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François Villon

1431 - 1463

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François Villon (Modern French: [fʁɑ̃swa vijɔ̃], Middle French: [frãːˈswɛ viˈlõː]; c. 1431 – after 1463) is the best known French poet of the Late Middle Ages. He was involved in criminal behavior and had multiple encounters with law enforcement authorities. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of François Villon has received more than 496,560 page views. His biography is available in 70 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 67 in 2019). François Villon is the 114th most popular writer (down from 111th in 2019), the 129th most popular biography from France (down from 114th in 2019) and the 26th most popular French Writer.

François Villon is most famous for his poetry, which he wrote in the 14th century.

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  • 500k

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  • 75.89

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 70

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 10.34

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.29

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, François Villon ranks 114 out of 5,755. Before him are Du Fu, François Rabelais, Samuel Beckett, Vladimir Nabokov, Federico García Lorca, and Mary Shelley. After him are Plautus, Václav Havel, Sully Prudhomme, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Yukio Mishima, and Henry David Thoreau.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1431, François Villon ranks 3. Before him are Vlad the Impaler and Pope Alexander VI. After him are Andrea Mantegna, Ercole I d'Este, Duke of Ferrara, Ladislaus Hunyadi, Jasper Tudor, John of Coimbra, Prince of Antioch, and John Neville, 1st Marquess of Montagu. Among people deceased in 1463, François Villon ranks 1. After him are Marie of Anjou, Stephen Tomašević of Bosnia, David of Trebizond, Albert VI, Archduke of Austria, Flavio Biondo, Didacus of Alcalá, Catherine of Bologna, John IV, Duke of Bavaria, Isidore of Kiev, and Mary of Guelders.

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In France

Among people born in France, François Villon ranks 129 out of 6,011. Before him are Louis XVIII of France (1755), Camille Saint-Saëns (1835), Henri Poincaré (1854), Nicolas Poussin (1594), Luc Montagnier (1932), and Charles VI of France (1368). After him are Roman Polanski (1933), Thérèse of Lisieux (1873), Godfrey of Bouillon (1060), Sully Prudhomme (1839), Paul Verlaine (1844), and Louis XII of France (1462).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, François Villon ranks 26. Before him are Jean de La Fontaine (1621), George Sand (1804), André Gide (1869), Nicolas Flamel (1330), Anatole France (1844), and François Rabelais (1494). After him are Sully Prudhomme (1839), Paul Verlaine (1844), Alexandre Dumas fils (1824), Jean Cocteau (1889), Guy de Maupassant (1850), and Charles Baudelaire (1821).

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