WRITER

Jules Verne

1828 - 1905

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Jules Gabriel Verne (; French: [ʒyl ɡabʁijɛl vɛʁn]; 8 February 1828 – 24 March 1905) was a French novelist, poet and playwright. His collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel led to the creation of the Voyages extraordinaires, a series of bestselling adventure novels including Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas (1870), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1872). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jules Verne has received more than 7,369,950 page views. His biography is available in 122 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 118 in 2019). Jules Verne is the 16th most popular writer, the 11th most popular biography from France (up from 12th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular French Writer.

Jules Verne is most famous for his science fiction novels.

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  • 122

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  • 15.62

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  • 3.65

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Jules Verne ranks 16 out of 7,302. Before him are Hans Christian Andersen, Leo Tolstoy, Victor Hugo, Sophocles, Franz Kafka, and Miguel de Cervantes. After him are Virgil, Albert Camus, Molière, Anton Chekhov, Petrarch, and Honoré de Balzac.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1828, Jules Verne ranks 2. Before him is Leo Tolstoy. After him are Henry Dunant, Henrik Ibsen, Saigō Takamori, Rani of Jhansi, Hippolyte Taine, Charbel Makhlouf, Randal Cremer, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Nikolay Chernyshevsky, and Ferdinand Cohn. Among people deceased in 1905, Jules Verne ranks 1. After him are William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Muhammad Abduh, Ferdinand von Richthofen, Ernst Abbe, Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, Per Teodor Cleve, Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia, Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza, Louise Michel, Adolph Menzel, and Prince Philippe, Count of Flanders.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jules Verne ranks 11 out of 6,770. Before him are Joan of Arc (1412), Voltaire (1694), Victor Hugo (1802), Louis Pasteur (1822), Louis XVI of France (1754), and Claude Monet (1840). After him are Montesquieu (1689), Louis XV of France (1710), Molière (1622), Charles de Gaulle (1890), Honoré de Balzac (1799), and Jean-Paul Sartre (1905).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Jules Verne ranks 3. Before him are Voltaire (1694), and Victor Hugo (1802). After him are Molière (1622), Honoré de Balzac (1799), Jean-Paul Sartre (1905), Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900), Denis Diderot (1713), Alexandre Dumas (1802), Charles Baudelaire (1821), Émile Zola (1840), and Stendhal (1783).

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