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Marie Marvingt

1875 - 1963

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Marie Marvingt (20 February 1875 – 14 December 1963) was a French athlete, mountaineer, aviator, and journalist. She won numerous prizes for her sporting achievements including those of swimming, cycling, mountain climbing, winter sports, ballooning, flying, riding, gymnastics, athletics, rifle shooting, and fencing. She was the first woman to climb many of the peaks in the French and Swiss Alps. She was a record-breaking balloonist, an aviator, and during World War I she became the first female combat pilot. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Marie Marvingt is the 2,930th most popular writer (down from 2,727th in 2019), the 3,107th most popular biography from France (down from 2,974th in 2019) and the 394th most popular French Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Marie Marvingt ranks 2,930 out of 7,302Before her are Julius Pomponius Laetus, Zofia Posmysz, Kató Lomb, Bernardo Guimarães, Maryana Marrash, and T. H. White. After her are Moderata Fonte, Sebastian Franck, Saigyō, Gottschalk of Orbais, Joe Hill, and Antonio de Guevara.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1875, Marie Marvingt ranks 94Before her are Max Abraham, Svetozar Pribićević, Theodor Innitzer, Henri Callot, Issai Schur, and Alexandros Nikolopoulos. After her are Grand Duke Alexei Mikhailovich of Russia, David Hall, Leonor Michaelis, Avetik Isahakyan, Luigi Carnera, and Joseph, Duke of Parma. Among people deceased in 1963, Marie Marvingt ranks 89Before her are Alfred Wünnenberg, Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz, Luis Cernuda, Pascual Ortiz Rubio, Sophus Nielsen, and Ramón Gómez de la Serna. After her are André Maschinot, Shinobu Ishihara, Adolphe Menjou, Joseph Sweeney, Alan Gardiner, and Rahul Sankrityayan.

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In France

Among people born in France, Marie Marvingt ranks 3,107 out of 6,770Before her are Lucien Quélet (1832), Louise Weiss (1893), Edita Piekha (1937), Philip I of Namur (1174), Jean-Pierre Ricard (1944), and Roussel de Bailleul (1100). After her are Adolphe Pégoud (1889), Louise Bertin (1805), Élisabeth de Bourbon (1614), Bernard Chiarelli (1934), Marie Antoinette Murat (1793), and Alain Finkielkraut (1949).

Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Marie Marvingt ranks 394Before her are Catulle Mendès (1841), Hilaire Belloc (1870), Bernard Werber (1961), Robert Garnier (1534), Jean-François de La Harpe (1739), and Louise Weiss (1893). After her are Champfleury (1821), Victor Segalen (1878), Casimir Delavigne (1793), Lupus Servatus (805), Fernand Crommelynck (1886), and Marcel Boulenger (1873).