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Jules Vallès

1832 - 1885

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Jules Vallès (1832–1885) was a French journalist, author, and left-wing political activist. In 1883 he was entirely successful in restarting Le Cri du Peuple as a voice for libertarian and socialist ideas. At the same time he became increasingly ill with diabetes. During a health crisis in November 1884, he was taken to the house of doctor Guebhard and his secretary Séverine. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jules Vallès is the 2,858th most popular writer (up from 3,245th in 2019), the 3,068th most popular biography from France (up from 3,369th in 2019) and the 387th most popular French Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Jules Vallès ranks 2,858 out of 7,302Before him are Theodore Prodromos, Adam Michnik, Francis de Laporte de Castelnau, Servius Sulpicius Rufus, Samson Raphael Hirsch, and Unsuri. After him are Catulle Mendès, Tom Robbins, François Cheng, Aleksandër Stavre Drenova, Ibn 'Abd al-Barr, and Apostolo Zeno.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1832, Jules Vallès ranks 45Before him are Pavel Tretyakov, Charles Lecocq, Đura Jakšić, Khurshidbanu Natavan, Count Gustav Kálnoky, and Wilhelm Julius Foerster. After him are Julius von Sachs, Lucien Quélet, Nikolai Zverev, Edwin Arnold, Charilaos Trikoupis, and Theodor Gomperz. Among people deceased in 1885, Jules Vallès ranks 48Before him are Nicolás Avellaneda, Hermann von Fehling, Francisco Serrano, 1st Duke of la Torre, Narcís Monturiol, Schuyler Colfax, and Alphonse-Marie-Adolphe de Neuville. After him are Eugène Emmanuel Amaury Duval, Amédée Courbet, Friedrich, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, Georg Curtius, Prince Adolf of Auersperg, and Rosa Vercellana.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jules Vallès ranks 3,068 out of 6,770Before him are Charles Tournemire (1870), Mathieu Amalric (1965), Félix Bracquemond (1833), Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume (1798), Salomon de Brosse (1571), and Charles-François Brisseau de Mirbel (1776). After him are Catulle Mendès (1841), Henri Callot (1875), Adrien Proust (1834), Étienne Decroux (1898), Hilaire Belloc (1870), and Antoine de Chézy (1718).

Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Jules Vallès ranks 387Before him are Guillaume Thomas François Raynal (1713), Sextus Pompeius Festus (150), Nicholas Rémy (1530), Oscar Cullmann (1902), Édouard Chavannes (1865), and Guiraut Riquier (1230). After him are Catulle Mendès (1841), Hilaire Belloc (1870), Bernard Werber (1961), Robert Garnier (1534), Jean-François de La Harpe (1739), and Louise Weiss (1893).