Pierre Corneille (1606–1684)

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1. Charles William Eliot

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2. Molière

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3. Racine

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4. Pierre Corneille

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6. Marivaux

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7. Beaumarchais

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8. Eugene Ionesco

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9. Guy de Maupassant

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10. Honoré de Balzac

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11. Alfred de Musset

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12. Jean-Paul Sartre

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13. Blaise Pascal

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14. Alphonse Daudet

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15. Denis Diderot

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16. Ralph Waldo Emerson

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17. André Gide

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18. Saint Augustine

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19. Hervé Bazin

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20. Will Durant

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