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Émile Zola

French writer

1840 - 1902

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His biography is available in 114 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 113 in 2024). Émile Zola is the 53rd most popular writer (down from 42nd in 2024), the 49th most popular biography from France (down from 37th in 2019) and the 13th most popular French Writer.

Émile Zola is most famous for his novel, "J'accuse" (I accuse) in which he accuses the French government of anti-Semitism.

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#49 / 7,658

Émile Zola ranks #49 among 7,658 people in Pantheon born in France, inside the top 1% of that group.

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Émile Zola's biography appears in 114 language editions of Wikipedia, more than 99% of all Writers.

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Among Writers

Among writers, Émile Zola ranks 53 out of 7,707. Before him are Friedrich Schiller, Aristophanes, Thomas Hardy, Charles Baudelaire, Marcel Proust, and Denis Diderot. After him are Gustave Flaubert, Euripides, Li Bai, Octave Mirbeau, Astrid Lindgren, and Oscar Wilde.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1840, Émile Zola ranks 4. Before him are Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Claude Monet, and Thomas Hardy. After him are Auguste Rodin, Carlota of Mexico, Victoria, Princess Royal, Murad V, Alphonse Daudet, Odilon Redon, Edward Drinker Cope, and Ernst Abbe. Among people deceased in 1902, Émile Zola ranks 1. After him are Cecil Rhodes, Swami Vivekananda, Rudolf Virchow, Samuel Butler, Levi Strauss, Maria Goretti, Marie Henriette of Austria, Richard von Krafft-Ebing, Albert of Saxony, Francis, Duke of Cádiz, and Ion Ivanovici.

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In France

Among people born in France, Émile Zola ranks 49 out of 7,658. Before him are Charles Baudelaire (1821), Marcel Proust (1871), Henry IV of France (1553), Pierre Curie (1859), Denis Diderot (1713), and André-Marie Ampère (1775). After him are Gustave Flaubert (1821), Brigitte Bardot (1934), Édouard Manet (1832), Octave Mirbeau (1848), Henri Becquerel (1852), and Eugène Delacroix (1798).

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Among Writers In France

Among writers born in France, Émile Zola ranks 13. Before him are Honoré de Balzac (1799), Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900), Simone de Beauvoir (1908), Charles Baudelaire (1821), Marcel Proust (1871), and Denis Diderot (1713). After him are Gustave Flaubert (1821), Octave Mirbeau (1848), Stendhal (1783), Romain Rolland (1866), Charles Perrault (1628), and Guy de Maupassant (1850).

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