WRITER

Léon Bloy

1846 - 1917

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Léon Bloy (French pronunciation: [leɔ̃ blwa]; 11 July 1846 – 3 November 1917) was a French Catholic novelist, essayist, pamphleteer (or lampoonist), and satirist, known additionally for his eventual (and passionate) defense of Catholicism and for his influence within French Catholic circles. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Léon Bloy has received more than 250,336 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Léon Bloy is the 1,142nd most popular writer (up from 1,169th in 2019), the 1,301st most popular biography from France (up from 1,348th in 2019) and the 168th most popular French Writer.

Léon Bloy is most famous for his novel, "The Woman Who Was Poor," and his essay, "The Eternal Feminine."

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  • 250k

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  • 60.73

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 29

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.86

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.41

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Le désespéré
1930
Le sang du pauvre
1932
Léon Bloy
1943
La femme pauvre
1897
Sueur de sang
1914
Le salut par les Juifs
1920

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Léon Bloy ranks 1,142 out of 7,302. Before him are Saint Gall, Michel Butor, Arnold Zweig, Bulat Okudzhava, Gaius Valerius Flaccus, and Monique Wittig. After him are Cornelius Gallus, Anne Rice, Antoine François Prévost, Gottfried Keller, Vidyapati, and Lao She.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1846, Léon Bloy ranks 23. Before him are Nectarios of Aegina, Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche, Anna Dostoevskaya, Vasily Dokuchaev, Émile Gallé, and Gösta Mittag-Leffler. After him are Karl von Bülow, G. Stanley Hall, Franz Mehring, Mariam Baouardy, Tokugawa Iemochi, and Alexander von Kluck. Among people deceased in 1917, Léon Bloy ranks 24. Before him are Ludwig Minkus, Ranavalona III, Hussein Kamel of Egypt, Radomir Putnik, Liliʻuokalani, and Dadabhai Naoroji. After him are Jean Gaston Darboux, Adolph Wagner, Ferdinand Georg Frobenius, Hugo Simberg, Lucien Petit-Breton, and Mendele Mocher Sforim.

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In France

Among people born in France, Léon Bloy ranks 1,301 out of 6,770. Before him are Ernest Gellner (1925), Emmanuel Mounier (1905), Michel Butor (1926), Jean-Louis Barrault (1910), Caterina Valente (1931), and Monique Wittig (1935). After him are Anne L'Huillier (1958), Jane Frances de Chantal (1572), Rodolphe Kreutzer (1766), Jean-Lambert Tallien (1767), Antoine François Prévost (1697), and Bernard Buffet (1928).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Léon Bloy ranks 168. Before him are Charles Péguy (1873), Jean Giono (1895), Alain-Fournier (1886), Clément Marot (1495), Michel Butor (1926), and Monique Wittig (1935). After him are Antoine François Prévost (1697), Chevalier d'Éon (1728), Vivant Denon (1747), Comtessa de Dia (1175), Joachim du Bellay (1522), and Pierre de Marivaux (1688).

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