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Henri Murger

1822 - 1861

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Louis-Henri Murger (27 March 1822 – 28 January 1861), also known as Henri Murger and Henry Murger, was a French novelist and poet. He is chiefly distinguished as the author of the 1847-1849 book Scènes de la vie de bohème (Scenes of Bohemian Life), which is based on his own experiences as a desperately poor writer living in a Parisian garret (the top floor of buildings, where artists often lived) and as a member of a loose club of friends who called themselves "the water drinkers" (because they were too poor to afford wine). In his writing he combines instinct with pathos, humour, and sadness. The book is the basis for the 1896 opera La bohème by Puccini, Leoncavallo's opera of the same name, and, at greater removes, Amadeu Vives' zarzuela Bohemios, Kálmán's 1930 operetta Das Veilchen vom Montmartre, and the 1996 Broadway musical Rent. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Henri Murger is the 1,328th most popular writer (up from 1,342nd in 2019), the 1,520th most popular biography from France (up from 1,545th in 2019) and the 190th most popular French Writer.

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Among writers, Henri Murger ranks 1,328 out of 7,302. Before him are Polyaenus, Emmanuelle Arsan, Natalie Clifford Barney, Lu Yu, Abu Tammam, and Samuel R. Delany. After him are Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, Widukind of Corvey, Walter M. Miller Jr., Friedrich Maximilian Klinger, Dag Solstad, and Else Lasker-Schüler.

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Among people born in 1822, Henri Murger ranks 29. Before him are Ignacy Łukasiewicz, Teresa Cristina of the Two Sicilies, Olga Nikolaevna of Russia, Prince Ferdinando, Duke of Genoa, Red Cloud, and Juan, Count of Montizón. After him are John Pope, Charles Friedel, Joachim Raff, Princess Maria Carolina of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Henri d'Orléans, Duke of Aumale, and Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe. Among people deceased in 1861, Henri Murger ranks 18. Before him are Lola Montez, Ranavalona I, Eugène Scribe, Utagawa Kuniyoshi, Adam Jerzy Czartoryski, and Elisha Otis. After him are Lars Levi Laestadius, Eugène de Mazenod, Heinrich Marschner, Henry Gray, Tekla Bądarzewska-Baranowska, and Jonas Furrer.

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In France

Among people born in France, Henri Murger ranks 1,520 out of 6,770. Before him are Arman (1928), Infanta Pilar, Duchess of Badajoz (1936), Étienne Mourrut (1939), Adalbert of Magdeburg (910), Fabien Barthez (1971), and Adela of Normandy (1065). After him are Charles-Eugène Delaunay (1816), William I, Duke of Aquitaine (875), Jacques Balmat (1762), Emma Watson (1990), Yolanda of Courtenay (1197), and Rodolphe Kreutzer (1766).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Henri Murger ranks 190. Before him are Agrippa d'Aubigné (1552), Pierre Larousse (1817), Blaise de Vigenère (1523), Jean Giono (1895), Maurice Barrès (1862), and Georges Feydeau (1862). After him are Paul Scarron (1610), Honoré d'Urfé (1567), Robert de Montesquiou (1855), Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont (1711), Jean Chapelain (1595), and Roland Topor (1938).

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