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Georges Bernanos

1888-02-20 – 1948-07-05

Simone de Beauvoir

1908-01-09 – 1986-04-14

Guy de Maupassant

1850-08-05 – 1893-07-06

André Gide

1869-11-22 – 1951-02-19

Gustave Flaubert

1821-12-12 – 1880-05-08

Émile Zola

1840-04-02 – 1902-09-29

Honoré de Balzac

1799-05-20 – 1850-08-18

Stendhal

1783-01-23 – 1842-03-23

Victor Hugo

1802-02-26 – 1885-05-22

Montesquieu

1689-01-18 – 1755-02-10

Denis Diderot

1713-10-05 – 1784-07-31

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

1712-06-28 – 1778-07-02

Jean de La Bruyère

1645-08-16 – 1696-05-11

François de La Rochefoucauld

1613-09-15 – 1680-03-17

René Descartes

1596-03-31 – 1650-02-11

François Rabelais

1494-01-01 – 1553-04-09

Fernão Mendes Pinto

1509-01-01 – 1583-07-08

Michel de Montaigne

1533-02-28 – 1592-09-12

Luísa Costa Gomes

1954-06-16

Fialho de Almeida

1857-05-07 – 1911-03-04

Ramalho Ortigão

1836-10-24 – 1915-09-27

Egas Moniz

Oliveira Martins

1845-04-30 – 1894-08-24

Maria Velho da Costa

1938-06-26 – 2020-05-23