WRITER

Marcel Achard

1899 - 1974

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Marcel Achard (5 July 1899 – 4 September 1974) was a French playwright and screenwriter whose popular sentimental comedies maintained his position as a highly recognizable name in his country's theatrical and literary circles for five decades. He was elected to the Académie française in 1959. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Marcel Achard is the 1,673rd most popular writer (down from 1,560th in 2019), the 1,932nd most popular biography from France (down from 1,813th in 2019) and the 241st most popular French Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Marcel Achard ranks 1,673 out of 7,302. Before him are André Pieyre de Mandiargues, André Brink, Marquis de Custine, Antonio de Nebrija, Miklós Zrínyi, and Arnaldur Indriðason. After him are Thoinot Arbeau, Notker the Stammerer, Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, Dean Koontz, James Oliver Curwood, and Akiyuki Nosaka.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1899, Marcel Achard ranks 79. Before him are Zaki al-Arsuzi, Aksel Sandemose, Princess Margaretha of Sweden, Hans Jeschonnek, Fritz Bayerlein, and Hayato Ikeda. After him are Raoul Salan, Ida Kamińska, Martin Luther King Sr., Lotte Reiniger, Veit Harlan, and Adam Rainer. Among people deceased in 1974, Marcel Achard ranks 54. Before him are Vasily Shukshin, Franz Jonas, Salvador Puig Antich, Helmuth Koinigg, Everaldo, and Vannevar Bush. After him are Leo Geyr von Schweppenburg, Junio Valerio Borghese, Agnes Moorehead, Anne Sexton, Pietro Germi, and Vladimir Fock.

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In France

Among people born in France, Marcel Achard ranks 1,932 out of 6,770. Before him are William Waddington (1826), Camille Doncieux (1847), Billy Mitchell (1879), Marcabru (1200), André Vingt-Trois (1942), and Madeleine Sophie Barat (1779). After him are Henri Delaunay (1883), François Magendie (1783), Thoinot Arbeau (1520), Le Pétomane (1857), Pierre Werner (1913), and Sophie Gengembre Anderson (1823).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Marcel Achard ranks 241. Before him are Rodulfus Glaber (985), Robert Desnos (1900), Adèle Hugo (1830), Jean Bodel (1165), André Pieyre de Mandiargues (1909), and Marquis de Custine (1790). After him are Thoinot Arbeau (1520), Varro Atacinus (-82), Anne Desclos (1907), François Pierre La Varenne (1618), Princess Isabelle of Orléans-Braganza (1911), and Antoine de Montchrestien (1575).

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