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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 67,199 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Paul Féval, père is the 2,156th most popular writer (up from 2,410th in 2019), the 2,403rd most popular biography from France (up from 2,523rd in 2019) and the 309th most popular French Writer.

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  • 54.57

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.97

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.28

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Paul Féval, père ranks 2,156 out of 5,755. Before him are Chandrashekhara Kambara, Kristijonas Donelaitis, Princess Michael of Kent, Idries Shah, Saki, and Marcel Achard. After him are Charles de Brosses, Mohammad-Hossein Shahriar, Lucilius Junior, Oscar Milosz, Cigerxwîn, and Phocylides.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1816, Paul Féval, père ranks 17. Before him are Carl Ludwig, 10th Dalai Lama, Charles Frédéric Gerhardt, Giovanni Morelli, Gustav Freytag, and Charles-Eugène Delaunay. After him are Antoine François Marmontel, Rudolf Wolf, Charles-Denis Bourbaki, Ferdinand Ritter von Hebra, John Frederick Kensett, and Malwida von Meysenbug. Among people deceased in 1887, Paul Féval, père ranks 18. Before him are Jules Laforgue, Doc Holliday, Friedrich von Amerling, Carolyne zu Sayn-Wittgenstein, Anandi Gopal Joshi, and Hippolyte Bayard. After him are Jean-Baptiste Boussingault, Ditlev Gothard Monrad, Józef Ignacy Kraszewski, William A. Wheeler, Agostino Depretis, and Hans von Marées.

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In France

Among people born in France, Paul Féval, père ranks 2,403 out of 6,011. Before him are Alexandre Desplat (1961), Marcel Achard (1899), René Pleven (1901), Marie of Lorraine (1674), Victor Noir (1848), and Princess Anne of Orléans (1906). After him are Alexandre Ribot (1842), Charles de Brosses (1709), Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville (1777), Otto, Duke of Burgundy (945), Ford Madox Brown (1821), and Princess Françoise of Orléans (1844).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Paul Féval, père ranks 309. Before him are Jacques Collin de Plancy (1794), Gabriel Matzneff (1936), Elena Poniatowska (1932), Eugène Marin Labiche (1815), Albert Gleizes (1881), and Marcel Achard (1899). After him are Charles de Brosses (1709), René Crevel (1900), Jean-Jacques Barthélemy (1716), Magnus Felix Ennodius (473), Yasmina Reza (1959), and Zygmunt Krasiński (1812).

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