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Agnes Mary Frances Duclaux
Born: February 27, 1857
Died: February 9, 1944 (aged 86)
Bio: Agnes Mary Frances Duclaux, born Agnes Mary Frances Robinson, known after her first marriage as Agnes-Marie-François Darmesteter, was an English writer and scholar on many subjects connected with France and French literature, and a poet.
Known for:
- Margaret of Angoulême, queen of Navarre
- The life of Ernest Renan
- Twentieth century French writers
- The life of Racine
- The French ideal