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Georges Lacour-Gayet
Georges Lacour-Gayet was a French historian who taught at the École Navale and the École Polytechnique.
His books on the French navy under Louis XV and Louis XVI are much-quoted and were considered references when published, although they betray his patriotic bias.
His master work was a four-volume biography of Talleyrand. |
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Georges Lecomte
Georges Lecomte was a French novelist and playwright, who also wrote literary, historical and artistic studies. |
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Georges Lefebvre
Georges Lefebvre was a French historian, best known for his work on the French Revolution and peasant life. He is considered one of the pioneers of "history from below". He coined the phrase the "death certificate of the old order" to describe the Great Fear of 1789. Among his most significant works was the 1924 book Les Paysans du Nord pendant la Révolution française, which was the result of 20 years of research into the role of the peasantry during the revolutionary period. |
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Georges Ohnet
Georges Ohnet was a French novelist. |
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Georges Palante
Georges Toussaint Léon Palante was a French philosopher and sociologist. |
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Georges Perec
Georges Perec was a French novelist, filmmaker, documentalist, and essayist. He was a member of the Oulipo group. His father died as a soldier early in the Second World War and his mother was killed in the Holocaust. Many of his works deal with absence, loss, and identity, often through word play. |
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Georges Poisson
Georges Poisson (27 November 1924 – 14 May 2022) was a French art historian. |
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Georges Poulet
Georges Poulet was a Belgian literary critic associated with the Geneva School. Best known for his four-volume work Studies in Human Time, Poulet rejected formalist approaches to literary criticism and advanced the theory that criticism requires the reader to open his or her mind to the consciousness of the author. His work has had a lasting influence on critics such as J. Hillis Miller. |
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Georges Rodenbach
Georges Raymond Constantin Rodenbach was a Belgian Symbolist poet and novelist. |
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Georges Schéhadé
Georges Schehadé was a Lebanese playwright and poet writing in French. |