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WRITER

Léon Werth

1878 - 1955

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Léon Werth (17 February 1878, Remiremont, Vosges – 13 December 1955, Paris) was a French writer and art critic, a friend of Octave Mirbeau and a close friend and confidant of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Léon Werth has received more than 157,040 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Léon Werth is the 1,174th most popular writer (up from 1,347th in 2019), the 1,357th most popular biography from France (up from 1,484th in 2019) and the 173rd most popular French Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Léon Werth ranks 1,174 out of 5,755Before him are Jernej Kopitar, Alain-Fournier, Theodor Storm, Léon Bloy, Elsa Triolet, and Sophia Tolstaya. After him are Adolfo Bioy Casares, Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon, Chinua Achebe, Arthur Hailey, Matteo Bandello, and Tove Ditlevsen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1878, Léon Werth ranks 31Before him are Eileen Gray, Alexander von Falkenhausen, Elizabeth Arden, Archduchess Elisabeth Amalie of Austria, Arthur Scherbius, and P. D. Ouspensky. After him are Marcel Grossmann, Jan Łukasiewicz, George Whipple, Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz, Georg Kaiser, and Clemens August Graf von Galen. Among people deceased in 1955, Léon Werth ranks 40Before him are Mihály Károlyi, Yves Tanguy, Garegin Nzhdeh, Rodolphe Seeldrayers, Princess Clémentine of Belgium, and Alexandros Papagos. After him are Pierre Levegh, Prince Aloys of Liechtenstein, Theda Bara, Max Pechstein, Nicolas de Staël, and Archduchess Margarethe Klementine of Austria.

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In France

Among people born in France, Léon Werth ranks 1,357 out of 6,011Before him are Alain de Benoist (1943), Antoine César Becquerel (1788), Léon Bloy (1846), Claude Victor-Perrin, Duc de Belluno (1764), André de Montbard (1103), and Louise de Marillac (1591). After him are Jules Chéret (1836), Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon (1675), Jean-Charles Pichegru (1761), Albert Marquet (1875), Louis Jean Marie de Bourbon, Duke of Penthièvre (1725), and Isabella of Valois (1389).

Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Léon Werth ranks 173Before him are Catherine de Bourbon (1559), Paul Scarron (1610), Michel Tournier (1924), Jean Giono (1895), Alain-Fournier (1886), and Léon Bloy (1846). After him are Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon (1675), Henri Murger (1822), Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont (1711), Paul Bourget (1852), Roger Caillois (1913), and Pierre de Marivaux (1688).