and anthropology, Malraux led a remarkably adventurous life. He traveled to Indochina looking for Khmer statuary and later visited such locales as Russia,... Read more |
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Francis Poulenc
Francis Poulenc , 1899-1963, French composer and pianist. He was one of Les Six , a group of French composers who subscribed to the aesthetic ideals of Erik Satie . The spontaneity and lyricism of Poulenc's style are best adapted to small forms—piano pieces such as Mouvements... Read more |
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Roy
Roy also Leroy, Julien-David Le (1724–1803). French architectural historian, who succeeded J. -F. Blondel as Professor of Architecture at the Academy, and prevented the abolition of the School of Architecture when the Revolutionaries closed the Royal Academies during the Terror. His... Read more |
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Vicomte Victor Marie Hugo
Victor Marie Hugo, Vicomte , 1802-85, French poet, dramatist, and novelist, b. Besançon. His father was a general under Napoleon. As a child he was taken to Italy and Spain and at a very early age had published his first book of poems, resolving "to be Chateaubriand or nothing." The... Read more |
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