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Stéphane Mallarmé

1842 - 1898

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Étienne Mallarmé (UK: MAL-ar-may, US: mal-ar-MAY;; 18 March 1842 – 9 September 1898), known professionally as Stéphane Mallarmé (French: [stefan malaʁme] ), was a French poet and critic. He was a major French Symbolist poet, and his work anticipated and inspired several revolutionary artistic schools of the early 20th century, such as Cubism, Futurism, Dadaism, and Surrealism. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Stéphane Mallarmé is the 180th most popular writer (up from 207th in 2019), the 203rd most popular biography from France (up from 259th in 2019) and the 36th most popular French Writer.

Mallarmé is most famous for his poem "Un coup de dés jamais n'abolira le hasard" (A Throw of the Dice Will Never Abolish Chance).

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Among writers, Stéphane Mallarmé ranks 180 out of 7,302. Before him are Wisława Szymborska, William Faulkner, Anna Wintour, John Milton, Charlotte Brontë, and Nizami Ganjavi. After him are Fernando Pessoa, Al-Masudi, Mikhail Bulgakov, Catullus, Taras Shevchenko, and Murasaki Shikibu.

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Among people born in 1842, Stéphane Mallarmé ranks 3. Before him are John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, and Abdul Hamid II. After him are William James, Peter Kropotkin, Jules Massenet, Archduke Ludwig Viktor of Austria, Alfred Marshall, Karl May, Dominic Savio, Josef Breuer, and Camille Flammarion. Among people deceased in 1898, Stéphane Mallarmé ranks 5. Before him are Empress Elisabeth of Austria, Otto von Bismarck, William Ewart Gladstone, and Lewis Carroll. After him are Gustave Moreau, Charbel Makhlouf, Johann Jakob Balmer, Syed Ahmad Khan, Ivan Shishkin, Louise of Hesse-Kassel, and Eugène Boudin.

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In France

Among people born in France, Stéphane Mallarmé ranks 203 out of 6,770. Before him are Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis (1792), Henry II of England (1133), Alain Prost (1955), Théodore Géricault (1791), Baldwin I, Latin Emperor (1172), and Jean Bodin (1530). After him are Philip VI of France (1293), Charles Gounod (1818), Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (1754), Zinedine Zidane (1972), Jean-Marie Le Pen (1928), and Charles IV of France (1294).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Stéphane Mallarmé ranks 36. Before him are Jean Cocteau (1889), Paul Verlaine (1844), Cyrano de Bergerac (1619), Jean Racine (1639), Nicolas Flamel (1330), and André Breton (1896). After him are Petronius (27), François-René de Chateaubriand (1768), Frédéric Mistral (1830), George Sand (1804), Roger Martin du Gard (1881), and Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1894).

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