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Comte de Lautréamont

1846 - 1870

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Comte de Lautréamont (French: [lotʁeamɔ̃]) was the nom de plume of Isidore Lucien Ducasse (4 April 1846 – 24 November 1870), a French poet born in Uruguay. His only works, Les Chants de Maldoror and Poésies, had a major influence on modern arts and literature, particularly on the Surrealists and the Situationists. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Comte de Lautréamont has received more than 372,486 page views. His biography is available in 43 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 42 in 2019). Comte de Lautréamont is the 442nd most popular writer (up from 447th in 2019), the 2nd most popular biography from Uruguay and the most popular Uruguayan Writer.

The Comte de Lautréamont is most famous for his work Les Chants de Maldoror, a collection of poems and prose poems that was published posthumously in 1869.

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  • 43

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.31

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.46

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Comte de Lautréamont ranks 442 out of 5,755. Before him are Patrick Modiano, Christopher Marlowe, Enid Blyton, Frantz Fanon, Mika Waltari, and Joris-Karl Huysmans. After him are Seneca the Elder, Ágota Kristóf, Gabriela Mistral, Qu Yuan, Ève Curie, and Livius Andronicus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1846, Comte de Lautréamont ranks 8. Before him are Henryk Sienkiewicz, Rudolf Christoph Eucken, Princess Helena of the United Kingdom, George Westinghouse, Buffalo Bill, and Edmondo De Amicis. After him are Wilhelm Maybach, Wladimir Köppen, Prince Leopold of Bavaria, Gaston Maspero, Nectarios of Aegina, and Émile Gallé. Among people deceased in 1870, Comte de Lautréamont ranks 6. Before him are Charles Dickens, Alexandre Dumas, Robert E. Lee, Prosper Mérimée, and Josef Strauss. After him are Frédéric Bazille, Alexander Herzen, Francisco Solano López, Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany, Marie-Caroline of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Duchess of Berry, and Ferdinand von Wrangel.

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In Uruguay

Among people born in Uruguay, Comte de Lautréamont ranks 2 out of 370. Before him are José Mujica (1935). After him are Tabaré Vázquez (1940), Eduardo Galeano (1940), Óscar Tabárez (1947), José Nasazzi (1901), Alcides Ghiggia (1926), Héctor Scarone (1898), Juan Alberto Schiaffino (1925), José Leandro Andrade (1901), Héctor Castro (1904), and Luis Suárez (1987).

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Among WRITERS In Uruguay

Among writers born in Uruguay, Comte de Lautréamont ranks 1. After him are Eduardo Galeano (1940), Mario Benedetti (1920), Jules Laforgue (1860), Horacio Quiroga (1878), Juan Carlos Onetti (1909), Jules Supervielle (1884), Delmira Agustini (1886), Cristina Peri Rossi (1941), Juana de Ibarbourou (1892), Ida Vitale (1923), and José Enrique Rodó (1871).

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