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Stendhal (1783–1842), author of The Red and the Black, considered by some to be the first modern novel, and The Charterhouse of Parma; Élise Voïart, (1786–1866), writer and translator; Charles Paul de Kock (1793–1871) Antoinette Henriette Clémence Robert (1797–1872) Charles Dezobry (1798–1871), historian and historical novelist
The following is a chronological list of classical music composers who lived in, worked in, or were citizens of France. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. Medieval Leonin (c. 1150 – 1201) Perotin (1160 – 1230) Adam de la Halle (1240 – 1287) Philippe de Vitry (1291 ...
Anna Rügerin (died after 1484), is considered to be the first female typographer to inscribe her name in the colophon of a book, in the 15th century Kunegunde Hergot (est. by 1500–died 7 February 1547) was a German printer in Nuremberg and the wife of first Hans Hergot , and later of Georg Wachter , both printers.
Bertrand de Bar-sur-Aube (late twelfth-early thirteenth century) Guillaume de Lorris (c.1200 – c.1238) Theobald IV of Champagne (1201–1253) Jean de Joinville ( c.1224 – c.1317) Rutebeuf (c.1230 – c.1285) Adam de la Halle (c.1250 – c.1285) Jean de Meung or Jean de Meun (1250 – c.1305) or Jean Clopinel or Chopinel; Jacques Bretel (c ...
The great French playwrights of the 17th century, Molière, Racine and Corneille, continued to exert a great influence on the Comédie-Française, but new life was brought into French theater by the tragedies of Voltaire, which introduced modern themes while keeping the classical forms of the alexandrine, as in the play Zaïre in 1732, and The ...
Pierre Vidal-Naquet (1930–2006), French, ancient Greece, civil rights activist [1] Michel Vovelle (1933–2018), social and cultural history of 18th and 19th c. France; key in the historiographical turn away from the Annales paradigm of the longue durée towards history of mentalités and microhistory [58] Eugen Weber (1925–2007), modern ...
Map of France in 1180, at the height of the feudal system.The crown lands of France are in light blue, vassals to the French king in green, Angevin possessions in red. Shown in white is the Holy Roman Empire to the east, the western fringes of which, including Upper Burgundy and Lorraine, were also part of the Old French area.
17th-century French literature was written throughout the Grand Siècle of France, spanning the reigns of Henry IV of France, the Regency of Marie de' Medici, Louis XIII of France, the Regency of Anne of Austria (and the civil war called the Fronde) and the reign of Louis XIV of France.