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Tristan Corbière

1845 - 1875

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Tristan Corbière (18 July 1845 – 1 March 1875), born Édouard-Joachim Corbière, was a French poet born in Coat-Congar, Ploujean (now part of Morlaix) in Brittany, where he lived most of his life before dying of tuberculosis at the age of 29. He was a French poet, close to Symbolism, and a figure of the "cursed poet". He is the author of a single collection of poetry Les Amours Jaunes, and of a few prose pieces. He led a mostly marginal and miserable life, nourished by two major failures due to his bone disease and his "ugliness" which he enjoyed accusing: the first is his sentimental life (he only loved one woman, called "Marcelle" in his work), and the second being his passion for the sea (he dreamt of becoming a sailor, like his father, Édouard Corbière). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Tristan Corbière is the 1,881st most popular writer (down from 1,461st in 2019), the 2,159th most popular biography from France (down from 1,690th in 2019) and the 266th most popular French Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Tristan Corbière ranks 1,881 out of 7,302. Before him are Pedro Antonio de Alarcón, Masaoka Shiki, Zinaida Gippius, Siri Hustvedt, Hugh Lofting, and Tonino Guerra. After him are Chūya Nakahara, Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder, Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Nicolás Guillén, Luigi Illica, and Ğabdulla Tuqay.

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Among people born in 1845, Tristan Corbière ranks 35. Before him are Jan Baudouin de Courtenay, Gustaf de Laval, José Maria de Eça de Queirós, Mary Ann Nichols, Infanta Antónia of Portugal, and Isidor Straus. After him are Jacint Verdaguer, Félix Tisserand, Harriet Backer, Ödön Lechner, Émile Baudot, and Émile Boutroux. Among people deceased in 1875, Tristan Corbière ranks 28. Before him are Duchenne de Boulogne, Francis V, Duke of Modena, Jacques Paul Migne, Friedrich Albert Lange, Eduard Mörike, and Henry Wilson. After him are Prince Karl Theodor of Bavaria, Prince Adalbert of Bavaria, Louise Farrenc, Svetozar Marković, Gabriel García Moreno, and John C. Breckinridge.

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In France

Among people born in France, Tristan Corbière ranks 2,159 out of 6,770. Before him are Louis I, Count of Blois (1172), Franck Pourcel (1913), Philippe Leroy (1930), Anne de Pisseleu d'Heilly (1508), Luigi Federico Menabrea (1809), and François-Xavier Ortoli (1925). After him are Henri Mouhot (1826), Paul Nizan (1905), André Courrèges (1923), Guillaume Amontons (1663), Joseph Meister (1876), and Madeleine Vionnet (1876).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Tristan Corbière ranks 266. Before him are Joseph Joubert (1754), Marcel Schwob (1867), Georges Duhamel (1884), Prosper of Aquitaine (390), Yasmina Reza (1959), and Jean-Pierre Thiollet (1956). After him are Émile Augier (1820), Hincmar (806), Zygmunt Krasiński (1812), Christian Jacq (1947), Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr (1808), and Eustache Deschamps (1346).

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