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Thomas De Quincey

Thomas De Quincey

17851859

British author and literary critic best known for his 1821 work, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, which inaugurated the tradition of addiction literature in the West

John James Audubon

John James Audubon

17851851

French-American ornithologist and painter who created The Birds of America, the definitive 19th-century documentation of North American bird species

Louis XVII of France

Louis XVII of France

17851795

Heir to the French throne who became Dauphin of France just before the French Revolution

Jacob Grimm

Jacob Grimm

17851863

German philologist, linguist, and folklorist known for formulating Grimm's law, co-authoring the Deutsches Wörterbuch, and editing Grimms' Fairy Tales with his brother Wilhelm

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