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Georges Simenon (1903-1989)
journalist, photographer
Jean Cocteau (1889-1963)
painter, playwright, film director, poet, actor, illustrator, librettist, voice actor, postage stamp designer, designer, photographer, composer, jewelry designer, ceramicist, director
- Lycée Condorcet
Salvador Dalí (1904-1989)
painter, sculptor, actor, film director, photographer, film actor, scenographer, illustrator, jewelry designer, graphic artist, holographer
- Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando
Patti Smith (born 1946)
poet, visual artist, human rights activist, guitarist, singer, composer, musician, drawer, photographer, performance artist, recording artist, rock singer, rock musician, film director
- Rowan University
Willem Frederik Hermans (1921-1995)
translator, photographer, geographer
- University of Amsterdam, Barlaeus Gymnasium
Hervé Guibert (1955-1991)
journalist, photographer, autobiographer, diarist, film director, art critic
Pierre Loti (1850-1923)
naval officer, essayist, diarist, journalist, photographer
- Lycée Henri-IV, École Navale
Teju Cole (born 1975)
art historian, photographer
- Columbia University, Kalamazoo College