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Théophile Gautier

1811 - 1872

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Pierre Jules Théophile Gautier (US: goh-TYAY, French: [pjɛʁ ʒyl teɔfil ɡotje]; 30 August 1811 – 23 October 1872) was a French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, and art and literary critic. While an ardent defender of Romanticism, Gautier's work is difficult to classify and remains a point of reference for many subsequent literary traditions such as Parnassianism, Symbolism, Decadence and Modernism. He was widely esteemed by writers as disparate as Balzac, Baudelaire, the Goncourt brothers, Flaubert, Pound, Eliot, James, Proust and Wilde. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Théophile Gautier is the 364th most popular writer (down from 330th in 2019), the 441st most popular biography from France (down from 378th in 2019) and the 65th most popular French Writer.

Théophile Gautier is most famous for his prose and poetry. He was a French poet, novelist, and literary critic.

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Among writers, Théophile Gautier ranks 364 out of 7,302. Before him are Jane Hawking, Zosimus, Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus, Pierre Beaumarchais, Ivanka Trump, and Arthur Schnitzler. After him are Henry Miller, Heinrich von Kleist, Gabriele D'Annunzio, Coen brothers, Ivar Aasen, and Carlos Castaneda.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1811, Théophile Gautier ranks 7. Before him are Franz Liszt, Napoleon II, Évariste Galois, Urbain Le Verrier, Robert Bunsen, and Maximilian II of Bavaria. After him are William Makepeace Thackeray, Isaac Singer, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Vissarion Belinsky, and Karl Anton, Prince of Hohenzollern. Among people deceased in 1872, Théophile Gautier ranks 7. Before him are Samuel Morse, Ludwig Feuerbach, Princess Sophie of Bavaria, Charles XV of Sweden, Giuseppe Mazzini, and William John Macquorn Rankine. After him are Benito Juárez, Stanisław Moniuszko, N. F. S. Grundtvig, Franz Grillparzer, George Robert Gray, and Aleksis Kivi.

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In France

Among people born in France, Théophile Gautier ranks 441 out of 6,770. Before him are Giambologna (1529), Pierre Beaumarchais (1732), Aristide Briand (1862), Léo Delibes (1836), Ferdinand de Lesseps (1805), and Napoléon, Prince Imperial (1856). After him are Gérard Philipe (1922), Charles Le Brun (1619), Johann Heinrich Lambert (1728), Olympe de Gouges (1748), Hans Bethe (1906), and Anouk Aimée (1932).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Théophile Gautier ranks 65. Before him are Colette (1873), André Malraux (1901), Ève Curie (1904), Maurice Leblanc (1864), Paul Valéry (1871), and Pierre Beaumarchais (1732). After him are Jean Genet (1910), Alphonse de Lamartine (1790), Auguste Escoffier (1847), Paul Éluard (1895), Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux (1636), and Arthur de Gobineau (1816).

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