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Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre (, US also ; 21 June 1905 – 15 April 1980) was a French philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary critic. He was one ...
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François-Marie Arouet (21 November 1694 – 30 May 1778), known by his nom de plume Voltaire (, ), was a French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher famous for his wit, his criticism of ...
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Michel Onfray (born 1 January 1959) is a French writer and philosopher. Having a hedonistic, epicurean and atheist world view, he is a highly prolific author on philosophy, having written more than 100 ...
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Isidore Marie Auguste François Xavier Comte ( 19 January 1798 – 5 September 1857) was a French philosopher and writer who formulated the doctrine of positivism. He is often regarded as the first philosopher ...
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Paul-Henri Thiry, Baron d'Holbach (8 December 1723 – 21 January 1789), known as d'Holbach, was a French-German philosopher, encyclopedist and writer, who was prominent figure in the French Enlightenment ...
French Enlightenment philosopher, writer and encyclopædist (1713–1784)
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Denis Diderot (5 October 1713 – 31 July 1784) was a French philosopher, art critic, and writer, best known for serving as co-founder, chief editor, and contributor to the Encyclopédie along with ...
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Jean Coterau, was born on 27 October 1898 in the French city of Millau and died on 20 April 1979 in the same city. He was a politician and a militant secularist.
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Charlie Hebdo (French for 'Charlie Weekly') is a French satirical weekly magazine, featuring cartoons, reports, polemics, and jokes. The publication has been described as anti-racist, sceptical, secular ...
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Raoul Adolphe Georges Rigault, born on 16 January 1846 in Paris, where he also died on 24 May 1871, was a journalist and French revolutionary, best known for his role during the Paris Commune of 1871.