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Paul Lafargue

1842 - 1911

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Paul Lafargue (French: [lafaʁg]; 15 January 1842 – 25 November 1911) was a Cuban-born French revolutionary Marxist socialist, political writer, economist, journalist, literary critic, and activist; he was Karl Marx's son-in-law, having married his second daughter, Laura. His best known work is The Right to Be Lazy. Born in Cuba to French and Saint Dominican Creole parents, Lafargue spent most of his life in France, with periods in England and Spain. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Paul Lafargue has received more than 392,665 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia. Paul Lafargue is the 555th most popular writer (down from 509th in 2019), the 8th most popular biography from Cuba (down from 7th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Cuban Writer.

Paul Lafargue was a French Marxist theorist and activist. He is most famous for his work "The Right to Be Lazy."

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Paul Lafargue ranks 555 out of 5,755Before him are Yevgeny Zamyatin, Georg Trakl, Denis of Portugal, Mihai Eminescu, Abai Qunanbaiuly, and Longus. After him are Miguel Ángel Asturias, Alfred Döblin, Wang Wei, Faxian, Percy Fawcett, and Saint Naum.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1842, Paul Lafargue ranks 12Before him are Jules Massenet, John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, Karl May, Dominic Savio, Josef Breuer, and Camille Flammarion. After him are Archduke Ludwig Viktor of Austria, James Dewar, Arrigo Boito, Ambrose Bierce, Hermann Cohen, and Carl von Linde. Among people deceased in 1911, Paul Lafargue ranks 8Before him are Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, Wilhelm Dilthey, Francis Galton, Alfred Binet, Joseph Pulitzer, and Pyotr Stolypin. After him are Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis, Georg Jellinek, Emilio Salgari, Valentin Serov, Maria Pia of Savoy, and Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Altenburg.

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In Cuba

Among people born in Cuba, Paul Lafargue ranks 8 out of 248Before him are Raúl Castro (1931), Fulgencio Batista (1901), José Raúl Capablanca (1888), Italo Calvino (1923), Camilo Cienfuegos (1932), and José Martí (1853). After him are Andy García (1956), Alberto Korda (1928), Compay Segundo (1907), Gloria Estefan (1957), Ibrahim Ferrer (1927), and Juan Almeida Bosque (1927).

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Among WRITERS In Cuba

Among writers born in Cuba, Paul Lafargue ranks 3Before him are Italo Calvino (1923) and José Martí (1853). After him are Reinaldo Arenas (1943), Nicolás Guillén (1902), José-Maria de Heredia (1842), Guillermo Cabrera Infante (1929), José Lezama Lima (1910), Leonardo Padura Fuentes (1955), Pedro Juan Gutiérrez (1950), Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda (1814), and José María Heredia y Heredia (1803).