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WRITER

Alphonse de Châteaubriant

1877 - 1951

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Alphonse Van Bredenbeck de Châteaubriant (French pronunciation: [alfɔ̃s də ʃɑtobʁijɑ̃]; 25 March 1877 – 2 May 1951) was a French writer who won the Prix Goncourt in 1911 for his novel Monsieur de Lourdines and Grand prix du roman de l'Académie française for La Brière in 1923. After a visit to Germany in 1935 he became an enthusiastic advocate for Nazism.Along with other Breton nationalists he supported fascist and anti-semitic ideas in opposition to the French state. In 1940 he founded the pro-Nazi weekly newspaper La Gerbe and served as President of the Groupe Collaboration. During World War II, he was a member of the central committee of the Légion des Volontaires Français contre le Bolchévisme, an organisation founded in 1941 by Fernand de Brinon and Jacques Doriot to recruit volunteers to fight alongside the Germans in the USSR. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alphonse de Châteaubriant has received more than 56,805 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Alphonse de Châteaubriant is the 3,975th most popular writer (down from 3,748th in 2019), the 3,727th most popular biography from France (down from 3,422nd in 2019) and the 487th most popular French Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Alphonse de Châteaubriant ranks 3,975 out of 5,755Before him are Osip Senkovsky, Pierre Bec, Ömer Seyfettin, Louise Otto-Peters, Giuseppe Adami, and Isaac de Benserade. After him are Jurij Koch, Arkady Fiedler, Florbela Espanca, Alexander McCall Smith, William Wharton, and Itzik Feffer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1877, Alphonse de Châteaubriant ranks 109Before him are Franz Nopcsa von Felső-Szilvás, Georg Kolbe, Giuseppe Pizzardo, Buddy Bolden, Ned Maddrell, and Noël Bas. After him are Joanni Perronet, Shefqet Vërlaci, Bolesław Leśmian, Slava Raškaj, Georgy Sedov, and René Navarre. Among people deceased in 1951, Alphonse de Châteaubriant ranks 106Before him are Charles Dillon Perrine, José Enrique Varela, Karel Teige, Enrique Santos Discépolo, Tilemachos Karakalos, and Louis Adamic. After him are Robert Walker, Pamela Colman Smith, Gustave Sandras, Haj Ali Razmara, Fanny Brice, and Leopold Andrian.

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In France

Among people born in France, Alphonse de Châteaubriant ranks 3,727 out of 6,011Before him are René Llense (1913), Jean-Étienne Montucla (1725), Pierre Bec (1921), Henri Callot (1875), Michèle Alliot-Marie (1946), and Isaac de Benserade (1613). After him are Françoise Rosay (1891), Pierre Gaveaux (1761), René Petit (1899), Étienne Mattler (1905), Alain Cavalier (1931), and Théodore Steeg (1868).

Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Alphonse de Châteaubriant ranks 487Before him are Louise-Victorine Ackermann (1813), Gabriel Chevallier (1895), Marie Marvingt (1875), Rémy Belleau (1528), Pierre Bec (1921), and Isaac de Benserade (1613). After him are Edmonde Charles-Roux (1920), Jacqueline de Romilly (1913), Pierre Mac Orlan (1882), Pierre Pithou (1539), Anna Gavalda (1970), and Michel Carré (1821).