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French and Francophone Philosophers

Guess the French or Francophone philosopher by date and famous work
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1533-1592 (Essays)
Michel de Montaigne
1596-1650 (Discourse on the Method)
René Descartes
1623-1662 (Thoughts)
Blaise Pascal
1689-1755 (Spirit of the Laws)
Montesquieu
1694-1778 (Candide)
Voltaire
1712-1778 (The Social Contract)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
1713-1784 (Encyclopedia)
Denis Diderot
1760-1825 (The New Christianity)
Henri Saint-Simon
1798-1857 (Course of Positive Philosophy)
Auguste Comte
1805-1859 (Democracy in America)
Alexis de Tocqueville
1858-1917 (The Division of Labour in Society)
Emile Durkheim
1905-1980 (Being and Nothingness)
Jean-Paul Sartre
1906-2001 (Liberty)
Léopold Senghor
1908-1986 (The Second Sex)
Simone de Beauvoir
1913-2008 (On Colonialism)
Aimé Césaire
1913-1960 (The Stranger)
Albert Camus
1915-1980 (Death of the Author)
Roland Barthes
1918-1990 (Reading Capital)
Louis Althusser
1925-1961 (The Wretched of the Earth
Frantz Fanon
1926-1984 (Discipline and Punish)
Michel Foucault
1930-2004 (Of Grammatology)
Jacques Derrida
1937-present (Ethics)
Alain Badiou
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