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The French Angel

1903 - 1954

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Maurice Tillet (French: [mɔʁis tije]; Russian: Мори́с Тийе́; 23 October 1903 – 4 September 1954) was a Russian-French professional wrestler, better known by his ring name, The French Angel/The Angel. Tillet was a leading box office draw in the early 1940s and was twice World Heavyweight Champion in the American Wrestling Association run by Paul Bowser in Boston. It has been rumored that Tillet was the inspiration for the storybook and animated movie character Shrek based on their resemblance. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. The French Angel is the 8th most popular wrestler (down from 5th in 2019), the 227th most popular biography from Russia (up from 345th in 2019) and the most popular Russian Wrestler.

The French Angel is a famous painting by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot. It is a depiction of a woman in a white dress sitting on a bench in front of a landscape.

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Among WRESTLERS

Among wrestlers, The French Angel ranks 8 out of 1,027. Before him are Dusty Rhodes, Dave Bautista, Antonio Inoki, André the Giant, Darren Young, and The Iron Sheik. After him are Hulk Hogan, Kane, Sting, Shawn Michaels, Rey Mysterio, and Jerry Lawler.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1903, The French Angel ranks 38. Before him are José Antonio Primo de Rivera, Raymond Queneau, John Dillinger, Hans Jonas, Irène Némirovsky, and John Eccles. After him are Alec Douglas-Home, Bing Crosby, Jiro Horikoshi, Haldan Keffer Hartline, Igor Kurchatov, and Matthias Sindelar. Among people deceased in 1954, The French Angel ranks 23. Before him are Wilhelm Furtwängler, Machine Gun Kelly, Dziga Vertov, James Hilton, Andrey Vyshinsky, and Maximilian von Weichs. After him are Léon Jouhaux, Clemens Krauss, Martin Andersen Nexø, Charles Ives, Prince Ernst of Hohenberg, and Sadriddin Ayni.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, The French Angel ranks 227 out of 3,761. Before him are Vasily I of Moscow (1371), Alexei Navalny (1976), Armin Mueller-Stahl (1930), Vitaly Ginzburg (1916), Gustav Bauer (1870), and Ferdinand von Wrangel (1797). After him are Gherman Titov (1935), Viktor Zubkov (1941), Nikolay Chernyshevsky (1828), Maya Plisetskaya (1925), Sophia Alekseyevna of Russia (1657), and Nikolay Basov (1922).

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Among WRESTLERS In Russia

Among wrestlers born in Russia, The French Angel ranks 1. After him are Aleksandr Karelin (1967), Khabib Nurmagomedov (1988), Oskari Friman (1893), Buvaisar Saitiev (1975), Ivan Yarygin (1948), Alfred Asikainen (1888), Anatoly Roshchin (1932), Sergei Beloglazov (1956), Boris Gurevich (1931), Soslan Andiyev (1952), and Pavel Pinigin (1953).

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