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René Huyghe

1906 - 1997

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René Huyghe (3 May 1906 Arras, France – 5 February 1997, Paris) was a French writer on the history, psychology and philosophy of art. He was also a curator at the Louvre's department of paintings (from 1930), a professor at the Collège de France director of the Musée Jacquemart-André, and, beginning in 1960 a member of the Académie Française. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of René Huyghe has received more than 28,666 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). René Huyghe is the 3,537th most popular writer (down from 3,114th in 2019), the 3,447th most popular biography from France (down from 3,054th in 2019) and the 447th most popular French Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, René Huyghe ranks 3,537 out of 5,755. Before him are Jiří Dienstbier, Gunter d'Alquen, Johannes Bobrowski, Christopher Hampton, Zora Neale Hurston, and Zenta Mauriņa. After him are Jalal Al-e-Ahmad, Simin Behbahani, Lina Sandell, Oskar Luts, Sarah Kirsch, and Ralph Ellison.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, René Huyghe ranks 191. Before him are Mohammad Kazem Shariatmadari, Sergei Gerasimov, Alberto Lleras Camargo, Herbert Wehner, Jerzy Giedroyc, and Juan Carlos Calvo. After him are Kathleen Kenyon, Mario Soldati, René David, Alex Thépot, Fernando Giudicelli, and Renato Cesarini. Among people deceased in 1997, René Huyghe ranks 146. Before him are Georges Marchal, Agnieszka Osiecka, Alexander Kazhdan, Sándor Végh, Misael Pastrana Borrero, and Robert H. Dicke. After him are Seni Pramoj, Salvador Artigas, Josef Pieper, Léon Poliakov, Bengt Danielsson, and Charles Hallahan.

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In France

Among people born in France, René Huyghe ranks 3,447 out of 6,011. Before him are Madeleine Lebeau (1923), Rémi Gaillard (1975), Simon Arnauld, Marquis de Pomponne (1618), Louis Charles Delescluze (1809), Pierre Joseph Bonnaterre (1752), and Laurent Terzieff (1935). After him are Gisèle Casadesus (1914), Tony Robert-Fleury (1837), Adolphe Niel (1802), Harry Schell (1921), Olivier Blanchard (1948), and Jules Simon (1814).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, René Huyghe ranks 447. Before him are Bonaventure des Périers (1510), Daniel-Rops (1901), Léon-Paul Fargue (1876), Frédéric Beigbeder (1965), Daniel Boulanger (1922), and Roger Vailland (1907). After him are Théophile Thoré-Bürger (1807), Henry Bataille (1872), Maurice Genevoix (1890), Jean Desmarets (1595), Bernard Maris (1946), and Claude Bourgelat (1712).

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