WRITER

Émile Gaboriau

1832 - 1873

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Émile Gaboriau (9 November 1832 – 28 September 1873) was a French writer, novelist, journalist, and a pioneer of detective fiction. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Émile Gaboriau has received more than 121,541 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia. Émile Gaboriau is the 1,369th most popular writer (down from 1,278th in 2019), the 1,584th most popular biography from France (down from 1,485th in 2019) and the 194th most popular French Writer.

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  • 120k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 59.26

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 30

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.80

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.45

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Dossier 113
1900
L'affaire Lerouge
1900
L'Affaire Lerouge
Fiction, Mystery
Le jeudi 6 mars 1862, surlendemain du Mardi gras, cinq femmes du village de La Jonchere se presentaient au bureau de police de Bougival.
1962
La corde au cou
Fiction, Mystery
Dans la nuit du 22 au 23 juin 1871, vers une heure, le faubourg de Paris, qui est le principal et le plus populeux faubourg de la jolie ville de Sauveterre, fut mis en emoi par le galop frenetique d'un cheval sonnant sur les paves pointus.
1978
Monsieur Lecoq
Fiction in English, French fiction, Translations from French
1975

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Émile Gaboriau ranks 1,369 out of 7,302. Before him are Per Olov Enquist, Diana Gabaldon, Ibn al-Nadim, Joachim Fest, Thomas Moore, and Ildefonsus. After him are Hartmann Schedel, Joanot Martorell, Hartmann von Aue, Nicolás Gómez Dávila, Rex Stout, and Robert Wilson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1832, Émile Gaboriau ranks 26. Before him are Osman Nuri Pasha, Michel Bréal, Felice Beato, Alfred von Waldersee, Wilhelm Busch, and Infanta Luisa Fernanda, Duchess of Montpensier. After him are Henry Steel Olcott, Nikolay Pavlovich Ignatyev, Hudson Taylor, William Le Baron Jenney, Peter Ludwig Mejdell Sylow, and Khurshidbanu Natavan. Among people deceased in 1873, Émile Gaboriau ranks 15. Before him are Alexandru Ioan Cuza, Franz Xaver Winterhalter, Vasil Levski, Amélie of Leuchtenberg, Louis Agassiz, and Fyodor Tyutchev. After him are Johns Hopkins, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Muhammad IV of Morocco, Pauline Therese of Württemberg, Urbano Rattazzi, and Sheridan Le Fanu.

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In France

Among people born in France, Émile Gaboriau ranks 1,584 out of 6,770. Before him are Patrice Chéreau (1944), Edmond Debeaumarché (1906), Youri Djorkaeff (1968), Raimbaut de Vaqueiras (1165), Frank Darabont (1959), and Arletty (1898). After him are William of Champeaux (1070), Anne Gonzaga (1616), Julien Duvivier (1896), Germaine Tailleferre (1892), Séraphine Louis (1864), and Marie-Christine Barrault (1944).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Émile Gaboriau ranks 194. Before him are Catherine de Bourbon (1559), Henri Murger (1822), Adalberon (947), Xavier de Maistre (1763), Robert de Montesquiou (1855), and Joseph Bédier (1864). After him are François de Malherbe (1555), Fulcher of Chartres (1059), Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues (1715), Jules de Goncourt (1830), Princess Isabelle of Orléans-Braganza (1911), and Philippe Soupault (1897).

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