WRITER

Octave Mirbeau

1848 - 1917

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Octave Henri Marie Mirbeau (French: [ɔktav miʁbo]; 16 February 1848 – 16 February 1917) was a French novelist, art critic, travel writer, pamphleteer, journalist and playwright, who achieved celebrity in Europe and great success among the public, whilst still appealing to the literary and artistic avant-garde with highly transgressive novels that explored violence, abuse and psychological detachment. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Octave Mirbeau has received more than 206,262 page views. His biography is available in 144 different languages on Wikipedia. Octave Mirbeau is the 50th most popular writer (down from 49th in 2019), the 42nd most popular biography from France (up from 45th in 2019) and the 15th most popular French Writer.

Octave Mirbeau is most famous for his novel, The Torture Garden.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Octave Mirbeau ranks 50 out of 7,302. Before him are Euripides, Gustave Flaubert, Aristophanes, Jane Austen, Aeschylus, and Simone de Beauvoir. After him are F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sappho, Thomas Mann, Mark Twain, Gabriel García Márquez, and George Orwell.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1848, Octave Mirbeau ranks 2. Before him is Paul Gauguin. After him are Vilfredo Pareto, Gottlob Frege, Otto Lilienthal, Helmuth von Moltke the Younger, Gustave Caillebotte, Otto of Bavaria, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Arthur Balfour, Tōgō Heihachirō, and Hugo de Vries. Among people deceased in 1917, Octave Mirbeau ranks 2. Before him is Émile Durkheim. After him are Auguste Rodin, Edgar Degas, L. L. Zamenhof, Mata Hari, Eduard Buchner, Ferdinand von Zeppelin, Emil von Behring, Adolf von Baeyer, Edward Burnett Tylor, and Emil Theodor Kocher.

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In France

Among people born in France, Octave Mirbeau ranks 42 out of 6,770. Before him are Pierre Curie (1859), Émile Zola (1840), Stendhal (1783), Gustave Flaubert (1821), Henry IV of France (1553), and Simone de Beauvoir (1908). After him are Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor (1122), Eugène Delacroix (1798), Louis XIII of France (1601), Philip IV of France (1268), Édouard Manet (1832), and Marcel Proust (1871).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Octave Mirbeau ranks 15. Before him are Alexandre Dumas (1802), Charles Baudelaire (1821), Émile Zola (1840), Stendhal (1783), Gustave Flaubert (1821), and Simone de Beauvoir (1908). After him are Marcel Proust (1871), Romain Rolland (1866), Charles Perrault (1628), Arthur Rimbaud (1854), François Rabelais (1494), and George Sand (1804).

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