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Camille Flammarion

1842 - 1925

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Nicolas Camille Flammarion FRAS (French: [nikɔla kamij flamaʁjɔ̃]; 26 February 1842 – 3 June 1925) was a French astronomer and author. He was a prolific author of more than fifty titles, including popular science works about astronomy, several notable early science fiction novels, and works on psychical research and related topics. He also published the magazine L'Astronomie, starting in 1882. He maintained a private observatory at Juvisy-sur-Orge, France. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Camille Flammarion is the 543rd most popular writer (down from 512th in 2019), the 642nd most popular biography from France (down from 605th in 2019) and the 90th most popular French Writer.

Camille Flammarion is most famous for his popularizing the idea of intelligent life on other planets.

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Among writers, Camille Flammarion ranks 543 out of 7,302. Before him are Vasubandhu, Luo Guanzhong, Nâzım Hikmet, Osip Mandelstam, Seneca the Elder, and Hugo von Hofmannsthal. After him are Augusta, Lady Gregory, Jean Paul, Enid Blyton, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Miguel Ángel Asturias, and Rudaki.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1842, Camille Flammarion ranks 12. Before him are Jules Massenet, Archduke Ludwig Viktor of Austria, Alfred Marshall, Karl May, Dominic Savio, and Josef Breuer. After him are Paul Lafargue, Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann, Arrigo Boito, Hermann Cohen, Osborne Reynolds, and James Dewar. Among people deceased in 1925, Camille Flammarion ranks 18. Before him are Sergei Yesenin, Henri Fayol, Władysław Reymont, Josef Breuer, Duchess Mathilde Ludovika in Bavaria, and Mikhail Frunze. After him are Felix Klein, Léon Bourgeois, Alexander Friedmann, Hjalmar Branting, Vajiravudh, and Félix Vallotton.

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In France

Among people born in France, Camille Flammarion ranks 642 out of 6,770. Before him are Stephen, Count of Blois (1045), Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot (1725), Ansgar (801), Joseph Proust (1754), Karl Brandt (1904), and Margaret of Anjou (1430). After him are Jacques MacDonald (1765), Gaston, Duke of Orléans (1608), Sophie Marceau (1966), Aristide Maillol (1861), Madeleine of Valois (1520), and Antoine Laurent de Jussieu (1748).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Camille Flammarion ranks 90. Before him are Paul Claudel (1868), Hector Malot (1830), Boris Vian (1920), Jules Michelet (1798), Pierre de Ronsard (1524), and Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (1627). After him are Madame de La Fayette (1634), Anaïs Nin (1903), Frontinus (30), Alfred Jarry (1873), Adam de la Halle (1245), and Gaston Leroux (1868).

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