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 113,305 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 1,638th most popular biography from France (down from 1,607th in 2019) and the 202nd most popular French Writer.

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  • 110k

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  • 59.00

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 35

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.40

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.57

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Une histoire sans nom
1927
Le chevalier des Touches
1864
Une vieille maîtresse
1865
Philosophy in process
Philosophy
1963
Les diaboliques
Classic Literature, Fiction
A qui dedier cela ?... J. B. d'A. Voici (sauf modifications ulterieures) la Preface de mes Diaboliques. Pourquoi les Diaboliques ? Est-ce pour les histoires qui sont ici ? Ou pour les femmes de ces histoires ? Qui sait ? Les Histoires sont vraies. Rien d'invente. Tout vu. Tout touche du coude ou du doigt. Il y aura certainement des tetes vives, montees par ce titre de Diaboliques, qui ne les trouveront pas aussi diaboliques qu'elles ont l'air de s'en vanter. Elles s'attendaient a des inventions, a des complications, a des recherches, a des raffinements, a tout le tremblement du melodrame moderne, qui se fourre partout, meme dans le roman : quelque chose comme les Memoires du Diable qui n'ont donne a leur auteur qu'une peine du Diable. Mais les Diaboliques ne sont point des diableries, ce sont des diaboliques : des histoires reelles de ce temps civilise et si divin que, quand on s'avise de les ecrire, il semble que ce soit le Diable qui ait dicte... Le Diable est comme Dieu. Le manicheisme qui est la souche de toutes les grandes heresies du Moyen-age, le manicheisme n'est pas si bete ! Malebranche disait que Dieu se reconnaissait a l'emploi DES MOYENS LES PLUS. Le Diable aussi.
1946
Correspondance générale
Authors, French, Correspondence, French Authors
1980

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Over the past year Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly has had the most page views in the with 51,242 views, followed by English (17,190), and Spanish (5,149). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Kurdish (Sorani) (56.14%), Danish (52.25%), and Finnish (45.96%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly ranks 1,414 out of 7,302. Before 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 22. Before 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 22. Before 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 1,638 out of 6,770. Before 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).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly ranks 202. Before 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).

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