Étienne-Noël d'Amilaville

(1723/1768)

A man of letters and a civil servant, a great friend of Diderot and d'Alembert and especially of Voltaire with whom he acted in concert on the Sirven and Calas affairs.

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Good Joseph Steel

(1742/1833)

Scholar, historian, perpetual secretary of the Academy of Inscriptions, curator of the National Library, academician (1823).

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Jean-Marie Dargaud

(1800/1866)

Historien et romancier, il s’est notamment intéressé à l’Histoire de l’Empire britannique et à ses personnages les plus marquants (Jane Grey, Marie Stuart ou Cromwell).

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