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Jules Laforgue

1860 - 1887

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Jules Laforgue (French: [ʒyl lafɔʁɡ]; 16 August 1860 – 20 August 1887) was a Franco-Uruguayan poet, often referred to as a Symbolist poet. Critics and commentators have also pointed to Impressionism as a direct influence and his poetry has been called "part-symbolist, part-impressionist". Laforgue was a model for Pierre-Auguste Renoir, including for Renoir's 1881 painting Luncheon of the Boating Party. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jules Laforgue is the 1,521st most popular writer (down from 1,450th in 2019), the 24th most popular biography from Uruguay (down from 23rd in 2019) and the 4th most popular Uruguayan Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Jules Laforgue ranks 1,521 out of 7,302. Before him are Ken Kesey, Daniel Pennac, Rafael Alberti, Jules de Goncourt, Ichiyō Higuchi, and Xavier de Maistre. After him are Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, Georgi Markov, Károly Kerényi, Kristijonas Donelaitis, Erich Segal, and Betty Friedan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1860, Jules Laforgue ranks 43. Before him are Mercedes of Orléans, Gyula Andrássy the Younger, Waldemar Haffkine, Isaac Levitan, Princess Elisabeth of Thurn and Taxis, and Archduke Charles Stephen of Austria. After him are John Hope, 7th Earl of Hopetoun, Sergey Sazonov, James McKeen Cattell, William Kennedy Dickson, Friedrich Naumann, and Paul Gustav Fischer. Among people deceased in 1887, Jules Laforgue ranks 12. Before him are Ivan Kramskoi, Multatuli, Jenny Lind, Johann Jakob Bachofen, Juan, Count of Montizón, and Alfred Krupp. After him are Friedrich von Amerling, Jean-Baptiste Boussingault, Doc Holliday, Agostino Depretis, William A. Wheeler, and Moritz Wagner.

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In Uruguay

Among people born in Uruguay, Jules Laforgue ranks 24 out of 444. Before him are Obdulio Varela (1917), Lucía Topolansky (1944), Julio María Sanguinetti (1936), Natalia Oreiro (1977), José Santamaría (1929), and Mario Benedetti (1920). After him are Alberto Suppici (1898), Ladislao Mazurkiewicz (1945), Juan María Bordaberry (1928), Roque Máspoli (1917), Luis Alberto Lacalle (1941), and Fructuoso Rivera (1784).

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Among WRITERS In Uruguay

Among writers born in Uruguay, Jules Laforgue ranks 4. Before him are Comte de Lautréamont (1846), Eduardo Galeano (1940), and Mario Benedetti (1920). After him are Juan Carlos Onetti (1909), Horacio Quiroga (1878), Jules Supervielle (1884), Delmira Agustini (1886), Cristina Peri Rossi (1941), Juana de Ibarbourou (1892), José Enrique Rodó (1871), and Ida Vitale (1923).

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