WRITER

Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly

1808 - 1889

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Jules-Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly (2 November 1808 – 23 April 1889) was a French novelist, poet, short story writer, and literary critic. He specialised in mystery tales that explored hidden motivation and hinted at evil without being explicitly concerned with anything supernatural. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly has received more than 126,869 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia. Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly is the 1,414th most popular writer (down from 1,407th in 2019), the 1,639th most popular biography from France (down from 1,607th in 2019) and the 202nd most popular French Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly ranks 1,414 out of 7,302Before him are Princess Isabelle of Orléans-Braganza, Georg Heym, Philippe Soupault, Liang Qichao, A. B. Yehoshua, and Agrippa d'Aubigné. After him are Georges Rodenbach, Remy de Gourmont, Béla Balázs, Ryū Murakami, Joseph Mohr, and Qiu Jin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1808, Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly ranks 22Before him are Mohammad Shah Qajar, Carl Spitzweg, Solomon Northup, Wilhelm Weitling, Princess Louise of Prussia, and George Robert Gray. After him are Princess Vilhelmine Marie of Denmark, Princess Marie of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Nimatullah Kassab, Urbano Rattazzi, Eugénie de Beauharnais, and Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr. Among people deceased in 1889, Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly ranks 22Before him are Teresa Cristina of the Two Sicilies, Wilhelm Tempel, Giovanni Bottesini, Maria Mitchell, Robert Browning, and Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin. After him are Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges, John Ericsson, Ignacy Domeyko, Jules Dupré, Gaston Planté, and Şevkefza Kadın.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly ranks 1,639 out of 6,770Before him are Raymond Loewy (1893), Abbé Pierre (1912), Philippe Soupault (1897), Agrippa d'Aubigné (1552), Élie Cartan (1869), and Gaston of Foix, Duke of Nemours (1489). After him are Remy de Gourmont (1858), Antoine Charles Louis de Lasalle (1775), Mathurin Jacques Brisson (1723), Georges Canguilhem (1904), Bixente Lizarazu (1969), and Prince Jean, Duke of Guise (1874).

Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly ranks 202Before him are Fulcher of Chartres (1059), Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues (1715), Jules de Goncourt (1830), Princess Isabelle of Orléans-Braganza (1911), Philippe Soupault (1897), and Agrippa d'Aubigné (1552). After him are Remy de Gourmont (1858), Marcel Aymé (1902), Georges Feydeau (1862), Régis Debray (1940), Antoine Isaac Silvestre de Sacy (1758), and Marie Anne Lenormand (1772).