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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 113,615 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Émile Gaboriau is the 1,281st most popular writer (up from 1,426th in 2019), the 1,490th most popular biography from France (up from 1,592nd in 2019) and the 188th most popular French Writer.

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  • 110k

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  • 58.94

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 30

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.92

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.29

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Émile Gaboriau ranks 1,281 out of 5,755. Before him are W. G. Sebald, August von Kotzebue, Maj Sjöwall, Alexander Afanasyev, Georg Kaiser, and Matthias Flacius. After him are Jan Długosz, Ibn Sirin, Lycophron, Hassan ibn Thabit, Victor Serge, and Roland Topor.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1832, Émile Gaboriau ranks 26. Before him are Andrew Dickson White, Osman Nuri Pasha, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Infanta Luisa Fernanda, Duchess of Montpensier, Wilhelm Busch, and Michel Bréal. After him are Henry Steel Olcott, Hudson Taylor, Nikolay Pavlovich Ignatyev, Khurshidbanu Natavan, Rudolf Lipschitz, and William Le Baron Jenney. Among people deceased in 1873, Émile Gaboriau ranks 15. Before him are Franz Xaver Winterhalter, Alexandru Ioan Cuza, Fyodor Tyutchev, Vasil Levski, Amélie of Leuchtenberg, and Johns Hopkins. After him are Louis Agassiz, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Princess Charlotte of Württemberg, Pauline Therese of Württemberg, Sheridan Le Fanu, and Viktor Hartmann.

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In France

Among people born in France, Émile Gaboriau ranks 1,490 out of 6,011. Before him are Paul Poiret (1879), Arnaud Amalric (1160), Jacques-Germain Soufflot (1713), William of Champeaux (1070), Julien Duvivier (1896), and Balthasar Gérard (1557). After him are Émile Waldteufel (1837), Alexandre de Rhodes (1591), Paul-Jacques Curie (1855), Joan I, Countess of Auvergne (1326), Pierre Louis Dulong (1785), and Roland Topor (1938).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Émile Gaboriau ranks 188. Before him are Pierre Drieu La Rochelle (1893), Régis Debray (1940), Antoine de Montchrestien (1575), Odo of Cluny (878), Charles Péguy (1873), and Michel Butor (1926). After him are Roland Topor (1938), Clément Marot (1495), Monique Wittig (1935), Xavier de Maistre (1763), Princess Isabelle of Orléans-Braganza (1911), and Adam de la Halle (1245).

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