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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 663,551 page views. His biography is available in 61 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 62 in 2019). Stéphane Mallarmé is the 204th most popular writer (down from 188th in 2019), the 245th most popular biography from France (down from 218th in 2019) and the 37th 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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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Stéphane Mallarmé ranks 204 out of 5,755Before him are Emily Dickinson, Imre Kertész, Yasunari Kawabata, Herman Melville, Taras Shevchenko, and Isaac Bashevis Singer. After him are Friedrich Hölderlin, Henryk Sienkiewicz, Chinghiz Aitmatov, Colette, Wisława Szymborska, and Ferdowsi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1842, Stéphane Mallarmé ranks 5Before him are Abdul Hamid II, William James, Peter Kropotkin, and Alfred Marshall. After him are Jules Massenet, John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, Karl May, Dominic Savio, Josef Breuer, Camille Flammarion, and Paul Lafargue. Among people deceased in 1898, Stéphane Mallarmé ranks 4Before him are Otto von Bismarck, Empress Elisabeth of Austria, and Lewis Carroll. After him are Gustave Moreau, Charbel Makhlouf, Eugène Boudin, Louise of Hesse-Kassel, Ivan Shishkin, Johann Jakob Balmer, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, and John Newlands.

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In France

Among people born in France, Stéphane Mallarmé ranks 245 out of 6,011Before him are Georges Clemenceau (1841), Pope Clement IV (1190), Zinedine Zidane (1972), Jean Marais (1913), Margaret of Valois (1553), and Oscar I of Sweden (1799). After him are Colette (1873), Serge Gainsbourg (1928), Philip the Good (1396), Charles Gounod (1818), Pierre Corneille (1606), and Charles de Batz de Castelmore d'Artagnan (1611).

Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Stéphane Mallarmé ranks 37Before him are Guy de Maupassant (1850), Charles Baudelaire (1821), André Breton (1896), Jean Racine (1639), Petronius (27), and François-René de Chateaubriand (1768). After him are Colette (1873), Pierre Corneille (1606), Maurice Leblanc (1864), Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1894), François de La Rochefoucauld (1613), and Germaine de Staël (1766).