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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 6,814,668 page views. His biography is available in 118 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 116 in 2019). Jules Verne is the 16th most popular writer (down from 13th in 2019), the 12th most popular biography from France and the 3rd most popular French Writer.

Jules Verne is most famous for his science fiction novels.

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  • 6.8M

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  • 84.74

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  • 118

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 13.66

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.80

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Jules Verne ranks 16 out of 5,755. Before him are Sophocles, Leo Tolstoy, Franz Kafka, Victor Hugo, Virgil, and Aesop. After him are Miguel de Cervantes, Jean-Paul Sartre, Ovid, Molière, Agatha Christie, and Anton Chekhov.

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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, Randal Cremer, Rani of Jhansi, Hippolyte Taine, Saigō Takamori, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Charbel Makhlouf, Nikolay Chernyshevsky, and Louise of the Netherlands. Among people deceased in 1905, Jules Verne ranks 1. After him are William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Muhammad Abduh, Ernst Abbe, Ferdinand von Richthofen, Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia, Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, Prince Philippe, Count of Flanders, Adolph Menzel, Louise Michel, Carl Wernicke, and Leopold, Prince of Hohenzollern.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jules Verne ranks 12 out of 6,011. Before him are Louis Pasteur (1822), Voltaire (1694), Victor Hugo (1802), Claude Monet (1840), Montesquieu (1689), and Louis XVI of France (1754). After him are Jean-Paul Sartre (1905), Nostradamus (1503), Molière (1622), Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900), Charles de Gaulle (1890), and John Calvin (1509).

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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 Jean-Paul Sartre (1905), Molière (1622), Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900), Honoré de Balzac (1799), Alexandre Dumas (1802), Marcel Proust (1871), Denis Diderot (1713), Simone de Beauvoir (1908), and Octave Mirbeau (1848).

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