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Alphonse Daudet

1840 - 1897

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Alphonse Daudet (French: [dodɛ]; 13 May 1840 – 16 December 1897) was a French novelist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alphonse Daudet has received more than 695,547 page views. His biography is available in 63 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 60 in 2019). Alphonse Daudet is the 276th most popular writer (up from 360th in 2019), the 318th most popular biography from France (up from 414th in 2019) and the 50th most popular French Writer.

Alphonse Daudet is most famous for his novels "Lettres de mon Moulin" and "Le Petit Chose."

Memorability Metrics

  • 700k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 70.66

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 63

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.20

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.37

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Alphonse Daudet ranks 276 out of 7,302. Before him are Walt Whitman, Bartolomé de las Casas, Alcaeus of Mytilene, Jordanes, Marguerite Duras, and Henrik Pontoppidan. After him are Kenzaburō Ōe, Italo Calvino, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Paul Heyse, and Mary Wollstonecraft.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1840, Alphonse Daudet ranks 8. Before him are Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Émile Zola, Auguste Rodin, Crazy Horse, Murad V, and Victoria, Princess Royal. After him are Odilon Redon, Edward Drinker Cope, Carl Menger, Ernst Abbe, Carlota of Mexico, and John Boyd Dunlop. Among people deceased in 1897, Alphonse Daudet ranks 3. Before him are Johannes Brahms, and Thérèse of Lisieux. After him are Karl Weierstrass, Jacob Burckhardt, Edward Drinker Cope, Jamāl al-Dīn al-Afghānī, Savitribai Phule, Duchess Sophie Charlotte in Bavaria, Albert Marth, James Joseph Sylvester, and Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge.

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In France

Among people born in France, Alphonse Daudet ranks 318 out of 6,770. Before him are Raymond Poincaré (1860), Claude Lorrain (1600), Georges-Eugène Haussmann (1809), Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis (1792), Georges Clemenceau (1841), and Jean Gabin (1904). After him are Diane de Poitiers (1499), Louis Joseph, Dauphin of France (1781), Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707), Raynald of Châtillon (1123), Hyacinthe Rigaud (1659), and Georges de La Tour (1593).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Alphonse Daudet ranks 50. Before him are Frédéric Mistral (1830), J. M. G. Le Clézio (1940), Germaine de Staël (1766), François Mauriac (1885), Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau (1749), and François de La Rochefoucauld (1613). After him are Paul Valéry (1871), Colette (1873), Pierre Beaumarchais (1732), Chrétien de Troyes (1135), Antonin Artaud (1896), and Françoise Sagan (1935).

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