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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 242,884 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Georges Feydeau is the 1,436th most popular writer (up from 1,554th in 2019), the 1,641st most popular biography from France (up from 1,725th in 2019) and the 208th most popular French Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Georges Feydeau ranks 1,436 out of 5,755Before him are Maurice Barrès, Sima Xiangru, Arnold van Gennep, Dositej Obradović, Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald, and Nikephoros Bryennios the Younger. After him are Du Mu, Giovannino Guareschi, Heiner Müller, Evelyn Waugh, Wen Tianxiang, and Dorothy Parker.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1862, Georges Feydeau ranks 37Before him are Mori Ōgai, Edith Wharton, Siegbert Tarrasch, Aurel Stein, Silvio Gesell, and Maurice Barrès. After him are Ugyen Wangchuck, Leonid Pasternak, Théo van Rysselberghe, Vito Cascio Ferro, Mary Anderson, and Eugen Ehrlich. Among people deceased in 1921, Georges Feydeau ranks 39Before him are Prince Louis of Battenberg, Hermann Schwarz, Subramania Bharati, Nikolay Zhukovsky, Matthias Erzberger, and Nikolay Gumilyov. After him are Živojin Mišić, Yan Fu, Lady Randolph Churchill, Emilia Pardo Bazán, Hermann Paul, and Georg Ritter von Schönerer.

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In France

Among people born in France, Georges Feydeau ranks 1,641 out of 6,011Before him are Maurice Barrès (1862), Adrienne Lecouvreur (1692), Charlotte Aglaé d'Orléans (1700), Michel Serrault (1928), Marguerite Perey (1909), and Yo-Yo Ma (1955). After him are Charlotte Bonaparte (1802), Duchenne de Boulogne (1806), Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges (1830), Carausius (300), Maurice Papon (1910), and John I, Duke of Alençon (1385).

Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Georges Feydeau ranks 208Before him are Agrippa d'Aubigné (1552), Louise Labé (1524), Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues (1715), Blaise de Vigenère (1523), Léo Taxil (1854), and Maurice Barrès (1862). After him are Fulcher of Chartres (1059), Jean Chapelain (1595), Antoine Isaac Silvestre de Sacy (1758), Michel Verne (1861), François de Malherbe (1555), and Georges Duhamel (1884).