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Académie française.,

Institut de France, Paris. Photo by user Nitot / Wikimedia Commons.
Vittorio Alfieri

Dante Alighieri

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
Anacreon

Roman Marble, Imperial Period (2nd or 3rd Century). Photo by Eric Gaba / Wikimedia Commons.
Johann Peter Friedrich Ancillon

Plaque on J. P. F. Ancillon's tomb. Photo by user Mutter Erde / Wikimedia Commons
Apuleius

Mosaic (4th century) from Trier
marquis d' René-Louis de Voyer Argenson

Lodovico Ariosto

Ludovico Ariosto. From Bibliothek des allgemeinen und praktischen Wissens. Bd. 5" (1905). Wikimedia Commons.
Aristophanes.,

Honoré de Balzac

Wikipédia France
Pedro Calderón de la Barca

John Barrow

Sir John Barrow (the Mutiny on the Bounty author, not the physicist)
Jean-Jacques Barthélemy

Pierre Bayle

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Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais

wikimedia commons
Charles Geneviève Louis Auguste André Timothée d' Eon de Beaumont

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Madame Leprince de Beaumont

Portrait anonyme peint sur ivoire, XVIIIe siècle. Collection particulière. Photo M. Urtado.
William Beckford

Sir Joshua Reynolds, painted this and T. A. Dean made the engraving
Jeremy Bentham

Jean Boccace

Portrait of Giovanni Boccaccio from Il decameron di Messer Giovanni Boccaccio (Firenze : Ciardetti, 1822).
Boileau Despréaux

Hyacinthe Rigaud (1659-1743), Nicolas Boileau
Musée national du Château de Versailles, France.
George Henry Borrow

wikipedia
Jacques Bénigne Bossuet

From "The Hundred Greatest Men," 1885 (UofTexas Public Domain Photo Gallery)
Henry Brougham

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
Jean de La Bruyère

Wikiépdia France
Sir Egerton Brydges

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Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon

wikimedia commons - Portrait de Georges-Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon : François-Hubert Drouais (1727-1775) : Musée Buffon à Montbard
E. Bulwer Lytton

From Wikipedia
Edmund Burke

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Gilbert Burnet

Robert Burns

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Baron George Gordon Byron Byron

Julius Caesar

public domain
Augustin Calmet

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Lazare Carnot

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Jacques Casanova

Portrait of Giacomo Casanova by Francesco Casanova, Gosundarstvennyj Istoreceskij Muzej, Moscow
Gaius Valerius Catullus

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Benvenuto Cellini

François René de Chateaubriand

Wikipedia
Marcus Tullius Cicero

from Wikipedia
Earl of Edward Hyde Clarendon

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Source: "Little journeys to the homes of the great",
by Elbert Hubbard, v. 5 (New York : 1916)
(Project Gutenberg)
Benjamin Constant

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James Fenimore Cooper

Daguerreotype, 1850, by Matthew Brady
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Pierre Corneille

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George Crabbe

Claude-Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon

Jean-Baptiste-André Gautier d'Agoty (1740-1786)
George Cruikshank

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Allan Cunningham

baron Georges Cuvier

Sculpture by David d'Angers, 1833
(Credit: Marie-Lan Nguyen, 2006)
Jean Le Rond d' Alembert

Wikipédia France
Casimir Delavigne

Louis Huart, Charles Philipon, "Galerie de la presse, de la littérature et des beaux-arts", Paris, Aubert, vol. 1, 1839.
Denis Diderot

Isaac Disraeli

Wikipedia
Charles Pinot- Duclos

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Alexandre Dumas

Charles François Du Périer Dumouriez

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Pliny the Elder

Johann Gottlieb Fichte

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Henry Fielding

wikipedia
Jean de La Fontaine

Wikipédia France
Charles James Fox

France.,

French Flag in the Montreal Olympic Stadium. Photo by user michelarc / Flickr.
Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze, 1777
William Godwin

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Empress of Russia Catherine

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Freiherr von Friedrich Melchior Grimm

