WRITER

Georges Bernanos

1888 - 1948

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Louis Émile Clément Georges Bernanos (French: [ʒɔʁʒ bɛʁnanɔs]; 20 February 1888 – 5 July 1948) was a French author, and a soldier in World War I. A Catholic with monarchist leanings, he was critical of elitist thought and was opposed to what he identified as defeatism. He believed this had led to France's defeat and eventual occupation by Germany in 1940 during World War II. His two best-known novels Sous le soleil de Satan (1926) and the Journal d'un curé de campagne (1936) both revolve around a parish priest who combats evil and despair in the world. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Georges Bernanos has received more than 262,422 page views. His biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 43 in 2019). Georges Bernanos is the 793rd most popular writer (up from 908th in 2019), the 929th most popular biography from France (up from 1,071st in 2019) and the 128th most popular French Writer.

Georges Bernanos is most famous for his work, The Diary of a Country Priest.

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  • 63.43

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  • 44

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.44

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.58

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Sous le soleil de Satan
1926
Bernanos par lui-même
1954
Dialogues des Carmélites
1949
Journal d'un curé de campagne
1936
Nouvelle histoire de Mouchette
1937

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Georges Bernanos ranks 793 out of 7,302. Before him are Pope Dionysius of Alexandria, Tao Yuanming, Jin Yong, Marie Mancini, Wilhelm Hauff, and Leon Uris. After him are Marie d'Agoult, Alexander Litvinenko, Cesare Pavese, Ibycus, Colleen McCullough, and Dio Chrysostom.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1888, Georges Bernanos ranks 38. Before him are Friedrich Olbricht, Andrei Tupolev, Anton Makarenko, Inge Lehmann, Abul Kalam Azad, and Katherine Mansfield. After him are Joseph P. Kennedy Sr., Vladimir K. Zworykin, Ossip Zadkine, Frances Marion, Josef Albers, and Ernst Heinkel. Among people deceased in 1948, Georges Bernanos ranks 29. Before him are Prince Aimone, Duke of Aosta, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Maria Mandl, Arthur Liebehenschel, Kurt Schwitters, and John J. Pershing. After him are Hugo Boss, Umberto Giordano, D. W. Griffith, Iwane Matsui, Pompeu Fabra, and Kantarō Suzuki.

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In France

Among people born in France, Georges Bernanos ranks 929 out of 6,770. Before him are Louise Michel (1830), Louis Barthou (1862), Marie-Anne Paulze Lavoisier (1758), Adela of Champagne (1140), Jean de Lattre de Tassigny (1889), and Marie-Louise O'Murphy (1737). After him are Rosa Bonheur (1822), Manu Chao (1961), Laurent de Gouvion Saint-Cyr (1764), Joseph Babinski (1857), Jacques de Vaucanson (1709), and Philibert II, Duke of Savoy (1480).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Georges Bernanos ranks 128. Before him are Pierre Boulle (1912), Edmond de Goncourt (1822), Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle (1657), Jean Anouilh (1910), Antoine Galland (1646), and Theodore Beza (1519). After him are Charles Maurras (1868), Laura de Noves (1310), Juliette Récamier (1777), Jules Renard (1864), Philippe Ariès (1914), and Charles Nodier (1780).

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