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Paul Féval, père

1816 - 1887

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Paul Henri Corentin Féval, père (29 September 1816 - 8 March 1887) was a French novelist and dramatist. He was the author of popular swashbuckler novels such as Le Loup blanc (1843) and the perennial best-seller Le Bossu (1857). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Paul Féval, père has received more than 72,579 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Paul Féval, père is the 2,150th most popular writer (down from 2,149th in 2019), the 2,399th most popular biography from France (down from 2,395th in 2019) and the 304th most popular French Writer.

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  • 73k

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  • 61.81

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.28

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.47

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Paul Féval, père ranks 2,150 out of 7,302. Before him are Antonio Skármeta, Osvaldo Moles, Flannery O'Connor, Oliver Goldsmith, Ernst von Salomon, and Goffredo Mameli. After him are Sabahattin Ali, Aleksander Chodźko, Musa Cälil, Paul the Silentiary, Siri Hustvedt, and Charles de Brosses.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1816, Paul Féval, père ranks 17. Before him are Franz Sacher, John Frederick Kensett, 10th Dalai Lama, Charles-Eugène Delaunay, Antoine Béchamp, and Gustav Freytag. After him are Giovanni Morelli, Rudolf Wolf, Charles Frédéric Gerhardt, Antoine François Marmontel, Malwida von Meysenbug, and Sir William Bowman, 1st Baronet. Among people deceased in 1887, Paul Féval, père ranks 17. Before him are Alfred Krupp, Juan, Count of Montizón, Jules Laforgue, Doc Holliday, Anandi Gopal Joshi, and Jean-Baptiste Boussingault. After him are Józef Ignacy Kraszewski, Carolyne zu Sayn-Wittgenstein, Luigi Jacobini, Agostino Depretis, Hippolyte Bayard, and Hans von Marées.

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In France

Among people born in France, Paul Féval, père ranks 2,399 out of 6,770. Before him are Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau (1725), Dominique Vandamme (1770), Claude Bolling (1930), Jules Perrot (1810), Marcel Dalio (1899), and Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest (1784). After him are Johann Hermann (1738), Benedicta Henrietta of the Palatinate (1652), Urbain Grandier (1590), Charles Munch (1891), Michel-Gabriel Paccard (1757), and Bon-Adrien Jeannot de Moncey (1754).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Paul Féval, père ranks 304. Before him are Anne Golon (1921), François Coppée (1842), Gaston Paris (1839), Maurice Joly (1829), Yvan Goll (1891), and Savitri Devi (1905). After him are Charles de Brosses (1709), Paul Morand (1888), Pierre Alexis Ponson du Terrail (1829), Ernst Robert Curtius (1886), Michel Leiris (1901), and Isaac the Blind (1160).

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