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Catherine II
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Charles II of Spain
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Anne Boleyn
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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Louis XVI
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Voltaire
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Yekaterina Vorontsova-Dashkova
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Nikolai Gogol
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Johann Sebastian Bach
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Marquise de Pompadour
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Niccolò Paganini
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Georges Jacques Danton
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Elizabeth I
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Charlotte Brontë
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Baruch Spinoza
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Anne of Austria
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Margaret Theresa of Spain
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William Shakespeare
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