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Champfleury

1821 - 1889

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Jules François Felix Fleury-Husson (17 September 1821, in Laon, Aisne – 6 December 1889, in Sèvres), who wrote under the name Champfleury (French pronunciation: [ʃɑ̃fløʁi]), was a French art critic and novelist, a prominent supporter of the Realist movement in painting and fiction. In 1843 Fleury-Husson moved to Paris. He met Charles Baudelaire and the next year started writing art criticism under the pen-name "Champfleury" for the journal L'Artiste. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Champfleury has received more than 51,593 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Champfleury is the 2,711th most popular writer (down from 2,440th in 2019), the 2,963rd most popular biography from France (down from 2,667th in 2019) and the 372nd most popular French Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 52k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 53.77

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.23

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.91

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Souvenirs des Funambules
Accessible book, Pantomime, Paris
1859
Henry Monnier, sa vie, son oeuvre
Lithography, Catalogs, Accessible book
1879
Histoire des faïences patriotiques sous la révolution
History, Pottery, Art and the revolution
1867
Le réalisme
Realism in literature, Realism in art
1857
Chien-Caillou
Accessible book
1860
Les excentriques
Eccentrics and eccentricities, Characters and characteristics, Accessible book
1852

Page views of Champfleuries by language

Over the past year Champfleury has had the most page views in the with 9,230 views, followed by English (5,817), and Italian (1,921). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Macedonian (60.96%), Picard (37.43%), and Danish (32.27%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Champfleury ranks 2,711 out of 7,302. Before him are Artur Lundkvist, Etel Adnan, Chandrashekhara Kambara, Johanna van Gogh-Bonger, Dezső Kosztolányi, and Giovanni Pontano. After him are László Polgár, Henry Darger, Olympiodorus of Thebes, Eric Roth, Kjeld Abell, and Paula von Preradović.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1821, Champfleury ranks 46. Before him are Ferdinand Gregorovius, Philipp Ludwig von Seidel, Vasile Alecsandri, Archduke Ferdinand Karl Viktor of Austria-Este, Arthur Saint-Léon, and Ion C. Brătianu. After him are Giuseppe Saracco, Napoleon Sarony, Louis Laurent Gabriel de Mortillet, Karel Havlíček Borovský, John C. Breckinridge, and Karol Mikuli. Among people deceased in 1889, Champfleury ranks 45. Before him are Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada, Şihabetdin Märcani, Bernhard Förster, André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri, Alfred Józef Potocki, and Johann Jakob von Tschudi. After him are John Hughes, Benedetto Cairoli, Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach, Yohannes IV, Albrecht Ritschl, and Laura Bridgman.

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In France

Among people born in France, Champfleury ranks 2,963 out of 6,770. Before him are Pierre Barouh (1934), Alexandre Deschapelles (1780), Wilhelm Falley (1897), Auguste Clésinger (1814), Marc Seguin (1786), and Louis Le Chatelier (1815). After him are N'Golo Kanté (1991), René Lesson (1794), Nicolas Coustou (1658), Paul Émile Appell (1855), Jean Fernel (1497), and André Salmon (1881).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Champfleury ranks 372. Before him are Violette Leduc (1907), Hildebert (1056), Juliette Adam (1836), Oscar Cullmann (1902), Max Gallo (1932), and Fernand Crommelynck (1886). After him are André Salmon (1881), Marie Marvingt (1875), Francis Ponge (1899), Albert Robida (1848), Pierre Benoit (1886), and Jean Lorrain (1855).

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