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Charles Garnier

1825 - 1898

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Jean-Louis Charles Garnier (pronounced [ʃaʁl ɡaʁnje]; 6 November 1825 – 3 August 1898) was a French architect, perhaps best known as the architect of the Palais Garnier and the Opéra de Monte-Carlo. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Charles Garnier has received more than 8,986 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Charles Garnier is the 65th most popular architect, the 810th most popular biography from France (up from 814th in 2019) and the 9th most popular French Architect.

Charles Garnier is most famous for being the architect of the Paris Opera House.

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  • 64.50

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 37

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.10

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.47

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Charles Garnier ranks 65 out of 518. Before him are Jože Plečnik, Arno Breker, Giuliano da Sangallo, Aldo Rossi, Buckminster Fuller, and Josef Hoffmann. After him are Bruno Taut, Peter Zumthor, Domenico Fontana, Pierre Lescot, Isidore of Miletus, and Senenmut.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1825, Charles Garnier ranks 8. Before him are Pedro II of Brazil, William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Thomas Henry Huxley, Ferdinand Lassalle, Jean-Martin Charcot, and Johann Jakob Balmer. After him are Paul Kruger, Emil Erlenmeyer, Marie of Prussia, Dadabhai Naoroji, Julia, Princess of Battenberg, and Eduard Hanslick. Among people deceased in 1898, Charles Garnier ranks 11. Before him are Gustave Moreau, Charbel Makhlouf, Eugène Boudin, Ivan Shishkin, Louise of Hesse-Kassel, and Johann Jakob Balmer. After him are Ferdinand Cohn, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, Eleanor Marx, Félicien Rops, Theodor Fontane, and John Newlands.

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In France

Among people born in France, Charles Garnier ranks 810 out of 6,770. Before him are Léon Bourgeois (1851), Robert Nivelle (1856), Inessa Armand (1874), André Frédéric Cournand (1895), Victor of Aveyron (1793), and Geoffrey of Villehardouin (1150). After him are Gabrielle d'Estrées (1573), Antoine Arnauld (1612), Jean-Baptiste Greuze (1725), Jean-Victor Poncelet (1788), Jean Froissart (1337), and Robert Guérin (1876).

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Among ARCHITECTS In France

Among architects born in France, Charles Garnier ranks 9. Before him are Eugène Viollet-le-Duc (1814), Ferdinand Cheval (1836), Jean Nouvel (1945), Louis Le Vau (1612), François Mansart (1598), and Jules Hardouin-Mansart (1646). After him are Pierre Lescot (1515), Hector Guimard (1867), Claude Perrault (1613), Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli (1700), Claude Nicolas Ledoux (1736), and Ange-Jacques Gabriel (1698).

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