ACTOR

Jeanne Duval

1820 - 1862

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Jeanne Duval (French pronunciation: [ʒan dyval]; c. 1820 – after 1862) was a Haitian-born actress and dancer of mixed French and West African ancestry. For 20 years, she was the muse of French poet and art critic Charles Baudelaire. They met in 1842 when Duval left Haiti for France, and the two remained together, albeit stormily, for the next two decades. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jeanne Duval has received more than 232,135 page views. Her biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Jeanne Duval is the 1,493rd most popular actor (up from 1,547th in 2019), the 12th most popular biography from Haiti (down from 10th in 2019) and the most popular Haitian Actor.

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  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.24

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.77

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Jeanne Duval ranks 1,493 out of 13,578Before her are Fernando Fernán Gómez, Richard Roundtree, Pam Grier, Mikhail Ulyanov, George Chakiris, and Jane Darwell. After her are James Franco, Dennis Farina, Barbara Eden, Chris Pine, Tom Sizemore, and Xander Berkeley.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1820, Jeanne Duval ranks 29Before her are William Tecumseh Sherman, John Tenniel, Princess Alexandrine of Baden, Édouard Roche, Şevkefza Kadın, and Eugène Fromentin. After her are Afanasy Fet, Begum Hazrat Mahal, Mirko Petrović-Njegoš, Émile Augier, Alexandre-Émile Béguyer de Chancourtois, and Prince Henry of the Netherlands. Among people deceased in 1862, Jeanne Duval ranks 20Before her are Henry Thomas Buckle, Princess Maria Antonia Koháry, Hon'inbō Shūsaku, Carlos Antonio López, Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows, and Simon Fraser. After her are Ludwig Uhland, Princess Mathilde Caroline of Bavaria, Peter Barlow, Johann Nestroy, Carl Ludwig Blume, and Prince Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach.

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In Haiti

Among people born in Haiti, Jeanne Duval ranks 12 out of 94Before her are Jean-Claude Duvalier (1951), Alexandre Pétion (1770), Jean-Pierre Boyer (1776), René Préval (1943), John James Audubon (1785), and Ariel Henry (1949). After her are Anacaona (1474), Jean-Bertrand Aristide (1953), Jean Lafitte (1776), Faustin Soulouque (1782), Jean-Jacques Honorat (1931), and Leslie Manigat (1930).

Among ACTORS In Haiti

Among actors born in Haiti, Jeanne Duval ranks 1After her are Garcelle Beauvais (1966), and Meta Golding (1971).