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Champfleury

1821 - 1889

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Jules François Felix Fleury-Husson (17 September 1821, in Laon, Aisne – 6 December 1889, in Sèvres), who wrote under the name Champfleury (French pronunciation: [ʃɑ̃fløʁi]), was a French art critic and novelist, a prominent supporter of the Realist movement in painting and fiction. In 1843 Fleury-Husson moved to Paris. He met Charles Baudelaire and the next year started writing art criticism under the pen-name "Champfleury" for the journal L'Artiste. He was one of the first to promote the work of Gustave Courbet, in an article appearing in an issue of Le Pamphlet in 1848. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Champfleury is the 2,946th most popular writer (down from 2,711th in 2019), the 3,117th most popular biography from France (down from 2,964th in 2019) and the 395th most popular French Writer.

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Among writers, Champfleury ranks 2,946 out of 7,302. Before him are K. A. Applegate, Edvard Kocbek, José Martínez Ruiz, Lucrezia Marinella, Abdul-Qādir Bedil, and Dmitry Pisarev. After him are Knud Knudsen, Günter Eich, Jalil Mammadguluzadeh, John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, Victor Segalen, and Willa Cather.

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Among people born in 1821, Champfleury ranks 52. Before him are Félix Ziem, George Williams, Vasile Alecsandri, Henriëtte Ronner-Knip, Josip Runjanin, and Clara Barton. After him are Infanta Isabel Fernanda of Spain, Arthur Saint-Léon, Octave Feuillet, Karel Havlíček Borovský, Aleksey Pisemsky, and Karol Mikuli. Among people deceased in 1889, Champfleury ranks 47. Before him are Alfred Józef Potocki, Bernhard Förster, Charles Mackay, Ion Creangă, John Hughes, and André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri. After him are Albrecht Ritschl, Şihabetdin Märcani, Benedetto Cairoli, Ybyrai Altynsarin, Ernst Rudolf von Trautvetter, and Đồng Khánh.

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In France

Among people born in France, Champfleury ranks 3,117 out of 6,770. Before him are Bernard Chiarelli (1934), Marie Antoinette Murat (1793), Alain Finkielkraut (1949), Djibril Cissé (1981), Louis Lavelle (1883), and Napoléon Henri Reber (1807). After him are Yves Robert (1920), Eugène Emmanuel Amaury Duval (1808), Jean-Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval (1715), François-Marie, 1st duc de Broglie (1671), Victor Segalen (1878), and Robert Casadesus (1899).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Champfleury ranks 395. Before him are Hilaire Belloc (1870), Bernard Werber (1961), Robert Garnier (1534), Jean-François de La Harpe (1739), Louise Weiss (1893), and Marie Marvingt (1875). After him are Victor Segalen (1878), Casimir Delavigne (1793), Lupus Servatus (805), Fernand Crommelynck (1886), Marcel Boulenger (1873), and Pierre Bec (1921).

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