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Alphonse Allais

1854 - 1905

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Alphonse Allais (20 October 1854 in Honfleur – 28 October 1905 in Paris) was a French writer, journalist and humorist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alphonse Allais has received more than 115,551 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Alphonse Allais is the 1,563rd most popular writer (down from 1,536th in 2019), the 1,795th most popular biography from France (down from 1,714th in 2019) and the 227th most popular French Writer.

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  • 120k

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  • 57.21

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  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.01

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.81

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Alphonse Allais ranks 1,563 out of 5,755Before him are Marcel Aymé, Yaşar Kemal, Lewis Mumford, Nicolas-Edme Rétif, Liu Zongyuan, and Elizabeth Bishop. After him are Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz, Sergei Dovlatov, Alexander Belyaev, Alice Walker, Olaudah Equiano, and James Ellroy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1854, Alphonse Allais ranks 29Before him are Charles Webster Leadbeater, Salomon August Andrée, Georg Kerschensteiner, Alfredo Catalani, Léo Taxil, and Hubert Lyautey. After him are Yan Fu, Otto Sverdrup, Charles Algernon Parsons, John Philip Sousa, Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers, and Lady Randolph Churchill. Among people deceased in 1905, Alphonse Allais ranks 23Before him are Josip Juraj Strossmayer, Alois Riegl, Constantin Meunier, Archduke Joseph Karl of Austria, Hudson Taylor, and Ivan Sechenov. After him are Oswald Achenbach, Albert von Kölliker, Adolf Bastian, Marcel Schwob, Infanta Amalia of Spain, and Anton Ažbe.

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In France

Among people born in France, Alphonse Allais ranks 1,795 out of 6,011Before him are Marcel Aymé (1902), Guy Roux (1938), Nicolas-Edme Rétif (1734), Paul Virilio (1932), Fabien Barthez (1971), and Félix Savart (1791). After him are Louis-Nicolas Clérambault (1676), Isabelle of France (1225), Renée Simonot (1911), Philippe de Broca (1933), Pierre-Jules Hetzel (1814), and François de Neufville, duc de Villeroy (1644).

Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Alphonse Allais ranks 227Before him are Anna de Noailles (1876), Jean de Meun (1240), Madame d'Aulnoy (1651), Charles Paul de Kock (1793), Marcel Aymé (1902), and Nicolas-Edme Rétif (1734). After him are Remy de Gourmont (1858), Jean-François Marmontel (1723), Gabriel Naudé (1600), Marie de Gournay (1565), René Char (1907), and Hincmar (806).