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Édouard Chavannes

1865 - 1918

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Émmanuel-Édouard Chavannes (5 October 1865 – 29 January 1918) was a French sinologist and expert on Chinese history and religion, and is best known for his translations of major segments of Sima Qian's Records of the Grand Historian, the work's first ever translation into a Western language. Chavannes was a prolific and influential scholar, and was one of the most accomplished Sinologists of the modern era notwithstanding his relatively early death at age 52 in 1918. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Édouard Chavannes has received more than 47,583 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Édouard Chavannes is the 5,216th most popular writer (down from 2,862nd in 2019), the 4,606th most popular biography from France (down from 3,003rd in 2019) and the 588th most popular French Writer.

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Among writers, Édouard Chavannes ranks 5,216 out of 7,302. Before him are Alexander Shishkov, Polydore Vergil, Theodora Kroeber, Natalya Baranskaya, Ahmed Zaki Abu Shadi, and Serhiy Zhadan. After him are Göran Tunström, Muthuswami Dikshitar, Bob Shaw, William F. Buckley Jr., George Crabbe, and Fatos Kongoli.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1865, Édouard Chavannes ranks 145. Before him are Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer, Gustaf Söderström, Ángel Ganivet, Johannes Thiele, Vladimir Bogoraz, and Hermann Hirt. After him are Paul Raud, Andrew Claude de la Cherois Crommelin, Leónidas Plaza, John Monash, Ferdinand Feyerick, and Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe. Among people deceased in 1918, Édouard Chavannes ranks 157. Before him are Johan Henrik Deuntzer, Henri Tauzin, Abbas Sahhat, Johannes Thiele, Arno Bieberstein, and Helene von Druskowitz. After him are Vasily Andreyev, Edward Abramowski, Waldemar Rosenberger, Nadezhda Suslova, V. Volodarsky, and Casimir de Candolle.

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In France

Among people born in France, Édouard Chavannes ranks 4,606 out of 6,770. Before him are Thomas Beaufort, Duke of Exeter (1377), Marcel Alexandre Bertrand (1847), Marie-Jeanne de Lalande (1768), André Chorda (1938), Johan Micoud (1973), and Philippe Cattiau (1892). After him are Claudine Picardet (1735), Louis-Marie Billé (1938), Robert Guédiguian (1953), Robert Boutigny (1927), Arnaud Desplechin (1960), and Yvette Cauchois (1908).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Édouard Chavannes ranks 588. Before him are Roger Vercel (1894), Henri Béraud (1885), Marceline Loridan-Ivens (1928), Honorat de Bueil, seigneur de Racan (1589), Philippe Néricault Destouches (1680), and Tony Duvert (1945). After him are Jules Arsène Arnaud Claretie (1840), Jacques Laurent (1919), Jean Clair (1940), Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes (1884), Armand Lanoux (1913), and Marguerite Audoux (1863).

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