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Charles Baudelaire

Charles Baudelaire

French author

Iancu Văcărescu

Romanian author

Nicholas Oresme

French bishop, scholar, and economist

Maurice Maeterlinck, c. 1890.

Maurice Maeterlinck

Belgian author

Elisabeth Marbury

American theatrical and literary agent

William Caxton

William Caxton

English printer, translator, and publisher

Valery Yakovlevich Bryusov, portrait by an unknown artist.

Valery Yakovlevich Bryusov

Russian author

Melvin Van Peebles

American author and filmmaker

Mongo Beti

Cameroonian author

Jacques Lefèvre d’Étaples

French humanist and theologian

Charles Van Lerberghe

Belgian poet

Mme du Châtelet, detail of a portrait by an unknown French artist; in a private collection

Gabrielle-Émilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, marquise du Châtelet

French scientist and philosopher

Anthony Munday

English poet, dramatist, pamphleteer, and translator

Mary Louise Booth.

Mary Louise Booth

American journalist

Marguerite Taos Amrouche

Algerian singer and writer

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Harriet Martineau

British author

Pétrus Ky

Vietnamese statesman

Nina Berberova

Russian-American writer

Freiligrath, Ferdinand

Ferdinand Freiligrath

German poet

Isabel Florence Hapgood

American translator

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