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Pierre Larousse

1817 - 1875

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Pierre Athanase Larousse (French pronunciation: [pjɛʁ atanaz laʁus]; 23 October 1817 – 3 January 1875) was a French grammarian, lexicographer and encyclopaedist. He published many of the outstanding educational and reference works of 19th-century France, including the 15-volume Grand dictionnaire universel du XIXe siècle. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Pierre Larousse is the 1,289th most popular writer (down from 942nd in 2019), the 1,459th most popular biography from France (down from 1,066th in 2019) and the 185th most popular French Writer.

Pierre Larousse is most famous for publishing a French dictionary.

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Among writers, Pierre Larousse ranks 1,289 out of 7,302. Before him are Elizabeth Gaskell, Georges Rodenbach, Giovanni Papini, Ono no Komachi, Alcman, and Ibn al-Nadim. After him are Kurt Tucholsky, Blaise de Vigenère, Michael Jackson, Dositej Obradović, Judah Leon Abravanel, and Jean Giono.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1817, Pierre Larousse ranks 19. Before him are Niels Gade, Joseph Dalton Hooker, Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Princess Clémentine of Orléans, Theodor Storm, and Hermann Lotze. After him are Austen Henry Layard, Maximilian de Beauharnais, 3rd Duke of Leuchtenberg, Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen, Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville, Albert von Kölliker, and Jung Bahadur Rana. Among people deceased in 1875, Pierre Larousse ranks 20. Before him are Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, 12th Dalai Lama, Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Moses Hess, Heinrich Schwabe, and Amalia of Oldenburg. After him are Guillaume Henri Dufour, Duchenne de Boulogne, Francis V, Duke of Modena, Jacques Paul Migne, Friedrich Albert Lange, and Eduard Mörike.

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In France

Among people born in France, Pierre Larousse ranks 1,459 out of 6,770. Before him are Anne Parillaud (1960), Paul-Jacques Curie (1855), Bernard of Italy (797), Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle (1517), Jean Tirole (1953), and Pierre-Narcisse Guérin (1774). After him are Francis II, Duke of Brittany (1435), Blaise de Vigenère (1523), Ernest Meissonier (1815), Robert III, Count of Flanders (1249), Armand Peugeot (1849), and Michel Chasles (1793).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Pierre Larousse ranks 185. Before him are Charles Péguy (1873), Léon Bloy (1846), Émile Gaboriau (1832), Pierre Drieu La Rochelle (1893), Madame d'Aulnoy (1651), and Agrippa d'Aubigné (1552). After him are Blaise de Vigenère (1523), Jean Giono (1895), Maurice Barrès (1862), Georges Feydeau (1862), Henri Murger (1822), and Paul Scarron (1610).

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