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Stéphane Mallarmé

1842 - 1898

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Stéphane Mallarmé (UK: MAL-ar-may, US: mal-ar-MAY; French: [stefan malaʁme] ; 18 March 1842 – 9 September 1898), pen name of Étienne Mallarmé, was a French poet and critic. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Stéphane Mallarmé has received more than 724,747 page views. His biography is available in 63 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 61 in 2019). Stéphane Mallarmé is the 207th most popular writer (down from 204th in 2019), the 259th most popular biography from France (down from 245th in 2019) and the 40th most popular French Writer.

Mallarmé is most famous for his poem "Un coup de dés jamais n'abolira le hasard" (A Throw of the Dice Will Never Abolish Chance).

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    Languages Editions (L)

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  • 2.86

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Stéphane Mallarmé ranks 207 out of 7,302. Before him are Lou Andreas-Salomé, Khalil Gibran, Anna Wintour, Mansur Al-Hallaj, Tristan Tzara, and Ray Bradbury. After him are Mario Vargas Llosa, Imre Kertész, Anacreon, Johanna Spyri, Sigrid Undset, and Maurice Leblanc.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1842, Stéphane Mallarmé ranks 4. Before him are Abdul Hamid II, William James, and Peter Kropotkin. After him are Jules Massenet, Alfred Marshall, Karl May, John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, Dominic Savio, Josef Breuer, Camille Flammarion, and Paul Lafargue. Among people deceased in 1898, Stéphane Mallarmé ranks 4. Before him are Otto von Bismarck, Empress Elisabeth of Austria, and Lewis Carroll. After him are Gustave Moreau, Charbel Makhlouf, Eugène Boudin, Ivan Shishkin, Louise of Hesse-Kassel, Johann Jakob Balmer, Charles Garnier, and Ferdinand Cohn.

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In France

Among people born in France, Stéphane Mallarmé ranks 259 out of 6,770. Before him are Pope Leo IX (1002), Georges Méliès (1861), Serge Gainsbourg (1928), Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour (1810), Michel Platini (1955), and Rudolf Diesel (1858). After him are Pope Innocent V (1225), Charles Fourier (1772), Maurice Leblanc (1864), Philip I of France (1052), Jules Massenet (1842), and Henry I of France (1008).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Stéphane Mallarmé ranks 40. Before him are Annie Ernaux (1940), Cyrano de Bergerac (1619), Nicolas Flamel (1330), François-René de Chateaubriand (1768), André Breton (1896), and Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1894). After him are Maurice Leblanc (1864), Pierre Corneille (1606), Prosper Mérimée (1803), Frédéric Mistral (1830), J. M. G. Le Clézio (1940), and Germaine de Staël (1766).

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