WRITER

George Sand

1804 - 1876

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Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin de Francueil (French: [amɑ̃tin lysil oʁɔʁ dypɛ̃]; 1 July 1804 – 8 June 1876), best known by her pen name George Sand (French: [ʒɔʁʒ(ə) sɑ̃d]), was a French novelist, memoirist and journalist. Being more renowned than either Victor Hugo or Honoré de Balzac in England in the 1830s and 1840s, Sand is recognised as one of the most notable writers of the European Romantic era. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of George Sand has received more than 3,133,287 page views. Her biography is available in 78 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 74 in 2019). George Sand is the 97th most popular writer (down from 95th in 2019), the 93rd most popular biography from France (up from 102nd in 2019) and the 21st most popular French Writer.

George Sand was a French novelist who wrote under the male pseudonym of George Sand. She is most famous for her novels, especially Lélia, which was published in 1833.

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  • 80.74

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 78

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.91

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.63

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, George Sand ranks 97 out of 7,302. Before her are Henry David Thoreau, Jack London, Toni Morrison, Erich Maria Remarque, Emily Brontë, and Matsuo Bashō. After her are Marquis de Sade, Jonathan Swift, Ismail I, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and Paulo Coelho.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1804, George Sand ranks 2. Before her is Franklin Pierce. After her are Ludwig Feuerbach, Johann Strauss I, Napoléon Louis Bonaparte, Benjamin Disraeli, Wilhelm Eduard Weber, Emil Lenz, Allan Kardec, Matthias Jakob Schleiden, Mongkut, and Mikhail Glinka. Among people deceased in 1876, George Sand ranks 2. Before her is Mikhail Bakunin. After her are Abdülaziz, Josephine of Leuchtenberg, Truganini, Karl Ernst von Baer, George Armstrong Custer, Antonio López de Santa Anna, Catherine Labouré, Marie d'Agoult, Ildefons Cerdà, and Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg.

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In France

Among people born in France, George Sand ranks 93 out of 6,770. Before her are Pope Urban II (1042), Gustave Courbet (1819), Irène Joliot-Curie (1897), Charles-Augustin de Coulomb (1736), Michel de Montaigne (1533), and Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749). After her are Marquis de Sade (1740), Caracalla (188), Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864), Marcel Duchamp (1887), Claude Debussy (1862), and Louis XI of France (1423).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, George Sand ranks 21. Before her are Octave Mirbeau (1848), Marcel Proust (1871), Romain Rolland (1866), Charles Perrault (1628), Arthur Rimbaud (1854), and François Rabelais (1494). After her are Marquis de Sade (1740), André Gide (1869), Jean de La Fontaine (1621), Sully Prudhomme (1839), Anatole France (1844), and Jean Cocteau (1889).

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