WRITER

Jean Paulhan

1884 - 1968

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Jean Paulhan (2 December 1884 – 9 October 1968) was a French writer, literary critic and publisher, director of the literary magazine Nouvelle Revue Française (NRF) from 1925 to 1940 and from 1946 to 1968. He was a member (Seat 6, 1963–68) of the Académie française. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jean Paulhan has received more than 121,654 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Jean Paulhan is the 2,033rd most popular writer (up from 2,103rd in 2019), the 2,292nd most popular biography from France (up from 2,358th in 2019) and the 288th most popular French Writer.

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  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.95

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  • 2.76

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Notable Works

Braque le patron
1946
Correspondance
Correspondence, French Authors, Painters
1992
Les causes célèbres
1950
Clef de la poésie
Poetry, Poetics, History and criticism
1944
Correspondance, 1953-1967
Correspondence, French Authors
1982
Œuvres complètes
2006
Correspondance
Correspondence, French Authors, Painters
1992
Correspondance, 1953-1967
Correspondence, French Authors
1982
Clef de la poésie
Poetry, Poetics, History and criticism
1944
Braque le patron
Critique et interprétation
1946
Œuvres complètes
2006
F.F. ou le critique
French Arts, Criticism and interpretation, Criticism and interpretationfénéon, félix , 1861-1944
1945

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Jean Paulhan ranks 2,033 out of 7,302. Before him are Hallgrímur Pétursson, Wahb ibn Munabbih, Bob Woodward, Marcel Reich-Ranicki, Aloysius Bertrand, and Alciphron. After him are Sulpicia, Menander Protector, Carl Zuckmayer, Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder, Annette Kellermann, and Fyodor Sologub.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1884, Jean Paulhan ranks 72. Before him are Eugène Tisserant, Ivan Maisky, Georg Lindemann, Antoine Pevsner, Mikhail Borodin, and Max Erwin von Scheubner-Richter. After him are Johannes Heinrich Schultz, Werner Krauss, Claude Dornier, Anna Vyrubova, Helene Deutsch, and Ferdinand von Bredow. Among people deceased in 1968, Jean Paulhan ranks 72. Before him are Rezső Seress, Fyodor Okhlopkov, Thomas Merton, Camille Huysmans, Cornell Woolrich, and Darío Moreno. After him are Chester Carlson, Ryszard Siwiec, Gabriel Hanot, Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Cassandre, and Charles Munch.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean Paulhan ranks 2,292 out of 6,770. Before him are Hans von Salmuth (1888), Jean Chacornac (1823), Georges Claude (1870), Edgar Faure (1908), Pierre Henry (1927), and Claire Denis (1946). After him are Catherine Henriette de Balzac d'Entragues (1579), Éleuthère Irénée du Pont (1771), Charles de Lannoy, 1st Prince of Sulmona (1487), Maurice René Fréchet (1878), Alain Robert (1962), and Jean Metzinger (1883).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Jean Paulhan ranks 288. Before him are Jacques Amyot (1513), Marceline Desbordes-Valmore (1786), Eugène Marin Labiche (1815), Stéphanie Félicité, comtesse de Genlis (1746), Julien Gracq (1910), and Matthieu Ricard (1946). After him are François Hotman (1524), Catherine Breillat (1948), Honoré d'Urfé (1567), Yasmina Reza (1959), Sophie de Condorcet (1764), and Dominique Venner (1935).

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