WRITER

Christiane Rochefort

1917 - 1998

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Christiane Rochefort (17 July 1917 – 24 April 1998) was a French feminist writer. She was born into a left-wing working class Parisian family; her father joined the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War. Rochefort worked as a journalist and spent fifteen years as a press attaché to the Cannes Film Festival before publishing her first novel, Le Repos du guerrier (The Warrior's Rest), in 1958. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Christiane Rochefort has received more than 42,896 page views. Her biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Christiane Rochefort is the 3,697th most popular writer, the 3,686th most popular biography from France and the 469th most popular French Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Christiane Rochefort ranks 3,697 out of 7,302Before her are Thomas Friedman, Robert Leckie, Johan Turi, Albert Aurier, Yevhen Hrebinka, and Coelius Sedulius. After her are David Shore, Diana Mosley, Pêro Vaz de Caminha, Johan Ludvig Heiberg, Gertrude Jekyll, and Martynas Mažvydas.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1917, Christiane Rochefort ranks 183Before her are Tetyana Yablonska, Luigi Poggi, Steno, William H. McNeill, Musine Kokalari, and Otto Glória. After her are I Gusti Ngurah Rai, Oliver Tambo, Ann Rutherford, Katharine Graham, Inge Scholl, and Fidel Sánchez Hernández. Among people deceased in 1998, Christiane Rochefort ranks 161Before her are Hermann Prey, Josep Escolà, Gunter d'Alquen, Haroun Tazieff, Ed Ablowich, and Nagarjun. After her are Jafar Sharif-Emami, Xue Yue, Konstantinos Kollias, Inge Scholl, Théodore Sindikubwabo, and Eric Ambler.

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In France

Among people born in France, Christiane Rochefort ranks 3,686 out of 6,770Before her are Léon Serpollet (1858), Adolphe Grisel (1872), Jean-Pierre Ricard (1944), Jean François de Saint-Lambert (1716), Albert Aurier (1865), and Georges Leygues (1857). After her are Vincent Candela (1973), Blaise Matuidi (1987), Boso, Margrave of Tuscany (885), Esther Duflo (1972), Emmanuel de Martonne (1873), and Jean Nicolas (1913).

Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Christiane Rochefort ranks 469Before her are Nicholas Rémy (1530), François de La Mothe Le Vayer (1588), Guillaume Musso (1974), Gaston Rébuffat (1921), René Huyghe (1906), and Albert Aurier (1865). After her are Jules Lemaître (1853), Jules Janin (1804), Théophile Thoré-Bürger (1807), Henry Bataille (1872), Gabriel Chevallier (1895), and Judith Gautier (1845).