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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 637,813 page views. His biography is available in 60 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 57 in 2019). Alphonse Daudet is the 361st most popular writer (down from 243rd in 2019), the 414th most popular biography from France (down from 283rd in 2019) and the 62nd most popular French Writer.

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

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  • 60

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.27

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  • 3.80

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Alphonse Daudet ranks 361 out of 5,755Before him are Andrzej Sapkowski, Jean Genet, Ahmad ibn Fadlan, Erik Axel Karlfeldt, Susan Sontag, and Pär Lagerkvist. After him are Anne Brontë, Henri Charrière, Cyrano de Bergerac, William Wordsworth, Romain Gary, and Margaret Atwood.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1840, Alphonse Daudet ranks 9Before him are Auguste Rodin, Émile Zola, Victoria, Princess Royal, Murad V, Odilon Redon, and Carlota of Mexico. After him are Carl Menger, Ernst Abbe, John Boyd Dunlop, Edward Drinker Cope, Crazy Horse, and Father Damien. Among people deceased in 1897, Alphonse Daudet ranks 5Before him are Johannes Brahms, Thérèse of Lisieux, Karl Weierstrass, and Jacob Burckhardt. After him are Jamāl al-Dīn al-Afghānī, Savitribai Phule, Edward Drinker Cope, Duchess Sophie Charlotte in Bavaria, James Joseph Sylvester, Albert Marth, and Jiroemon Kimura.

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In France

Among people born in France, Alphonse Daudet ranks 414 out of 6,011Before him are André Citroën (1878), Robert I of France (860), Hortense de Beauharnais (1783), Eugène Viollet-le-Duc (1814), André Masséna (1758), and Yves Klein (1928). After him are Philippe Noiret (1930), Louis Renault (1843), Henri Charrière (1906), Nicolas Malebranche (1638), Nicolas Appert (1749), and Abraham de Moivre (1667).

Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Alphonse Daudet ranks 62Before him are Georges Bataille (1897), André Malraux (1901), Pierre Beaumarchais (1732), Paul Éluard (1895), Jacques Prévert (1900), and Jean Genet (1910). After him are Henri Charrière (1906), Arthur de Gobineau (1816), Théophile Gautier (1811), Auguste Escoffier (1847), W. Somerset Maugham (1874), and André Maurois (1885).