WRITER

Alfred de Musset

1810 - 1857

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Alfred Louis Charles de Musset-Pathay (French: [alfʁɛd də mysɛ]; 11 December 1810 – 2 May 1857) was a French dramatist, poet, and novelist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alfred de Musset has received more than 474,502 page views. His biography is available in 56 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 55 in 2019). Alfred de Musset is the 411th most popular writer (up from 487th in 2019), the 475th most popular biography from France (up from 579th in 2019) and the 72nd most popular French Writer.

Alfred de Musset is most famous for his poetry.

Memorability Metrics

  • 470k

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  • 68.26

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 56

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.68

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.08

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Poésies nouvelles, 1836-1852
1852
Lorenzaccio
1926
Poésies nouvelles
1840
La confession d'un enfant du siècle
1800
Comédies et proverbes
1840
Nouvelles
1852

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Alfred de Musset ranks 411 out of 7,302. Before him are Henry James, Joseph Roth, Dan Brown, René Guénon, Michel Houellebecq, and Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux. After him are Qu Yuan, Sylvia Plath, Thomas Bernhard, Patrick Modiano, Ivar Aasen, and Savitribai Phule.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1810, Alfred de Musset ranks 7. Before him are Frédéric Chopin, Robert Schumann, Pope Leo XIII, Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour, P. T. Barnum, and Theodor Schwann. After him are Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies, Éliphas Lévi, Alexandre Colonna-Walewski, Ferdinand Philippe, Duke of Orléans, Ernst Kummer, and Nikolay Pirogov. Among people deceased in 1857, Alfred de Musset ranks 6. Before him are Auguste Comte, Augustin-Louis Cauchy, Carl Czerny, Archduchess Sophie of Austria, and Eugène François Vidocq. After him are Dominic Savio, Mikhail Glinka, Eugène Sue, Charles Lucien Bonaparte, Louis-Eugène Cavaignac, and Francis Beaufort.

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In France

Among people born in France, Alfred de Musset ranks 475 out of 6,770. Before him are Isabelle Adjani (1955), Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824), Alfred Kastler (1902), René Guénon (1886), Jean-Baptiste Biot (1774), and Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux (1636). After him are Ambroise Paré (1510), Yves Klein (1928), Charles-Henri Sanson (1739), Adolphe Adam (1803), Pierre Richard (1934), and Carus (230).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Alfred de Musset ranks 72. Before him are Georges Bataille (1897), Jean Genet (1910), Gregory of Tours (538), Jacques Prévert (1900), René Guénon (1886), and Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux (1636). After him are Patrick Modiano (1945), William of Rubruck (1220), Hector Malot (1830), Louis Aragon (1897), André Maurois (1885), and Auguste Escoffier (1847).

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