Charles Gounod
French composer
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Jean de La Fontaine
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Napoleon III
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Pius IX
255th Pope of the Catholic Church
William Shakespeare
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Queen Victoria
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Henry Chorley
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2° President of the French Republic.
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James Harding
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Polyeuctus
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George Frideric Handel
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Ambroise Thomas
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Victorien Sardou
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Michael Kennedy (music critic)
British historian
Arthur Sullivan
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Robert Orledge
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Victor Hugo
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson
British poet laureate
Richard Strauss
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Sergei Diaghilev
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Francis Poulenc
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Adelina Patti
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Nellie Melba
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Roger Nichols (musical scholar)
Gustave Chouquet
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Julien Tiersot
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Maurice Ravel
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Graham Johnson (musician)
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Alfred de Musset
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Alphonse de Lamartine
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Edward Maitland
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Frederic Weatherly
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William Wordsworth
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Charles Kingsley
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Thomas Hood
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Lord Byron
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Francis Palgrave
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