WRITER

Gustave Aimard

1818 - 1883

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Gustave Aimard (13 September 1818 – 20 June 1883) was the author of numerous books about Latin America and the American frontier. Aimard was born Olivier Aimard in Paris. As he once said, he was the son of two people who were married, "but not to each other". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gustave Aimard has received more than 30,744 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Gustave Aimard is the 2,506th most popular writer (up from 2,658th in 2019), the 2,757th most popular biography from France (up from 2,852nd in 2019) and the 350th most popular French Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Gustave Aimard ranks 2,506 out of 7,302Before him are Giovanni de' Bardi, Carlos Marighella, Balthasar Russow, Herman Gorter, Annie M. G. Schmidt, and Alice B. Toklas. After him are Bulleh Shah, René Crevel, Theodore Prodromos, Xu Zhimo, Ron Kovic, and Okakura Kakuzō.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1818, Gustave Aimard ranks 51Before him are Konstantin Petrovich von Kaufmann, Eduard Totleben, Louis Gerhard De Geer, Petar Preradović, Alexander Bain, and Antonio Bazzini. After him are Şihabetdin Märcani, Constantin von Wurzbach, Jules Jamin, Johann Jakob von Tschudi, Artúr Görgei, and Heinrich Kiepert. Among people deceased in 1883, Gustave Aimard ranks 40Before him are Edward FitzGerald, Juliette Drouet, Carl Wilhelm Siemens, Filippo Pacini, Jenny Longuet, and Louis-François-Clement Breguet. After him are Napoleon Orda, Seru Epenisa Cakobau, Ciprian Porumbescu, Dục Đức, Auguste Clésinger, and Reinhart Dozy.

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In France

Among people born in France, Gustave Aimard ranks 2,757 out of 6,770Before him are Jenny Longuet (1844), Antoine François Marmontel (1816), Antoine Forqueray (1671), Roger Walkowiak (1927), Louis-François-Clement Breguet (1804), and Bruno Metsu (1954). After him are Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps (1803), René Crevel (1900), Jean-Hugues Anglade (1955), Barthélemy Catherine Joubert (1769), Jean Ferrat (1930), and Prince Ludwig August of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1845).

Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Gustave Aimard ranks 350Before him are Jean-Baptiste Dubos (1670), Léon Werth (1878), Ludovic Halévy (1834), Sextus Pompeius Festus (150), Valery Larbaud (1881), and Walter of Châtillon (1135). After him are René Crevel (1900), Bernard Werber (1961), André Pieyre de Mandiargues (1909), Catulle Mendès (1841), Hilaire Belloc (1870), and Théophile de Viau (1590).