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André Maurois

1885 - 1967

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André Maurois (French: [mɔʁwa]; born Émile Salomon Wilhelm Herzog; 26 July 1885 – 9 October 1967) was a French author. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. André Maurois is the 475th most popular writer (down from 438th in 2019), the 558th most popular biography from France (down from 517th in 2019) and the 80th most popular French Writer.

André Maurois is most famous for being a French writer and biographer. He was born in 1885 and died in 1967. He is most famous for his book "The Life of Sir Walter Scott."

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, André Maurois ranks 475 out of 7,302. Before him are Charles, Duke of Orléans, Erich von Däniken, Tulsidas, Mo Yan, Françoise Sagan, and Lactantius. After him are Karl Barth, Ken Follett, Savitribai Phule, France Prešeren, Milena Jesenská, and Vladimir Vysotsky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1885, André Maurois ranks 19. Before him are Hermann Hoth, Julius Streicher, Hugo Boss, Robert Delaunay, George de Hevesy, and Karen Horney. After him are Ernst Bloch, Umberto Nobile, Ernst Busch, Heinrich Hoffmann, Mikhail Frunze, and Heinrich Brüning. Among people deceased in 1967, André Maurois ranks 20. Before him are Edward Hopper, Zoltán Kodály, Mir Osman Ali Khan, Clement Attlee, Claude Rains, and Ilse Koch. After him are Jack Ruby, Richard Kuhn, Ilya Ehrenburg, Gordon Allport, Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden, and Jaroslav Heyrovský.

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In France

Among people born in France, André Maurois ranks 558 out of 6,770. Before him are Isabelle Huppert (1953), Eugène François Vidocq (1775), Maurice Béjart (1927), Françoise Sagan (1935), Paul Delaroche (1797), and Louis-Alexandre Berthier (1753). After him are Jean-Jacques Annaud (1943), Gaspard II de Coligny (1519), Eugène Viollet-le-Duc (1814), Françoise Barré-Sinoussi (1947), Henri, Count of Chambord (1820), and François Jacob (1920).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, André Maurois ranks 80. Before him are Gregory of Tours (538), Georges Bataille (1897), Henri Barbusse (1873), Louis Aragon (1897), Charles, Duke of Orléans (1394), and Françoise Sagan (1935). After him are René Guénon (1886), Joris-Karl Huysmans (1848), Marie-Antoine Carême (1784), Paul Claudel (1868), Hector Malot (1830), and Boris Vian (1920).

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