Choderlos de Laclos (1741–1803)

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3. Émile Zola

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4. Gustave Flaubert

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5. Stendhal

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6. Denis Diderot

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7. Guy de Maupassant

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8. Madame de La Fayette

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9. abbé Prévost

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10. Giuseppe di Lampedusa

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11. Henry Fielding

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12. Daniel Defoe

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13. William Makepeace Thackeray

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14. Henri Alain-Fournier

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15. M. G. Lewis

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16. Laurence Sterne

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17. Joris-Karl Huysmans

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18. Ford Madox Ford

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19. François Rabelais

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20. Charles de Secondat Montesquieu

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