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Léon Gautier

1832 - 1897

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Émile Théodore Léon Gautier (8 August 1832 – 25 August 1897) was a French literary historian. He was born at Le Havre, France. He was educated at the École des Chartes, and became successively head of the archives of the département of Haute-Marne (1856) and archivist at the Imperial Archives in Paris (1859). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Léon Gautier has received more than 30,740 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Léon Gautier is the 430th most popular historian (down from 316th in 2019), the 4,480th most popular biography from France (down from 3,787th in 2019) and the 56th most popular French Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Léon Gautier ranks 430 out of 561. Before him are Alain Daniélou, G. M. Trevelyan, Frederic G. Kenyon, J. B. Bury, Andreas Maislinger, and Constantine Paparrigopoulos. After him are William Mitchell Ramsay, Frances Yates, Américo Castro, Daniel J. Boorstin, Michael Panaretos, and Martin Noth.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1832, Léon Gautier ranks 83. Before him are Caroline Harrison, Heinrich Gerber, Zsófia Torma, Boston Corbett, Adalbert Krueger, and Horatio Alger. After him are William Thomas Blanford, Marcelo Azcárraga Palmero, Gyula Szapáry, Mary Everest Boole, Kolos Ferenc Vaszary, and Edward Wilmot Blyden. Among people deceased in 1897, Léon Gautier ranks 70. Before him are Adam Asnyk, Dimitrie Ghica, William Henry Conley, Jan Heemskerk, Harriet Jacobs, and Charles Blondin. After him are Lea Ahlborn, Francesco Brioschi, Juan Idiarte Borda, Isaac Pitman, Gardiner Greene Hubbard, and Jules de Burlet.

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In France

Among people born in France, Léon Gautier ranks 4,480 out of 6,770. Before him are Alexandre Schaumasse (1882), Guy de Luget (1884), Rose Philippine Duchesne (1769), Henry Padovani (1952), Edmund Dulac (1882), and Noémie Lvovsky (1964). After him are Robert Charpentier (1916), Medhi Benatia (1987), Luc Ferry (1951), Roger Planchon (1931), Raymond Depardon (1942), and Robert Budzynski (1940).

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Among HISTORIANS In France

Among historians born in France, Léon Gautier ranks 56. Before him are Jérôme Carcopino (1881), Ernest Labrousse (1895), Ernest Lavisse (1842), Marc Fumaroli (1932), Pierre Chaunu (1923), and Alain Daniélou (1907). After him are Hugo Falcandus (1200), Michelle Perrot (1928), René Rémond (1918), Jacques Barzun (1907), and Rémi Mathis (1982).

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