WRITER

Émile Souvestre

1806 - 1854

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Émile Souvestre (15 April 1806 – 5 July 1854) was a Breton novelist who was a native of Morlaix, Brittany. Initially unsuccessful as a writer of drama, he fared better as a novelist (he wrote a sci-fi novel, Le Monde Tel Qu'il Sera) and as a researcher and writer of Breton folklore. He was posthumously awarded the Prix Lambert. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Émile Souvestre is the 3,809th most popular writer (up from 4,840th in 2019), the 3,766th most popular biography from France (up from 4,395th in 2019) and the 476th most popular French Writer.

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Among writers, Émile Souvestre ranks 3,809 out of 7,302. Before him are Luigi Capuana, Ricardo Piglia, Alberto Savinio, Claude Aveline, Théophile Thoré-Bürger, and Bill Bryson. After him are Albert Aurier, Viktor Nekrasov, Ilya Ilf, Petko Slaveykov, Oksana Zabuzhko, and Daniil Granin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1806, Émile Souvestre ranks 39. Before him are Johann Kaspar Mertz, George Newbold Lawrence, Julius Weisbach, Henriette Sontag, Michel Chevalier, and Count Anton Alexander von Auersperg. After him are Christian August Friedrich Peters, Julius Hübner, Jovan Sterija Popović, Georg Adolf Erman, Stand Watie, and Fabre Geffrard. Among people deceased in 1854, Émile Souvestre ranks 41. Before him are Henriette Sontag, Józef Chłopicki, Samuel Wilson, José María Vargas, Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, and Philip Barker-Webb. After him are Joaquina Vedruna de Mas, Caspar Georg Carl Reinwardt, Simón Rodríguez, Friedrich Ernst Ludwig von Fischer, Juan Mora Fernández, and Anton Pann.

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In France

Among people born in France, Émile Souvestre ranks 3,766 out of 6,770. Before him are Jacques Dufilho (1914), Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau (1700), Georgette Leblanc (1869), Marcel Langiller (1908), Claude Aveline (1901), and Théophile Thoré-Bürger (1807). After him are Georges Thierry d'Argenlieu (1889), Albert Aurier (1865), Ligier Richier (1500), René de Saussure (1868), Isidore Pils (1813), and Henri Hazebrouck (1877).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Émile Souvestre ranks 476. Before him are Maurice Paléologue (1859), Joseph Joffo (1931), Jules Janin (1804), Auguste Barbier (1805), Claude Aveline (1901), and Théophile Thoré-Bürger (1807). After him are Albert Aurier (1865), Charles Blanc (1813), Jean Echenoz (1947), Gabrielle Wittkop (1920), Dominique Fernandez (1929), and Frédéric Beigbeder (1965).

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