1628 - 1703
Charles Perrault ( peh-ROH, US also pə-ROH, French: [ʃaʁl pɛʁo]; 12 January 1628 – 16 May 1703) was a French author and member of the Académie Française. He laid the foundations for a new literary genre, the fairy tale, with his works derived from earlier folk tales, published in his 1697 book Histoires ou contes du temps passé (Stories or Tales from Past Times). Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Charles Perrault has received more than 2,985,948 page views. His biography is available in 77 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 76 in 2019). Charles Perrault is the 67th most popular writer (up from 72nd in 2019), the 62nd most popular biography from France (up from 69th in 2019) and the 17th most popular French Writer.
Charles Perrault is most famous for his fairy tales.
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Among writers, Charles Perrault ranks 67 out of 5,755. Before him are Thomas Mann, Rabindranath Tagore, Jack London, Henrik Ibsen, Stefan Zweig, and Arthur Rimbaud. After him are James Joyce, Romain Rolland, Giacomo Casanova, Isaac Asimov, Ayn Rand, and Astrid Lindgren.
1875 - 1955
HPI: 79.06
Rank: 61
1861 - 1941
HPI: 79.04
Rank: 62
1876 - 1916
HPI: 78.94
Rank: 63
1828 - 1906
HPI: 78.93
Rank: 64
1881 - 1942
HPI: 78.92
Rank: 65
1854 - 1891
HPI: 78.92
Rank: 66
1628 - 1703
HPI: 78.91
Rank: 67
1882 - 1941
HPI: 78.80
Rank: 68
1866 - 1944
HPI: 78.73
Rank: 69
1725 - 1798
HPI: 78.68
Rank: 70
1920 - 1992
HPI: 78.68
Rank: 71
1905 - 1982
HPI: 78.45
Rank: 72
1907 - 2002
HPI: 78.36
Rank: 73
Among people born in 1628, Charles Perrault ranks 1. After him are Marcello Malpighi, Jacob van Ruisdael, John Bunyan, Muazzez Sultan, Sophie Amalie of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Ferdinand Charles, Archduke of Austria, François-Henri de Montmorency, duc de Luxembourg, Emmanuel Philibert, Prince of Carignano, François Girardon, Lucrezia Barberini, and Robert Cambert. Among people deceased in 1703, Charles Perrault ranks 2. Before him is Robert Hooke. After him are Mustafa II, Man in the Iron Mask, John Wallis, Vincenzo Viviani, Johann Christoph Bach, Ilona Zrínyi, Samuel Pepys, Erik Dahlbergh, Nicolas de Grigny, and Charles de Saint-Évremond.
1628 - 1703
HPI: 78.91
Rank: 1
1628 - 1694
HPI: 68.56
Rank: 2
1628 - 1682
HPI: 67.33
Rank: 3
1628 - 1688
HPI: 64.62
Rank: 4
1628 - Present
HPI: 60.70
Rank: 5
1628 - 1685
HPI: 60.49
Rank: 6
1628 - 1662
HPI: 59.29
Rank: 7
1628 - 1695
HPI: 57.50
Rank: 8
1628 - 1709
HPI: 55.70
Rank: 9
1628 - 1715
HPI: 55.38
Rank: 10
1628 - 1699
HPI: 53.08
Rank: 11
1628 - 1677
HPI: 52.95
Rank: 12
1635 - 1703
HPI: 81.43
Rank: 1
1628 - 1703
HPI: 78.91
Rank: 2
1664 - 1703
HPI: 75.27
Rank: 3
1640 - 1703
HPI: 72.71
Rank: 4
1616 - 1703
HPI: 64.27
Rank: 5
1622 - 1703
HPI: 61.94
Rank: 6
1642 - 1703
HPI: 61.16
Rank: 7
1643 - 1703
HPI: 57.99
Rank: 8
1633 - 1703
HPI: 57.56
Rank: 9
1625 - 1703
HPI: 54.77
Rank: 10
1672 - 1703
HPI: 52.16
Rank: 11
1613 - 1703
HPI: 50.97
Rank: 12
Among people born in France, Charles Perrault ranks 62 out of 6,011. Before him are Stendhal (1783), Gustave Flaubert (1821), Edgar Degas (1834), Georges Bizet (1838), Jacques-Louis David (1748), and Arthur Rimbaud (1854). After him are Claude Debussy (1862), Henri Becquerel (1852), Cardinal Richelieu (1585), Louis Braille (1809), Hector Berlioz (1803), and Maximilien Robespierre (1758).
1783 - 1842
HPI: 79.18
Rank: 56
1821 - 1880
HPI: 79.06
Rank: 57
1834 - 1917
HPI: 79.06
Rank: 58
1838 - 1875
HPI: 79.01
Rank: 59
1748 - 1825
HPI: 78.96
Rank: 60
1854 - 1891
HPI: 78.92
Rank: 61
1628 - 1703
HPI: 78.91
Rank: 62
1862 - 1918
HPI: 78.91
Rank: 63
1852 - 1908
HPI: 78.87
Rank: 64
1585 - 1642
HPI: 78.85
Rank: 65
1809 - 1852
HPI: 78.84
Rank: 66
1803 - 1869
HPI: 78.80
Rank: 67
1758 - 1794
HPI: 78.78
Rank: 68
Among writers born in France, Charles Perrault ranks 17. Before him are Simone de Beauvoir (1908), Octave Mirbeau (1848), Émile Zola (1840), Stendhal (1783), Gustave Flaubert (1821), and Arthur Rimbaud (1854). After him are Romain Rolland (1866), Marquis de Sade (1740), Jean de La Fontaine (1621), George Sand (1804), André Gide (1869), and Nicolas Flamel (1330).
1908 - 1986
HPI: 80.92
Rank: 11
1848 - 1917
HPI: 80.43
Rank: 12
1840 - 1902
HPI: 80.13
Rank: 13
1783 - 1842
HPI: 79.18
Rank: 14
1821 - 1880
HPI: 79.06
Rank: 15
1854 - 1891
HPI: 78.92
Rank: 16
1628 - 1703
HPI: 78.91
Rank: 17
1866 - 1944
HPI: 78.73
Rank: 18
1740 - 1814
HPI: 78.22
Rank: 19
1621 - 1695
HPI: 77.25
Rank: 20
1804 - 1876
HPI: 76.79
Rank: 21
1869 - 1951
HPI: 76.64
Rank: 22
1330 - 1425
HPI: 76.45
Rank: 23