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French satirical dramatists and playwrights

  • VoltaireFrançois-Marie Arouet was born in Paris on the 21st of November 1694. He entered the world as the youngest child of a minor treasury official and a woman…
  • MolièreJean Poquelin was born in Paris shortly before his christening on the 15th of January 1622. A maid who saw him for the first time exclaimed Le nez, a…
  • Jean GiraudouxHippolyte Jean Giraudoux entered the world on the 29th of October 1882 in Bellac, a small town in Haute-Vienne. His father Léger worked for the Ministry of…