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François-Pierre-Guillaume Guizot

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comte de Antoine Hamilton

Jos. de Hammer

Váceslav Hanka

Grave of Václav Hanka, Vyšehrad Cemetery, Prague (Photo credit: Miaow Miaow (wikipedia user) , October 2005
William Hazlitt

engraving by John Hazlitt
Henri Heine

"Heinrich Heine (1840)"
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Herodotus.,

Roman copy of a Greek original of the early 4th century BC,
Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome, Italy
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)
John-Frederic-William Herschel

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Hippocrate

Peter Paul Rubens, engraving, 1638. From the collection of the U.S. National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD.
Thomas Hobbes

Painting by John Michael Wright (detail)
E. T. A. Hoffmann

E.T.A. Hoffmann (1776-1822) from Wikipedia
Homère

from Wikipedia
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
Horace

Horace, as imagined by Anton von Werner
Victor Hugo

wikipedia
Leigh Hunt

Leigh Hunt at an early age. Frontispiece of the book, Men, women and Books, by Leigh Hunt, published in 1847.
Washington Irving

Perry-Castañeda Collection, University of Texas at Austin
Samuel Johnson

Duyckinick, Evert A. Portrait Gallery of Eminent Men and Women in Europe and America. New York: Johnson, Wilson & Company, 1873.
baron de Antoine Henri Jomini

Marcus Junianus Justinus

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Juvenal

Woodcut of Juvenal from the Nuremberg Chronicle, created in the late 1400s.
August von Kotzebue

Pierre François Lacenaire

Levilly lithograph
Alphonse de Lamartine

Wikipédia France
Lady Caroline Lamb

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Charles Lamb

wikipedia
Félicité Robert de Lamennais

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L. E. L.,

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Johann Caspar Lavater

Wikimedia Commons.
Freiherr von Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Alain René Le Sage

M. G. Lewis

Matthew Gregory Lewis. Frontispiece from The life and correspondence of M. G. Lewis, with many pieces in prose and verse, never before published (1839)
Francis Lieber

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Charles Joseph de Ligne Ligne

Portrait by H. Grevedon: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Tissandier Collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-ppmsca-02275)
Livy

from Wikipedia
Lucan

Nuremberg Chronicle also known as Schedelsche Weltchronik
of Samosata. Lucian

from Wikipedia (better one needed)
Lucrèce,

Edmund Ludlow

Martin Luther

Niccolò Machiavelli

James Mackintosh

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comte De Joseph Marie Maistre

wikimedia - portrait by Karl Vogel von Vogelstein, ca. 1810
Martial

From Wikipedia
Thomas Moore

Thomas Moore (1779-1852) / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienOssian

Wikimedia Commons
Hermann Ludwig Heinrich von Pückler-Muskau

charles Perrault

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Persius.,

Petronius Arbiter,

Titus Maccius Plautus

Quintilian

Antoine Rivarol

Antoine de Rivarol. Reproduction of a painting by Melchior Wyrsch. Frontispiece of André Victor Le Breton's Rivarol; sa vie, ses idées, son talent, d'après des documents nouveaux (1895)
duc de François La Rochefoucauld

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Jean Baptiste Louis Jacques Rousseau

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

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C Salluste

All the works of that famous historian Salust (London, 1692).
Walter Scott

From "The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century"
(Project Gutenberg)
Eugène Scribe

Nordisk familjebok
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Juliusz Słowacki

Image via Wikipedia
Tobias George Smollett

from Wikipedia
Laurence Sterne

Cayo Suetonio

Woodcut from the Nuremberg Chronicle (15th century)
Cornelius Tacitus

Terence

Alessandro Verri

Virgile

Wikipedia: "Publius Vergilius Maro"
Description: Bust of Vergil
Date: April, 2005
Author: A. Hunter Wright
Horace Walpole

Samuel Warren

Pline le jeune

Wolfgang Sauber
Heinrich Zschokke

Heinrich Zschokke. Wikimedia Commons.
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