WRITER

André Breton

1896 - 1966

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André Robert Breton (French: [ɑ̃dʁe ʁɔbɛʁ bʁətɔ̃]; 19 February 1896 – 28 September 1966) was a French writer and poet, the co-founder, leader, and principal theorist of surrealism. His writings include the first Surrealist Manifesto (Manifeste du surréalisme) of 1924, in which he defined surrealism as "pure psychic automatism". Along with his role as leader of the surrealist movement he is the author of celebrated books such as Nadja and L'Amour fou. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of André Breton has received more than 1,538,208 page views. His biography is available in 71 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 69 in 2019). André Breton is the 180th most popular writer (down from 153rd in 2019), the 217th most popular biography from France (down from 193rd in 2019) and the 38th most popular French Writer.

André Breton was a French writer, art critic, and founding member of the surrealist movement. He is most famous for writing the Surrealist Manifesto in 1924.

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Among writers, André Breton ranks 180 out of 7,302. Before him are Wisława Szymborska, Taras Shevchenko, Luigi Pirandello, Svetlana Alexievich, J. D. Salinger, and Osamu Dazai. After him are Nizami Ganjavi, John Steinbeck, Aldous Huxley, Constantine VII, Tove Jansson, and Dale Carnegie.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1896, André Breton ranks 7. Before him are F. Scott Fitzgerald, Wallis Simpson, Jean Piaget, Georgy Zhukov, Lev Vygotsky, and Imre Nagy. After him are Tristan Tzara, Roman Jakobson, Paula Hitler, Konstantin Rokossovsky, Antonin Artaud, and Trygve Lie. Among people deceased in 1966, André Breton ranks 2. Before him is Walt Disney. After him are Buster Keaton, Alberto Giacometti, Anna Akhmatova, Georges Lemaître, Sayyid Qutb, Sergei Korolev, Ken Miles, Sepp Dietrich, Chester W. Nimitz, and Jean Arp.

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In France

Among people born in France, André Breton ranks 217 out of 6,770. Before him are François-René de Chateaubriand (1768), Prince Eugene of Savoy (1663), Pope Clement IV (1190), Pope Urban IV (1185), Augustin-Louis Cauchy (1789), and Charles de Batz de Castelmore d'Artagnan (1611). After him are Gilles Deleuze (1925), Pope Innocent VI (1282), Gustave Le Bon (1841), Hortense de Beauharnais (1783), Frédéric Joliot-Curie (1900), and Gustave Doré (1832).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, André Breton ranks 38. Before him are Petronius (27), Jean Racine (1639), Annie Ernaux (1940), Cyrano de Bergerac (1619), Nicolas Flamel (1330), and François-René de Chateaubriand (1768). After him are Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1894), Stéphane Mallarmé (1842), Maurice Leblanc (1864), Pierre Corneille (1606), Prosper Mérimée (1803), and Frédéric Mistral (1830).

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