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Anatole France

1844 - 1924

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Anatole France (French: [anatɔl fʁɑ̃s]; born François-Anatole Thibault, [frɑ̃swa anatɔl tibo]; 16 April 1844 – 12 October 1924) was a French poet, journalist, and novelist with several best-sellers. Ironic and skeptical, he was considered in his day the ideal French man of letters. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Anatole France has received more than 896,716 page views. His biography is available in 90 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 88 in 2019). Anatole France is the 106th most popular writer (up from 115th in 2019), the 114th most popular biography from France (up from 120th in 2019) and the 24th most popular French Writer.

Anatole France is most famous for his novel "The Red and the Black."

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  • 900k

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  • 76.31

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 90

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 14.14

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.29

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Anatole France ranks 106 out of 5,755. Before him are Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, André Gide, Charles Bukowski, Erich Maria Remarque, Nicolas Flamel, and Cato the Elder. After him are Boris Pasternak, Du Fu, François Rabelais, Samuel Beckett, Vladimir Nabokov, and Federico García Lorca.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1844, Anatole France ranks 5. Before him are Friedrich Nietzsche, Karl Benz, Sarah Bernhardt, and Mehmed V. After him are Paul Verlaine, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Ilya Repin, Bernadette Soubirous, Henri Rousseau, Ludwig Boltzmann, and Peter I of Serbia. Among people deceased in 1924, Anatole France ranks 5. Before him are Vladimir Lenin, Franz Kafka, Giacomo Puccini, and Woodrow Wilson. After him are Joseph Conrad, Alfred Marshall, Louis Sullivan, Gabriel Fauré, Carl Spitteler, Archduchess Marie Valerie of Austria, and Frances Hodgson Burnett.

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In France

Among people born in France, Anatole France ranks 114 out of 6,011. Before him are Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864), Georges Danton (1759), Nicolas Flamel (1330), Pope Clement V (1264), Albert Schweitzer (1875), and Philip II of France (1165). After him are Saint Sebastian (300), Rudolf Diesel (1858), Marcel Duchamp (1887), Jacques Lacan (1901), François Rabelais (1494), and Charles XIV John of Sweden (1763).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Anatole France ranks 24. Before him are Romain Rolland (1866), Marquis de Sade (1740), Jean de La Fontaine (1621), George Sand (1804), André Gide (1869), and Nicolas Flamel (1330). After him are François Rabelais (1494), François Villon (1431), Sully Prudhomme (1839), Paul Verlaine (1844), Alexandre Dumas fils (1824), and Jean Cocteau (1889).

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