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Paul Verlaine

1844 - 1896

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Paul-Marie Verlaine ( vair-LEN; French: [pɔl maʁi vɛʁlɛn]; 30 March 1844 – 8 January 1896) was a French poet, writer and critic associated with the Parnassianist, Symbolist and Decadent movements. He is considered one of the paramount exponents of the fin de siècle in French and international poetry. Born in Metz to a petit-bourgeois family, Verlaine bore a lifelong interest in the arts, whether literary, musical or visual. His début collection, Poèmes saturniens (1866), were released at the age of twenty-two; they were published by Alphonse Lemerre. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Paul Verlaine is the 139th most popular writer (down from 126th in 2019), the 150th most popular biography from France (down from 132nd in 2019) and the 31st most popular French Writer.

Paul Verlaine is most famous for his poetry.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Paul Verlaine ranks 139 out of 7,302. Before him are Günter Grass, Haruki Murakami, Jean Cocteau, August Strindberg, Charles Bukowski, and Jonathan Swift. After him are Lewis Carroll, Boris Pasternak, Dr. Seuss, Yukio Mishima, Karl Adolph Gjellerup, and E. T. A. Hoffmann.

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Among people born in 1844, Paul Verlaine ranks 6. Before him are Friedrich Nietzsche, Karl Benz, Sarah Bernhardt, Anatole France, and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. After him are Bernadette Soubirous, Mehmed V, Ilya Repin, Henri Rousseau, Ludwig Boltzmann, and Menelik II. Among people deceased in 1896, Paul Verlaine ranks 3. Before him are Alfred Nobel, and Clara Schumann. After him are Anton Bruckner, August Kekulé, Archduke Karl Ludwig of Austria, Ivar Aasen, Frederic Leighton, Hippolyte Fizeau, William Morris, Otto Lilienthal, and John Everett Millais.

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In France

Among people born in France, Paul Verlaine ranks 150 out of 6,770. Before him are Évariste Galois (1811), Bernard of Clairvaux (1090), Eleanor of Aquitaine (1122), Roland Barthes (1915), Charles I of Anjou (1226), and Gérard Depardieu (1948). After him are Jean-François Champollion (1790), Jacques Lacan (1901), Charles VIII of France (1470), Francis II of France (1544), Charles VI of France (1368), and Pope Callixtus II (1065).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Paul Verlaine ranks 31. Before him are Anatole France (1844), André Gide (1869), Sully Prudhomme (1839), Jean de La Fontaine (1621), François Villon (1431), and Jean Cocteau (1889). After him are Cyrano de Bergerac (1619), Jean Racine (1639), Nicolas Flamel (1330), André Breton (1896), Stéphane Mallarmé (1842), and Petronius (27).

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