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6 days ago · Hergé. Georges Prosper Remi ( French: [ʒɔʁʒ pʁɔspɛʁ ʁəmi]; 22 May 1907 – 3 March 1983), known by the pen name Hergé ( / ɛərˈʒeɪ /; [2] French: [ɛʁʒe] ⓘ ), from the French pronunciation of his reversed initials RG, was a Belgian comic strip artist. He is best known for creating The Adventures of Tintin, the series of ...
4 days ago · Victor-Marie Hugo, vicomte Hugo [1] ( French: [viktɔʁ maʁi yɡo] ⓘ; 26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885), sometimes nicknamed the Ocean Man, was a French Romantic writer and politician. During a literary career that spanned more than sixty years, he wrote in a variety of genres and forms. His most famous works are the novels The Hunchback of ...
3 days ago · Louis Pasteur. Louis Pasteur ForMemRS ( / ˈluːi pæˈstɜːr /, French: [lwi pastœʁ]; 27 December 1822 – 28 September 1895) was a French chemist, pharmacist, and microbiologist renowned for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination, microbial fermentation, and pasteurization, the last of which was named after him.
5 days ago · In Paris, you can visit the homes-turned- museums of four famous French writers: Honoré de Balzac, Victor Hugo, George Sand and Marcel Proust. Follow the Untapped guide and get to know some of ...
May 17, 2024 · Honoré de Balzac (born May 20, 1799, Tours, France—died August 18, 1850, Paris) was a French literary artist who produced a vast number of novels and short stories collectively called La Comédie humaine ( The Human Comedy ). He helped to establish the traditional form of the novel and is generally considered to be one of the greatest ...
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May 22, 2024 · Émile Zola (born April 2, 1840, Paris, France—died September 28, 1902, Paris) was a French novelist, critic, and political activist who was the most prominent French novelist of the late 19th century. He was noted for his theories of naturalism, which underlie his monumental 20-novel series Les Rougon-Macquart, and for his intervention in ...
May 2, 2024 · April 15/16, 1927, Nice. Notable Works: “The Phantom of the Opera”. Gaston Leroux (born May 6, 1868, Paris, Fr.—died April 15/16, 1927, Nice) was a French novelist, best known for his Le Fantôme de l’opéra (1910; The Phantom of the Opera ), which later became famous in various film and stage renditions. After leaving school, Leroux ...
