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Louis Pergaud

1882 - 1915

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Louis Pergaud (French pronunciation: [lwi pɛʁɡo]; 22 January 1882 – 8 April 1915) was a French novelist, war poet, and soldier, whose principal works were known as "Animal Stories" due to his featuring animals of the Franche-Comté in lead roles. His most notable work was the novel La Guerre des boutons (1912) (English: The War of the Buttons). It has been reprinted more than 30 times, and is included on the French high-school curriculum. A village schoolteacher by profession, Pergaud came into conflict with Roman Catholic clergy and laity because of his orders to instill the ideology favoured by the Third French Republic, which owed more to the anti-religious currents of the Age of Enlightenment than to the values being instilled at home by his pupils' parents. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Louis Pergaud is the 3,334th most popular writer (up from 3,577th in 2019), the 3,425th most popular biography from France (up from 3,617th in 2019) and the 431st most popular French Writer.

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Among writers, Louis Pergaud ranks 3,334 out of 7,302. Before him are Sohrab Sepehri, Salomėja Nėris, Antoine Furetière, Robert M. Pirsig, Horace McCoy, and Monteiro Lobato. After him are Charles Lamb, Ango Sakaguchi, Nigâr Hanım, Filip Višnjić, Barbara Frischmuth, and Oswald de Andrade.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1882, Louis Pergaud ranks 149. Before him are Oldřich Duras, Yakov Perelman, Arnold Rothstein, Karl Valentin, Kazimierz Bartel, and Monteiro Lobato. After him are Holland Smith, Hendrik Willem van Loon, Nicolae Titulescu, Louis St. Laurent, Jenő Fuchs, and Johannes Gabriel Granö. Among people deceased in 1915, Louis Pergaud ranks 70. Before him are Hendrik Willem Mesdag, Raffaello Giovagnoli, Arthur Hughes, Booker T. Washington, Hugo Schiff, and Béla Kiss. After him are Stojan Novaković, Mari Beyleryan, Fanny Crosby, Ferdinand Sarrien, Karl Staaff, and Emil Rathenau.

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In France

Among people born in France, Louis Pergaud ranks 3,425 out of 6,770. Before him are Léon Jean Marie Dufour (1780), Jacques Labillardière (1755), Gustave Le Gray (1820), Antoine Furetière (1619), Roland Dumas (1922), and Marie Jules César Savigny (1777). After him are Stéphane Peterhansel (1965), François Marius Granet (1775), Jeanne Demessieux (1921), Chiara Mastroianni (1972), René Nicolas Charles Augustin de Maupeou (1714), and Maurice Tourneur (1876).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Louis Pergaud ranks 431. Before him are Rutebeuf (1300), Juliette Adam (1836), Armand Salacrou (1899), Jacques Delille (1738), Léon-Paul Fargue (1876), and Antoine Furetière (1619). After him are Alphonse de Châteaubriant (1877), Pierre Benoit (1886), Jean Effel (1908), Daniel Guérin (1904), Françoise d'Eaubonne (1920), and Thomas of Britain (1200).

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