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Octave Mirbeau

1848 - 1917

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Octave Henri Marie Mirbeau (French: [ɔktav miʁbo]; 16 February 1848 – 16 February 1917) was a French novelist, art critic, travel writer, pamphleteer, journalist and playwright, who achieved celebrity in Europe and great success among the public, whilst still appealing to the literary and artistic avant-garde with highly transgressive novels that explored violence, abuse and psychological detachment. His work has been translated into 30 languages. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Octave Mirbeau is the 57th most popular writer (down from 50th in 2019), the 53rd most popular biography from France (down from 42nd in 2019) and the 15th most popular French Writer.

Octave Mirbeau is most famous for his novel, The Torture Garden.

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Among writers, Octave Mirbeau ranks 57 out of 7,302. Before him are Marcel Proust, Denis Diderot, Émile Zola, Gustave Flaubert, Euripides, and Li Bai. After him are Astrid Lindgren, Oscar Wilde, Mark Twain, Henrik Ibsen, Stendhal, and Ayn Rand.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1848, Octave Mirbeau ranks 2. Before him is Paul Gauguin. After him are Vilfredo Pareto, Gottlob Frege, Raja Ravi Varma, Otto of Bavaria, Johann Palisa, Otto Lilienthal, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Gustave Caillebotte, Hugo de Vries, and Helmuth von Moltke the Younger. Among people deceased in 1917, Octave Mirbeau ranks 2. Before him is Émile Durkheim. After him are Auguste Rodin, Mata Hari, Edgar Degas, L. L. Zamenhof, Liliʻuokalani, Eduard Buchner, Adolf von Baeyer, Ferdinand von Zeppelin, Emil von Behring, and Emil Theodor Kocher.

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In France

Among people born in France, Octave Mirbeau ranks 53 out of 6,770. Before him are Denis Diderot (1713), André-Marie Ampère (1775), Émile Zola (1840), Gustave Flaubert (1821), Brigitte Bardot (1934), and Édouard Manet (1832). After him are Henri Becquerel (1852), Eugène Delacroix (1798), Stendhal (1783), Michel de Montaigne (1533), Pierre de Fermat (1601), and Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1520).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Octave Mirbeau ranks 15. Before him are Simone de Beauvoir (1908), Charles Baudelaire (1821), Marcel Proust (1871), Denis Diderot (1713), Émile Zola (1840), and Gustave Flaubert (1821). After him are Stendhal (1783), Romain Rolland (1866), Charles Perrault (1628), Guy de Maupassant (1850), Alexandre Dumas fils (1824), and Arthur Rimbaud (1854).

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