WRITER

Gabriel Chevallier

1895 - 1969

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Gabriel Chevallier (3 May 1895 – 6 April 1969) was a French novelist widely known as the author of the satire Clochemerle. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gabriel Chevallier has received more than 62,484 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Gabriel Chevallier is the 3,745th most popular writer (up from 3,917th in 2019), the 3,722nd most popular biography from France (down from 3,689th in 2019) and the 474th most popular French Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 62k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.96

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.02

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.80

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Clochemerle
1934
Clochemerle-les-Bains
1963
La peur
World War, 1914-1918, Roman, Guerre mondiale, 1914-1918
1951
Sainte-Colline
1937
Clochemerle-Babylone
1954

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Gabriel Chevallier ranks 3,745 out of 7,302. Before him are Théophile Thoré-Bürger, Oton Župančič, Johannes Linnankoski, Henry Bataille, Laza Kostić, and Giuseppe Gioachino Belli. After him are Tadeusz Konwicki, Mykola Bazhan, Hendrik Willem van Loon, Luigi Capuana, John Gray, and Girolamo de Rada.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1895, Gabriel Chevallier ranks 170. Before him are Vsevolod Ivanov, Gustav von Wangenheim, Josef Uridil, Walter Bedell Smith, Maksym Rylsky, and Ruth Fischer. After him are William Tubman, Oscar Hammerstein II, Brian Horrocks, Marie-Dominique Chenu, Alexander Mikulin, and Erich Buschenhagen. Among people deceased in 1969, Gabriel Chevallier ranks 131. Before him are Aleksandr Deyneka, Karl Freund, Bill Ivy, Friedrich von Huene, Harry Hammond Hess, and Giovanni Urbani. After him are Silvestre Igoa, Filipp Oktyabrsky, George Cœdès, Juan Modesto, Renato Cesarini, and Tiburcio Carías Andino.

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In France

Among people born in France, Gabriel Chevallier ranks 3,722 out of 6,770. Before him are Julien Dupré (1851), Marie Jules César Savigny (1777), Antoine Nicolas Duchesne (1747), Henry Bataille (1872), Joseph Achille Le Bel (1847), and Alexandre Falguière (1831). After him are Georges Speicher (1907), Corinne Marchand (1931), Christophe Pierre (1946), Paul Bert (1833), Geoffrey II, Count of Gâtinais (1000), and Édouard Deldevez (1817).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Gabriel Chevallier ranks 474. Before him are Albert Aurier (1865), Christiane Rochefort (1917), Jules Lemaître (1853), Jules Janin (1804), Théophile Thoré-Bürger (1807), and Henry Bataille (1872). After him are Judith Gautier (1845), Charles Simon Favart (1710), François Cavanna (1923), Maurice Paléologue (1859), Maurice Schumann (1911), and Paul Fort (1872).

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