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Edgar Faure

1908 - 1988

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Edgar Jean Faure (French: [ɛdɡaʁ ʒɑ̃ fɔʁ] ; 18 August 1908 – 30 March 1988) was a French politician, lawyer, essayist, historian and memoirist who served as Prime Minister of France in 1952 and again between 1955 and 1956. Prior to his election to the National Assembly for Jura under the Fourth Republic in 1946, he was a member of the French Committee of National Liberation (CFLN) in Algiers (1943–1944). A Radical, Faure was married to writer Lucie Meyer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edgar Faure has received more than 140,114 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Edgar Faure is the 7,783rd most popular politician (up from 8,355th in 2019), the 2,289th most popular biography from France (up from 2,519th in 2019) and the 540th most popular French Politician.

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  • 140k

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  • 56.07

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 33

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.73

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.79

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Edgar Faure ranks 7,783 out of 19,576. Before him are Lý Thái Tổ, Danishmend Gazi, Antonio Grimani, Walter VI, Count of Brienne, Annia Faustina, and Hitoshi Ashida. After him are Cetshwayo kaMpande, Ivan Susanin, Hōjō Yoshitoki, Antonio Possevino, Stefan Branković, and Aslan Abashidze.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, Edgar Faure ranks 104. Before him are Eugen Weidmann, Eduard Roschmann, Fyodor Okhlopkov, Ahmad Shukeiri, Jacques Massu, and Bruno Lüdke. After him are Van Heflin, Lew Ayres, Sergei Sobolev, Arturo Frondizi, Vazgen I, and Harold Holt. Among people deceased in 1988, Edgar Faure ranks 72. Before him are Takeo Miki, Anna Mahler, Piero Taruffi, Viktors Arājs, Charles Addams, and Andrija Artuković. After him are Ilona Elek, Raymond Dart, Mikha'il Na'ima, Mohammad-Hossein Shahriar, Abdulrahman Fawzi, and Giacinto Scelsi.

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In France

Among people born in France, Edgar Faure ranks 2,289 out of 6,770. Before him are Jérôme Lejeune (1926), Claude Cahun (1894), François Berléand (1952), Hans von Salmuth (1888), Jean Chacornac (1823), and Georges Claude (1870). After him are Pierre Henry (1927), Claire Denis (1946), Jean Paulhan (1884), Catherine Henriette de Balzac d'Entragues (1579), Éleuthère Irénée du Pont (1771), and Charles de Lannoy, 1st Prince of Sulmona (1487).

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Among POLITICIANS In France

Among politicians born in France, Edgar Faure ranks 540. Before him are William IV, Duke of Aquitaine (935), Beatrice of Lorraine (1017), Emmanuel Philibert, Prince of Carignano (1628), Drogo of Champagne (670), Bernard Collomb (1930), and Nicole, Duchess of Lorraine (1608). After him are Catherine Henriette de Balzac d'Entragues (1579), Charles de Lannoy, 1st Prince of Sulmona (1487), François Certain de Canrobert (1809), Petronilla of Aquitaine (1125), Henry Beaufort (1374), and Margaret of Burgundy, Duchess of Bavaria (1374).

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