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Théophile Gautier

1811 - 1872

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Pierre Jules Théophile Gautier (US: goh-TYAY, French: [pjɛʁ ʒyl teɔfil ɡotje]; 30 August 1811 – 23 October 1872) was a French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, and art and literary critic. While an ardent defender of Romanticism, Gautier's work is difficult to classify and remains a point of reference for many subsequent literary traditions such as Parnassianism, Symbolism, Decadence and Modernism. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Théophile Gautier has received more than 615,819 page views. His biography is available in 60 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 58 in 2019). Théophile Gautier is the 330th most popular writer (up from 372nd in 2019), the 378th most popular biography from France (up from 431st in 2019) and the 62nd most popular French Writer.

Théophile Gautier is most famous for his prose and poetry. He was a French poet, novelist, and literary critic.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Théophile Gautier ranks 330 out of 7,302. Before him are J. M. Coetzee, France Prešeren, Peter Drucker, Ève Curie, Pär Lagerkvist, and André Malraux. After him are Coen brothers, William Wordsworth, Mikhail Sholokhov, David Woodard, Paul Celan, and Paul Éluard.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1811, Théophile Gautier ranks 4. Before him are Napoleon II, Franz Liszt, and Évariste Galois. After him are Robert Bunsen, Maximilian II of Bavaria, Urbain Le Verrier, Isaac Singer, Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, William Makepeace Thackeray, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Vissarion Belinsky. Among people deceased in 1872, Théophile Gautier ranks 6. Before him are Ludwig Feuerbach, Samuel Morse, Giuseppe Mazzini, Princess Sophie of Bavaria, and Charles XV of Sweden. After him are Benito Juárez, Franz Grillparzer, N. F. S. Grundtvig, William Webb Ellis, Stanisław Moniuszko, and William John Macquorn Rankine.

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In France

Among people born in France, Théophile Gautier ranks 378 out of 6,770. Before him are Philippe II, Duke of Orléans (1674), Theodor Eicke (1892), Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi (1834), Ève Curie (1904), André Malraux (1901), and Marin Mersenne (1588). After him are Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1645), John Vianney (1786), Hans Bethe (1906), Louis-Nicolas Davout (1770), Jean-Martin Charcot (1825), and Jeanne d'Albret (1528).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Théophile Gautier ranks 62. Before him are Françoise Sagan (1935), Roger Martin du Gard (1881), Guillaume de Machaut (1300), Henri Charrière (1906), Ève Curie (1904), and André Malraux (1901). After him are Paul Éluard (1895), Alphonse de Lamartine (1790), Arthur de Gobineau (1816), Georges Bataille (1897), Jean Genet (1910), and Gregory of Tours (538).

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