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Overhead shone the great star of the constellation of Lyra, destined to be the polar star for men who will live tens of thousands of years after we have ceased to be.

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Marguerite Yourcenar

Marguerite Yourcenar
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Born: June 8, 1903
Died: December 17, 1987 (aged 84)
Bio: Marguerite Yourcenar was a Belgian-born French novelist and essayist. Winner of the Prix Femina and the Erasmus Prize, she was the first woman elected to the Académie française, in 1980, and the seventeenth person to occupy Seat 3.
Known for:
  1. Memoirs of Hadrian (1951)
  2. The Abyss (1968)
  3. Oriental Tales (1938)
  4. Coup de Grâce (1939)
  5. Two lives and a dream (1987)
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