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Hippolyte-Jules Pilet de La Mesnardière

Hippolyte-Jules Pilet de La Mesnardière (Le Loroux-Bottereau, 1610 - Paris, 4 June 1663) was a French physician, man of letters and dramatist.

Maoilín Óg Mac Bruaideadha

Maoilín Óg Mac Bruaideadha, was a Irish poet and man of letters, who translated the New Testament into Irish at Trinity College, Cambridge.


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Angelo de Gubernatis

Count Angelo de Gubernatis (1840–1913), Italian man of letters, was born at Turin and educated there and at Berlin, where he studied philology.

Arsène Houssaye

Arsène Houssaye (28 March 1815 - 26 February 1896), French novelist, poet and man of letters, was born at Bruyères (Aisne), near Laon.

Barba non facit philosophum

According to the Latin author Aulus Gellius, who relates he was present at the episode, a man in a cloak, "with long hair and a beard that reached almost to his waist" once came to the Athenian aristocrat, ex-Roman consul and man of letters Herodes Atticus, who was renowned for his "charm and his Grecian eloquence" and asked that money be given him εἰς ἄρτους ("for bread").

Dinicu

Dinicu Golescu (Constantin Radovici Golescu; 1777–1830), a member of the Golescu family of boyars, was a Wallachian Romanian man of letters, mostly noted for his travel writings and journalism

George Agar

George Agar-Ellis, 1st Baron Dover (1797–1833), British politician and man of letters

Hart-Davis

Rupert Hart-Davis (1907-1999), British publisher, literary editor, and man of letters

Houssaye

Arsène Houssaye (1815-1896), French novelist, poet and man of letters,

Ibn Hindu

was a poet, a man of letters, and a practitioner of Galenic medicine coming from Rey.

Jagadish Gupta

The Government of India granted him a ‘Distinguished Man of Letters Allowance’ in 1954.

John Crowe

John Crowe Ransom (1888–1974), American poet, essayist, social and political theorist, man of letters, and academic

Lefranc

Jean-Jacques Lefranc, Marquis de Pompignan (1709–1784), French jurist, man of letters and gardener

Louis, Count of Clermont

"He was a curious character: prince of the blood, abbé of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, military officer, libertine, man of letters (or at least a member of the Academy), anti-Parlement, religious during his final years, he was one of the most striking examples (and one of the most amusing on certain days) and also one of the most shocking (although not at all odious), of the abuses and disparities pushed to scandal, under the Old Order, of pleasure and privilege." (Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve).

St Clement's, Eastcheap

Immediately next to the church in Clement's Lane is a memorial stone to Dositej Obradović (1742-1811), a Serbian statesman and man of letters who became Serbia's first Education Minister.