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Claire de Duras | |
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Born | Brest, Brittany, France | 23 March 1777
Died | 16 January 1828 Nice, France | (aged 50)
Occupation | Novelist |
Notable works | Ourika, Edouard and Olivier |
Claire, Duchess of Duras (née de Kersaint; 1777–1828) was a French writer best known for her 1823 novel called Ourika, which examines issues of racial and sexual equality, and which inspired the 1969 John Fowles novel The French Lieutenant's Woman.
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