WRITER

Émile Souvestre

1806 - 1854

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Émile Souvestre (April 15, 1806 – July 5, 1854) was a Breton novelist who was a native of Morlaix, Brittany. Initially unsuccessful as a writer of drama, he fared better as a novelist (he wrote a sci-fi novel, Le Monde Tel Qu'il Sera) and as a researcher and writer of Breton folklore. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Émile Souvestre has received more than 31,119 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Émile Souvestre is the 4,840th most popular writer (down from 4,442nd in 2019), the 4,394th most popular biography from France (down from 3,972nd in 2019) and the 565th most popular French Writer.

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  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.66

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  • 2.19

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Émile Souvestre ranks 4,840 out of 7,302. Before him are Stanley G. Weinbaum, Norman Smith, Julio Ramón Ribeyro, Mahmoud Dowlatabadi, Zhu Ziqing, and Leonti Mroveli. After him are Mary Stewart, Vittorio Messori, José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi, Myrtis of Anthedon, Corín Tellado, and Gulnazar Keldi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1806, Émile Souvestre ranks 50. Before him are Michele Amari, Ivan Kireyevsky, Julius Hübner, Ramón Cabrera, 1st Duke of Maestrazgo, Matthew Fontaine Maury, and George Newbold Lawrence. After him are Martín Carrera, Gennaios Kolokotronis, Heinrich Laube, Jane Pierce, Aristeidis Moraitinis, and Pascual Madoz. Among people deceased in 1854, Émile Souvestre ranks 59. Before him are Caspar Georg Carl Reinwardt, Prince Carl Oscar, Duke of Södermanland, Pedro María de Anaya, Frederick Catherwood, Philip Barker-Webb, and Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey. After him are Nathaniel Wallich, Robert Jameson, Juan Mora Fernández, Josipina Turnograjska, Justo Figuerola, and George Cathcart.

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In France

Among people born in France, Émile Souvestre ranks 4,394 out of 6,770. Before him are Caroline Rémy de Guebhard (1855), Michel Leclère (1946), Dany Dauberson (1925), Julie Depardieu (1973), Louis Claude Cadet de Gassicourt (1731), and Alfred Aston (1912). After him are Charles Alexandre Lesueur (1778), Camille d'Hostun, duc de Tallard (1652), Émile Oustalet (1844), Jeannie Longo (1958), Alain Perrin (1956), and Mady Mesplé (1931).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Émile Souvestre ranks 565. Before him are Roger Vitrac (1899), Florence Delay (1941), Michel Déon (1919), Carine Roitfeld (1954), Raymond Abellio (1907), and Robert of Torigni (1100). After him are Philippe Claudel (1962), Paul Louis Courier (1772), Valentin Conrart (1603), Jean-Christophe Rufin (1952), Eugène Guillevic (1907), and Frédérick Tristan (1931).

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