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Joseph Roumanille

1818 - 1891

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Joseph Roumanille (Occitan: Josèp Romanilha; 8 August 1818 – 24 May 1891) was a Provençal poet. He was born at Saint-Rémy-de-Provence (Bouches-du-Rhône), and is commonly known in southern France as the father of the Félibrige, for he first conceived the idea of raising his regional language to the dignity of a literary language. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Joseph Roumanille is the 4,849th most popular writer (down from 4,656th in 2019), the 4,429th most popular biography from France (down from 4,284th in 2019) and the 562nd most popular French Writer.

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Among writers, Joseph Roumanille ranks 4,849 out of 7,302. Before him are Tommaso Grossi, Martin Suter, Gavino Ledda, Paco Ignacio Taibo II, Rachid Boudjedra, and Barbro Lindgren. After him are Antanas Baranauskas, Rodolfo Walsh, Einar Már Guðmundsson, Nancy Huston, Grant Allen, and Kenjirō Tokutomi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1818, Joseph Roumanille ranks 84. Before him are Dimitrie Brătianu, Irvin McDowell, Ole Jacob Broch, Johan Lange, Wilhelm Camphausen, and William M. Evarts. After him are Jan Heemskerk, Ludwig Traube, Ilya Berezin, Lucy Stone, František Ladislav Rieger, and Constantin von Wurzbach. Among people deceased in 1891, Joseph Roumanille ranks 97. Before him are Amalie Dietrich, Franco Faccio, Nikolay Ilminsky, Emma Abbott, Constantine Paparrigopoulos, and Antonio Arenas. After him are Anton Heinrich Springer, Calixa Lavallée, George Washington Williams, Joseph Bazalgette, George Bancroft, and Henry Litolff.

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In France

Among people born in France, Joseph Roumanille ranks 4,429 out of 6,770. Before him are Gilbert Bougnol (1866), Simone Segouin (1925), Alexis Thérèse Petit (1791), Jean Langlais (1907), Hervé Revelli (1946), and Augustin Chantrel (1906). After him are Jean Barraqué (1928), Victor Puiseux (1820), Jean-Dominique Senard (1953), Félicien David (1810), Dominique Wilkins (1960), and Pierre Tchernia (1928).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Joseph Roumanille ranks 562. Before him are Frédérick Tristan (1931), Jacques-Pierre Amette (1943), Florence Delay (1941), Gilles Perrault (1931), Jakob Abbadie (1654), and Valentin Conrart (1603). After him are Raymond Abellio (1907), Saint-Pol-Roux (1861), Eugène Guillevic (1907), Philippe Néricault Destouches (1680), Henry Monnier (1799), and René Bazin (1853).

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