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Louis Althusser (1918-1990)
philosopher, politician, editor
Hans Joachim Störig (1915-2012)
lexicographer, linguist, historian, philosopher, jurist, editor
Ricardo Flores Magón (1873-1922)
journalist, trade unionist, anarchist, military personnel, politician, philosopher
Peter Marshall (born 1946)
historian, philosopher
Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy (1618-1693)
military personnel, courtier, philosopher
Gilbert Cesbron (1913-1979)
philosopher
James Madison (1751-1836)
politician, diplomat, philosopher, lawyer, statesperson
![Washington-Madison papers collected and preserved by James Madison, estate of J. C. McGuire ... containing highly important letters from General Washington ... also letters of Edmund Randolph, Edmund Pendleton, Joseph Jones, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Monroe, Jonathan Dayton, General John Armstrong, Henry Clay, and other eminent statesmen, to James Madison, as well as James Madison's own letters embracing the period of the stamp-act trouble, revolutionary war, constitutional convention, war of 1812, and Jackson's administration. Also the remainder of the extraordinary collection of American historical letters and documents, gathered for the purpose of illustrating Bancroft's History of the United States, and Parkman's Works ... Rev. Jacob Duché's letter to General Washington, relics of Washington, oil portraits, etc. To be sold ... December 6th and 7th, 1892 ... Catalogue compiled and sale conducted [by] Stan. V. Henkels. Thomas Birch's sons, auctioneers ..](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/9583210-M.jpg)
![Message from the President of the United States [i.e. Madison], transmitting copies of a correspondence between Mr. Monroe and Mr. Foster](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/6761846-M.jpg)
![Message from the President of the United States [i.e. Madison], transmitting a letter from the Secretary of War](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/6762004-M.jpg)
Fyodor Tyutchev (1803-1873)
poet, diplomat, philosopher, politician, translator, opinion journalist
