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Georges Simenon (1903-1989)
journalist, photographer
Eudora Welty (1909-2001)
photographer, literary critic, autobiographer, artist
- University of Cambridge, University of WisconsināMadison
AndrƩ Breton (1896-1966)
poet, essayist, drawer, photographer, art theorist
- LycƩe Chaptal
Le Corbusier (1887-1965)
architect, painter, urban planner, photographer, drawer, textile artist, visual artist, designer
Jean Cocteau (1889-1963)
painter, playwright, film director, poet, actor, illustrator, librettist, voice actor, postage stamp designer, designer, photographer, composer, jewelry designer, ceramicist, director
- LycƩe Condorcet
Karel Äapek (1890-1938)
translator, director, photographer, playwright, journalist, philosopher, painter, literary critic, essayist, poet
- Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague, Humboldt University of Berlin
Pierre Loti (1850-1923)
naval officer, essayist, diarist, journalist, photographer
- LycĆ©e Henri-IV, Ćcole Navale
Samuel Butler (1835-1902)
painter, farmer, translator, photographer
- University of Cambridge, Shrewsbury School