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Geoffrey Chaucer

1343 - 1400

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Geoffrey Chaucer est un écrivain et poète anglais né à Londres vers 1343 et mort en le 25 octobre 1400 dans cette même ville. Son œuvre la plus célèbre est Les Contes de Canterbury. Il est l'un des principaux auteurs de langue anglaise du XIVe siècle avec John Gower, William Langland et le Pearl Poet, et il est largement considéré comme l'un des pères de la littérature anglaise. Selon Arthur Terry, les poètes d'Europe les plus importants sont Geoffrey Chaucer, Ausiàs March, et François Villon. En savoir plus sur Wikipédia

His biography is available in 140 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 133 in 2024). Geoffrey Chaucer is the 202nd most popular écrivain (up from 258th in 2024), the 175th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 184th in 2019) and the 21st most popular British ÉCrivain.

Geoffrey Chaucer is most famous for his Canterbury Tales, a collection of stories told by a group of pilgrims on their way to Canterbury.

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Among Écrivains

Among écrivains, Geoffrey Chaucer ranks 202 out of 7,302. Before him are Johannes V. Jensen, Menander, François-René de Chateaubriand, Orhan Pamuk, Friedrich Hölderlin, and Joseph Conrad. After him are Aldous Huxley, Imre Kertész, Luís de Camões, David Woodard, Ahmad ibn Hanbal, and Svetlana Alexievich.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1343, Geoffrey Chaucer ranks 1. After him are Emperor Chōkei, Joan of Valois, Queen of Navarre, Tommaso Mocenigo, Andrea di Bonaiuto da Firenze, Demetrios I Kantakouzenos, Constance of Aragon, Queen of Sicily, and William I, Margrave of Meissen. Among people deceased in 1400, Geoffrey Chaucer ranks 1. After him are Richard II of England, Nilüfer Hatun, Luo Guanzhong, Atlantic voyage of the predecessor of Mansa Musa, Rustichello da Pisa, Masamune, Baldus de Ubaldis, Peter of Dusburg, André Beauneveu, Frederick I, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, and Dragoș, Voivode of Moldavia.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Geoffrey Chaucer ranks 175 out of 8,785. Before him are Patrick Blackett (1897), Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury (1830), Robert Edwards (1925), Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson (1758), Jeremy Bentham (1748), and Mark Knopfler (1949). After him are Philip Noel-Baker (1889), Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia (1596), Aldous Huxley (1894), Robert Brown (1773), Mary Boleyn (1499), and Henry Purcell (1659).

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Among Écrivains In United Kingdom

Among écrivains born in United Kingdom, Geoffrey Chaucer ranks 21. Before him are Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806), Robert Louis Stevenson (1850), Walter Scott (1771), Anna Wintour (1949), John Milton (1608), and Charlotte Brontë (1816). After him are Aldous Huxley (1894), Terry Pratchett (1948), William Blake (1757), W. H. Auden (1907), C. S. Lewis (1898), and J. K. Rowling (1965).

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