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Gaston Paris

1839 - 1903

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Bruno Paulin Gaston Paris (French pronunciation: [ɡastɔ̃ paʁis]; 9 August 1839 – 5 March 1903) was a French literary historian, philologist, and scholar specialized in Romance studies and medieval French literature. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1901, 1902, and 1903. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Gaston Paris is the 2,216th most popular writer (down from 2,110th in 2019), the 2,487th most popular biography from France (down from 2,365th in 2019) and the 312th most popular French Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Gaston Paris ranks 2,216 out of 7,302Before him are Alessandro Baricco, Eva Schloss, Katherine Jackson, Tadeusz Borowski, Seichō Matsumoto, and Edward Young. After him are Pierre Gamarra, John Skelton, Matthieu Ricard, Anton Hansen Tammsaare, Oribasius, and Telesilla.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1839, Gaston Paris ranks 32Before him are Karl Alfred von Zittel, George Mary Searle, Henry George, Harry Seeley, Ahmed Muhtar Pasha, and Francis Garnier. After him are Ivan Goremykin, Archduke Karl Salvator of Austria, Imre Steindl, Ouida, Takasugi Shinsaku, and Hermann Levi. Among people deceased in 1903, Gaston Paris ranks 33Before him are Práxedes Mateo Sagasta, Karl Gegenbaur, Émile Baudot, Charles Renouvier, Nikolai Fyodorovich Fyodorov, and Hans Gude. After him are Rudolf Lipschitz, Paul Du Chaillu, Ronglu, Giuseppe Zanardelli, Augusta Holmès, and Béni Kállay.

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In France

Among people born in France, Gaston Paris ranks 2,487 out of 6,770Before him are Natalia Pavlovna Paley (1905), Countess Charlotte of Hanau-Lichtenberg (1700), Yves Boisset (1939), Guy Hamilton (1922), Aimable Pélissier (1794), and Carle Vernet (1758). After him are Pierre Gamarra (1919), Theobald I, Count of Blois (910), Jacques Laffitte (1767), Drogo of Champagne (670), Charles Plumier (1646), and Jacques Tourneur (1904).

Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Gaston Paris ranks 312Before him are Pierre Lemaitre (1951), Gaston III, Count of Foix (1331), Sébastien Japrisot (1931), Bernardus Silvestris (1085), Michel Leiris (1901), and Elena Poniatowska (1932). After him are Pierre Gamarra (1919), Matthieu Ricard (1946), Claude Farrère (1876), Pierre Klossowski (1905), Ludovic Halévy (1834), and Benjamin Péret (1899).