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Alphonse Daudet

1840 - 1897

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Alphonse Daudet (French: [dodɛ]; 13 May 1840 – 16 December 1897) was a French novelist. He was the husband of Julia Daudet and father of Edmée, Léon and Lucien Daudet. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alphonse Daudet is the 298th most popular writer (down from 276th in 2019), the 332nd most popular biography from France (down from 318th in 2019) and the 48th most popular French Writer.

Alphonse Daudet is most famous for his novels "Lettres de mon Moulin" and "Le Petit Chose."

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Among writers, Alphonse Daudet ranks 298 out of 7,302. Before him are Jacob Grimm, Bram Stoker, Walt Whitman, Alfonso X of Castile, Paul Auster, and Karen Blixen. After him are François de La Rochefoucauld, Frans Eemil Sillanpää, Guillaume de Machaut, Arthur Miller, Shams Tabrizi, and Czesław Miłosz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1840, Alphonse Daudet ranks 9. Before him are Thomas Hardy, Émile Zola, Auguste Rodin, Carlota of Mexico, Victoria, Princess Royal, and Murad V. After him are Odilon Redon, Edward Drinker Cope, Ernst Abbe, Carl Menger, Hiram Maxim, and Father Damien. Among people deceased in 1897, Alphonse Daudet ranks 3. Before him are Johannes Brahms, and Thérèse of Lisieux. After him are Karl Weierstrass, Jiroemon Kimura, Edward Drinker Cope, Jacob Burckhardt, Jamāl al-Dīn al-Afghānī, Savitribai Phule, Duchess Sophie Charlotte in Bavaria, Albert Marth, and Frederick Francis III, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin.

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In France

Among people born in France, Alphonse Daudet ranks 332 out of 6,770. Before him are Pope Nicholas II (990), Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot (1748), Georges-Eugène Haussmann (1809), Charlotte Corday (1768), John the Fearless (1371), and John I of France (1316). After him are François de La Rochefoucauld (1613), William Longsword (893), Elisabeth of France (1602), Édouard Daladier (1884), Guillaume de Machaut (1300), and Chlothar I (498).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Alphonse Daudet ranks 48. Before him are Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1894), Annie Ernaux (1940), Prosper Mérimée (1803), Germaine de Staël (1766), Pierre Corneille (1606), and Patrick Modiano (1945). After him are François de La Rochefoucauld (1613), Guillaume de Machaut (1300), Chrétien de Troyes (1135), J. M. G. Le Clézio (1940), Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau (1749), and Antonin Artaud (1896).

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