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Paul Lafargue

1842 - 1911

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Paul Lafargue (; French: [lafaʁg]; 15 January 1842 – 25 November 1911) was a Cuban-born French political writer, economist, journalist, literary critic, and activist; he was Karl Marx's son-in-law, having married his second daughter, Laura. His best known work is The Right to Be Lazy. Born in Cuba to French and Creole parents, Lafargue spent most of his life in France, with periods in England and Spain. At the age of 69, he and 66-year-old Laura died together by a suicide pact. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Paul Lafargue is the 600th most popular writer (down from 552nd in 2019), the 8th most popular biography from Cuba (down from 7th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Cuban Writer.

Paul Lafargue was a French Marxist theorist and activist. He is most famous for his work "The Right to Be Lazy."

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Among writers, Paul Lafargue ranks 600 out of 7,302. Before him are Denis of Portugal, Juana Inés de la Cruz, Su Shi, Robert Burns, Bell hooks, and Gustav Meyrink. After him are Marina Tsvetaeva, Alfred de Musset, Kazuo Ishiguro, Ausonius, Lion Feuchtwanger, and Bert Hellinger.

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Among people born in 1842, Paul Lafargue ranks 13. Before him are Archduke Ludwig Viktor of Austria, Alfred Marshall, Karl May, Dominic Savio, Josef Breuer, and Camille Flammarion. After him are Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann, Arrigo Boito, Hermann Cohen, Osborne Reynolds, James Dewar, and Vasily Vereshchagin. Among people deceased in 1911, Paul Lafargue ranks 8. Before him are Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, Wilhelm Dilthey, Francis Galton, Alfred Binet, Joseph Pulitzer, and Pyotr Stolypin. After him are Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis, Emilio Salgari, Georg Jellinek, Jules Joseph Lefebvre, Joseph Dalton Hooker, and Mahboob Ali Khan.

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In Cuba

Among people born in Cuba, Paul Lafargue ranks 8 out of 300. Before him are Raúl Castro (1931), Fulgencio Batista (1901), José Raúl Capablanca (1888), Italo Calvino (1923), Miguel Díaz-Canel (1960), and José Martí (1853). After him are Alberto Korda (1928), Camilo Cienfuegos (1932), Andy García (1956), Gloria Estefan (1957), Compay Segundo (1907), and Emilio Mola (1887).

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Among WRITERS In Cuba

Among writers born in Cuba, Paul Lafargue ranks 3. Before him are Italo Calvino (1923), and José Martí (1853). After him are Nicolás Guillén (1902), Guillermo Cabrera Infante (1929), José-Maria de Heredia (1842), José Lezama Lima (1910), Leonardo Padura Fuentes (1955), Pedro Juan Gutiérrez (1950), Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda (1814), Dulce María Loynaz (1902), and José María Heredia y Heredia (1803).

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