sade
(ɑd, sæd)
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Donatien alphonse François, Comte de (Marquis de Sade), 1740–1814, French novelist: notorious for his tales of sexual gratification through the infliction of pain.
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daudet
(ʊˈdeɪ, dɔ-)
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Alphonse, 1840–97, French writer.
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lamartine
(ˌlɑ mɑrˈtin, ˌlæm ər-)
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Alphonse Marie Louis de Prat de, 1790–1869, French poet.
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bonaparte
(ˈboʊ nəˌpɑrt)
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François Charles Joseph,
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boucher
(ˈʃeɪ)
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François, 1703–70, French painter.
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villon
(ˈyɔ̃)
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François, 1431–63?, French poet.
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gounod
(ˈgu noʊ, guˈnoʊ)
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Charles François, 1818–93, French composer.
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couperin
(əˈrɛ̃)
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François, 1668–1733, French composer.
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truffaut
(ˈfoʊ)
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François, 1932–84, French film director.
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rabelais
(ˈræb əˌleɪ, ˌræb əˈleɪ)
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François, c1490–1553, French satirist and humorist.
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quesnay
(ɪˈneɪ)
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François, 1694–1774, French economist and physician.
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la rochefoucauld
(ɑ ˌrɔʃ fuˈkoʊ, ˌroʊʃ-)
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François, 6th Duc de, 1613–80, French moralist and composer of epigrams and maxims.
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auber
(ʊˈbɛər)
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Daniel François Esprit, 1782–1871, French composer.
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rodin
(ʊˈdæn, -ˈdɛ̃)
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(François) Auguste (René), 1840–1917, French sculptor.
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robespierre
(ˈroʊbz pɪər, -piˌɛər, ˌroʊ bəs piˈɛər)
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Maximilien François Marie Isidore de, 1758–94, French revolutionary leader.
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mauriac
(ɔˈryɑk)
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François, 1885–1970, French novelist: Nobel prize 1952.
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voltaire
(ʊlˈtɛər, vɒl-)
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(François Marie Arouet), 1694–1778, French writer and philosopher.
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delavigne
(ə lɑˈvin yə)
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(Jean François) Casimir, 1793–1843, French poet and playwright.
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fourier
(ˈfʊər iˌeɪ, -i ər)
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François Marie Charles, 1772–1837, French socialist and reformer.
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maintenon
(ɛ̃təˈnɔ̃)
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Marquise de (Françoise d'Aubigné), 1635–1719, second wife of Louis XIV.
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comte
(ɔ̃t)
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(Isidore) Auguste (Marie François), 1798–1857, French founder of philosophical positivism.
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sully-prudhomme
(üˈli prüˈdɔm)
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René François Armand, 1839–1907, French poet: Nobel prize 1901.
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eugène
(œˈʒɛn)
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Prince (François Eugène de Savoie-Carignan), 1663–1736, Austrian general, born in France.
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récamier
(ˌreɪ kæmˈyeɪ)
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Madame (Jeanne Françoise Julie Adélaïde Bernard), 1777–1849, influential French salon hostess.
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mitterrand
(ˌmi təˈrɑ̃, ˈmi təˌrɑ̃, -ˌrænd)
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François (Maurice Marie), 1916–96, president of France 1981–95.
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chopin
(ˈʃoʊ pæn; for)
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Frédéric François, 1810–49, Polish composer and pianist, in France after 1831.
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duvalier
(ˌdu vælˈyeɪ, duˈvæl yeɪ)
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François, (“Papa Doc”), 1907–71, Haitian dictator: president 1957–71.
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prévostd'exiles
(ɪˈvoʊ dɛgˈzil)
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Antoine François (“Abbé Prévost”), 1697–1763, French novelist.
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napoleon
(əˈpoʊ li ən, -ˈpoʊl yən)
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Napoleon II, (François Charles Joseph Bonaparte) (Duke of Reichstadt) 1811–32, titular king of Rome (son of Napoleon I).
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fourierism
(ˈfʊər i əˌrɪz əm)
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the social system proposed by François Marie Charles Fourier under which society was to be organized into self-sufficient phalanxes large enough for all industrial and social requirements.
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