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Charles Baudelaire
French author
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Nicholas Oresme
French bishop, scholar, and economist
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Maurice Maeterlinck
Belgian author
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Valery Yakovlevich Bryusov
Russian author
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Elisabeth Marbury
American theatrical and literary agent
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William Caxton
English printer, translator, and publisher
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Melvin Van Peebles
American author and filmmaker
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Mongo Beti
Cameroonian author
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Gabrielle-Émilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, marquise du Châtelet
French scientist and philosopher
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Harriet Martineau
British author
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Jacques Lefèvre d’Étaples
French humanist and theologian
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Anthony Munday
English poet, dramatist, pamphleteer, and translator
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Charles Van Lerberghe
Belgian poet
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Mary Louise Booth
American journalist
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Marguerite Taos Amrouche
Algerian singer and writer
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Vietnamese statesman
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Russian-American writer
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Ferdinand Freiligrath
German poet
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Jacques Amyot
French scholar
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Isabel Florence Hapgood
American translator
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