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Jules Laforgue

1860 - 1887

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Jules Laforgue (French: [ʒyl lafɔʁɡ]; 16 August 1860 – 20 August 1887) was a Franco-Uruguayan poet, often referred to as a Symbolist poet. Critics and commentators have also pointed to Impressionism as a direct influence and his poetry has been called "part-symbolist, part-impressionist". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jules Laforgue has received more than 135,096 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Jules Laforgue is the 1,451st most popular writer (down from 1,447th in 2019), the 23rd most popular biography from Uruguay (down from 20th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Uruguayan Writer.

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  • 29

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.86

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.33

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Jules Laforgue ranks 1,451 out of 7,302. Before him are Enzo of Sardinia, Antoine Isaac Silvestre de Sacy, Thomas of Celano, Henry Steel Olcott, Arnold van Gennep, and Nikephoros Bryennios the Younger. After him are Sławomir Mrożek, Naftali Herz Imber, Hovhannes Tumanyan, Maryse Condé, Paul Rée, and Elizabeth George.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1860, Jules Laforgue ranks 42. Before him are Vito Volterra, Mercedes of Orléans, Gustave Charpentier, James McKeen Cattell, Archduke Charles Stephen of Austria, and Otto Jespersen. After him are Princess Louise Margaret of Prussia, Waldemar Haffkine, Sergey Sazonov, William Kennedy Dickson, Friedrich Naumann, and Charles Curtis. Among people deceased in 1887, Jules Laforgue ranks 13. Before him are Ivan Kramskoi, Multatuli, Johann Jakob Bachofen, Friedrich von Amerling, Alfred Krupp, and Juan, Count of Montizón. After him are Doc Holliday, Anandi Gopal Joshi, Jean-Baptiste Boussingault, Paul Féval, père, Józef Ignacy Kraszewski, and Carolyne zu Sayn-Wittgenstein.

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In Uruguay

Among people born in Uruguay, Jules Laforgue ranks 23 out of 444. Before him are Diego Forlán (1979), José Santamaría (1929), Pedro Rocha (1942), Alberto Suppici (1898), Obdulio Varela (1917), and Mario Benedetti (1920). After him are Edinson Cavani (1987), Pedro Petrone (1905), Ladislao Mazurkiewicz (1945), Pablo Dorado (1908), Roque Máspoli (1917), and Natalia Oreiro (1977).

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Among WRITERS In Uruguay

Among writers born in Uruguay, Jules Laforgue ranks 4. Before him are Comte de Lautréamont (1846), Eduardo Galeano (1940), and Mario Benedetti (1920). After him are Juan Carlos Onetti (1909), Horacio Quiroga (1878), Jules Supervielle (1884), Delmira Agustini (1886), Cristina Peri Rossi (1941), Juana de Ibarbourou (1892), Ida Vitale (1923), and José Enrique Rodó (1871).

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