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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

1900 - 1944

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Antoine Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger, vicomte de Saint-Exupéry (29 June 1900 – c. 31 July 1944), known simply as Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (UK: , US: , French: [ɑ̃twan də sɛ̃t‿ɛɡzypeʁi] ), was a French writer, poet, journalist and aviator. Saint-Exupéry trained as a commercial pilot in the early 1920s, working airmail routes across Europe, Africa, and South America. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry has received more than 4,072,713 page views. His biography is available in 111 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 107 in 2019). Antoine de Saint-Exupéry is the 27th most popular writer (down from 24th in 2019), the 22nd most popular biography from France (down from 16th in 2019) and the 7th most popular French Writer.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry is most famous for his book, The Little Prince.

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  • 4.1M

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  • 82.92

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  • 111

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 15.04

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.25

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry ranks 27 out of 7,302. Before him are Petrarch, Honoré de Balzac, Aesop, Jean-Paul Sartre, Ovid, and Rumi. After him are Giovanni Boccaccio, Denis Diderot, Agatha Christie, Horace, Ernest Hemingway, and Alexandre Dumas.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1900, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry ranks 1. After him are Heinrich Himmler, Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, Erich Fromm, Martin Bormann, Luis Buñuel, Wolfgang Pauli, Frédéric Joliot-Curie, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Hans Frank, Heinrich Müller, and Adolf Dassler. Among people deceased in 1944, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry ranks 2. Before him is Edvard Munch. After him are Piet Mondrian, Erwin Rommel, Wassily Kandinsky, Romain Rolland, Claus von Stauffenberg, Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom, Abdulmejid II, William James Sidis, Reza Shah, and Günther von Kluge.

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In France

Among people born in France, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry ranks 22 out of 6,770. Before him are Honoré de Balzac (1799), Jean-Paul Sartre (1905), Alain Delon (1935), Henri Matisse (1869), John Calvin (1509), and Paul Cézanne (1839). After him are Brigitte Bardot (1934), Napoleon II (1811), Auguste Comte (1798), Antoine Lavoisier (1743), Denis Diderot (1713), and Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry ranks 7. Before him are Voltaire (1694), Victor Hugo (1802), Jules Verne (1828), Molière (1622), Honoré de Balzac (1799), and Jean-Paul Sartre (1905). After him are Denis Diderot (1713), Alexandre Dumas (1802), Charles Baudelaire (1821), Émile Zola (1840), Stendhal (1783), and Gustave Flaubert (1821).

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