WRITER

Léon Werth

1878 - 1955

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Léon Werth (French pronunciation: [leɔ̃ vɛʁt]; 17 February 1878 in Remiremont, Vosges – 13 December 1955 in Paris) was a French writer and art critic, a friend of Octave Mirbeau and a close friend and confidant of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Léon Werth is the 1,475th most popular writer (up from 2,455th in 2019), the 1,704th most popular biography from France (up from 2,712th in 2019) and the 210th most popular French Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Léon Werth ranks 1,475 out of 7,302. Before him are Victor Serge, Liang Qichao, Dan Simmons, Jean François Paul de Gondi, Paul Rée, and Marie de Gournay. After him are Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon, Claudio Magris, Cratinus, Luís Fróis, Joseph Bédier, and Anna de Noailles.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1878, Léon Werth ranks 50. Before him are Arthur Scherbius, Abdelaziz of Morocco, Georg Kaiser, Archduchess Elisabeth Amalie of Austria, Stepan Shaumian, and P. D. Ouspensky. After him are Duchess Marie Gabrielle in Bavaria, Alfréd Hajós, Slavko Kvaternik, Boris Kustodiev, Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord, and Mahmud Barzanji. Among people deceased in 1955, Léon Werth ranks 45. Before him are Garegin Nzhdeh, Archie Hahn, Princess Clémentine of Belgium, Eugène Joseph Delporte, Alexander Wienerberger, and Otto Braun. After him are Theda Bara, Max Pechstein, Alfréd Hajós, Mammad Amin Rasulzadeh, Olga Khokhlova, and Pierre Levegh.

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In France

Among people born in France, Léon Werth ranks 1,704 out of 6,770. Before him are Patrick Tambay (1949), Vincent of Lérins (400), Édouard Roche (1820), Jean-Pierre Blanchard (1753), Roger Ducos (1747), and Marie de Gournay (1565). After him are Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon (1675), Christian de Castries (1902), Jacques-Nicolas Billaud-Varenne (1756), Joseph Bédier (1864), Marcel Renault (1872), and Bernard-René Jourdan de Launay (1740).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Léon Werth ranks 210. Before him are Vivant Denon (1747), Marcel Aymé (1902), Guillaume de Lorris (1200), Marie Anne Lenormand (1772), Jean François Paul de Gondi (1613), and Marie de Gournay (1565). After him are Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon (1675), Joseph Bédier (1864), Anna de Noailles (1876), François de Malherbe (1555), Régis Debray (1940), and Antoine Isaac Silvestre de Sacy (1758).

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