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Gregory of Tours

538 - 593

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Gregory of Tours (born Georgius Florentius; 30 November c. 538 – 17 November 594 AD) was a Gallo-Roman historian and Bishop of Tours during the Merovingian period and is known as the "father of French history." He was a prelate in the Merovingian kingdom, encompassing Gaul's historic region. Gregory's most notable work is the Decem Libri Historiarum (Ten Books of Histories), also known as the Historia Francorum (History of the Franks). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gregory of Tours has received more than 513,204 page views. His biography is available in 45 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 42 in 2019). Gregory of Tours is the 315th most popular writer (up from 323rd in 2019), the 367th most popular biography from France (down from 362nd in 2019) and the 54th most popular French Writer.

Gregory of Tours is most famous for his Historia Francorum, a history of the Franks.

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    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.78

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  • 2.62

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Among writers, Gregory of Tours ranks 315 out of 5,755. Before him are Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Prosper Mérimée, Mario Puzo, Raymond Chandler, Paul Celan, and Callimachus. After him are Karl May, François Mauriac, Jack Kerouac, Ezra Pound, Carlos Castaneda, and Georges Bataille.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 538, Gregory of Tours ranks 1. After him are Zhiyi and Emperor Bidatsu. Among people deceased in 593, Gregory of Tours ranks 1. After him are Garibald I of Bavaria, Ceawlin of Wessex, Creoda of Mercia, Ino Anastasia, Hussa of Bernicia, and Tytila of East Anglia.

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In France

Among people born in France, Gregory of Tours ranks 367 out of 6,011. Before him are Léo Delibes (1836), Prosper Mérimée (1803), Claude Adrien Helvétius (1715), Alexis Carrel (1873), Charles Le Brun (1619), and Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin (1699). After him are Jean Baptiste Perrin (1870), François Mauriac (1885), Raymond Kopa (1931), Georges Bataille (1897), Jérôme Bonaparte (1784), and Alain Prost (1955).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Gregory of Tours ranks 54. Before him are Paul Valéry (1871), Antonin Artaud (1896), Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau (1749), Marguerite de Navarre (1492), Roger Martin du Gard (1881), and Prosper Mérimée (1803). After him are François Mauriac (1885), Georges Bataille (1897), André Malraux (1901), Pierre Beaumarchais (1732), Paul Éluard (1895), and Jacques Prévert (1900).

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