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Léo Taxil

1854 - 1907

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Marie Joseph Gabriel Antoine Jogand-Pagès, better known by the pen name Léo Taxil (French: [leo taksil]; March 21, 1854 – March 31, 1907), was a French writer and journalist who became known for his strong anti-Catholic and anti-clerical views. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Léo Taxil has received more than 167,445 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia. Léo Taxil is the 1,426th most popular writer (down from 1,375th in 2019), the 1,630th most popular biography from France (down from 1,523rd in 2019) and the 206th most popular French Writer.

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  • 170k

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  • 58.09

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  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.37

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.95

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Léo Taxil ranks 1,426 out of 5,755Before him are Siegfried Lenz, Joseph Needham, August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben, Ira Levin, Ibrahim ibn Yaqub, and Blaise de Vigenère. After him are James Murray, Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, Paul Rée, Maurice Barrès, Sima Xiangru, and Arnold van Gennep.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1854, Léo Taxil ranks 27Before him are Albert Edelfelt, Prince Louis of Battenberg, Charles Webster Leadbeater, Salomon August Andrée, Georg Kerschensteiner, and Alfredo Catalani. After him are Hubert Lyautey, Alphonse Allais, Yan Fu, Otto Sverdrup, Charles Algernon Parsons, and John Philip Sousa. Among people deceased in 1907, Léo Taxil ranks 27Before him are William Henry Perkin, Ilia Chavchavadze, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Carola of Vasa, Henry Steel Olcott, and Qiu Jin. After him are Kurmanjan Datka, Marie of Saxe-Altenburg, Pierre Janssen, Stanisław Wyspiański, Hermann Carl Vogel, and Konstantin Pobedonostsev.

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In France

Among people born in France, Léo Taxil ranks 1,630 out of 6,011Before him are Peter Faber (1506), Jean-Jacques Beineix (1946), Yves Congar (1904), Adélaïde d'Orléans (1777), Blaise de Vigenère (1523), and Paloma Picasso (1949). After him are Miou-Miou (1950), Patrice Chéreau (1944), Germaine Tailleferre (1892), Luis Federico Leloir (1906), Maurice Barrès (1862), and Adrienne Lecouvreur (1692).

Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Léo Taxil ranks 206Before him are Thoinot Arbeau (1520), Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly (1808), Agrippa d'Aubigné (1552), Louise Labé (1524), Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues (1715), and Blaise de Vigenère (1523). After him are Maurice Barrès (1862), Georges Feydeau (1862), Fulcher of Chartres (1059), Jean Chapelain (1595), Antoine Isaac Silvestre de Sacy (1758), and Michel Verne (1861).