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Gérard de Nerval

1808 - 1855

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Gérard de Nerval (French: [ʒeʁaʁ də nɛʁval]; 22 May 1808 – 26 January 1855), the pen name of the French writer, poet, and translator Gérard Labrunie, was a French essayist, poet, translator, and travel writer. He was a major figure during the era of French romanticism, and best known for his novellas and poems, especially the collection Les Filles du feu (The Daughters of Fire), which included the novella Sylvie and the poem "El Desdichado". Through his translations, Nerval played a major role in introducing French readers to the works of German Romantic authors, including Klopstock, Schiller, Bürger and Goethe. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gérard de Nerval has received more than 450,614 page views. His biography is available in 51 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 50 in 2019). Gérard de Nerval is the 523rd most popular writer (down from 473rd in 2019), the 613th most popular biography from France (down from 543rd in 2019) and the 90th most popular French Writer.

Gérard de Nerval was a French poet and novelist who is most famous for his novel "Les Chimères".

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Gérard de Nerval ranks 523 out of 5,755Before him are Ulrich von Hutten, Giacomo Leopardi, Jostein Gaarder, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Ismail Kadare, and Giorgos Seferis. After him are Cassiodorus, Sidney Sheldon, Lesya Ukrainka, T. S. Eliot, Paul Claudel, and Muhammad Iqbal.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1808, Gérard de Nerval ranks 12Before him are Patrice de MacMahon, Jefferson Davis, Emir Abdelkader, Frederick VII of Denmark, Duke Maximilian Joseph in Bavaria, and Thomas Cook. After him are Maria Malibran, Johann Gustav Droysen, David Strauss, Solomon Northup, Carl Spitzweg, and Princess Louise of Prussia. Among people deceased in 1855, Gérard de Nerval ranks 6Before him are Carl Friedrich Gauss, Søren Kierkegaard, Nicholas I of Russia, Charlotte Brontë, and Adam Mickiewicz. After him are Infante Carlos, Count of Molina, Adelaide of Austria, Pavel Nakhimov, François Rude, Duchess Maria Dorothea of Württemberg, and François Magendie.

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In France

Among people born in France, Gérard de Nerval ranks 613 out of 6,011Before him are Marie of Anjou (1404), Albert Uderzo (1927), Isabelle Adjani (1955), Pierre Bonnard (1867), Charles, Duke of Vendôme (1489), and Francis Picabia (1879). After him are Albert I, Prince of Monaco (1848), France Gall (1947), Michel Legrand (1932), Peter Waldo (1140), Bertrand du Guesclin (1320), and Paul Claudel (1868).

Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Gérard de Nerval ranks 90Before him are Jules Michelet (1798), Gaston Leroux (1868), Alfred de Musset (1810), Charles, Duke of Orléans (1394), Héloïse (1101), and Henri Barbusse (1873). After him are Paul Claudel (1868), Camille Flammarion (1842), Marie-Antoine Carême (1784), Alfred Jarry (1873), Alain Robbe-Grillet (1922), and Bernard Gui (1261).