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Adèle Hugo

1830 - 1915

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Adèle Hugo (French pronunciation: [adɛl yɡo]; 24 August 1830 – 21 April 1915) was the fifth and youngest child of French writer Victor Hugo. She is remembered for developing schizophrenia as a young woman, which led to a romantic obsession with a British military officer who rejected her. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Adèle Hugo is the 1,656th most popular writer (down from 1,617th in 2019), the 1,910th most popular biography from France (down from 1,885th in 2019) and the 237th most popular French Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Adèle Hugo ranks 1,656 out of 7,302Before her are Ildefonsus, Attila József, Maria Valtorta, Quintus Smyrnaeus, Malcolm Lowry, and Andreas Gryphius. After her are José Maria de Eça de Queirós, E. Howard Hunt, Bartolomeo Platina, Avraham Stern, Margherita Sarfatti, and Eino Leino.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1830, Adèle Hugo ranks 28Before her are Karl Goldmark, Oliver Otis Howard, Jules de Goncourt, Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges, Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, and Lalla Fatma N'Soumer. After her are Samori Ture, Princess Elisabeth of Saxony, Carmine Crocco, François-Marie Raoult, Aga Khan II, and Theodor Leschetizky. Among people deceased in 1915, Adèle Hugo ranks 28Before her are Archduke Ferdinand Karl of Austria, William Wallace Denslow, Saitō Hajime, Nadežda Petrović, Remy de Gourmont, and Gopal Krishna Gokhale. After her are Konstantin Makovsky, Edith Cavell, Julius von Payer, François Faber, Oswald Külpe, and Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich of Russia.

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In France

Among people born in France, Adèle Hugo ranks 1,910 out of 6,770Before her are Herleva (1003), Bixente Lizarazu (1969), Isabella of Bourbon (1437), Charlotte Aglaé d'Orléans (1700), Jean-Marie Collot d'Herbois (1749), and François Ozon (1967). After her are Henri Giffard (1825), Louis Jean Marie de Bourbon, Duke of Penthièvre (1725), Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat (1923), Maurice de Sully (1110), Henri-Edmond Cross (1856), and Jeannot Szwarc (1937).

Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Adèle Hugo ranks 237Before her are Henry de Montherlant (1895), René Char (1907), Robert Brasillach (1909), Jacques Amyot (1513), Rodulfus Glaber (985), and Robert Desnos (1900). After her are Jean Bodel (1165), André Pieyre de Mandiargues (1909), Marquis de Custine (1790), Marcel Achard (1899), Thoinot Arbeau (1520), and Varro Atacinus (-82).