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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

1900 - 1944

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Antoine Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger, comte de Saint-Exupéry, known simply as Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (UK: , US: , French: [ɑ̃twan də sɛ̃t‿ɛɡzypeʁi]; 29 June 1900 – c. 31 July 1944), was a French writer, poet, journalist and aviator. He received several prestigious literary awards for his novella The Little Prince (Le Petit Prince) and for his lyrical aviation writings, including Wind, Sand and Stars and Night Flight (Vol de nuit). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry has received more than 3,808,253 page views. His biography is available in 107 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 102 in 2019). Antoine de Saint-Exupéry is the 24th most popular writer (up from 27th in 2019), the 16th most popular biography from France (up from 18th in 2019) and the 6th most popular French Writer.

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

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  • 83.63

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  • 107

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 15.41

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.13

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry ranks 24 out of 5,755. Before him are Jean-Paul Sartre, Ovid, Molière, Agatha Christie, Anton Chekhov, and Albert Camus. After him are Petrarch, Anne Frank, Giovanni Boccaccio, Rumi, Honoré de Balzac, and Ernest Hemingway.

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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, Martin Bormann, Erich Fromm, Luis Buñuel, Wolfgang Pauli, Frédéric Joliot-Curie, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Hans Frank, Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, and Spencer Tracy. Among people deceased in 1944, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry ranks 2. Before him is Edvard Munch. After him are Erwin Rommel, Wassily Kandinsky, Piet Mondrian, Romain Rolland, Claus von Stauffenberg, Abdulmejid II, Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom, William James Sidis, Richard Sorge, and Günther von Kluge.

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In France

Among people born in France, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry ranks 16 out of 6,011. Before him are Montesquieu (1689), Louis XVI of France (1754), Jules Verne (1828), Jean-Paul Sartre (1905), Nostradamus (1503), and Molière (1622). After him are Charles de Gaulle (1890), John Calvin (1509), Auguste Comte (1798), Alain Delon (1935), Émile Durkheim (1858), and Honoré de Balzac (1799).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry ranks 6. Before him are Voltaire (1694), Victor Hugo (1802), Jules Verne (1828), Jean-Paul Sartre (1905), and Molière (1622). After him are Honoré de Balzac (1799), Alexandre Dumas (1802), Marcel Proust (1871), Denis Diderot (1713), Simone de Beauvoir (1908), and Octave Mirbeau (1848).

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