WRITER

Georges Feydeau

1862 - 1921

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Georges-Léon-Jules-Marie Feydeau (French: [ʒɔʁʒ fɛ.do]; 8 December 1862 – 5 June 1921) was a French playwright of the Belle Époque era, remembered for his farces, written between 1886 and 1914. Feydeau was born in Paris to middle-class parents and raised in an artistic and literary environment. From an early age he was fascinated by the theatre, and as a child he wrote plays and organised his schoolfellows into a drama group. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Georges Feydeau has received more than 264,799 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Georges Feydeau is the 1,435th most popular writer (down from 1,433rd in 2019), the 1,665th most popular biography from France (down from 1,635th in 2019) and the 205th most popular French Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Georges Feydeau ranks 1,435 out of 7,302. Before him are Karin Boye, Torben Ulrich, Rafael Alberti, Ivan Vazov, Branko Ćopić, and Miklós Zrínyi. After him are Petar Zrinski, Wilhelm Müller, Seamus Heaney, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Qiu Chuji, and Hieronymus of Cardia.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1862, Georges Feydeau ranks 40. Before him are Infanta Maria Antonia of Portugal, Silvio Gesell, Maurice Barrès, Mary Anderson, Vito Cascio Ferro, and August Oetker. After him are Ugyen Wangchuck, Aurel Stein, Leonid Pasternak, Tomitaro Makino, René Viviani, and Théo van Rysselberghe. Among people deceased in 1921, Georges Feydeau ranks 37. Before him are Živojin Mišić, Hermann Schwarz, Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi, Yan Fu, Robert de Montesquiou, and Ivan Vazov. After him are Nikolay Gumilyov, Hara Takashi, Fernand Khnopff, Vladimir Korolenko, Prince Louis of Battenberg, and Jean-Paul Laurens.

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In France

Among people born in France, Georges Feydeau ranks 1,665 out of 6,770. Before him are William of Gellone (750), Jean Dujardin (1972), Roger Etchegaray (1922), Nicolas Sanson (1600), Charles, Duke of Lower Lorraine (953), and Aymon, Count of Savoy (1291). After him are Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine (1604), Margaret of France, Queen of England (1282), Sacha Distel (1933), Charles-François Lebrun (1739), Alphonse Pyramus de Candolle (1806), and Pierre Louis Dulong (1785).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Georges Feydeau ranks 205. Before him are Princess Isabelle of Orléans-Braganza (1911), Philippe Soupault (1897), Agrippa d'Aubigné (1552), Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly (1808), Remy de Gourmont (1858), and Marcel Aymé (1902). After him are Régis Debray (1940), Antoine Isaac Silvestre de Sacy (1758), Marie Anne Lenormand (1772), Tristan Corbière (1845), Jacques Cazotte (1719), and Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon (1675).

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