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Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly

1808 - 1889

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Jules-Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly (2 November 1808 – 23 April 1889) was a French novelist, poet, short story writer, and literary critic. He specialised in mystery tales that explored hidden motivation and hinted at evil without being explicitly concerned with anything supernatural. He had a decisive influence on writers such as Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, Henry James, Léon Bloy, Marcel Proust and Carmelo Bene. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly is the 1,831st most popular writer (down from 1,413th in 2019), the 2,110th most popular biography from France (down from 1,639th in 2019) and the 258th most popular French Writer.

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Among writers, Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly ranks 1,831 out of 7,302. Before him are Abbot Oliba, Anthony Trollope, Valery Bryusov, Philip José Farmer, Al-Hariri of Basra, and Lucinda Riley. After him are David Burliuk, Walafrid Strabo, Alexandre Benois, Lajos Zilahy, Princess Michael of Kent, and Nikolay Dobrolyubov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1808, Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly ranks 28. Before him are José de Espronceda, Henrik Wergeland, Solomon Northup, Princess Marie of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Princess Vilhelmine Marie of Denmark, and Mindon Min. After him are Henry Cole, Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr, Eugénie de Beauharnais, Urbano Rattazzi, Venancio Flores, and Johann Benedict Listing. Among people deceased in 1889, Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly ranks 31. Before him are Jules Dupré, Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges, Gaston Planté, Şevkefza Kadın, Adolf von Henselt, and Johann Jakob von Tschudi. After him are Ignacy Domeyko, Émile Augier, Viktor Bunyakovsky, Princess Augusta of Hesse-Kassel, John Ericsson, and Elvira Madigan.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly ranks 2,110 out of 6,770. Before him are Ado of Vienne (800), Jean-Louis Schlesser (1948), Guy Roux (1938), Maria Letizia Bonaparte, Duchess of Aosta (1866), Hans von Salmuth (1888), and Déodat Gratet de Dolomieu (1750). After him are François Périer (1919), Joseph Diez Gergonne (1771), Jacques Cazotte (1719), Léon Flameng (1877), Princess Elisabeth of Savoy (1800), and Joseph Joubert (1754).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly ranks 258. Before him are Francis Jammes (1868), Raymond Roussel (1877), Julien Gracq (1910), Gabriel Naudé (1600), Louis-Sébastien Mercier (1740), and Pierre Reverdy (1889). After him are Jacques Cazotte (1719), Joseph Joubert (1754), Marcel Schwob (1867), Georges Duhamel (1884), Prosper of Aquitaine (390), and Yasmina Reza (1959).

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