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Aloysius Bertrand

1807 - 1841

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Louis Jacques Napoléon Bertrand, better known by his pen name Aloysius Bertrand (20 April 1807 — 29 April 1841), was a French Romantic poet, playwright and journalist. He is famous for having introduced prose poetry in French literature, and is considered a forerunner of the Symbolist movement. His masterpiece is the collection of prose poems Gaspard de la Nuit published posthumously in 1842; three of its poems were adapted to an eponymous piano suite by Maurice Ravel in 1908. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Aloysius Bertrand is the 2,067th most popular writer (down from 2,030th in 2019), the 2,080th most popular biography from Italy (down from 2,042nd in 2019) and the 135th most popular Italian Writer.

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Among writers, Aloysius Bertrand ranks 2,067 out of 7,302. Before him are Johann Karl August Musäus, James E. Gunn, Frederick Marryat, Maria Gripe, Hermann Sudermann, and Gian Giorgio Trissino. After him are Carl Sandburg, Sabahattin Ali, Salvadore Cammarano, Christopher Isherwood, Aphrahat, and Gustav Schwab.

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Among people born in 1807, Aloysius Bertrand ranks 20. Before him are Princess Feodora of Leiningen, Théophile-Jules Pelouze, Princess Cecilia of Sweden, Alfred Vail, Princess Charlotte of Württemberg, and Hermann Burmeister. After him are Joseph E. Johnston, Amir Kabir, Jónas Hallgrímsson, Abdülkerim Nadir Pasha, Napoleon Orda, and Anna Russell. Among people deceased in 1841, Aloysius Bertrand ranks 24. Before him are Friedrich Parrot, Frederica of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Jean Victoir Audouin, Minh Mạng, Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin, and Bertrand Barère. After him are Peter Chanel, Felice Pasquale Baciocchi, Princess Augusta of Prussia, Franz Xaver von Baader, Agustín Gamarra, and Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Aloysius Bertrand ranks 2,080 out of 5,161. Before him are Archduke Alexander Leopold of Austria (1772), Clarice de' Medici (1493), Niccolò III d'Este, Marquis of Ferrara (1383), Nanni di Banco (1380), Gian Giorgio Trissino (1478), and Carlo Biotti (1901). After him are Piero Sraffa (1898), Salvadore Cammarano (1801), Marcus Aemilius Scaurus (-163), Marco Antonio Bragadin (1523), Infante Alfonso of Spain (1941), and Spinello Aretino (1350).

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Among WRITERS In Italy

Among writers born in Italy, Aloysius Bertrand ranks 135. Before him are Luigi Illica (1857), Archestratus (-350), Laura Mancinelli (1933), Ippolita Maria Sforza (1446), Philemon (-362), and Gian Giorgio Trissino (1478). After him are Salvadore Cammarano (1801), Marcus Tullius Tiro (-103), Jean-Antoine de Baïf (1532), Alexis (-372), Niccolò de' Niccoli (1365), and Eugenio Barba (1936).

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