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Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

1804 - 1869

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Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve (French: [ʃaʁl oɡystɛ̃ sɛ̃t bœv]; 23 December 1804 – 13 October 1869) was a French literary critic. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve is the 4th most popular critic, the 882nd most popular biography from France (down from 832nd in 2019) and the most popular French Critic.

Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve is most famous for his literary criticism.

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Among CRITICS

Among critics, Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve ranks 4 out of 9Before him are John Ruskin, Vladimir Propp, and Vissarion Belinsky. After him are Roger Ebert, Rosalind E. Krauss, Susanna Amatuni, Vincent Canby, and Todd McCarthy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1804, Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve ranks 19Before him are Nathaniel Hawthorne, Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi, Richard Owen, Matthias Jakob Schleiden, John Deere, and Eugène Sue. After him are Duke Alexander of Württemberg, Johan Ludvig Runeberg, Carl, 3rd Prince of Leiningen, Hermann Schlegel, Alfonso Ferrero La Marmora, and Carl von Rokitansky. Among people deceased in 1869, Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve ranks 8Before him are Franklin Pierce, Alphonse de Lamartine, Ghalib, Allan Kardec, Edwin Stanton, and Jan Evangelista Purkyně. After him are Johann Friedrich Overbeck, Hijikata Toshizō, Thomas Graham, Antoine-Henri Jomini, Alexander Sergeyevich Menshikov, and Jean Léonard Marie Poiseuille.

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In France

Among people born in France, Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve ranks 882 out of 6,770Before him are Robert of Molesme (1024), Edmond Rostand (1868), Jean Froissart (1337), Adelaide of Maurienne (1092), Antoine Galland (1646), and Jean-Baptiste Greuze (1725). After him are Claude Chappe (1763), Robert-François Damiens (1715), Louis the Blind (880), Ferdinand Cheval (1836), Vincent Cassel (1966), and Jacques Pierre Brissot (1754).

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Among critics born in France, Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve ranks 1