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French clergyman, poet and playwright. He was admitted to the French Academy in 1704.

Alsatian poet and playwright, witness to the early years of surrealism.

Poet and man of letters.

Poet, tragedian, perpetual secretary of the French Academy (1829), he was also, during the Revolution, a member of the Council of Five Hundred and then president of the Tribunate.

Poet.

French poet, close to Dadaism and Surrealism.

Writer, poet, playwright and screenwriter, member of the Goncourt Academy.

A poet and theatre man, who embraced surrealism, he was confined for nine years in a mental asylum.

Historian, essayist, but also novelist and poet, he devoted himself primarily to Napoleon and Napoleon III. He was elected to the French Academy in 1946, but he was never formally inducted, having died before he could submit his acceptance speech to the reading committee.