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Andre
Andre André carries the quiet confidence of the classic French masculine intellectual — a name associated with serious creative achievement and a certain aristocratic bearing that never tips into pretension. In French fiction, characters named André tend to be men of genuine depth who act with conviction, suited to stories of the French literary and artistic world, the Resistance, and the political dramas of 20th-century France.
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Prince Andrei Bolkonsky
War and Peace — Leo Tolstoy
The brilliant, disillusioned Russian prince whose search for meaning — through military glory, love, and finally spiritual peace — is one of world literature's great character portraits.
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