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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 579,494 page views. His biography is available in 58 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 56 in 2019). Théophile Gautier is the 373rd most popular writer (down from 348th in 2019), the 431st most popular biography from France (down from 387th in 2019) and the 65th 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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  • 58

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.78

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  • 4.30

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Théophile Gautier ranks 373 out of 5,755. Before him are Margaret Atwood, Joseph Roth, Henry James, Arthur de Gobineau, Ken Follett, and Kenzaburō Ōe. After him are Marguerite Yourcenar, Auguste Escoffier, Gabriele D'Annunzio, Ludovico Ariosto, Erich von Däniken, and Sándor Márai.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1811, Théophile Gautier ranks 6. Before him are Franz Liszt, Napoleon II, Évariste Galois, Robert Bunsen, and Maximilian II of Bavaria. After him are Urbain Le Verrier, William Makepeace Thackeray, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Isaac Singer, Louis Blanc, and Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach. 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, Princess Feodora of Leiningen, Franz Grillparzer, Kawakami Gensai, N. F. S. Grundtvig, and William Webb Ellis.

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In France

Among people born in France, Théophile Gautier ranks 431 out of 6,011. Before him are William II of England (1056), Fernand Léger (1881), Napoléon, Prince Imperial (1856), Patrice de MacMahon (1808), Arthur de Gobineau (1816), and Éric Rohmer (1920). After him are Auguste Escoffier (1847), Francis Poulenc (1899), Louis, Grand Condé (1621), Brigitte Macron (1953), Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881), and Marquis de Condorcet (1743).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Théophile Gautier ranks 65. Before him are Paul Éluard (1895), Jacques Prévert (1900), Jean Genet (1910), Alphonse Daudet (1840), Henri Charrière (1906), and Arthur de Gobineau (1816). After him are Auguste Escoffier (1847), W. Somerset Maugham (1874), André Maurois (1885), Hector Malot (1830), J. M. G. Le Clézio (1940), and Alphonse de Lamartine (1790).

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