WRITER

Bernard Palissy

1510 - 1589

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Bernard Palissy (French pronunciation: [bɛʁnaʁ palisi]; c. 1510 – c. 1589) was a French Huguenot potter, hydraulics engineer and craftsman, famous for having struggled for sixteen years to imitate Chinese porcelain. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bernard Palissy has received more than 177,667 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Bernard Palissy is the 1,946th most popular writer (up from 2,071st in 2019), the 2,203rd most popular biography from France (up from 2,326th in 2019) and the 271st most popular French Writer.

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  • 180k

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  • 56.39

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.70

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.54

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Bernard Palissy ranks 1,946 out of 7,302. Before him are Vazha-Pshavela, Avitus of Vienne, Hirokazu Kanazawa, Nicholas Sparks, André Brink, and Constantine of Preslav. After him are Jón Arason, Eugenio Barba, Jane Jacobs, Margarete Buber-Neumann, Denis Fonvizin, and Thomas Merton.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1510, Bernard Palissy ranks 20. Before him are Oda Nobuhide, Francesco de' Rossi, Jean Goujon, Antonio de Cabezón, Ivan Fyodorov, and Jacob Clemens non Papa. After him are Guillaume Postel, Margaret Paleologa, Nicolas Durand de Villegaignon, Tullia d'Aragona, Diego Ortiz, and Andrea Schiavone. Among people deceased in 1589, Bernard Palissy ranks 9. Before him are Jacques Clément, Christophe Plantin, Anna Maria of the Palatinate, Benedict the Moor, Alessandro Farnese, and Johannes Sturm. After him are Julius, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Michael Baius, Charles II, Lord of Monaco, Jean-Antoine de Baïf, Heo Nanseolheon, and Philothei of Athens.

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In France

Among people born in France, Bernard Palissy ranks 2,203 out of 6,770. Before him are Avitus of Vienne (450), Maria of Navarre (1326), Bernadette Lafont (1938), Patrice Leconte (1947), Ivo of Chartres (1040), and Rudolf Schmundt (1896). After him are Charles de Freycinet (1828), Mathieu Kassovitz (1967), Philippe Nahon (1938), Jacques Cœur (1395), Élisabeth Depardieu (1941), and César Baldaccini (1921).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Bernard Palissy ranks 271. Before him are Augustin Barruel (1741), Philippe Quinault (1635), Éric Zemmour (1958), Pierre Gringore (1475), Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens (1704), and Avitus of Vienne (450). After him are Thomas Merton (1915), Pierre Klossowski (1905), Hincmar (806), Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac (1597), Gustave Kahn (1859), and Fred Vargas (1957).

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