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Paul Valéry

1871 - 1945

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Ambroise Paul Toussaint Jules Valéry (French: [pɔl valeʁi]; 30 October 1871 – 20 July 1945) was a French poet, essayist, and philosopher. In addition to his poetry and fiction (drama and dialogues), his interests included aphorisms on art, history, letters, music, and current events. Valéry was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 12 different years. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Paul Valéry is the 348th most popular writer (down from 286th in 2019), the 411th most popular biography from France (down from 325th in 2019) and the 63rd most popular French Writer.

Paul Valéry is most famous for being a French poet, essayist, and playwright.

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Among writers, Paul Valéry ranks 348 out of 7,302. Before him are Arion, Archilochus, Mikhail Lermontov, J. D. Vance, Amos Oz, and Eyvind Johnson. After him are Simonides of Ceos, Marguerite Duras, Peter Drucker, Roald Dahl, Luqman, and Giorgos Seferis.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1871, Paul Valéry ranks 11. Before him are Friedrich Ebert, Grazia Deledda, Victor Grignard, Karl Liebknecht, Guangxu Emperor, and Pietro Badoglio. After him are Albert Lebrun, Baroness Mary Vetsera, Lesya Ukrainka, Heinrich Mann, Ioannis Metaxas, and Elena of Montenegro. Among people deceased in 1945, Paul Valéry ranks 27. Before him are Wolfram Freiherr von Richthofen, Clara Petacci, Ernst Cassirer, Pietro Mascagni, Heinrich Müller, and Princess Stéphanie of Belgium. After him are Pierre Laval, Johan Huizinga, Hans Fischer, David Lloyd George, August von Mackensen, and Dietrich Bonhoeffer.

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In France

Among people born in France, Paul Valéry ranks 411 out of 6,770. Before him are Julien Offray de La Mettrie (1709), Jean-Pierre Sauvage (1944), Charles, Count of Valois (1270), Patrice de MacMahon (1808), Françoise d'Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon (1635), and Jean Dubuffet (1901). After him are Paul Sabatier (1854), Jean-Paul Gaultier (1952), Claude Bernard (1813), James I of Aragon (1208), Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908), and Claude Adrien Helvétius (1715).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Paul Valéry ranks 63. Before him are Henri Charrière (1906), Marguerite de Navarre (1492), Colette (1873), André Malraux (1901), Ève Curie (1904), and Maurice Leblanc (1864). After him are Pierre Beaumarchais (1732), Théophile Gautier (1811), Jean Genet (1910), Alphonse de Lamartine (1790), Auguste Escoffier (1847), and Paul Éluard (1895).

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