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Christiane Rochefort

1917 - 1998

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Christiane Rochefort (17 July 1917 – 24 April 1998) was a French feminist writer. She was born into a left-wing working class Parisian family; her father joined the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War. Rochefort worked as a journalist and spent fifteen years as a press attaché to the Cannes Film Festival before publishing her first novel, Le Repos du guerrier (The Warrior's Rest), in 1958. Like several of her later novels, Le Repos du guerrier was a bestseller; in 1962 it was adapted into a popular film directed by Roger Vadim and starring Brigitte Bardot. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Christiane Rochefort is the 4,223rd most popular writer (down from 3,696th in 2019), the 4,078th most popular biography from France (down from 3,686th in 2019) and the 518th most popular French Writer.

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Among writers, Christiane Rochefort ranks 4,223 out of 7,302. Before her are Camille Lemonnier, Daniel Varoujan, Ruth Westheimer, Ida B. Wells, Tobias Wolff, and Florbela Espanca. After her are Félicien Marceau, Álvaro Cunqueiro, Robert Ettinger, Friedebert Tuglas, Max Lange, and William Hazlitt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1917, Christiane Rochefort ranks 211. Before her are J. L. Mackie, Yvette Chauviré, Olga Sanfirova, Steno, Tetyana Yablonska, and Helena Rasiowa. After her are Kusuo Kitamura, Leandro Remondini, Isuzu Yamada, Marion Donovan, Robert Fano, and Ilse Steppat. Among people deceased in 1998, Christiane Rochefort ranks 188. Before her are Gottfried Dienst, Fred Alderman, Enoch Powell, Raquel Rastenni, Odette Bancilhon, and André Bonin. After her are Gene Autry, Louis Hostin, William Gaddis, Mikio Oda, Marion Donovan, and Manuel Álvarez.

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In France

Among people born in France, Christiane Rochefort ranks 4,078 out of 6,770. Before her are Florence Arthaud (1957), André Bonin (1909), Nadejda Mountbatten, Marchioness of Milford Haven (1896), Henri François d'Aguesseau (1668), José Bové (1953), and Serge Lama (1943). After her are Jacques Rozier (1926), Robert Guédiguian (1953), Louis Saha (1978), Austria at the 2020 Summer Olympics#Eventing (null), André Darrigade (1929), and Michel Aupetit (1951).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Christiane Rochefort ranks 518. Before her are Isabelle Collin Dufresne (1935), Daniel-Rops (1901), Daniel Boulanger (1922), François Cavanna (1923), Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber (1924), and Abel Bonnard (1883). After her are Louise-Victorine Ackermann (1813), Philippe Hériat (1898), Petrus Borel (1809), Maurice Schumann (1911), Stanislas Julien (1797), and Maurice Genevoix (1890).

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