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WRITER

Claude Farrère

1876 - 1957

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Claude Farrère, pseudonym of Frédéric-Charles Bargone (27 April 1876, in Lyon – 21 June 1957, in Paris), was a French Navy officer and writer. Many of his novels are based in exotic locations such as Istanbul, Saigon, or Nagasaki. One of his novels, Les Civilisés, about life in French colonial Indochina, won the third Prix Goncourt for 1905. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Claude Farrère has received more than 48,809 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Claude Farrère is the 2,860th most popular writer (up from 3,020th in 2019), the 3,005th most popular biography from France (down from 2,983rd in 2019) and the 372nd most popular French Writer.

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  • 52.06

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.15

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.05

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Claude Farrère ranks 2,860 out of 5,755. Before him are Andrei Amalrik, Ubayd Zakani, Raffi, Symeon of Polotsk, Phan Thi Kim Phuc, and Al-Asmaʿi. After him are Sven Lindqvist, John Banville, Antonio de Guevara, Jeppe Aakjær, Nathan Birnbaum, and Mika Antić.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1876, Claude Farrère ranks 94. Before him are Mack Swain, Meshadi Azizbekov, Gertrud von Le Fort, Agustín Pedro Justo, Eugène-Henri Gravelotte, and Francesc Cambó. After him are Ivane Javakhishvili, Ahmad Qavam, Ioannis Georgiadis, Maria Ouspenskaya, Hiroshi Yoshida, and Pingali Venkayya. Among people deceased in 1957, Claude Farrère ranks 107. Before him are Frieda Fromm-Reichmann, José Linhares, Eugenio Castellotti, Abolqasem Lahouti, Hasui Kawase, and Valery Larbaud. After him are Josephine Hull, Joseph Augustus Zarelli, Marija Jurić Zagorka, Paja Jovanović, Frank País, and Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone.

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In France

Among people born in France, Claude Farrère ranks 3,005 out of 6,011. Before him are Jean Yanne (1933), Edita Piekha (1937), Henri Alekan (1909), Felice Borel (1914), Antoine Brumel (1460), and Claude Balbastre (1724). After him are Claude François de Malet (1754), André Caplet (1878), Ingelger (900), Roger Walkowiak (1927), Hervé Bazin (1911), and Pierre-Paul Riquet (1609).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Claude Farrère ranks 372. Before him are Lupus Servatus (805), Francis Ponge (1899), José Giovanni (1923), Valery Larbaud (1881), Charles-Louis Philippe (1874), and Jacques Delille (1738). After him are Hervé Bazin (1911), Édouard Chavannes (1865), Gérard de Villiers (1929), Pierre Gringore (1475), Jean Joseph Marie Amiot (1718), and Catulle Mendès (1841).

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