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Michel Carré

1821 - 1872

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Michel Carré (French pronunciation: [miʃɛl kaʁe]; 20 October 1821, Besançon – 27 June 1872, Argenteuil) was a prolific French librettist. He went to Paris in 1840 intending to become a painter but took up writing instead. He wrote verse and plays before turning to writing libretti. He wrote the text for Charles Gounod's Mireille (1864) on his own, and collaborated with Eugène Cormon on Bizet's Les pêcheurs de perles. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Michel Carré is the 4,084th most popular writer (down from 4,071st in 2019), the 3,978th most popular biography from France (down from 3,940th in 2019) and the 507th most popular French Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Michel Carré ranks 4,084 out of 7,302. Before him are Gleb Uspensky, Laura Bridgman, Yuriy Venelin, Léo Malet, Nossis, and Mark Frost. After him are Carl Sternheim, Pippa Middleton, Agnieszka Osiecka, David Allen, Maximilian Harden, and Adam of Saint Victor.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1821, Michel Carré ranks 80. Before him are Apollon Maykov, Archduke Friedrich of Austria, Janko Matúška, Friedrich Kiel, Heinrich Moritz Willkomm, and Henri Alexis Brialmont. After him are Amalie Dietrich, Samuel Baker, Charles of Mount Argus, Jens Jacob Asmussen Worsaae, Jane Wilde, and William Henry Vanderbilt. Among people deceased in 1872, Michel Carré ranks 50. Before him are Ion Heliade Rădulescu, Princess Amalia of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Jean-Marie Duhamel, George Catlin, Martin Ohm, and Edwin Atherstone. After him are Henry Halleck, Dimitrija Demeter, Franz Xaver Fieber, Michele Carafa, Hugo von Mohl, and Andrej Sládkovič.

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In France

Among people born in France, Michel Carré ranks 3,978 out of 6,770. Before him are André Labatut (1891), Louis Vicat (1786), Jean-Pierre Darroussin (1953), Otto Froitzheim (1884), Léo Malet (1909), and François Delsarte (1811). After him are Corinne Marchand (1931), Michel Leblond (1932), Jean-Luc Ettori (1955), Henri Harpignies (1819), Erich Buschenhagen (1895), and Frédéric Diefenthal (1968).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Michel Carré ranks 507. Before him are Marcel Jouhandeau (1888), Paul Fort (1872), Louis Hémon (1880), Marc Levy (1961), André Schwarz-Bart (1928), and Léo Malet (1909). After him are François le Métel de Boisrobert (1592), Judith Gautier (1845), Pascal Lainé (1942), Jean de Brunhoff (1899), Isabelle Collin Dufresne (1935), and Daniel-Rops (1901).

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