1877 - 1951
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, Alphonse de Châteaubriant ranks 3,975 out of 5,755. Before 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.
1800 - 1858
HPI: 48.73
Rank: 3,969
1921 - 2014
HPI: 48.72
Rank: 3,970
1884 - 1920
HPI: 48.72
Rank: 3,971
1819 - 1895
HPI: 48.72
Rank: 3,972
1878 - 1946
HPI: 48.72
Rank: 3,973
1613 - 1691
HPI: 48.71
Rank: 3,974
1877 - 1951
HPI: 48.71
Rank: 3,975
1936 - Present
HPI: 48.71
Rank: 3,976
1894 - 1985
HPI: 48.71
Rank: 3,977
1894 - 1930
HPI: 48.70
Rank: 3,978
1948 - Present
HPI: 48.69
Rank: 3,979
1925 - 2008
HPI: 48.69
Rank: 3,980
1900 - 1952
HPI: 48.69
Rank: 3,981
Among people born in 1877, Alphonse de Châteaubriant ranks 109. Before 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 106. Before 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.
1877 - 1933
HPI: 50.26
Rank: 103
1877 - 1947
HPI: 50.18
Rank: 104
1877 - 1970
HPI: 49.50
Rank: 105
1877 - 1931
HPI: 49.24
Rank: 106
1877 - 1974
HPI: 49.18
Rank: 107
1877 - 1960
HPI: 48.77
Rank: 108
1877 - 1951
HPI: 48.71
Rank: 109
1877 - 1950
HPI: 48.62
Rank: 110
1877 - 1946
HPI: 48.47
Rank: 111
1877 - 1937
HPI: 48.46
Rank: 112
1877 - 1906
HPI: 48.37
Rank: 113
1877 - 1914
HPI: 48.18
Rank: 114
1877 - 1968
HPI: 48.02
Rank: 115
1867 - 1951
HPI: 49.83
Rank: 100
1891 - 1951
HPI: 49.74
Rank: 101
1900 - 1951
HPI: 49.58
Rank: 102
1901 - 1951
HPI: 49.14
Rank: 103
1866 - 1951
HPI: 49.01
Rank: 104
1898 - 1951
HPI: 48.95
Rank: 105
1877 - 1951
HPI: 48.71
Rank: 106
1918 - 1951
HPI: 48.49
Rank: 107
1878 - 1951
HPI: 48.15
Rank: 108
1872 - 1951
HPI: 48.06
Rank: 109
1901 - 1951
HPI: 48.00
Rank: 110
1891 - 1951
HPI: 47.93
Rank: 111
1875 - 1951
HPI: 47.88
Rank: 112
Among people born in France, Alphonse de Châteaubriant ranks 3,727 out of 6,011. Before 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).
1913 - 2014
HPI: 48.73
Rank: 3,721
1725 - 1799
HPI: 48.73
Rank: 3,722
1921 - 2014
HPI: 48.72
Rank: 3,723
1875 - 1956
HPI: 48.72
Rank: 3,724
1946 - Present
HPI: 48.71
Rank: 3,725
1613 - 1691
HPI: 48.71
Rank: 3,726
1877 - 1951
HPI: 48.71
Rank: 3,727
1891 - 1974
HPI: 48.71
Rank: 3,728
1761 - 1825
HPI: 48.71
Rank: 3,729
1899 - 1989
HPI: 48.71
Rank: 3,730
1905 - 1986
HPI: 48.70
Rank: 3,731
1931 - Present
HPI: 48.70
Rank: 3,732
1868 - 1950
HPI: 48.70
Rank: 3,733
Among writers born in France, Alphonse de Châteaubriant ranks 487. Before 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).
1813 - 1890
HPI: 48.85
Rank: 481
1895 - 1969
HPI: 48.84
Rank: 482
1875 - 1963
HPI: 48.84
Rank: 483
1528 - 1577
HPI: 48.82
Rank: 484
1921 - 2014
HPI: 48.72
Rank: 485
1613 - 1691
HPI: 48.71
Rank: 486
1877 - 1951
HPI: 48.71
Rank: 487
1920 - 2016
HPI: 48.66
Rank: 488
1913 - 2010
HPI: 48.66
Rank: 489
1882 - 1970
HPI: 48.55
Rank: 490
1539 - 1596
HPI: 48.51
Rank: 491
1970 - Present
HPI: 48.47
Rank: 492
1821 - 1872
HPI: 48.39
Rank: 493