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Françoise Giroud

1916 - 2003

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Françoise Giroud, born Lea France Gourdji (21 September 1916 in Lausanne, Switzerland and not in Geneva as often written – 19 January 2003 in Neuilly-sur-Seine), was a French journalist, screenwriter, writer, and politician. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Françoise Giroud has received more than 80,595 page views. Her biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Françoise Giroud is the 3,582nd most popular writer (down from 3,566th in 2019), the 354th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 341st in 2019) and the 35th most popular Swiss Writer.

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  • 81k

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  • 49.87

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  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.12

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.55

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Françoise Giroud ranks 3,582 out of 5,755Before her are Bernard Maris, Ahmad Javad, Galaktion Tabidze, Cesar Millan, Jafar Jabbarly, and Erik Gustaf Geijer. After her are Johann Heinrich Voss, Iain Banks, Wipo of Burgundy, Claude Bourgelat, Friederike Mayröcker, and Maurice de Guérin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1916, Françoise Giroud ranks 150Before her are Dom Mintoff, Dorothy McGuire, Robert H. Dicke, Jacques Georges, Carlo Rustichelli, and Herbert Norkus. After her are José López Rega, Lars Korvald, Bernard Heuvelmans, Sudirman, Anne Hébert, and Evelyn Keyes. Among people deceased in 2003, Françoise Giroud ranks 171Before her are Blaga Dimitrova, Jeanne Crain, Gregory Hines, Garrett Hardin, Bigode, and Henryk Jabłoński. After her are Isao Iwabuchi, Strom Thurmond, Alexander Kemurdzhian, Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter, Art Carney, and Timothy Treadwell.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Françoise Giroud ranks 354 out of 876Before her are Roger Courtois (1912), James Pradier (1790), Adolf Meyer (1866), Fleur Jaeggy (1940), Christian Gross (1954), and Claude Goretta (1929). After her are Johann Baptist Cysat (1585), Jules Gilliéron (1854), Eugeniusz Bodo (1899), Yann Sommer (1988), Peter Bichsel (1935), and Samuel Schmid (1947).

Among WRITERS In Switzerland

Among writers born in Switzerland, Françoise Giroud ranks 35Before her are Edmond Privat (1889), Peter Bieri (1944), Ella Maillart (1903), Theodore Bibliander (1500), Philippe Jaccottet (1925), and Fleur Jaeggy (1940). After her are Peter Bichsel (1935), Fernán Caballero (1796), Robert Pinget (1919), Nicolas Bouvier (1929), Alain de Botton (1969), and Johann David Wyss (1743).