Montesquieu, Charles-Louis de Secondat
1689 - 1755

French man of letters and political philosopher; after Voltaire the most important cultural influence in France and in...

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James, P.D.
1920 - 2014

English crime writer born in Oxford as Phyllis Dorothy James. She graduated from the Cambridge High School for Girls in...

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Flaubert, Gustave
1821 - 1880

The French author Gustave Flaubert, the son of a prominent surgeon, grew up in Rouen. Both his parents were atheists, and,...

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Garve, Andrew
1908 - 2001

Andrew Garve is the best known of the three pseudonyms that the English journalist and author Paul Winterton made use of...

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