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Maurice de Guérin

1810 - 1839

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Georges-Maurice de Guérin (4 August 1810 – 19 July 1839) was a French poet. His works were imbued with a passion for nature whose intensity reached almost to worship and was enriched by pagan elements. According to Sainte-Beuve, no French poet or painter rendered "the feeling for nature, the feeling for the origin of things and the sovereign principle of life" as well as Guérin. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Maurice de Guérin is the 2,758th most popular writer (up from 3,265th in 2019), the 2,971st most popular biography from France (up from 3,394th in 2019) and the 379th most popular French Writer.

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Among writers, Maurice de Guérin ranks 2,758 out of 7,302. Before him are Morris West, Marie Belloc Lowndes, Vladimir Voinovich, Renia Spiegel, Bonaventure des Périers, and Alexandre Herculano. After him are Ion Creangă, Luis Cernuda, Jacob Israël de Haan, Gustave Kahn, Leonard Woolf, and Unica Zürn.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1810, Maurice de Guérin ranks 51. Before him are Norbert Burgmüller, Stanko Vraz, Louise Colet, Margaret Fuller, Ferdinand David, and Alexandre Herculano. After him are Francis de Laporte de Castelnau, Johann Löwenthal, Giovanni Lanza, Eliza McCardle Johnson, Abraham Geiger, and Ernest Courtot de Cissey. Among people deceased in 1839, Maurice de Guérin ranks 25. Before him are Adolphe Nourrit, Joseph Anton Koch, Andrew Dũng-Lạc, Lord William Bentinck, Duchess Therese of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, and Dorothea von Schlegel. After him are Joseph Franz von Jacquin, Johann Christoph Friedrich GutsMuths, Laurent-Joseph-Marius Imbert, Gaspard de Prony, Lady Hester Stanhope, and Denis Davydov.

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In France

Among people born in France, Maurice de Guérin ranks 2,971 out of 6,770. Before him are Rainulf Drengot (1000), Charles Frédéric Gerhardt (1816), Soliman Pasha al-Faransawi (1788), Pierre Rode (1774), Tony Garnier (1869), and Bonaventure des Périers (1510). After him are Jacques Blanchard (1600), Martin Guerre (1524), Gustave Kahn (1859), Walter Gieseking (1895), Jacques Georges (1916), and Guillaume Thomas François Raynal (1713).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Maurice de Guérin ranks 379. Before him are Pierre Gringore (1475), José Giovanni (1923), Philippe de Mornay (1549), Charles-Louis Philippe (1874), Charles-Louis Havas (1783), and Bonaventure des Périers (1510). After him are Gustave Kahn (1859), Guillaume Thomas François Raynal (1713), Sextus Pompeius Festus (150), Nicholas Rémy (1530), Oscar Cullmann (1902), and Édouard Chavannes (1865).

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